I must be getting old and nostalgic. The past weeks I have been relaunching projects from my past, and GO Magazine is the first one to come online. Truth be told I am quite pleased with it.
Relaunched: GO Magazine
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Category Archives: dance
Desyn Masiello
You sir are brilliant! Brilliant!
The live mix performed on John Digweed’s show Kiss 100 FM in 2005 is one of the best musical journeys of this century. Really, it is that good. Grab it if you can.
I am important!
Time to kick off this post with a priceless quote by Dale Carnegie. “About ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don’t criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be”.
It’s true you know (and I am certainly one of those ninety-nine, although I strive not to be). Case in point: disgruntled event organisers who are personally offended every time I won’t do exactly what they tell me to do.
Time-Out Amsterdam
In happier news I finished my piece for Time-Out Amsterdam a few weeks ago.
Time Out is a city guide, and I’m not lying if I told you it’s the best one on the planet. Maybe even the solar system. If you find yourself in Amsterdam and you don’t know what’s where, pick up one of these babies. I don’t even know if they’re free, but pick one up anyway. They rock.
Pay especially close attention to the club chapter; which I wrote, obviously.
It lists all the cool clubs to see [and hear] in Amsterdam if you’re visiting town. Places like 11, Studio 80 and Pakhuis Wilhelmina are all in there. And, I might add, were put in because of yours truly! The previous edition was quite old and even mentioned a club like More. Yawn!
So the good news is that tourists will be able to find cool places. The bad news is that they won’t be able to for several months. 
TOA [as it's called by us professionals] will come out some time this fall, hopefully in time before Amsterdam Dance Event.
We’ll see. I’m just happy to have contributed. And proud!
Artist blogs
Today appears to be the day where stuff gets done!
I just implemented a blog import tool for GO Magazine. Ruby and Rails just make it so easy. I generated two models: Blog and Post. Blog gets hooked up to an Artist, and Blog has_many :posts.
Blog is hooked up to a Link as well. Every day, I just traverse the Links, fetch the feed and parse it using Ruby’s built-in RSS Parser. Walk the items and insert them into the database, done!
I’m even surprised at the speed, tens of blogs are imported in a few seconds.
It's being used
Funny when something I’ve built actually gets used.
Last week I added a section called livesets to GO Magazine. Just a page where anyone can submit a live-deejay mp3 set. Of course anyone can then download the set, plus people can vote. Basic stuff.
Originally I wanted to use it just for myself, since people throw their livesets at me all the time.
But then I decided to mail this to the artists I know and what do you know? Now every day livesets are added, people are downloading and voting like crazy and I have lifted some gems off the net already! Flow’s liveset is great, as is the one by Ellen Allien.