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Illustration by Hitomi Terasawa (寺澤 一美), from Kowloon City: An Illustrated Guide (大図解九龍城) (1997), by the Kowloon City Exploration Team, supervised by Hiroaki Kani (可児 弘明).

Learning about the strange and extraordinary story of Kowloon Walled City feels like it was a rite of passage for my particular flavor of Internet nerd during the late oughts. It lurks in various footnotes as a trivia item, but these fail to convey its truly staggering scope. At its height, its roughly 35,000 inhabitants lived in what is almost certainly the most densely populated living arrangement that human beings have ever experienced in all our history, with about 1.3 human beings per square meter of a surveyor's map. That's over 115 times as dense as habitation in present-day New York City. That's about 29 times as dense as Manila, the world's most densely populated city at the time of this writing.

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@alexcat showing off Microsoft Home stuff yesterday just reminded me of this classic mod by Walkman: an original funk track produced 100% out of samples from Microsoft Home Musical Instruments. And it works! Really well!

Original mod download: https://www.exotica.org.uk/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special%3AModland&md=search&mod=fastfunk&aut=Walkman&for=&col=&siz=&ins=&si=1

Oh right, I forgot he did a second one too! Here's his other Microsoft Musical Instruments funk track: JUNK FUNK, which is just as fun. Please listen, please enjoy.

Original mod download: https://www.exotica.org.uk/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special%3AModland&md=search&mod=junkfunk&aut=Walkman&for=&col=&siz=&ins=&si=1

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A custom drawing by @Fyter!
Why not draw your own?

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