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(Bah, this post should've been in Forum Discussion / Issues, admins, please move it.) As there's occasional grumbling about the difficulty of embedding Bandcamp releases in this editor, here's my writeup on the subject, including a simple(r) solution that's far from optimal, but it works. Bandcamp release id is AFAIK actually a WordPress article id, a numeric string that's more or less random from our point of view, so it can't be guessed. The id is not included in a Bandcamp release's URL, but embedded (multiple times in different ways) within the HTML of the release page, so manual extraction requires viewing the source and knowing what to look for. The way to get the id from the Bandcamp page without viewing the source is to click Share / Embed (under the release image), which opens an accordion below the link with a second link, Embed this album. Clicking it will open a Customize dialog, where you can select by clicking any style you want to get to the next step, where you get the Embed HTML code in a text input (the one starting with <iframe...). The embed code contains the release id within the iframe tag's src attribute, e.g. https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=140089158/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/ where you can see the release id as a value for the album parameter (bold emphasis); this is what you want for this editor's Bandcamp embed dialog. Paste the embed HTML to an editor and copy the release id, then click the editor's Bandcamp embed button, paste the id and Bob's your uncle. I used to paste the whole embed HTML to the dialog's text field, then delete everything before and after the id, but YMMV. This is difficult and sucks donkey derrière, although I'm quite quick at it. As always, TMTOWTDI (There's More Than One Way To Do It) - so I viewed the Bandcamp release page's source and found the easiest possible way to extract the id, so I came up with a small Javascript fragment that can be used as a bookmark: javascript:window.alert(JSON.parse(document.getElementsByName("bc-page-properties").item(0).content).item_id) Add it as a bookmark (copy and paste the code as the URL of the bookmark); when you're on a Bandcamp release page, run the bookmark and you'll get the id on a popup from where you can copy and paste it to the embed's input. As I've written elsewhere, this is not optimal, but definitely less painful than suffering through the indignity of doing it manually as above. There's no truly optimal solution that wouldn't require any copy-and-pasting, because to pick up the release number the release page's HTML source is required, so any solution is required to copy-paste either the id (extracted with Javascript from the release page like with my bookmark thingy above) or the release page URL (so that the id can be extracted programmatically from the page's HTML source). There are more complex and complicated solutions, but they're definitely even more farther away from optimal because of the effort required to implement them - I think the intuitive way would be to just paste the Bandcamp release's URL in the editor, but that would require modifying the editor's behaviour; the next best thing would be to paste the URL in the embed dialog, which would then load the release page's HTML and extract the release id - but that would require modifying the Bandcamp embed functionality. Therefore, the currently easiest way is to use the bookmark kludge above. Let me know if you come up with a better one without having to delve into the forum software's innards.

Here's a thing I whipped up with to help with that, it's not optimal but eases the pain a bit, reducing the effort from four clicks, copy, change tab, click, paste, edit, click ? one click, copy, change tab, click, paste, click. There's no truly optimal solution that wouldn't require any copy-and-pasting, because to pick up the release number (which is actually a WordPress internal id) the release page's HTML source is required - the number is not directly in the URL of the release; so any solution is required to copy-paste either the id (extracted with Javascript from the release page like with my bookmark thingy above) or the release page URL (so that the id can be extracted programmatically from the page's HTML source). There are more complex and complicated solutions, but they're definitely even more farther away from optimal because of the effort required to implement them. How would you like to embed a Bandcamp release in the editor? If you describe it, I'll tell you how hard it is to implement.

Yes, to as many slices as possible.

There are 1504 electronic albums on Discogs released in 1991 (by master release), could do some scripting and get a list here. Massive Attack's Blue Lines is 1991, as is Nightmare on Wax's A Word Of Science, and Yello's Baby - not forgetting Tangerine Dreams' Canyon Dreams.

Lego Feet was released in 1991.

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A Prototype Original iPod (Panic Blog)

Hannes Stenström of Shxcxchcxsh as SSTROM in full effect on Blawan & Pariah's Voam - sharp and nasty experimental techno cuts, exactly the way I love it. Highly recommended.

MOY's The Orbital Resonance EP available in digital, BufoBufo's Perceptual Channels just being released.

Straight up dancefloor electro from Late Night Approach on the ever-dependable Mechatronica. Recommended.

Cool melodic electro contrasted with thumping techno and acid trax from a Latvian label I've been following for years - they've released exceptionally good electro in their vinyl only series. Recommended.

A fresh 20-year celebration remaster of a classic ambient/drone/synth/IDM album, originally released on Mille Plateaux in 2001. Highly recommended.

Not too keen on the original pop-house version of the track, but Ectomorph, Finlow, and Versalife on remix duty bring this release up to recommendation.

Dark, distorted, bass heavy downtempo halfstep/breaks from Future Materials w/ a crushing Scorn remix. Recommended.

A compilation celebrating a decade of Acid Test with a roster of top shelf artists like Tin Man, VC-118a, TM-404, John Tejada, Wata Igarashi, Donato Dozzy, and Skudge delivering their best. Highly recommended.

Smoldering two-tracker from two of my favourite Iberian techno producers, OMG ZERG RUSH. Highly recommended.

Rather Aphexy album from Kieran Warren, marking his second release on Cold Blow (the first is Cithare) - the tracks on both releases are from 1990-1994, but they're worth your while. Highly recommended.

Beautiful, relaxed, melodic, and electro infused IDM very much from the FireScope category of sound. PWYW, recommended.

The first release on Romanian label Eufonic, available in digital from Beltran himself. Recommended.

Igloo says things.

I've had Bioelectric on my Bandcamp wishlist for a long time, thank you for the push to get all three releases. Listening in chronological order - Lakks, Bioelectric, Past Patterns.

Igloo says things.

Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi dies at 87 (Boing Boing) If you've ever been "in the zone", experiencing what is known as flow state - Csikszentmihalyi came up with the idea.