Wow, I thought that was never going to see the light of day. Thank god Flash is no longer required, it’s been years since I was able to browse the old site. The new one works on my phone.
All of the text in the right or bottom popups is like 48pt, which I'm sure looks totally normal on a phone but reads very "Desktop? What's that?" Likewise, the popups have no scrollbar when there are multiple pages of text. The scroll wheel works but there's no scrollbar. Again I'm sure this seems fine and normal on a phone.
None of this makes it unusable, but it's weird, and these sort of "tells" show you what platforms the developer cares about. And this trend makes me weep for the future.
The shade thrown on Pendulum had me falling out of my chair!
Pendulum was inevitable -- if not them, someone would have done it. But they arrived at the right time and in the right place like Elvis, The Beatles, Nirvana, and every successful band that inadvertently changed the zeitgeist. Nu Metal was on the outs and the heavily tattooed Affliction T-shirt wearing Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit crowd were struggling for something to do on Saturday nights after watching the UFC fight. They came to this sound in droves. They came... for Pendulum.
Ishkur continues to provide: how did I never notice that the "blood rave" song was a New Order remix?
The infamous blood rave at the beginning of Blade just wouldn't be so iconic if it wasn't accompanied by New Order - Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction), a 10 minute Acid anthem that has become the most famous Hard Acid track that you probably didn't know was Hard Acid.
If Bambaataa is the focal point for the immortalization of Kraftwerk and the existence of Electro, would we be having this discussion if he sampled Yellow Magic Orchestra instead? Would Electro exist at all, or did it need to heist Kraftwerk in order to happen? And what kind of alternative Philip K Dick dystopian future would that lead to, and how could it possibly be worse than this one? I'm sure some self-important music writer has already written lengthy fan fiction on this.
Was Afrika B really the vanguard who spread Kraftwerk into hip hop? I didn’t know. Yet another fact to intensify the cognitive dissonance between his brilliance versus his alleged criminality.
Interesting question about why Kraftwerk and not YMO. My guess about why the dystopian future was avoided is because kraftwerk was more base beat oriented than YMO
It's intentional. If you click on the genre dot, it plays songs from that genre in a random order. If you want to hear songs from a particular year, you need to click on the bar for that genre in that year. Ishkur says (in the "How to Use" section of the guide) that he did this to "spread the wealth around".
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Wow, I thought that was never going to see the light of day. Thank god Flash is no longer required, it’s been years since I was able to browse the old site. The new one works on my phone.
It is, in fact, weirdly phone-like on my desktop, which is an unsettling development.
In what way? It looks pretty good in Chrome on my desktop. Any screen size I use works like I'd expect.
All of the text in the right or bottom popups is like 48pt, which I'm sure looks totally normal on a phone but reads very "Desktop? What's that?" Likewise, the popups have no scrollbar when there are multiple pages of text. The scroll wheel works but there's no scrollbar. Again I'm sure this seems fine and normal on a phone.
None of this makes it unusable, but it's weird, and these sort of "tells" show you what platforms the developer cares about. And this trend makes me weep for the future.
The shade thrown on Pendulum had me falling out of my chair!
Squee! ootz-ootz-ootz Squee! Sq-Sq-Sq-Sqeeee!
Ootz.
Ishkur continues to provide: how did I never notice that the "blood rave" song was a New Order remix?
Other important questions:
Was Afrika B really the vanguard who spread Kraftwerk into hip hop? I didn’t know. Yet another fact to intensify the cognitive dissonance between his brilliance versus his alleged criminality.
Interesting question about why Kraftwerk and not YMO. My guess about why the dystopian future was avoided is because kraftwerk was more base beat oriented than YMO
Wow, thanks for posting this!
omg
Ha ha ha! He really does not like the Dutch.
This post cost me 5 hours of my day.
Searching for "deadmau5" is special-cased to just return "Who?", which has me absolutely in shambles.
What? No mention of Neofolk? I want my money back!
But seriously, this is fab. Ishkur
rocksblends.Trying to guess if the apparently random order of play in the "Glitch" genre is a feature or not.
It's intentional. If you click on the genre dot, it plays songs from that genre in a random order. If you want to hear songs from a particular year, you need to click on the bar for that genre in that year. Ishkur says (in the "How to Use" section of the guide) that he did this to "spread the wealth around".