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Adrian Sherwood on musical underground map

There he is, right there at the junction of reggae and avant garde on the map of 100 years of popular music: Adrian Sherwood. Next stop Maxi Priest, followed by Gregory Isaacs.

The map, pictured on the London Underground map devised by Harry Beck in 1933, is a quite nice attempt to sum up a century's history of music around the globe. There's a really good article by Dorian Lynskey on the map in the Culture Vulture log of the Guardian. Please check that out: "I started out with a packet of coloured crayons, four sheets of A4 taped together and a big box of doubt."

If you're curiuous about the whole map, it's available as download.