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And of course, the memory of all the penguins when all the chicks had grown up and shed all their fluffy feathers and they all walk down to the sea for their first swim. They’re sat next to you waiting to go in and then some of them fall a sleep maybe a couple of meters away, so trusting. That’s a really sweet moment and it makes it all the harder when they then jump in the ice sea and they’ve got to somehow escape the jaws of a massive leopard seal. It’s an infographic that is not accessible and so we’re adding the description here to allow people who are not able to see it, to still gain the information that is in it. Fairtrade’s support goes beyond individual farmer stories. For cane farmers at Manduvira co-operative in Paraguay, April 2014 was a milestone as they became the proud owners of a sugar mill ensuring that they are now able to capture more value from the sugar supply chains.
Schedl, Hauger et al. , investigated how a range of combinations of different music recommendation algorithms recommended artists for users of different genders. In other words, all the algorithms amplified the preference for male artists existing in the underlying data. In the most thorough critical humanities research on music recommendation and gender that we have found, Eriksson and Johansson set up a “bot experiment” with 288 Spotify accounts to assess recommendations by gender. They found that out of the 485 artists and bands recommended to their bots, 386 were identified as male, and 73 were identified as female, while 24 were tagged as mixed duos or groups. It was not possible for the authors to compare these proportions with the gender identification of artists across the vast Spotify repertoire as a whole. What might critical internet studies contribute to our understanding of problems concerning automated cultural/musical recommendation, beyond the criticisms of bias already mentioned?

The site currently boasts well over six million tracks in a multitude of musical styles. ‘Shake The Room’ isn’t strictly a Migos tune – we know! But you can’t deny that this is one of the best tracks from a Migos member.
The same may be true of the related concept of “diversity”, which we address in section 5 below. In pushing back against the focus on bias and fairness, critical internet studies often questions optimistic views concerning the potential of information technology to bring great benefits to economies, societies and cultures. These views began to develop in the 1950s and arguably reached their peak in responses to the rise of the internet in the late 1990s and 2000s . At its most extreme, such “techno-optimism” or digital optimism sees technical solutions as superior to ones available through democratic deliberation.

Whether it is labour, capital, or land, the firm will pay according to their additional output. The music industry is not a competition I would like to win, however I do  strive for a long-lasting musical career. If I can do that without proving myself to an industry like a peacock in a botanical garden then I’m all for it.
Will has also mentored at Raw Sounds, a music project for young people in Brixton, South London. Tonyspark is a self-taught musician who wants to expand horizons. A singer, songwriter, rapper, producer and multi-instrumentalist, he’s not bound by  genre markers when sketching out his creations. Raised in London and based in Nottingham, his style is blissful and sultry, his tracks’ atmospheres grounded in the synths and bass which are his mainstays. Signed to a major and experienced the music business with singles, video’s and producers, odd artwork break ups culminating in five albums .
Features are congenial, with the likes of Smino and G-Herbo demonstrating that Saba doesn’t intend to stray far from his Chicago home, either in the contents of the album or its features. Walter Perez plays Che Corleone, Shoniqua Shandai is Devine Write and Charlamagne tha God is Hunnid Gramz, a battle rap promoter. Dumbfoundead is Prospek, a Korean-American battle rapper, and one of Adam's first opponents. Saxophonist, composer, bandleader and innovator Camilla George makes a stunning return with her third album ‘Ibio-Ibio’ - a rich, cultural journey dedicated to her Ibibio tribe of south eastern coastal Nigeria. Is, much like the Avengers' arch-enemy Thanos...inevitable (and all-powerful!).

Despite that old ethos, ANTI-ICON is very much the sound of here and now. Rap remains a major part of the Ghostemane formula – the alternation between high-pitched yelps, nasal drawl and throaty gurgles suggesting multiple demons trapped in one body – but ANTI-ICON is not simply a rap album. There is something distinctly nu-metal about the combination of quick rhymes and down-tuned guitars on Lazaretto. The dynamic blend of hardcore, oppressive valet mobile electronics and apparitional ambience on Sacrilege shares much with Underneath-era Code Orange. The thrusting beat of ASMR (Anti-Social Masochistic Rage) evokes the same squalid sex as peak Marilyn Manson. As a consequence, when Ghoste does throw himself into the old-school southern “phonk” sound on Hellrap (the album’s last rhymed verses, four tracks from the end), it lands with no tongue-knotted fatigue, and real conviction.
Featuring the likes of Can’t Knock The Hustle, Brooklyn’s Finest and Dead Presidents II, it was a stunning combination of frontline reportage and frankly ice cool rhymes. Hip hop fluidity means that Drake can have the biggest rap song in the world by eschewing ghostwritten bars and instead affecting a faux-patois. Thus, our inability to clearly differentiate R&B from rap nowadays makes it prime time for this passable Indiana artist to throw his New Era into the ring. It’s obvious that YE Ali sees himself as a singer first, albeit AutoTune-assisted one - as if that silly distinction matters anymore (‘Menu’, ‘Flights & Break Ups’). Still, once he’s lowriding through the muted funk of ‘Rodeo’ or linking with radio reliable K Camp on the ostensible single ‘What To Do’, that line blurs. Overall, he seems to be feebly grasping at virtual straws, transforming at least thrice on the schizophrenic trap cut ‘Fulla Diamonds’.

For him, the tape serves as an interfaith conversation, often infusing Ancient Egyptian and African concepts into the mix ('Atom, Aten and Adam'). Soundsystem sirens, pitched-up praise, and a persistent yet sparse organ riff come together in a trippy melange for 'The God Spell ', while 'Plagerism Of Kemet' slowly grinds down its fractured wordless hymn. East Londoner KO’s Tim Westwood Crib Session and delivering a Next Up? Freestyle that showed his ability to oscillate between sleek trap and the archetypal, macabre UK drill sound.
Popularity alone, Matamoros-Fernández et al. concluded, was not enough to explain why certain problematic videos and less popular channels kept appearing. They also argued that research needed to address “platform vernaculars” and “issue vernaculars”, understandings of how the platform works. These are used by content creators and distributors to increase the chances of their content being amplified by the recommendation system.
For those of you who have no idea what we're talking about I'll post some pix online. Will I use them again - if we tour + if we play any of the tunes I used to use it on? - keep voting on thefavourite song section and you never know... Having drawn the likes of DJ Stingray, Overmono and Afrodeutsche to the city in 2019, Room 237 are one of the most revered promoters in Bristol right now.

“I’m hoping for another Champions League spot”, says Nines of the new album, a reference to football and the top 4 qualifying positions in the Premier League, “I’m coming for the top four definitely”. Relaxed, confident and making the best music of his career so far, there’s every chance he’ll go one better. Lauded for his gritty, lived-in narratives and laid back, near-horizontal, conversational flow, Nines’ mixtapes immediately stood out from those of his contemporaries; he was clearly a natural, special talent. His big break came might have come by way of 2017 debut album, ‘One Foot Out’, which peaked at 4 on the UK Album Charts on its release, but Nines’ impact could be felt across London and beyond many years before. Inspired by elders who used to rap on the estate, as well as the early grime crews of his childhood like So Solid Crew and Pay As U Go, his relationship with wider rap cultures was first brokered when he was only 10 years old.
The song’s original video on Mixtape Madness would later be taken down by the Met Police after being viewed eleven million times . To this day, due to the track’s alleged role in inciting and encouraging violence, Digga is still banned from performing it, despite it being one of the most popular drill songs ever made. Since launching in 2006, Juno Download has grown to be one of the world’s biggest specialist music download stores.