The Find Magazine is a global collective of music lovers dedicated to promoting the diffusion of hip hop, jazz, funk, soul, and related genres. We are inspired by the culture of ‘crate digging’ and thus constantly scour the dusty corners of record shops and outskirts of the internet to find the best music for you.
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The market for music has been collapsing since the up rise of high speed Internet access. Music is an elastic product that suffers under the effect of price and competition. The opportunities for users have changed and lean towards downloading. It’s easier, faster and less expensive then buying it at a store in the centre of most cities. It isn’t…
I grew up listening to Pulp.
I vividly remember lying outside my older sisters’ bedroom as she played Different Class from her multi-CD changer Hi-Fi, while I pushed myself up against her door, devouring Jarvis’ every word. Outside, unbeknown to my sister, I was recording the music onto a battered plastic tape loaded into my bright-red stereo…
Attraction: Mobile tools
R. Kelly ft. Nas
“Did You Ever Think” (1998)
The access point of your curiosity is the body, an exciting, new gadget. J. Macgregor Wise describes one perspective of human-technology relations as a received view in which mutually external parties can act upon one another, indulging an oscillation between technological and social determinism…
PressPausePlay discusses how digital technology has affected the creative industries including music, film art and even literature.
In December 2007, composer and artist and writer Paul D. Miller a.ka. DJ Spooky a.k.a That Subliminal Kid boarded a decommissioned naval ship and traveled to Antarctica. The book that resulted from this journey is The Book of Ice, but the book is not about that journey.
If one were to compare the Netherlands to the United States on just a topical issues alone it would seem like oil and water. The obvious differences, are well, just that – obvious (no need to discuss coffee shops, socialism and the red light district here). As an expat and self proclaimed geek, the thing that I have found to…
Over the past few weeks I have situated myself in Berlin on a mandate to take in and absorb all that is the music culture here. On a mission to discover the heartbeat of the European music industry, I haven’t had to look very far to gain my experiences. The only other two cities in Europe that I have spent…
Composing and representing music visually has traditionally been through music notation. Using a 5 lined “staff” or “stave” as a framework, black circles with lines are drawn to represent pitch and length of notes with other markings such as “slur” or “staccato” to represent phrasing and articulation.
Experienced musicians can get a good impression on how a piece should sound…
Want to listen to new music but sick of staring at your old MP3 collection?
Streaming applications like Spotify, Last.fm and Pandora (US only) recommend related artists.
Sites like The Hype Machine and Elbows aggregate music blogs for instant internet radio streaming.
More importantly, websites such as Musicovery (the original interface) and TuneGlue…