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Acid House: Fluke or Innovation?
Acid House: Fluke or Innovation?
Innovation can’t happen without creative risk-taking, the ability to fail, and the resilience to keep going.
Jake Trussell
Jun 30
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres (Review)
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres (Review)
Exploring rock, r&b, country, punk, hip-hop, dance, & pop as identities emerging from countercultures to form the fabric of popular culture
Jake Trussell
Jun 14
Nu Jungle
Nu Jungle
Buoyant Beats for the Turbulent Twenties: A DJ mix of resurgent jungle produced between 2017 and 2022
Jake Trussell
Mar 3
An Open Letter to Neil Young Regarding Spotify
An Open Letter to Neil Young Regarding Spotify
I’ve never used the term “OK, boomer” but it’s crossed my mind a few times during your Spotify boycott …
Jake Trussell
Feb 1
The 21 Best Tracks of 2021
The 21 Best Tracks of 2021
Music is flying higher than ever in the soaring twenties.
Jake Trussell
Dec 28, 2021
When Jamaican sound engineers invented electronic dance music.
When Jamaican sound engineers invented electronic dance music.
Dub engineers made a new, metaphysical type of musical composition in which the mixing board became a musical instrument
Jake Trussell
Aug 30, 2021
Shelter in Place DJ Mixes
Shelter in Place DJ Mixes
Shifts in the social fabric uncovered new ways to share music in 2020
Jake Trussell
Dec 26, 2020
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