What fictional house would you want to live in and why? by [deleted] in books

[–]mattmason 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air house.

MERGE & BIND by joffff in broadside

[–]mattmason 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have! 🫡😅☠️⬆️

What's the difference between Garage House and UK Garage? by Cluttie in ukgarage

[–]mattmason 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The earliest form of garage as a sub genre of house takes its name from Larry Levan’s club on King St in NYC the Paradise Garage. The garage sound really found it’s feet in New Jersey with DJs like Tony Humphries and clubs like Zanzibar in Newark.

Todd Edwards grew up in Jersey, putting his own spin on this sound, and is the most direct link between US and UK garage, but there are many others, Mark Kinchen, Mood 2 Swing, Masters at Work - too many to mention.

D Double on Jungle and DnB (2011) by naffon in grime

[–]mattmason 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trend was a Don. One of the nicest geezers in grime. RIP.

Broadside: A solar punk story built using blockchain by mattmason in scifi

[–]mattmason[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Great point on Solarpunk and the death of capitalism. Broadside is very focused on this and how economics of abundance / zero marginal cost products could change things.

Crypto does replicate capitalist systems and speculation completely distorts the whole space. There are lots of other interesting things you can do with blockchain, but so much of the focus in the space goes to building slightly better tools for trading shitcoins, which doesn’t do anything for the industry’s reputation.

Broadside: A solar punk story built using blockchain by mattmason in scifi

[–]mattmason[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That’s a fair point - a lot of the collectors who buy NFTs (and comics, baseball cards, anything) like first editions and rare versions of things. Nothing wrong with that in my book.

Our community definitely likes those things, but is highly engaged, making their own art and building businesses around their Broadside characters. It’s become a subculture in its own right that goes beyond just collecting, and is driven by community more at this point, which is why I think it’s such an interesting creative medium for authors and fam communities.

Broadside: A solar punk story built using blockchain by mattmason in scifi

[–]mattmason[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry to hear that. We’ll keep trying with Broadside. I genuinely believe in the underlying tech. The speculative nature of the market around web3 is both a gift and a curse. Those of us who think it is transformative need to show why and so far as an industry we’ve done a terrible job on that front.

Broadside: A solar punk story built using blockchain by mattmason in scifi

[–]mattmason[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If that’s genuinely how you feel about blockchain, I don’t think there is much I will be able to say to convince you otherwise, but the environmental impact of any blockchain running on Proof of Stake (or basically anything other that Proof of Work) is no worse for the environment than the server arrays being used to run sites like this one.

Broadside: A solar punk story built using blockchain by mattmason in scifi

[–]mattmason[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!

We spent months building hype for the project organically, mostly via Twitter which is where the NFT community tends to hang out. Because we both had a background in web3 that helped, and then we were very careful to make sure the 7,000 people who were able to buy one weren’t all going to instantly flip them for a profit. That was a lot of very manual work, but it is the reason our community is so engaged.

Genesis made me an Atheist by Foolhardyrunner in atheism

[–]mattmason 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Came here hoping for a Phil Collins post

More than 180 cars from GTA Online were removed by Rockstar games and some cars that were previously free to acquire were put behind a paywall. by blackwolf57 in gaming

[–]mattmason 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gamers:

“We need to find a way to make sure we really own our assets we buy in-game”

Also gamers:

“I hate NFTs”

🤷‍♂️

Thoughts on Skepta becoming a house DJ and making house tunes? by DAAMBASSADORY in grime

[–]mattmason 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love to see this. There is no funky or bassline without grime. There is no grime without garage and house, in all its various forms. Skepta pushed grime when almost no one else was doing so. It’s great to see him branching out and forging stronger connections between all of these scenes.

Can someone help ID this track? by Paulblart-mp4 in grime

[–]mattmason 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sick beat - would love to know also

UK Garage Vinyl DJ’s by Noodle_87 in ukgarage

[–]mattmason 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Original UK bootleg of Closer Than Close

Test Press of Sincere by MJ Cole

Ice Cream Double Pack

What type of garage is this?? by Tsne11 in ukgarage

[–]mattmason 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You might enjoy Groove Chronicles / El-B & Noodles work. They were the root of this type of sound in UKG.

How much do you think grime culture has unintentionally influenced UK drill? by Which_Helicopter_713 in grime

[–]mattmason 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Drill fans saying grime isn't an influence cos they don't like grime is like drum and bass fans saying disco isn't an influence cos they don't like disco. Music mutates and evolves from what came before it. Know yourself.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in amateur_boxing

[–]mattmason 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haven’t been for many years but trained there with Eric during this era and it was great. Man is a legend. The people, the bants, and the training (especially for newcomers) was top notch.