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The news just came in today that J Saul Kane , the pioneering British breakbeat/electro musician known for such projects as Depth Charge and the Octagon Man, has 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 ago when I kept for my own Website a sort of fanpage of his music and also the record labels, DC Recordings and Electron Industries, that he maintained. (I can’t say I knew him well, but I remember “Nutters but good nutters” was how he commented on the page.) J Saul Kane biography Jonathan Saul Kane was born on the 26th of January, 1967. He came of age in the era when the first wave of hip hop culture was just sweeping across the Atlantic from its original birthplace most historians now locate to Bronx, New York City, USA. It reached also Powis Square in the Notting Hill...

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 ...