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A couple of days ago I noticed that this month is actually TYFTH’s 5th birthday! That would have been a nice landmark for the next mix, but as it’s a bit late in the day I’ve been thinking instead about a belated session on Ustream to celebrate. It looks as though the Ustream producer software has undergone a makeover since I last used it, but barring any problems I’ll be playing some schranz(!), NRG and freeform on Sunday night (Japan time).<\/p>\n
Anyway, I obviously didn’t have a clue what was going to become of the site when I innocently wrote\u00a0the first post<\/a>\u00a0– indeed it was pretty much just a place for top tens and trying out some As always, heartfelt thanks to all the Horsers for their support – it’d be great to see a few people on Sunday for a catch-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple of days ago I noticed that this month is actually TYFTH’s 5th birthday! That would have been a nice landmark for the next mix, but as it’s a bit late in the day I’ve been thinking instead about a belated session on Ustream to celebrate. It looks as though the Ustream producer software […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-japanese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}rudimentary<\/strike> horrendous Japanese (I’m not quite\u00a0Donald Keene<\/a>\u00a0yet, but I hope to the gods I’ve improved since then). Thinking about it, back in August 2007 I was still more than a year away from my Tokyo club debut, had only just finished Yamanote no Oto<\/em> and was a pretty anonymous presence on the FINRG forums, so there’s definitely been progress on all sorts of fronts.<\/p>\n