Port VesperMonday, 9 November 2026
Four members of a rap group at work in a dim Rotterdam warehouse at dusk, one on the floor recording a wooden pallet, one on a lighting rig above.
Music · Rotterdam

Four Grim Foh Tracks Ranked by Tempo, Kick Weight and Wreckage

Rotterdam's loudest rap group let one man with a cassette recorder follow four songs through a harbour warehouse, then counted what was left on the floor.

By Hyun-woo Seo

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A DJ bent over a reel-to-reel tape machine in a bright whitewashed room, hands threading tape, while a baker with a tray stands in the doorway behind.
Music

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A singer seen from behind at an upright piano in a dim hall, talking with the pianist while a cellist tunes, blue dusk and streetlights in the tall windows.
Music

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Fashion

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A model in a traffic-cone orange coat walks between parked cars on level 3 of an Antwerp car park while guests on folding chairs watch and the designer looks on.
Fashion

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At dusk in a Marrakech alley, a woman in a new indigo embroidered jacket walks away while the embroiderer and her apprentice talk in a lit workshop doorway.
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Pablo Iriarte-Svensson
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Fashion

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Adaeze Nwosu-Prior

Art

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Three people in a sunlit Bergen attic studio lean over pinned film stills while one pours coffee from a dented thermos.
Art

Gunnar Askeland Filmed One Puddle for Ten Years. It Drifted Four Metres.

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Art

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Design

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Design

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Desmond Achterberg

Film & TV

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An actor in a cobalt anorak and mustard scarf pauses at a Berlin tram stop at dusk, mouth open, eyes on something off-frame, while a tram blurs past and two cyclists talk behind him.
Film & TV

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Film & TV

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Film & TV

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Film & TV

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Food

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Food

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Food

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Weird

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Weird

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A performance artist on a stepladder with a loudhailer, just beyond a yellow line on a grey pavement, while passers-by whisper and a guard with a clipboard watches from the other side.
Weird

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