Full EP from 1992. A delight.

Panic makes a code editor that isn't Coda; news to me! I have been using Atom for years and am in the market for something new. Gonna give it a whirl.

hip-hop breaks plus tiki vibes. stoked for this.

Not really “forced”- the headline makes Netflix sound like a victim instead of a willing partner. Capitalism knows no bounds. Gross.

Real good

The list is long and filled with bizarre surprises

I had the distinct pleasure of seeing the Everything is Terrible Kidz Klub Tour and want to recommend that if you have the opportunity to do so, please partake. It's part stage show, part supercut and all perfectly absurd.

If you are not familiar with Everything is Terrible, well, you're in for a treat. Lots and lots of found footage, rare clips and hysterical editing. Take the deep dive.

always love to see Odenkirk getting his due.

Galaxie 500's Damon Krukowski has a very good substack.

The Green Ray is a new bookstore / record shop in Nashville that carries a phenomenal stock of art & photo books, as well as a good amount of vinyl. It's been open less than 6 months and I've been there a number of times.

They asked me to make a playlist of yk Records music to play in the shop and I was honored to contribute! The resulting mix is not exhaustive (I made sure it would fit on a CD) but it's a great introduction to the roster of yk artists and, even better, a great reminder to visit The Green Ray whenever you can.

Listen here in the embed below.

Kirby Ferguson delivering a little 5min Everything Is a Remix example using Tarantino

tldr: capitalism is cutthroat, even when it’s trying to fix ice cream machines

New Jordan Peele. I will not watch a second trailer; this is a perfect tease.

Dan Olson on Line Goes Up and other topics

One of my ex-VHX pals recently launched Wavelength, a new iOS and Android party game app. The teaser explains the concept pretty succinctly; you and a group of friends collaborate and try to land on a ruling for some absurd topic. In short, you're trying to read your friends minds!

The app is out now and looks pretty dang slick. I'll be gathering some friends and trying it out very soon.

got my NIN tickets for May. Hope they break this one out.

A splendid 1:45 and an excellent reminder to listen to TV Torso

Largely over my head but still quite interesting

I don't specifically remember how I ended up here but I've come across a large trove of ZZT Games, an early game development engine that allowed anyone to put together their own games with their own narratives and objectives; through a common set of tools. Every game "looks" the same but this was happening 1991, so that's true of most PC-based things at the time. There are some vaguely familiar titles like the homespun Adventure of Link II or the less widely known originals, ZZT Slayer. If you didn't grow up on ANSI and text adventure games, these are all going to feel fairly crude. They are crude because gaming was crude in the early 90s but there's also something amazingly charming about this plethora of homemade creations.

You can read more about the ZZT in general over on Wikipedia; the most intriguing fact being that it was developed by Tim Sweeney, who also is founder of Epic Games and the creator of the Unreal Engine. The company going head to head with Apple and Google, started by offering a gaming engine for early DOS games. Completely bonkers.

There's more ZZT gaming archive work over in the Museum of ZZT, "a site dedicated to the preservation and curation of the many games and worlds created with ZZT."

After you're done there, cruise through this history of the IBM smiley (the protagonist of ZZT games) and then immerse yourself in Oldschool PC Fonts. You know, for fun!

Back in March of 2021, yk Records released the debut EP from No Stress, entitled Prelude No. 1. It's a wonderful combination of jazz, hip-hop, glitch, ambient and all sorts of styles that blend together masterfully. It's only 18 minutes long but it's a wonderful ride from start to finish... in my biased opinion.

The EP struck a chord with Ryan Norris, aka Coupler, and he started working on a remix EP. The fruits of that labor are now available everywhere in the form of Reinvention No. 1. The writeup for the record goes into some detail about some of the original seeds of inspiration for Norris being Madlib, DJ Shadow, MF Doom, J Dilla and other "left-field hip hop" artists. Over the years, Coupler has become more associated with ambient music than hip-hop but hearing Reinvention No. 1, it's clear that Norris is getting back to his roots.

Obviously I'm biased whenever a yk Records release comes out but I think this is a wonderful piece of work. These reinventions manage to have their own identities but don't lose any of the magic of the original tracks. They are much longer form than the original songs but if you let yourself be a little patient, it really pays off. The drums on "Wake Up (Wide Awake Remix)" are stellar.

Get it on Bandcamp or streaming.