Everything we had on repeat this month. GOTH MONEY: TRILLIONAIRES – CHOPPED AND SCREWED Since forming in 2013, Goth Money has become maybe the first post-Internet music project: a network of artists who sample, surface, and somehow bring together hip hop subcultures and digital art movements. Last year’s Trillionaires (Break World Records) proved that Goth Money isn’t a genre….
*Update, OTT News is now available for iOS and tvOS directly from the App Store. Android users can still download from the Google Play Store. It’s election year and things are heating up. High stakes are in the balance today with the primaries in New Hampshire. OTT News (On The Trail and Over The Top) has…
A guide to the ten best releases of 2016. So far. WIKI: LIL ME DELUXE EDITION In December, Ratking’s Wiki released Lil Me: an 18-track collection that captures New York circa now — grime, decay and regeneration, the sound of a city that’s slipping away. Lil Me is a love/hate letter to a lost place, layered over terse,…
Currently in Beta, Project Maelstrom aims to help more of the Internet work the way BitTorrent works. In today’s post, team lead Rob Velasquez discusses one of the key components that makes BitTorrent work so efficiently. Project Maelstrom has a big mission: can we create a sustainable, neutral, people-powered, and content centric Internet? As our…
From Ratking to Rubble Kings: how DIY scenes and outside voices shaped pop culture in 2015. 2015 saw creativity’s declaration of independence. More than 41% of artists we surveyed now say that direct-to-fan distribution — the freedom to share work without a label or a studio — is the single biggest change impacting the arts. It’s bigger…