Great little interview here with Bernie Krause, where he talks of his career switch from music to bioacoustics, the Wild Sanctuary archive, and the bitter-sweet sounds of his backyard on 12 September 2001.

...etc. Big thanks to our contributors throughout the year, and thanks to everyone else who got in touch during 2008. Apologies if we didn't respond to everything sent to us, either by email or post. We aim to be less slack in 2009 (we might even do a mailout, you never know).

Cheers.

Spannered.

We may not have known where on the planet Maga Bo has been at any given time during 2008, but he's been busily fleshing out his Sambacana Brazilian music archive throughout the year. Recent additions include a super-slick all-Brazilian dancehall selection from Jimmy Luv and a huge Jorge Ben tribute mix, the latter a 28-track selection of covers from Rio's Soundgoods blog.

 

Lots of Jorge Ben and other goodies (links courtesy of Soundgoods)

We recently stumbled on Bo's YouTube channel. If you enjoyed reading Camilo Rocha's series of Globalista interviews, go check Bo's nicely shot minidocs on the likes of Diplo and DJ /rupture, along with other videos put together on his travels. He just set off for tours of Australia and Europe - dates here!

 

 

Sonar Calibrado Tangier Morocco (Maga Bo and Filastine)

Arachnophobes: stay away from this link. Here's a heart-warming tale for you instead.

Using their Piximilar software technology, which searches images using attributes such as colour, shape, texture, luminosity and complexity, Idée Inc. recently analysed 10 million Flickr pics and came up with something very cool indeed.

Multicolr Search Lab

 

* Edit. And on a related note... design geeks - here's a little something to make your eyes bleed.

 

If you screw up your face at bad grammar and typos, or froth at the mouth when reading nonsensical newspaper copy, you might enjoy this.