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It was on Monday, the 18th of November, 2024, when they finally broke the news. It was something that we had feared deep down since June, when his Facebook channel suddenly had gone silent, but still hoped it was just a temporary communication breakdown, maybe illness or some technical problems. Or was it that he had only become sick and tired with all the current brouhaha – with the state of music culture, media, politics and all general nonsense going on – and just had decided to take some time offline. Unfortunately, that sense of foreboding turned out to be true. On that Monday the news came in that J Saul Kane , the pioneering British breakbeat/electro musician known for such projects as Depth Charge and the Octagon Man, had passed on. He was only 57 years old. [ J Saul Kane tribute by Carl Lorben @ DJ Magazine, 19 November 2024 ] [ Mixmag ] [ Music Week ] [ NME ] [ The Quietus ] [ Resident Advisor ] [ Tribute by Akio Nagase ] I was briefly in touch with him years a...

The corner of Hämeenkatu and Kauppakatu, 1912. From the left: the House of Kansallispankki (built 1904-16) and the House of Blom (built 1907, demolished 1955), both by architect Birger Federley (1874-1935). Photographer unknown, the image in public domain (as far as I know). Some years ago I was planning as student work a documentary of Tampere's old Jugendstil (related to Art Nouveau/Secessionism) buildings of the late 19th and early 20th century, many of them sadly demolished now. As there was too much else to do those days, I had to put the planned documentary project on the back burner, hopefully to be retrieved in some form one day... About Birger Federley: Carl Birger Federley (17 February 1874 – 29 March 1935) studied architecture in Helsinki with fellow students such as Lars Sonck and Wivi Lönn, as well as the later world-famous trio Gesellius-Lindgren-Saarinen. In 1892 Birger Federley graduated from Nya svenska läroverket i Helsingfors, Helsinki's ...