Happy 30th Birthday Scripting News

The original, greatest blog of all time hits 30

Someone needs to make these happen.

god knew i would be too powerful if i had an attention span

 

Flamingosis - Cosmic Feeling (Official Video)

Phum Viphurit - Hello, Anxiety [Official Video]

Your first USABLE Purr Data (Pure Data) synth

Having spent much of the last decade addicted to it, I have officially left Quora.

 

Full story here : http://exquora.thoughtstorms.info/

Expect to see me use the time to get back into ThoughtStorms and more blogging / writing in my own spaces.

KATICA ILLÉNYI - Once Upon a Time in the West - Theremin

Servers are returning

Eventually I went to OpalStack to replace WebFaction.

OpalStack is made by ex-WebFaction employees and is an almost identical clone. It was just easier.  

I considered getting a VPN but it was more expensive than I could justify.

So things are starting to get back up. 

Though there are still issues with ThoughtStorms wiki and a couple of others.

And I'm just going to deprecate some sites where those projects are pretty dead.

Servers Down

 Bloody hell!

My hosting company, WebFaction, got bought by GoDaddy a couple of years ago.

Didn't seem to make a difference but they've been folding it in through a stack of intermediate companies which don't have a good reputation.

And suddenly they pulled the plug on me.

(OK, it seems they gave me about two weeks warning in an email I didn't see, earlier)

So ...

WTF????!?!!?!?

Anyway,

Seems like all my sites are not just "down". But gone! Probably permanently.

'strewth!

So it's going to take me a bit to sort this.

In the meantime.

If you are looking for :

• my netlabel, see the BandCamp site : https://dionysian-industrial.bandcamp.com/
• other stuff, it will either be up soon. Or deprecated. 
  

Fortunately I have most (though probably not all) things backed up.

And I get my domain names through a different provider, so when I get new hosting, I should be able to point the domains at it fairly quickly. Though there'll be the usual couple of days delay for that to take effect

Normal service WILL BE RESUMED.

Server Migration

Next week, my servers are migrating.

So if ThoughtStorms or the Synaesmedia site or anything else by me is down, don't panic. They should be up again shortly.

Fifteen People

Fifteen People is a blog about listening to and writing about every Momus album.

Naturally, fanboi that I am, I'm diving in to give my own opinions and responses in the comments.

RIP Andy Weatherall

Bloody hell!

Andy Weatherall has died. At only 56.

FFS!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/17/andrew-weatherall-british-producer-behind-screamadelica-dies-aged-56

He was one of the greatest of the 90s.

I used to go MAD for this in the club in the 90s.


Dub, gypsy, cosmic ... all in one amazing track. Thought it was one of the most transcendent awesome things I ever heard at the time. So good.



The whole Haunted Dancehall album was so good.

I sometimes say it was the original dubstep album. Not because it exactly sounds like dubstep, but has the same feel as something like Burial.

The beginning ... just pissing around with a flanger. But it sounded so radical 



Allegedly the In the Nursery version of Haunted Dancehall is on the playlist for Radio 1 to play when the Queen dies.
Though it's more suitable now :



Finally, another great album.

Stay Down. Big soundtrack for me when I got that.



And I suppose I should include this, because it is awesome. (And produced / mixed by Weatherall)

The time is now