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Paul Sturgess
January 28, 2011

Kyan Jukebox hits landmark 60,000 last.fm scrobbles

Ok so the headline may be a little over dramatic, but music plays a large part in shaping the Kyan office atmosphere. The soundtrack to our working lives, there is music on from 8am ’till gone 6pm every day.

Paul Sturgess
March 24, 2010

Our last.fm listening habits revealed

Recently I came across a desktop app called LastHistory that offers a visual representation of the plays (aka ‘scrobbles’) recorded for any last.fm user account. Naturally I ran our Kyanmedia profile through the analysis process.

Paul Sturgess
September 18, 2009

The Kyan soundtrack

Like any office there are a wide variety of musical tastes represented amongst us here at Kyan.

Through our communal jukebox these tastes come together to form a musical backdrop to our time spent working in the office.

A few months back we created a last.fm account, hooked up the Jukebox with the last.fm api and now we are recording a full history of our playlist with some 10,000+ tracks ‘scrobbled’ so far.

Here’s the top 5 artists we’ve been playing the last few months…
1. Lone
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. Florence + The Machine
4. Little Dragon
5. Gorillaz

Our current top 5 artists of all time are…
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2. Lone
3. Mr Scruff
4. The Beatles
5. Röyksopp

That top 5 artists list changes quite regularly, but it’s an interesting snapshot.

Those artists have certainly been helping us drown out the constant drilling from the building work going on over the road from us on Guildford High Street.

Gavin Shinfield
December 13, 2008

Kyan Jukebox Festive 50 2008

Alright pop pickers? Not ’arf!

Well, it’s that time of year again, best of 2008 lists abound so I thought I’d put together some of the top tracks to be rocking the Kyan jukebox from this year’s releases and now that Saint John no longer graces our airwaves the top 50 tracks seemed like a fitting tribute to the great man.

So, in no particular order…

Phil Balchin
December 04, 2007

Beat Happening

Genre: American Twee Pop; Label: Krecs

Formed in early 80s, Beat Happening were early leaders in the american new lo-fi musical sound, and have been releasing their ‘twee/indie pop’ . Deliberately using simple and primitive recording techniques, Beat Happening produce a very rough and deep sound, mixed with strong deep american vocals mixed with simple backbeats.