Next Century Modern Illegal Christmas Compilation 2005
Here is one of the most fascinating comps I picked up last year during the 2006 downloading season. Two years ago, a fellow by the name of Jesper worked at the Swedish design company Next Century Modern . To celebrate the 2005 Christmas season, he put together this comp and posted it on the NCM website. It didn't last long. The powers that be removed it from the site, giving this comp the dreaded "illegal" status. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Jean Snow sat behind his computer and noticed. The owner / writer of a website that chronicles "design and pop culture in Tokyo", he quickly posted a web entry about the comp. Later that same day, on the other side of the world again... back in Sweden, the home country from where the comp originated, sat Carl Johan. This clever guy read Jean Snow's web entry and either downloaded the comp from NCM or found it on a mirror site later on. In November, 2006 Carl began his own blog ( Var kommer ...