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valery rizzo's avatar

Love this one Rob. I only recognize Pat Benatar in the icons :)

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Stephan Kunze's avatar

Amazing photography and background, as always. Really appreciate this newsletter!

I'll always connect Greenpoint to the short-lived underground dub/hip-hop movement called Illbient back in the late 1990s. Over here, we imagined the area as this kind of industrial wasteland with artists and musicians flocking in from the city (as Manhattan became way too expensive), making music under the influence of the ultra-strong Jamaican weed that was sold at the corners... that's probably just nostalgic romanticism, but it's how it was portrayed for example in this semi-legendary indie film which documented that Greenpoint scene – it's called "Crooked", was produced by Skiz Fernando Jr. and came out via the WordSound imprint that also released the "Crooklyn Dub Consortium" compilations.

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