Infosthetics write: A relational visualization chart showing the branches & connections of 100 years of music using the London Underground map. Train lines denote different music styles (e.g. pop.soul, reggae) & are directional according to time, branch lines represent sub-genres … Continue reading
Like, how cool is that?!? How do we really measure distances in big cities nowadays? Certainly not in miles or kilometers — instead, what matters is time. Hence, Tom Carden has made this wonderful Travel Time Tube Map application, which … Continue reading
In the latest issue of the brilliant music magazine Waxpoetics, me and my mate Gareth are running a piece on London-based Brazilian music-specialist DJ Cliffy, whose famous Batmacumba and Future World Funk club nights bring the heat back to the … Continue reading
J Dilla rest in peace. One of the best hip-hop producers of a generation has passed away due to long-term illness. James Yancey aka Jay Dee aka J Dilla released the album Donuts only a week ago, and two other … Continue reading
…not so surprising though: If you would have had such a rough, all-out shitty childhood and adolescence in the projects of 1980s New York (which is, basically, like having grown up in some kind of Dante hell), it’s very understandable … Continue reading
My mate Chris was bugging out about Pandora the other day (no, not the early 90’s Swedish euro-techno group, you dimwit — he meant the application!), and lots of other web2.0-savvy people I know have been raving about (as well … Continue reading
Turns out JT Leroy was a hoax, after all. Very postmodern. While the malodorous whiff of intellectual dishonesty still hangs in the air, thanks to dishonest Imams heralding false images, and stem-cell researcher Hwang Woo Suk simply making up important … Continue reading
1) Denmark — a lively past history of populist aggression towards Muslims What I think is essential — as a Scandinavian myself — to point out in the current debate regarding the schism that some Danish cartoons (alternative link) caused, … Continue reading
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