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: music
Radio 6: De Zwarte Lijst
One of the nicest things about working for tv/radio is being part of pretty big events with impossible deadlines. De Zwarte Lijst (The Black List if you mean to be literal) is a hit list with black music which started airing just a few minutes ago on Radio 6. Continue reading
So let it be houze
For an as of yet undisclosable project I am researching house in all it’s various incarnations. It only took me three searches to land in the realm of house music, and have spent considerable time re-listening to the classics. Like this one:
Fuckin’ aye.
Friendly Alien Space Takeover
I couldn’t help but notice this podcast of Future Vintage, a show on Radio 6. With titles like Space Invasion, Sirius Space Party, Interstellar Low Ways, When Planets Explode, Tales from Outerspace and Distant Planet you can’t go wrong! Download the MP3 now!
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People enjoying their Space Babies
Recently I have sent out stickers by post with basic building blocks of ‘Space Babies’. They’re a huge hit! After the break you can see xhtmlized‘s Dave Rosen enjoying his baby. So sweet! Continue reading
Enjoy my muxtape
Thanks to John Gruber I recently discovered Muxtape – a great app to create and share mixtapes. I’ve created one, naturally, and invite you to listen!
Musick (sic) industry
I really like this comment on slashdot:
If you look at the history of American railroads in the nineteenth century, it was similar. They controlled distribution of goods and in many cases could charge what they wanted. Farmers, manufacturers, retailers, and consumers suffered, but had no alternative. At least till technological development changed things (trucks and highways). Then suppliers and consumers had a way of bypassing the rails, and did so. Eventually the rail companies adapted (mixed mode transport) and even prospered.
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.
Turn up the basssss
Recently I discovered all releases of Turn Up The Bass ever
made! How cool is that?
I remember hiring these CDs from the local video store since I couldn’t afford them. And now they’re available online, plus they fit on a DVD easily. Sweeeet.
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.