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Jos F. Kirps
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Jos F. Kirps's personal blog at kirps.com covers history and culture. Since 2007, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “KLF - The Manual: How To Have A Number One The Easy Way (1988)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts about ghost producing in the EDM industry, where DJs release tracks written by hired producers. The only comment discusses that practice rather than the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- KLF - The Manual: How To Have A Number One The Easy Way (1988)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-03-28
What Hacker News says?
Thing is, DJing and producing dance tracks are entirely different crafts. Somehow, when DJs playing other people's records achieved stardom, people started expecting them to release their own tracks, too. Some were good at it, but some weren't, so they hired someone else to help. It isn't a very big problem, really, in my opinion. Most dance music fans can pick out the good from the bad anytime. An artist who consis…
Comment linking /web/main/resources/music/themanual/
on “Ghost Producing: What the EDM Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know”Submitted How Intel, HP & Compaq Killed The Fastest Processor In The World as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted KLF - The Manual: How To Have A Number One The Easy Way (1988) as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted How to have a number one the easy way - still relevant today? as a story · 1 points
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