Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story
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#12In Denmark we had MyMusic.dk, which later rebranded to Bandbase.dk, they were active from 1998 to 2013, they stored a lot of free underground music for a lot of up and coming artists.
They died when their data host Nirvanix went bankrupt, they lost all of the media files (with no backups), but according to Wikipedia customers were given 14 days to move their data.
A lot of culture disappeared that day :(
Re: Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story
#13In Denmark we had MyMusic.dk, which later rebranded to Bandbase.dk, they were active from 1998 to 2013, they stored a lot of free underground music for a lot of up and coming artists. They died when their data host Nirvanix went bankrupt, they lost all of the media files (with no backups), but according to Wikipedia customers were given 14 days to move their data. A lot of culture disappeared that day :(
>customers were given 14 days to move their data
14 days is not nearly enough for private customers to react. Often vacations can be longer than that, and people don't usually vacation with their laptops and external HDDs to places with fast broadband, just in case they need to make a spontaneous external backup of their cloud data. Imagine by the time you come home all your data is irrecoverably gone. That's fucking nuts.
Should be at least 30 days by law.
Re: Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story
#14I remember back in the day, listening to Tim Westwood on pirate radio was about the only exposure that hip-hop got in the UK.
For people interested in the history of hip-hop, there's a series of excellent comic books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_Hop_Family_Tree
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#15Hip-Hop Evolution on Netflix is really, really good. [1]
Hip-hop is for sure not my favorite genre - but this series was fantastic.
[1] : https://www.netflix.com/watch/80141893?trackId=200257859
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#16Tangential, but I think the streaming services are preserving the story just fine on their own. No matter how many times I skip or dislike a hip hop song, they all keep shoving them down my throat with their recommendation engines. Very frustrating. /rant
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#17Tangential, but I think the streaming services are preserving the story just fine on their own. No matter how many times I skip or dislike a hip hop song, they all keep shoving them down my throat with their recommendation engines. Very frustrating. /rant
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Apple's top music is always R&B, Rap, etc. I have never seen a song or radio I actually wanted to listen to. Guess its up to me to find all the new music?
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#18Rap is like a set-up, a lot of games A lot of suckers with colorful names I’m so-and-so, I’m this, I’m that Huh, but they all just wick-wick-wack
Hip-hop can be bland and shallow (like any other genre) but there's lots of unique and interesting music if one takes the time to get into it. Deltron 3030 (self titled) and MF DOOM's MM...FOOD are fantastic on a lyrical and production level
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#19Rap is like a set-up, a lot of games A lot of suckers with colorful names I’m so-and-so, I’m this, I’m that Huh, but they all just wick-wick-wack
Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly.
They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly.
Re: Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story
#20Tangential, but I think the streaming services are preserving the story just fine on their own. No matter how many times I skip or dislike a hip hop song, they all keep shoving them down my throat with their recommendation engines. Very frustrating. /rant
So you don't pay a fair price for your music consumption and still complain about the quality of service?