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💻 Support engineer at GitHub 🐈 Sphynx enthusiast 😷 Covid conscious 🎶 Dream pop to doom metal 📚 Sci-fi & post modernism Matt. UK based - He/Him

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 1h

Music by Numbers Day 133

"133" - Mark Broom

Genre: Techno (Peak Time / Driving)

I have not heard the sub-genre term "(Peak Time / Driving)" before, but the internet assures me it's a thing. 🤷

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133

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 15h

Ohhhh yeah!

Maps are a vital part of fantasy novels.

I remember spending a bunch of my paper round money at the library photocopying the maps from various David Eddings novels trying to assemble them together into one big master map!

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 15h

Agreed! "Underwater Moonlight" is soooo good!

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 16h

Absolutely!

Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 16h

They stick pretty close to the original - I think that's how I first encountered the song, as a metalhead-teen in the 90s!

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 16h

(This is what I was gonna post for the "it gets you moving" comment! 😉 )

kermit the frog is dancing in a room in front of a wall .

Alt: kermit the frog is slowly dancing in a room in front of a wall .

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 16h

Pantera did an excellent cover of it that doesn't sound like any other Pantera song, too! 😆

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 16h

Living the dream! 😆

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 16h

Loooooove this track!

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 17h

Bangin'!

Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 17h

Love this track!

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 17h

Iconic, obviously!

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 17h

Gorgeous stuff!

Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 17h

Era defining!

Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 17h

#20SongsByYear 2016
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Day 10: Howling Giant - "Clouds of Smoke"

Glorious stoner/psych from these guys' 2016 EP - a 4 minute set up for an epic 3 minute outro! 🤘

Clouds of Smoke

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 20h

Just been reading this article about how they came about!

www.electronicsound.co.uk/features/lon...

Art Of Noise: Picture This – Electronic Sound

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 20h

That makes sense, yeah!

Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 21h

This week's albums!

Love love loved "The Seduction Of Claude Debussy" by Art of Noise - will definitely be revisiting that. Kinda like a mixture of the best stuff that Lemon Jelly ever did with a documentary! 🤓

A 5 x 5 grid of album covers, featuring:

Album - Artist:

Love & Wealth: The Lost Recordings - The Louvin Brothers
The Failing Institute of the Human Voice - Prefuse 73
Nebulous Nights - An Ambient Excursion into Profound Mysteries - Röyksopp
Chore of Enchantment - Giant Sand
Le Tigre - Le Tigre
As The Love Continues - Mogwai
No Other - Gene Clark
Destrier - Live in Reykjavík - Agent Fresco
The Seduction Of Claude Debussy - Art of Noise
The Scavenger Bride - Black Tape for a Blue Girl
portals//polarities - Night Tapes
Trans-Millenia Music - Pauline Anna Strom
Angel's Flight - Biosphere
Opus Dei - Laibach
Casual Bodies - Klute
Hall of Mirrors - Neil Cowley
At The Moonbase - Slaughter Beach, Dog
New Fragility - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Medicine at Midnight - Foo Fighters
L.W. - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Tranquilizer (30th Anniversary Restored & Expanded) - Terre Thaemlitz
Ancient agent - Eluder
Fantasy Country - Flyying Colours
Before I Let The Sunshine Rot - lan Hawgood
In Quiet Moments - Lost Horizons

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 23h

I watched this not too long ago - quite fun!

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 1d

Music by Numbers Day 132

"The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 22: quarter note = 132" - Frederic Rzewski

Genre: Modern Classical

It's a little bit on the avant-garde side, but it's only 48 seconds long - you can put up with anything for 48 seconds!

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The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 22: quarter note = 132

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah, love these folks!

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 1d

Banger!

Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 1d

#20SongsByYear 2016
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Day 9: Church of the Cosmic Skull - "Evil in Your Eye"

I didn't discover these folks until more recently but their first album came out in 2016.

They have a knack for creating retro-sounding prog pop bangers!

Church of the Cosmic Skull - Evil in your Eye (Official Video)

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 1d

I'm also really enjoying s5 - the depiction of weirdo tech billionaires is great! 😆

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Why am I a cat? @yamiacat.bsky.social · 1d

His track "Whitey on the Moon" is a banger, too!