Further Ramblings

We’ve never mentioned it before, but if you’re fellin the stuff you find lying around here, there’s more of it lurking in other corners of the web. For a deeper look into the music of New York – particularly in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick – you can find some steyels on BushwickBK.com. Recent writing at that outlet includes coverage of a party with Munchi and DJ Still Life, a blog post about some new beats by Mikey Dubs, and an article about a charity trying to bring music to a local public school. Then there’s Dubspot, where you’ll find more in depth looks at current electronic artists like a piece on Ramadanman, an interview with A Made Up Sound, and a spotlight on Brainfeeder. CS blurbs are also on Twitter and Facebook. There’s even more, but that’s a secret. (Photo by Tomasz Kaluzny.)

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Colorful Language

The phrase, “Your language is so colorful” just took on a new meaning. A new program called Word DNA, created by Luke Loeffler, color codes your rhymes. You plug the text into the program, and it gives you back a color bar that adds certain hues to the words that rhyme. We tried it out with the below rhyme, and it showed rhymes we didn’t even realize were there.

The game should stay raisin’ the gauge we grade players with/
So equatin’ quaint creations with greatness is negated/
But the reign of a whole range of fakeness is straight gainin’/
What agent for change could erase this arrangement?

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Philly Killin’ It

On Saturday, we’ll be in an art show, for those of you that’ll be in Philly this weekend. I mean, $1 beer? You might as well take a Chinatown bus down, it’d probably be a cheaper night out. In addition to dozens of artists – including the man responsible for Downbeat Treaty‘s cover – there will also be a number of performers and DJs.

We got a couple tracks for you for the Seclusiasis dudes that will be there. First, Dev79 hit us off with an MPFree of his new Raffertie remix. And we got the stream of a nasty Ghost joint that we can’t wait to see a certain rapper bless.

Raffertie, “Antisocial (Dev79 RMX)”

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Ghost, “Danger”

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Contact

I can be contacted by emailing:  MikeM AT CultureSystem.org

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