Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip are Neon Neon, and their new record Praxis Makes Perfect is a concept album about Italian publisher and Marxist activist Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (1926-1972). “Hammer & Sickle” is a brilliantly intricate mini biopic.
Here it is! Top22! Available on both website and mobile apps (as channel). Simply said the easiest way to see which tracks from our regular 22 genres (selected by our amazing curators) are trending in our 22tracks cities! A feature we’ve been asked about for a long time. Take a peek in Amsterdam, Brussels, London and Paris to take a musical journey through the most popular tracks in these cities! For Facebook web users we have a Top22 Facebook app available.
Here’s what our CTO Larix Kortbeek has to say about the algorithm generating these charts:
Basically we take the amounts of plays, My22′s, Facebook likes, Tweets, shares and comments and assign a weight to each of these factors. We use this to calculate a score for each track. On the other hand we take away points based on the length of time a track has been available on our platform so the newest music gets a head start. After combining all factors, we take only the highest scoring 22 tracks in each city and refresh these charts every 24 hours.
This means that you, the listener, can influence these charts. Start listening, add it to your My22, share it via Facebook and/or Twitter and see your favorite track rise to the top of the charts!
Oh. Developers: you can find the JSON feeds (which could help you make something like this) to each individual city Top22 here: Amsterdam, Brussels, London and Paris. Contact info@22tracks.com for any questions or support.
Enjoy new music!
Team 22.
It’s a great day for New York rapper Action Bronson. He’s driving around Queens with assorted honeys, taking Riff Raff’s chain shooting hoops and finishing of with a delicious barbecue in “Strictly 4 My Jeeps”.
I don’t understand Spanish, but “Vís a Vís” must be a pretty sad song if the video is anything to go buy. Two adorable apes get tested on after they have been brutally separated in the latest video from singer Leiva.
A ballerina (Igone de Jongh of Het Nationale Ballet – Dutch National Ballet) is replaced by a younger dancer in “Birds”, the new video from Anouk. The unforgiving ballet mistress is played by the singer, whose song is competing in Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest.
So our office got robbed, a few weeks ago. Without us being insured for theft. I’ve been explaining the whole situation for weeks on a daily basis and still have to. Quite frankly I think it’s been enough. But, I can’t close the topic just yet, not without writing this blog post and reminiscing all the support we got. From you, the listeners, our partners, labels, artists, press and others. It’s been crazy. And it’s been amazing to feel so much love for a music discovery service we started 3,5 years ago.
On the day of the robbery itself we received tons of support mails, tweets and Facebook posts. Lots of people wanted to help out. A sudden crowd funding initiative was founded by some of our listeners, several people deposited € 22,- (or more) on our bank account and the press was all over it that day. We immediately thanked everyone coming into action but stressed that we wanted to organize something ourselves, without ‘begging’ to help us out. We wanted to celebrate the fact that we’re still here. With music. And so we did.
Thursday the 9th of May we organized ’22tracks & Friends’ at Bitterzoet in Amsterdam, to celebrate the fact that this shit didn’t bring us down. That we’re still here. Together with our friends Saux, MPS Pilot, Jungle by Night, Spacegirls, Waxfiend, Man!e, Snelle Jelle, Brutuzz, Full Crate, FS Green, Flexican, Sef, Henzel & Disco Nova and The Party Squad we celebrated like there was no tomorrow (apparently morning did come, together with a cruel hangover). Guests could either buy a ticket or buy a limited T-shirt with entrance fee included at the door. All the income gathered that night was donated to 22tracks. Bringing it to a total sum of more than € 3.500,-! Crazy! And although this doesn’t cover the robbery loss, we are happy we did it this way and wouldn’t have done it in any other way.
Besides the Bitterzoet and all the above mentioned artists lots of companies helped us out that night (and the days before). The guys from E&I produced the event, Tjunk printed limited Tshirts that we sold at the door, Firma Daan&Laan captured it all on video (soon online), Streamzilla offered us unlimited traffic for our live stream, Streamnerd produced the live stream, Ali Mousavi and Dennis Veldman made some wonderful photo’s that night (see here and here). All without any costs involved. Thank you all so much!
Now. Let’s close this chapter and move on. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Enjoy new music!
-Gilles
Kendrick Lamar, reverend Omar Epps and the rest of the congregation are celebrating one happy burial in the “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe” video. Who – or what’s – being laid to rest?
Mods and rockers are united for “Goin’ Crazy”, the new video from Dizzee Rascal and Robbie Williams. Watch them cruise in their customised mobility scooters.
It’s a rainy Saturday afternoon, and some kid is stting on the couch watching TV. He doesn’t realise that a creepy bug is sucking the life out of him while the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are playing “Mosquito”. Oh, he does.
Take That singer Mark Owen takes one last stroll through the city in his new solo video “Stars”… before deciding it’s not quite time yet to leave this planet.
Commander Chris Hadfield is leaving the International Space Station later today. He’s recorded a cover of David Bowie’s 1969 classic “Space Oddity” to mark the occassion, the first music video shot in space.
Oscar winner Marion Cotillard develops stigmata in a profane establishment with a clergical clientele. Brutal priest Gary Oldman looks on aghast while David Bowie plays “The Next Day”.
“Wrestling with the rope from darkness is no fucking life that I would choose,” sings Laura Marling in her new song “Master Hunter”. And so she’s not interested in any of her suitors. A dancer fittingly defeats her partner.
Music discovery service 22tracks.com, curated by local top DJs from Amsterdam, Brussels, London and Paris, is the perfect guide in a crowded musical landscape.
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