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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
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Essential breaks and beats and drum'n'bass from Calibre and Mura Masa http://www.metafilter.com/168231/Essential-breaks-and-beats-and-drumnbass-from-Calibre-and-Mura-Masa If you're a fan of drum and bass and other beat-driven music, the past two BBC Essential Mixes have been gems. Last week saw the relative up-and-comer Alex Crossan, aka Mura Masa, blend vintage jungle sounds with a range of modern styles (BBC, MixesDB, Global DJ Mix), from Thom Yorke to MF Doom. The week prior, Dominick Martin, aka Calibre, spun two hours in the studio, oscillating between drum'n'bass and more ambient soundscapes (BBC, MixesDB, Global DJ Mix), weaving in a bit of Charles Bukowski to set the mood. Where Mura Masa presented in advance of his new self-titled album (streaming via Spotify embedded), Calibre has a dozen albums to date, with his newest, The Deep (official track samples on YouTube), released this past March. More music and musing below the break. Mura Masa's new record is "brimming with nowness," with "dancehall-lite tones of [the] slightly problematic ... tropical house," though "Mura Masa manages to miraculously transcend its generic core" (Guardian), and his production is paired with A$AP Rocky, Charli XCX, Jamie Lidell, A.K. Paul and Damon Albarn. Contrary to most reviews calling that album his debut, this is actually his second. His first, Soundtrack to a Death (Bandcamp), was released in 2014 on the JAKARTA label. "Soundtrack" has a lot of the same mellow "tropical" dance/house vibes as his new album, but without the bevy of guest artists found on his new album. And some of his new album features older tracks, like the A $AP Rocky-featuring remix (official video) of the stunning Lovesick (Fuck) (official audio), which came out in 2015 on the Someday Somewhere EP (Bandcamp). As seen on Discogs Crossan also has a few more singles out as Mura Masa, plus official videos on YouTube.
Calibre, on the other hand, is an older name on the drum'n'bass scene, with 12 albums (and a ton of singles and EPs) to his name. The Signature Recordings founder has championed a unique brand of future Funk and syncopated Soul that has left an indelible imprint on the Drum & Bass landscape forever (The Sound Advice). But with his prior album, Grow (sample of tracks on Soundcloud), Martin ditched his usual drum & bass fare, but it's still full of high tempos, low-end menace and bluesy atmospheres, touching on deep house and dubstep, if you're looking to pin down a genre or two. Flip back to the prior record, Spill ("full album mix" by a fan, on YouTube), very much so Calibre and a bit more feel-good in comparison to previous albums (DNB Dose). Calibre and Signature Recordings haven't posted any videos to YouTube, but there are track samples there (and a copy of his recent Essential Mix, fwiw). | 5:05a |
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Make and share your own Mega Man levels! http://www.metafilter.com/168234/Make-and-share-your-own-Mega-Man-levels The just-released (and unfortunately Windows-only) Mega Maker allows players to use a simple interface to build and share Mega Man levels using selected assets from the original games. There's a trailer here and you might want to read this interview with the creator about his process, comparisons to Mario Maker, and why he's not concerned about the possibility of a DMCA takedown. I'm definitely hoping to see some folks posting their level IDs here. | 1:07p |
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"I am slowly backing away from this game I love." http://www.metafilter.com/168236/I-am-slowly-backing-away-from-this-game-I-love If You Hear Someone Getting Harassed In An Online Game, Don't Stay Silent by Cecilia D'Anastasio [Kotaku] "I think we'd do better with a healer," I suggested to my Overwatch team earlier this week. We were in the spawn room defending the Temple of Anubis and, without a healer, we would quickly forfeit the objective. Not even the slightest pause passed before a teammate told me that, instead, "What we need is another man." This frustrating incident was sandwiched between two other matches, and in each, a teammate had snarked on my gender after I had attempted to strategize through voice chat. Earlier, I was referred to as "that fuckin' bitch" when I asked whether we felt good about our team composition. And, in the spawn room of Horizon Lunar Colony later that night, after wishing my team good luck, I was asked: "Can you play? I just want to know. I'm so curious. Do you know how to play Overwatch?" On no occasion did any other player on these six-person teams say anything about it. | 2:47p |
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"...we're correcting you. XOXO Science." http://www.metafilter.com/168239/were-correcting-you-XOXO-Science Dr. Jen Gunter is an MD who is a board-certified OB/GYN and also an active blogger. She recently took on Gwenyth Paltrow's Goop empire in a blog post where she examined a number of its fraudulent medical claims, citing concern for how, when taken seriously, these claims can negatively affect her patients. In a follow-up post, Gunter has called their response to her science-based criticism " a mansplaining, misogynistic hit job." From Gunter's response to GOOP's criticism:
The editors at GOOP find me "strangely confident" in my "assertion that putting a crystal in your vagina for pelvic-floor strengthening exercises would put you in danger of getting Toxic Shock Syndromeeven though there is no study/case/report which links the two." I am not strangely confident about vaginal health, I am appropriately confident because I am the expert. I did 4 years of medical school, a 5 year OB/GYN residency, a 1 year fellowship in infectious diseases, I am board certified in OB/GYN in 2 countries, I am board certified by the American Board of Pain Medicine and the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Pain Medicine and I am appropriately styled Dr. Jen Gunter MD, FRCS(C), FACOG, DABPM, ABPM (pain). A woman with no medical training who tells women to walk around with a jade egg in their vaginas all day, a jade egg that they can recharge with the energy of the moon no less, is the strangely confident one.
" This stuff matters. We need less goopy nonsense and more fearless, blunt and science-informed debunkers such as Dr. Gunter."
Dr. Jen Gunter, previously. | 7:28p |
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