Fast. Slow. Weird. Taxi.

March 9, 2018 10:47 AM

Pick a country on the map. Pick a decade between 1900 and now. Lean back and listen.
Use Taxi-mode to create a round the world trip sampling the sounds of the continents.

Collaborate by contributing a song or correctly tagging songs with updated information.

posted by Iteki (8 comments total)

via Rubber Bandits wonderful Facebook feed. Make sure to zoom in on the map for various treats like here be monsters illustrations and 8-bit Island.
posted by Iteki at 11:13 AM on March 9, 2018 [2 favorites]

Very cool.
posted by chococat at 11:22 AM on March 9, 2018

Just lighted on an Indonesian cover of The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar." This is amazing.
posted by Iridic at 12:14 PM on March 9, 2018 [1 favorite]

this is p.cool. 70's Angola etc.
posted by djseafood at 1:41 PM on March 9, 2018

Amazing -- many thanks!
posted by Rash at 5:02 PM on March 9, 2018

A treasure of treasures. Glad to see they haven't industrialized the site over the years.

Back at the beginning of records, the handful of companies found that people really liked -exotic- recordings. So they paid agents to travel around the world. Fascinating era.
posted by Twang at 6:08 PM on March 9, 2018 [2 favorites]

GET OUT OF MY HEAD HOW DID YOU KNOW I WANTED THIS WHEN I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT YET
posted by gusandrews at 10:39 AM on March 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

Twang, that is really really interesting and I would love to see a FPP about it!
posted by gusandrews at 10:40 AM on March 10, 2018 [1 favorite]