Music challenge: Karin Ström – Klaustrofobi (Burrakowski Remix)

Swedish, female vocals, electronic pop. Great!

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

Find them all here: 100videos

Music challenge: Flight of the Conchords – Fashion is Danger [720p HD]

Parody? Yes! Still this has found its’ way in to quite a few of my DJ sets and no one seems to have noticed.

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

Find them all here: 100videos

Music challenge: Rymdreglage – 8-bit trip

This has to be one of my favourite videos. Chipmusic and Lego in stop motion. I’m in!

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

Find them all here: 100videos

Music challenge: VNV Nation – When is the Future?

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

Find them all here: 100videos

Using Data::Lua 0.02 in 2021

Today I ran into a small problem. I needed to parse some files with Lua data (not my choice!) into a database (generic, but think MySQL). Of course I probably could have done this using Lua directly but I didn’t want to spend more time on this than necessary so I went with what I’m most comfortable with; perl.

A quick look at CPAN and I found Data::Lua which should parse my Lua data quickly. Turning to my development system running Debian I quickly installed Lua and went to (locally, for my private user) install Inline::Lua and Data::Lua. That should do the trick. Except that I ran into 2 problem with the Data::Lua tests:

t/parse-file.t …… 1/8 error: [string "_INLINED_LUA"]:18: attempt to call a nil value (global 'setfenv')

and

t/parse.t ……….. 1/7 error: [string "_INLINED_LUA"]:3: attempt to call a nil value (global 'loadstring')

After examining this further I found out that these functions setfenv and loadstring was removed from Lua in version 5.2. My Debian system has version 5.3 (or was it 5.4?) installed as default.

Solution

To make this work I had to remove the default Lua version that was installed and replace it with and older 5.1.

# apt-get remove lua5.3 liblua5.3-dev
# apt-get install liblua5.1-0-dev lua5.1

Then I had to (force) rebuild Inline::Lua since it was built against the 5.3 libraries

$ cpan -f install Inline::Lua

After this Data::Lua passed all tests with no problems and installed smoothly. It remains to see if it solves my Lua data into a database via perl exercise.

Examining Data::Lua a bit

Looking into the single file that is Data::Lua it seems that adjusting the two available functions to for with modern Lua versions is a really easy fix. But from what I can make out it seems like that module is more or less abandoned by its’ author. Last update was in 2009 and it is version 0.02. I also see that my problem is reported as a bug over 2 years ago so I guess it is not getting any attention. Sad.

Music challenge: Kennelklubben “414” (Live) – Official video

This is Gothenburg 🙂

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

Find them all here: 100videos

Music challenge: WULFBAND – 3, 2, 1, NEIN

Not sure if it’s a parody band or just weird. But live it is 1000% energy and a great experience. Often sweaty and physical.

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

Find them all here: 100videos

Music challenge: Depeche Mode: Enjoy The Silence (Scyia’s 2012 Remix)

Depeche Mode has played a major role in my (early) musical life. At least up until 1993 or so when they quickly became less interesting.

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

Find them all here: 100videos

Music challenge: CELLULOIDE – Coeur 8-bit

French, electronic, female vocalist, 8-bit sounding …ticks all the right boxes for me.

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

Find them all here: 100videos