DJ Chitlenz There Is No Cool

April 26, 2010

Music is Afoot!!!!

As Mike Brown, alive and well in Barcelona, currently as some poor kid’s nanny, heads off to Petra in Turkey to work a tour guide for the summer, I am getting ready for festival season =D

Looks to be a good one this year, but my main focus is on applying for the Defcon convention in Vegas August 1. Mike won’t be back, so I’m going it alone this time, but that’s cool, since Defcon is full of MY PEOPLE (… geeks!). I really can’t image a venue that is more fun for me to play personally, I just think 3 days of Drum and Bass + Code hacking is priceless!! PRICELESS I TELL YOU! So now, to get off my ass and get a promo mix posted up by May 3, at midnight..

To that end I’ve been shopping!

I turned 39, and even though we (like everyone else) are broke, Juli let me get a few records, and Oh My God what releases there are!

SICK MUSIC 2 – Hospital
Empire state of mind (DC Breaks Bootleg)
DC Breaks Halo EP
the new Netsky…

just lots and lots of good music out right now, I’m just hoping when it gets here it proves to be as inspiring as the samples. It’s funny, in trance I had to choose maybe one song per EP and the rest was most likely trash filler, while in DnB the A/B sides tend to be not only better, but in different styles. Take for instance the new Spor EP, with the liquid vocal bomb Overdue on the B-side of a truly hardstyle DnB track called Kingdom. It’s great to see artists spread out a bit, especially since the hardstyle and dancefloor producers are making some really really edgy liquid tracks, just really deep pushy stuff that stands your hair on end!

I’m still #1 in NC at trackmania, and have been since September 2009, a scary amount of time wasted… I’m going to post later about my first track, and what I’m doing with my new team (as of Dec) ATS over at Team Air Time and Space. Check out some of the tracks these guys make, it’s unbelievable. I have a page allocated, and any day now I’ll start filling it in.

But for now… it’s promo time!

chitlenz

July 10, 2009

Trackmania United and Warcraft

Filed under: Gaming — chitlenz @ 6:50 am

I’m a gamer in the purist sense, in that I need for the engine to be perfect in order to enjoy games anymore. I think this is a consequence of having worked with Direct3d for too long in a critical role (looking for bugs), which makes it so that I end up noticing the bugs not the game most of the time. To this end, I am down to World of Warcraft, which I need to play more of so that my long time friends and guildmates The Lost Marbles can proceed with raiding through the Lich King expansion, and to the game I want to note today.

I LOVE to drive. This isn’t news to people who know me well. For the last 5 years, I have managed to stay sane through what has become a 2 hour commute by trying to choose cars wisely (I think…Juli may disagree) which I enjoy. Most Racing simulators never get the feel of speed right. I remember a few years ago when the Wipeout series first came out, and what was remarkable about it, aside from the amazingly forward thinking soundtrack and futuristic graphic design, was the drifty feel of the controls, and the amazing sense of realistic speed the desgners were able to convey.

As a programmer, I have long meant to revisit Wipeout as a hobby project, but then a few years ago I stumbed across Trackmania… And Oh My God….

There are no other racing games. Period.

I will be posting interesting tidbits about my progress in Trackmania.. as a lowly American Sunrise Racer.

chitlenz 7/9/2009

February 21, 2009

World of wtfbbq

Filed under: Gaming,Its a fucked up world — chitlenz @ 1:56 am

I play Warcraft, like most social geeks these days, and I have noticed that occasionaly… ok wait more often than not, people get to chatting and say stupid things… like this:

Lost Marbles, our guild since Everquest back in the day (1999-ish), downed Sap with 2 drakes last night, the second hardest raid so far in Lich King, moving on up!

Oh and John and I have a Battleground arena team now, and we won our first 2v2 arena last night, woot!

Getting almost epic now heh

-chitlenz

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