05 Jan 2012 — Henning Lahmann
You might have heard it already:
Get Off The Coast, one of the raddest and most reliable sources of delightful interweb radness, is no more. But
don't you cry! The folks that brought you the brilliance of GOTC, Jheri Evans and Liz and Dwight Pavlovic, are off to pastures new. While leaving their wonderful cassette imprint
Crash Symbols untouched and intact, a whole new media endeavor has been brought into being: Enter
Decoder, a website still devoted to the latest hip and fresh in the online musicsphere that most excitingly furthermore comes along with the foundation of an actual printed magazine (
remember those?) that aims at nothing less than providing "an attempt to interpret a world of culture and media in which the preeminent players have been the newly liberated human and the ambitious constellation of niche communities that new resources have given us digital beings unparalleled access to".
The first edition of
Decoder Magazine, which will be published semi-annually, is scheduled for May 2012 and will feature contributions by many of our favorite folks on the world wide web, among many others including my dearest
Electronic Beats co-worker and
Gucci Goth guru Daniel Jones, former
Altered Zones and future
Ad Hoc editor Ric Leichtung, ex-
Chocolate Bobka mastermind and
The Report founder/curator Michael McGregor,
Dylan Ettinger, and well, myself.
However, to make the whole thing a reality, a little funding is in order, which is why the magazine's founders have started a
Kickstarter yesterday - so don't hesitate no longer and
head over there, check out the rest of the details including information on the stuff you can get for your money (it's all worth it, promise) and the full list of contributors. In my humble opinion (and not because I'm a tiny little part of this),
Decoder Magazines is one of the boldest and most thrilling projects in the DIY sphere of 2012, something seriously
worth supporting.
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