{"id":9842,"date":"2008-01-05T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T01:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatplanet.com.au\/blog\/2008\/01\/05\/best-for-world-music-fat-planet-in-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:15:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:15:02","slug":"fat-planet-best-blog-for-world-music-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/05\/fat-planet-best-blog-for-world-music-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Planet voted &#039;Best Blog For World Music&#039; by The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fat Planet blog was featured on Friday in the UK&#8217;s &#8216;<strong>Guardian<\/strong>&#8216; newspaper in Chris Salmon&#8217;s column &#8216;Click To Download&#8217;. You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/music.guardian.co.uk\/rock\/reviews\/story\/0,,2234937,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read the column online<\/a>, reprinted below.<br \/>\n<strong>Best for world music: Fat Planet<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Stuart Buchanan is a Scotsman living in Australia with a radio show about contemporary world music. In 2003, he set up a blog to accompany his <\/em>programme<em>, &#8220;as an early experiment in fusing broadcasting with an online component, linking to free downloads of music heard on the show&#8221;. Bloggers across the globe soon discovered the site and began to write about it. Before long, Buchanan&#8217;s readers outnumbered his radio listeners. Almost five years on, the blog still offers a fantastic melting point of cutting-edge international sounds; be it Danish rap-techno, Argentinean cumbia, Israeli dub or Chinese hip-hop. The range and quality of the music Buchanan <\/em>tracks<em> down is astonishing. &#8220;Most of it is sourced from the web,&#8221; he says. &#8220;You just need to know where to look and spend many hours a week hunched over your laptop.&#8221; In other words, Buchanan does the hard work, so you don&#8217;t have to.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fat Planet blog was featured on Friday in the UK&#8217;s &#8216;Guardian&#8216; newspaper in Chris Salmon&#8217;s column &#8216;Click To Download&#8217;. You can also read the column online, reprinted below. Best for world music: Fat Planet Stuart Buchanan is a Scotsman living in Australia with a radio show about contemporary world music. In 2003, he set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[445,1245,1431],"class_list":["post-9842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-planet","tag-fat-planet-blog","tag-press","tag-the-guardian","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15792,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9842\/revisions\/15792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}