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『HARDWARE ROMANCE』
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Music, shmups, rhythm games, cute stuff and assorted media/tech from the recent past, and the occasional personal blog post.

If i like it, it ends up here.

My text posts are very long.
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admin apologizes for the lack of content but he's been in a state of stupor for the last week

regular programming will resume shortly, for all 5 of you
Admin will be in rimini from the 19th through the 22nd, book NOW your excessive autistic explanation about a topic of your choice and the night time happy fun booze carnival, maybe even with friends!

more posts to follow. Unexpectedly busy these past few days.
also forgot i bought a shirt at the event
now's a good time as any to post it, it's pretty nice, same design as on the vinyls.

man, i want to go to the nl again
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in other news:
>got everything set up for next week's con
>we managed to sell the house apparently and will be moving out of this town in an amount of time that is going to be measurable in weeks and i'll be living from my own, alone, entirely, from now on once i figure out where
>kind of cool stuff to look forward to in the following months, the move is going to be brutal but being able to live/travel light has its benefits
>i'm playing pump it up online at least once a week
>it's hot as shit so i'm gonna go kick back a brew

i have no idea how the end of the year is going to look like for me. Hell, i don't know what fuckin september is gonna look like, but hey, such are things, and in the end it's the last, final chapter of this horrible town before i can leave it for good and start living normally again since like, 2019 or worse. So that's good!
It's a good summer. The air smells fresh, the low, evening tepid heat promises things to be witnessed at dawn if you just give it chance to seep into your bones ever so slightly, and i really couldn't have asked for at least a better scenario to endure hardship in. I'll take it.

What about your summers? Chat, is it over? are we back?
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Trying my hand at kandi after years and years and years

hopefully it turns out okay once the beads get here
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shout-outs to the pumpchads, may we stay winning for the next 500 years (or until andamiro pulls online support from under our literal feet?
shououts to my buddy whose phone got stolen while wandering half asleep at the beach at like 5 am

he'd probably not like I'm posting this but he has no phone to read this or angrily reply with, so IIIIIIIT'S OOOOVER

IIIN THE BIN
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i have to say, i really appreciated the drawing wall, found it really cute

I've grown to like these things more with age
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ENHANCE THE IMAGE, JOHNSON
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Coming back from the holidays for me means coming back with yet another fucking CRT added to the collection

so happy tho
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no pump it up today, I'm bored as hell, and it's hot as balls so rhythm games are no go and I'm not feeling anything console or whatever

guess i only have one option
I noticed that i haven't posted music on this channel yet really. I really enjoy posting daily tracks, more than one daily possibly.

As a tribute to a good friend who loves this song, and because i love it as well, have this absolute classic as the opening act for the Daily Music segment, which will hopefully last indefinitely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InFbBlpDTfQ

Here's your daily. Lazy summer saturday vibes, give yourself a reason to enjoy the sunset today.

Stay a while~
Here's something different!

Round Wave Crusher (Hardcore Argentinian DJ and producer) is doing a 10 hour live. We're currently on hour 4.

Why not listen to the other 6?

https://www.twitch.tv/theroundwavecrusher
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best part of the stream is the automatic waifu printer

the future is now old man
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And for our Daily Musicposting we have something really simple and light for today: it's a 30 minute-long remix of evangelion songs from REAL SHIT BASTARDS (4nzu + supire).
It was played in its entirety during yesterday's 10 hour live mix by round wave crusher. I listened to the whole thing by the way, it ended at 5 AM and it literally melted my face off. 10/10 saturday. REALLY good, really enjoyed it, so here.

https://soundcloud.com/realshitbastards/postlude-evangelist
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Demons To Some, Angels To Others -Hardcore Mix 11-2007-
The Speed Freak
I didn't want to put too much effort into today's daily music post so you're getting delivered right to your face this hour long megamix that The Speed Freak did for Sharpnelsound years and years ago that i really fucking love and that took me ages to find in a lossless format.
You can have this, today, for free!

...if you already didn't have it considering everyone in here is just one of my sperg friends and the formal façade of me writing in english is just me being a nigger for fun
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My apologies for the lack of posts but real life has a real knack for getting in the way of you actually living it. It's like, every 5 days now.
You'll get the posts you deserve very soon.

In the meantime, to tide you over, please have some classic kino you should already know about, but if you don't, then even better because this post is for you: it's ken ishii's music video for Extra, from his wildly acclaimed Jelly Tones album.
The video is special in it being directed by one of the animators for Akira (among other works in which he actually directed), which you can immediately tell by the distinctive style and the quality of the animation.

It's one of the greats! I would recommend you check out ken ishii's entire discography as well, his music is some of the most unique techno to come out of japan in the early 2000s, and a further testament to that is his track for the cult classic Rez, which i couldn't love more even if i tried. But that's a story for another day, and to which i'd dedicate an entire afternoon talking about in person, because of how special it is. I've talked to several generations of people about it at this point and it never disappoints, it's almost anomalous!

Anyways, as usual please enjoy this journey through sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6maVVFs0As
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As an aside, most of R&S records' catalogue from that era is very good and i would recommend you check it out.
As for a good beginner album for his works, Jelly Tones definitely works. If you liked his Rez tracks, Future in Light is great. Personally i like Sunriser best though, and would recommend that.

I think I'll just upload it here lmao

Pic related is me reminding myself i need to get more vinyls, it's just great music to have.
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Today's musicpost (it's still today until i go to bed even if it's 2 AM) will have a bit more effort than last time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdOPoeKR820

Autechre is obviously one of the best, nobody needs an introduction, but this particular track was made in protest to the UK government trying to ban techno so they could get rid of raves and people partying too much, so they made it illegal to blast "very repetitive music" at public venues, trying to define techno as solely as a repetition of sounds, like anyone who doesn't get techno will define it.

Autechre, in protest, just to piss them off, made the track "Flutter". It's unique because it has no two measures that are the same, and therefore contains no repetition, and it was therefore legal to play at raves according to their obtuse and moronic legislation.
Even without the added context, it's just a great song. It's autechre, what did you expect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_EP