classified

classified: an exploration of genre.
weekly theme, daily newsletter:

[classified @clsfy]

Introducing classified: a newsletter dedicated to exploring how we categorize the world.

Music, art, architecture, food, film. We examine how we divide, categorize, and ultimately try to make sense of the world through the drawing of boundaries.

https://t.co/gfuNhzomGs

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Today we are listening to the sweet disco grooves of Mr. Todd Terje:

https://t.co/7SQ9q3Z0m7

#disco #norway #norwegiandisco

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Get your hot pants and body glitter ready, because this week we are listening to Norwegian Disco. Yes, it is a thing, and yes, it is fantastic:
https://t.co/NRJSjeyWry

#disco #norway #norwegian #hotpants

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This week we've been looking at De Stijl - the Dutch art movement that restricted itself to primary colors, black and white, and straight lines. The constraints forced practitioners to explore composition more than representation.
https://t.co/Vws9fhohzK

#destijl #art #modernart

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This weekend we've got a nice Surf Rock mix for you, so grab a beer, get yourself near some water, and turn it up:
https://t.co/pKvQvHnHw7

#surfrock #surfing #surf #weekend #mix

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Today we are listening to The Surfaris, the teenage masterminds behind one of the greatest instrumental songs of all time, who also taught us a thing or two about Surfer Joe's "woodie"...

https://t.co/UC59Xvpmfa

#surfmusic #surfing #surfaris #wipeout

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Today we are listening to the Chantays, whose album Pipeline is an integral (if inconsistent) contribution to the surf rock canon:

https://t.co/gd6BcsqEjH

#surfrock #surfing #chantays #pipeline

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Today we are listening to Dick Dale and His Del-Tones, the undisputed kings of surf rock who (believe it or not) paved the way for garage, punk, and even heavy metal. And that was all decades before Pulp Fiction.
https://t.co/A9JUL8niSQ

#dickdale #surfrock #surfing #rocknroll

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Get your boards ready, cuz this week we're listening to surf rock: https://t.co/5MrjE62LmD

#music #surf #surfrock #dickdale #deltones #surfing

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For the last piece of our brutalism week, we go underground and examine the DC Metro system:
https://t.co/7fDXHzL7LN

#brutalism #metro #DC #architecture

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Today we are looking at William Pereira's Geisel Library at the University of San Diego, brutal and beautiful, the building looks like a pair of hands holding a stack of books:
https://t.co/dpK8uRSYXG

#brutalist #brutalism #architecture #library #ucsd #california #Pereira

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Today we are looking at the work of Le Corbusier and his vision for a new way of life:

https://t.co/tDmsadx45a

#brutalism #brutal #architecture #corbusier #france

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This week we are looking at Brutalist architecture, a style that foregrounds material, structure, and scale: https://t.co/8trYmG9MPZ

#architecture #brutalist #brutalism #barbican

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Our second podcast episode is a mix of the smoothest classic rocksteady. Happy Juneteenth. Have a great weekend, and defund the police.

#rocksteady #jamaica #music #mix #djmix

https://t.co/Vz954OpGiq

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Today we are listening to Phyllis Dillon, on of the few women to be associate with rocksteady. While she only recorded one full length album, Dillon's impact on Jamaican music has been profound:

https://t.co/aj3BIluBxS

#rocksteady #reggae #jamaica #music

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Today we are listening to Alton Ellis, the king of rocksteady, whose songs like "Cry Tough" perfectly embody the sound of the genre: https://t.co/Tc6TABWYTE

#rocksteady #reggae #jamaica #music

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Today we are listening to Lynn Taitt and the Jets, who more than anyone else shaped the sounds of rocksteady:
https://t.co/NgkxuopBQP

#rocksteady #music #genre #jamaica

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This week we are listening to Rocksteady - the short-lived bridge between ska and reggae that, in our opinion, puts the other two Jamaican musical powerhouses to shame: https://t.co/1nH7ZKSgPJ

#rocksteady #ska #reggae #jamaica #music #genre

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Today we are looking at the fragile environmental creations of Andy Goldsworthy:

https://t.co/6dQ0XWN1Y4
#art #landart #environmentalart #goldsworthy #Cheshire

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Not quite land art, the work of Christo & Jean-Claude tended to be massive, site-specific, and integrated into the environment - but the focus was never on the environment itself.

#christo #jeanclaude #landart #sculpture #environmentalart

https://t.co/Ck1t7g1LtT

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Today we are looking at Dennis Oppenheim's "Annual Rings", a land art piece which examines the intersection of natural and arbitrary borders and boundaries.

https://t.co/wd4y6PxNCB

#landart #oppenheim #canada #america #border #tree