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Today's #Soundtrack: #ChronoTrigger #piano covers by #Lara6683:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6k0VqMwztE

#music #NowPlaying #FiXatoListens #VideoGameMusic #VGM #SNES #SquareSoft #SuperNintendo #RPG #RPGMusic

Didn't expect #Ayreon to release a #Christmas-related #song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps_Ne2_pWUM

#NowPlaying #music #FiXatoListens #Yuletide

Huh, quite some artists I haven't seen mentioned in a while, on my #Spotify #ReleaseRadar. :)

Let's see what new or remastered stuff #BlindGuardian, #BlackmoresNight, #MonoINC, #Skazi, #Magica, #VandenPlas, #VisionsOfAtlantis, #Faderhead, #LeeRitenour, #Extince, #IcedEarth, #LudovicoEinaudi, #Shpongle, #Katatonia and #Eisbrecher have to offer. :)

#NowPlaying #music #FiXatoListens

My #StreamingMusicInteractivePlaylist tool can now load external #JSON playlist files :)
https://fixato.org/music/player/msx-related.html?playlist=https://gist.githubusercontent.com/FiXato/4aafac474948142ef0bd0f7177428fa0/raw/1ed350eff0f2a0c1a361294d433b76b88291beb4/msx_tunes.json

#coding #Music #NowPlaying #MSX #SCC #ChipTunes

(Though I noticed a bug with auto-advancing sub-playlists... it shouldn't advance the main playlist... Yay, #bugs!)

Managed to add #NicoNico (aka #NicoVideo.jp) support to my little HTML+JS playlist tool: https://github.com/FiXato/Streaming-Media-Interactive-Playlist

So, now I can have #YouTube, #SoundCloud and NicoVideo.jp videos/songs in a single playlist for easy playback. :)

Current example contains primarily #MSX or MSX-inspired #Music: https://fixato.org/music/player/msx-related.html

Code of the #Python script to scrape links from a topic on msx.org is especially dirty because I copy/pasted it with minor changes from my #MSXPlayRipper project...

#Coding

Okay, I did not expect to spend this much time on playing with @Siiw's #Yamaha #PSR295 keyboard...

I love #music, but it's always been a skill I considered as something I would never get the hang of.
And while I still don't think I'd ever be good at it, after tonight I think I can at least learn the basics of it after all. :)
It started with managing to connect my wife's keyboard over USB to my laptop, and through the #openMSX emulator, to an emulated #CX7M/128, and I got a kick out of that.

Currently watching "A Yamaha 8-bit Music Computer - Testing out the CX5M" by
#RMC - #TheCave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlu4Lcpq4GM

They give a brief but decent overview of the history of the #MSX #Homecomputer standard at least. :)
Will be interesting to hear what they have to share about the #Yamaha #CX5M #MSX1 machine. :)

#retroComputing #hardware #Music #8bit

If I could learn overnight to create #music in one specific genre, I think it might actually be #PsychedelicTrance...

Any recommendations for #music that uses #samples / #soundbites from the #1984 film adaptation of #FrankHerbert's #Dune?
For example the #songs from #AstralProjection's #DancingGalaxy album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Galaxy

Heh, nice, the #SuperMarioKart - #DonutPlains track for the #SNES, but then re-arranged by @Pt_Macumba@twitter.com for #MSX #ym2413 soundchips in #MML:
https://f.msxplay.com?id=6084ae50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZX0Y6wuKI0

#MSXplay #OPLL #chiptunes #music #retroGaming #SuperNintendo #MarioKart #Nintendo

I've been listening quite a bit to #SolarFake tonight, but I've had to check a couple of times already to make sure I wasn't listening to #VNVNation instead.

Not a bad thing. ;)

#FiXatoListens #NowPlaying #music #Spotify

Oof... while I really dig the sound of the new #Ayreon album #Transitus, the actual story it tells is bleak, disturbing, without much depth and frankly not quite my thing...

I'll probably still end up listening to it a lot in the background though. I guess it sometimes is a blessing to be able to push #lyrics into the background and just enjoy the melody and sounds of #music. :)

It's fascinating to hear #childrensSongs translated in various other languages.
Having tried doing my own #Dutch and #Norwegian versions of #lullabies I know for #BeardGrabber, I bet most of those #translations were made by expats or mixed culture couples for their own kids.

#parenting #culture #music

#TodayILearned that #GreenDay's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" was written about the death of the father of frontman #BillieJoeArmstrong when the singer was ten years old.
Also #TIL that he's —understandably— uncomfortable with the #WakeMeUpWhenSeptemberEnds #memes, and has joked about wanting to write Shut The Fuck Up, When October Begins: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Me_Up_When_September_Ends#Annual_Internet_meme

#September #WhenSeptemberEnds #death #music

Glad to be wearing headphones for this #psytrance by #McCoy's #SUNProject. :)

#CosmicPorn has some loud moans that I'd rather not broadcast through the house at this time of day, lol.

#music #NowPlaying #FiXatoListens

If I ever get cut off from the Internet and have to rely on #music that isn't from a #StreamingMedia service such as #Spotify, I'd be stuck with music collected in the #90s and #00s...

And honestly, I think I'd mostly be okay with that. :)

(Though I'd probably want to get some offline copies of #Ayreon, #Heilung, #Heidevolk, #S3rl, #BeastInBlack, #Gloryhammer, #MiracleOfSound, #Rush and probably some other bands I only discovered in the past decade or so.)

I'm not that into #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons, but this #DooM cross-over #music video by #TheChalkeaters titled #DoomCrossing: Eternal Horizons is pretty cool:
https://youtu.be/U4lz8MN6MQA

#RipAndTear #ACNH #AnimalCrossing #DoomEternal #MusicVideo #mashup #NowPlaying #FiXatoListens

okay, converting/editing that #markdown document to #asciidoc took a bit longer than I expected, especially since I had to tweak how #sourceHighlighting was handled...

Now I should quickly get some sleep before tomorrow's #PokémonGO #CommunityDay, since I want to finally catch a bunch of shiny #Magikarp ;)

I'll reply to those who've replied to my #music poll when my mind's fresh again tomorrow. :) Thanks already / in advance for your feedback! :D

#coding #personal

one of the benefits of this I guess is that I can just as easily listen to #music in a language I don't understand, such as #Japanese or #Finnish, as in those I speak fluently such as #English and #Dutch.
Not being able to understand the language can actually help me get lost in the music as there are no words to focus on.

When I listen to #music, especially while I have it on in the background or listening to it for the first times, I rarely actually listen to/hear the #lyrics.
Which made me wonder, what is more important to you? The lyrics, or the melody/sound?

#poll #polls