Mixes of friends at mix.dj: featuring DJ Lord Heyz

One of the kindest DJs at mix.dj I know is DJ Lord Heyz, he replies often your remarks with more than just "Thank you for your support".

He is an excellent mixer from New York in Deep House and Liquid Funk (and other related genres) and makes at least one mix a week, mostly one more of his beautiful Universal Language series.
I always vote  *****, cause the combination of Deep House, Techno, NuDisco, Progressive Trance is simple irresistible.
But in the genre of Liquid Funk (I discovered it by DrumSoldier at mix.dj) is DJ Lord Huez
also a real king.
So hereby not one of his UL series, but his latest  Liquid Funk mix called "Desiderium"

Last note: every mix has a cover that make you think about.
It's more than a picture, it tells a story and so are DJ LORD HEYZ mixes...

My music memories: Disco Really Made It - Gruppo Sportivo

When I thought about writing a Post about Popmuzik of M, I got a flashback of another great catchy song, what maybe was the Dutch M.
I am talking about Gruppo Sportivo and Hans Vandenburg ofcourse.

I became a fan when they realised the song Hey girl, but when Disco Really Made It
came out, I was perplexed. So unDutch great stuff !!!

Now I consider Disco Really Made It as the Dutch answer to M's Popmuzik,
with more Dutch humour and less glamour.
After Disco Really Made It, I heard the Gruppo Sportivo song called Sleeping Bag .
It was so easy to forget, that I even forgot the title and had to watch some other GS video's on YouTube to find the right one...

But after that Hans Vandenburg came with Buddy Odor Stop or something like that and I
was no longer fan.
Hans Vandenburg is still active on the net, so you don't have miss one day without his humour or his music or both...

My music memories: Popmuzik - M (& More)

 I heard this song over and over again when I once was visiting my nieces.
The oldest one was totally hooked, so she play the single endlessly.
Sometimes she play the B-side. After hearing 20x times Popmuzik in a row, I began to like the guitar-parts in The M Factor.


And when I heard the first time the U2 version I knew I had to buy it. I bought maxi CD single of Last Night on Earth and got the Pop Mart Mix version.

Of course there are a lot of other great remixes of Popmuzik, cause the song is so catchy
you have to try hard to ruin it.

But that's not the whole story, after Popmuzik I was curious what be the next single of M.

It was Moonlight and Muzak, I liked it even more the Popmuzik, it sounded somehow a bit sad and had more emotion than "NEW YORK LONDON PARIS EVERYONE IS TALKING POPMUZIK !!!"

It made me sadder that it became not a big hit, after that I heard nothing more of M.
And I forgot all about Popmuzik, until that U2 remix...

Some (MSX?) links: ASCII Art generators

On MSX I haven't seen much ASCII Art,  some MSX BBS'es had some nice ANSI pictures.
I was busy preparing some (more) Wordstore MSX-1 demo's and I had the idea to convert some pictures into ASCII Art for use on MSX-1 SCREEN 2.

Mainly because SCREEN 2 is at his best with only 2 colors.
If you use more (15 at the most of course) you have a challenge to fix the bluring...

So I search for some website for ASCII Art and found these 2:

 ASCII Art Word Generator

ASCII Art Picture Generator




I like them both, maybe I will use it on my next MSX menu-screens, but I noticed for a good picture you need to have more than 80 characters on 1 line...
And MSX-2 can...oke I will tell you... 80.
So the next picture cannot be played on a MSX screen, it's to big (>200).

But it's fun to convert texts and pictures into ASCII Art, you should try it too...