Die 4 ineinander flie?enden Titel dieser ?ber 61 min?tigen CD bleiben unbenamt. Jedoch findet sich ein jeweils in deutsch und englisch abgedruckter Text, der vielleicht gerade im DAR, erg?nzend zur Musik, seine Bedeutung entfalten l?sst.
Diese Tracks schaffen nicht nur ein ideales Ambiente diese Gedanken nach zu vollziehen:
Meiner Meinung nach ist dieses Werk mit YEN POX das d?sterste und perfekteste, was ich bisher von/mit TROUM geh?rt habe !
Der Text und die graphische Gestaltung ("Traumlinien" auf 8-Panel-Digipak !), bilden das Bindeglied zwischen dem Begriff "Troum" und der hervorragenden Musik dieses Acts !... :
(Text im Original von ROGER BOYD HENSLEY / deutsche ?bersetzung: HENNING BOSSE)
"Jeder Verstand tr?umt, und alle Tr?ume sind mit Wahnsinn aromatisiert.
In der Tat erscheint es so, dass Wahnsinn das Gegengift der Vernunft f?r diejenigen ist, die tr?umen, w?hrend sie wachen.
Daraus folgend, wird der Wahnsinn wichtiger als die Vernunft.
Unsere Gehirne haben gelernt, wie sie unsere K?rper l?hmen k?nnen, w?hrend wir schlafen, damit diese nicht auf die traumbedingten Illusionen, wie essentiell sie auch immer sein m?gen, reagieren k?nnen. Diese forcierte Tatenlosigkeit, also das Aussetzen der Einbildung des Freiwilligen, sondert unsere Realit?t ab. Wie dies entstehen konnte und ob dies zu unserem Schutz geschieht, bleibt spekulativ.
Vielleicht war das nicht immer so. Vielleicht kannte einmal jeder Verstand nur diese besondere Art zu tr?umen.
Doch nach und nach entwickelte sich eine andere Bewu?tseinsstruktur, die auf kurze Sicht vorteilhaft aussah, jedoch auf lange Sicht mit schweren Konsequenzen beladen war.
Vielleicht hat Vernunft etwas selbstbegrenzendes, so etwas wie einen fehlerhaften Algorithmus, der sich mit der Zeit zu einem Albtraum entwickelt.
Und wenn dieser Alptraum kommt, wenn diese Ph?nix schnatternden Irrsinns unvermeidbar aus der selbst geopferten Rationalit?t aufsteigt, schlafen wir sicher in unserer Paralyse, wissend, da? unserer tr?umender Verstand sich beruhigend um die Wunden, die sich unsere Vernunft selbst zugef?gt hat, k?mmern wird, um uns schlie?lich an der Schwelle des Wachens neu zu erfinden.
Dabei die n?tige L?ge glaubend, da? Rationalit?t n?chtern und einfach die perfekte Wahrheit ist, w?hrend die L?ge getr?umt wird..."
Stream Status
Stream is on air / Stream ist auf Sendung.
Hörer momentan: 28 von maximal 60
Bitrate: 192 kbits/s
Zuhören / Listen by downloading a .pls file to open in your media player or copy the raw http link via clipboard to open the stream:
Recently Played Tracks
Troum + Yen Pox - Mnemonic Induction 2 Psychotikum - River Ov Flames Void of Coil - Bottomless Atrium Carceri - Behind the Curtain of Life Troum - Untitled (Symbiosis Track 4) Metatron Omega - Ad Lucem Atum & Roto Visage - 3 Syndrom Cotarda Baradelan - Antiphon : Assembler Sabled Sun - A New Sun RFCL - Adelmo's Window
RefreshDark Ambient Radio recommends the VLC Media Player -- it's available for Linux, Windows & Mac
For half a year I was working on a new radio setup that no longer requires me to maintain a Windows 10 virtual machine on my poor Mac Mini. Now ezstream is up and running on a Linux Debian VM without the former waste of resources (the Mac's power consumtion has halved since). This is not completely due to the inefficiency of Windows as a VM but also due to ezstream not recoding the mp3s on the fly to 192 kbit/s. I had to recode each and every track manually beforehand for this to work, sometimes ripping the tracks from CD again to maintain high quality. I think, it was worth the effort.
You, as a listener, shouldn't notice any difference, except that hopefully there shouldn't be so much downtimes any more and that crossfading won't take place any longer. If you experience too much silence before or after a track -- or a too abrubt transition between tracks -- leave me a note and I will edit the track(s) manually using mp3DirectCut.
I just wanted to repair the Recently Played Tracks list that was displayed wrong on the site but got in the flow... The site should now be much more readable on mobile phones. And if you ever wanted to post DAR's URL on a social network: The site now has got an open graph image that is being added automatically to the post:
Problems with the Shoutcast Service / The DAR Review Workflow
Sorry for the program interruption you are currently experiencing. I try to solve it but Viastreaming support currently isn't responding.
In the meantime, I'm still further preparing the change of the radio software. Maybe this has some effect on the problem.
While in need of some more fruitful task, I vibecoded my proven review workflow into a little app that should speed up the process of adding new music to the stream. This is how it looks:
redeem review code with Bandcamp (optionally drop zip or folder to the album list on the left)
unzip album to a folder
archive it in original kbit/s
recode to 192 kbit/s (using ffmpg)
normalize to 86 dB (using mp3gain)
normalize artist or album title (there are really many keyboards with stuck caps lock key around)
put it in my review folder
decide which tracks to accept and which to reject
finally move the reviewed album folder with the accepted tracks to the airplay folder
I currently don't provide binaries: This is quite a special drill and people most likely want to adapt their own steps. If you need help or encounter some problem, open an issue on Github.
The New York City based coop Subvert aims at being an artist-owned replacement for Bandcamp. Bandcamps recent ownership changes has raised doubts that the platform still can be trusted. Maybe subvert.fm is worth giving it a try...
From Saturday on, it will be available for 6? on Bandcamp. All money goes to the contributing artists (after taxes, of course).
We worked on the release the bigger part of the year 2022. Everything is mixed & mastered with love. We hope to give you a piece of solace in this dark time of the year. Enjoy!
It seems many people still use Winamp to listen to the stream.
Two weeks ago, my radio software SAM Broadcaster began to create unaccaptable bad sound and I wasn't able to solve it. So I looked for an alternative and found a nice freeware: RadioDJ. Because the AltaCast plugin didn't work with the AAC+ encoder, I needed to connect RadioDJ to the stand-alone version of AltaCast via a virtual audio cable (VB-Audio). Getting it running was a rather painful experience.
But I got complaints from Winamp users being not able to listen to the stream anymore. So I requested some technical support to get SAM Broadcaster running again. This is how it looks, btw., a user interface style from 20 years ago:
I think, I will switch to a Linux server somewhere in the far future and use Opus instead of AAC+. Hopefully more people have abandoned Winamp by then. But maybe bandwidth will be cheap enough to provide a mp3 stream for nostalgic reasons. :-p
It's the 1st of December and many organizations put their hat on the data highway and beat the drums to collect donatins.
A special case this year is the San Francisco based Internet Archive that wants to make a backup of its collection in Canada -- maybe to escape the reach of a Trumpian administration.
Since many years now, before soundcloud or even MySpace existed, I always found some pearls when I delved into the audio library. It seems to be the best place to carve something in stone on the internet. So if you have some bugs left in your pocket and you are thinking about donating it for some good cause, consider good old archive.org.
Cover art in ID3 tags seemed to interfere with ezstream, leading to invalid frames sent to the Shoutcast server. We will see how long Shoutcast will make it this time...
It's done! First track playing with ezstream: solsidia Terasol - Viisiteur Du Fond.
Bye bye SAM Broadcaster! Still Have to fix the Recently Played Tracks list though...
