HOUDINI Magazine

This is the official HOUDINI Magazine site. A curated selection of our most vital, enduring work—essays, interviews, rundowns, theory, pulp. Each piece here is presented in full, as its own standalone page, properly tagged and formatted for citation, search indexing, and long-term survival. These are the evergreens. The deep cuts. The ones that stuck.

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MP3 Aesthetic: The Visual Culture of Winamp

Back in the day, Winamp offered endless ways to customize how you experienced music visually—a creative freedom lost in the age of Spotify.

HOUDINI Magazine handpicked 251 skinz from the thousands that once flourished. This is a visual tour through the era of MP3s, celebrating some of our favorites.

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