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Week 52: DAVID WISE (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

30 Aug 2021 9 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards

As video game consoles came into their own in the 1990s, their soundtracks did as well. Composers like David Wise pushed the hardware to its limits every bit as much as the programmers did, and a new sub-genre of music was born. Wise's most well-know...

[REVIEW] Aliens: Fireteam Elite - Do you like Aliens? Than you'll like this! And that's not a bad thing!

29 Aug 2021 2 minute read 0 comments m3ss

I'm going to cut right to the chase here for you: Aliens Fireteam Elite doesn't reinvent the wheel but is really fun to play. It's not the highest quality game ever so it costs $39.99 and, to me, that feels really fair. I grew up on Aliens and, for...

Week 51: PINK FLOYD (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

28 Aug 2021 7 minute read 2 comments jozefkrichards

Responsible for some of the most popular and well-regarded rock albums of all time, Pink Floyd would at first seem an unlikely candidate for such wide-spread appeal. Their albums rarely featured anything resembling hit singles, instead, more common w...

Week 50: FOSTER THE PEOPLE (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

27 Aug 2021 5 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards

What is "pop" and what is "alternative" fluctuates from era to era. Nonetheless, Foster the People might just be both anyways. By 2010, alternative rock was no longer simply the garage band itself, it was instead the app, Garage Band. Songs weren't j...

EcoFi Analysis: Review and Rating

26 Aug 2021 6 minute read 0 comments wackywriter

EcoFi offers an open-source, permissionless, and censorship-resistant protocol for the Ethereum network. In this post I will analyse the EcoFi project, and rate it in terms of the 'Vision' criteria in the SVET framework. This rating is conducted from...

Week 49: MORT GARSON (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

26 Aug 2021 6 minute read 2 comments jozefkrichards

A pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer, Mort Garson's eclectic discography is not the most widely known, but its influence is widely felt. He was among the first to push the technology of electronic music to its limits, creating rich...

Week 48: EMINEM (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

25 Aug 2021 9 minute read 1 comment jozefkrichards

The loss of Tupac and Biggie to the hip hop industry in the late 90s left a massive chasm to be filled by rap's next superstar to-be. That superstar was Marshall Mathers, Eminem. Famously crass, he backed it up with raw talent and an incredible flow....

Week 47: THE KINKS (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

23 Aug 2021 7 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards

At the height of their popularity and creative output, they were refused permits to perform in the United States. The Kinks would subsequently never reach the popularity of fellow British invaders like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who, bu...

Audi Electric Kick Scooter Review

22 Aug 2021 4 minute read 0 comments BrechtFromBE

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity of testing the Audi Electric Kick Scooter for about 1,5 days (mostly due to the bad Belgian weather), thanks to HLN Drive. Since I had prior experiences using sharing platforms like Dott (feel free to...

Week 46: "WEIRD AL" YANKOVIC (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

21 Aug 2021 9 minute read 4 comments jozefkrichards

Many people are funny and many have musical talent, but few have ever excelled so significantly at both, while pairing them together so masterfully, as "Weird Al" Yankovic has. His irreverence towards the sanctity of pop music and his silly lyrics su...