CtotheJL always have the sickest gun-inspired designer pieces. While they were featuring some M16 chandeliers from Rock & Royal a few weeks ago, they´re bringing us the smoking guns from Design Glut these days. Diplogold´s transformation of “Guns of Brixton” to “Guns of Brooklyn” feels like a good auditive fit (via The Fader).
After Paul Beats made it on FM4 Soundsystem´s show already a few days ago, this afternoon seen. team´s young gun Tim Turbo will be taking over Austrian airwaves and the respective stream. Listen to his 20-min. mix from 3.30 pm CET and feel the heat. The tracklist should be available on this page pretty soon and will let you know what´s up, seen?
In its current issue entitled “150 Jahre Pop” (150 years of pop music), German music magazine Spex features a 16-page special on reggae, dancehall and dubstep which explores the history of Caribbean music and how it influenced club music on a global scale.
Should be a nice weekend read even though Paul-Philip Hanske from another German (online) magazine called Jetzt argues that Spex´s special doesn´t look at the dark side of dancehall (=homophobic and violent lyrics) enough while he, too, praises the innovativity and intensity of reggae and dancehall productions.
Der Sound von Dancehall ist innovativ und fordernd - die Texte aber versteht man meist lieber nicht. Das eigentlich Erstaunliche aber ist, dass so gut wie niemand bereit ist, sich diesem Widerspruch auszusetzen.
Read his article (which is pretty good in my opinion) here.
With trade shows like B&B and Bright happening in Europe, of course, some reggae related tees pop up on the scene, too. The ones above are three I recently stumbled upon and like quite a bit. From left to right (ignore the super-ugly sneakers): one of the “Bad Brains collection” shirts from Vans (via Artschoolvets), PAM´s “Riddims” tee (via Haven) and Gabrielle Smith´s nice and simple “R is for Rice and Peas” piece.
In addition, I came across a Hobnox feature on Jaybo a.k.a. Monk, the art director of Irie Daily (a heavily punk and reggae-inspired, established German streetwear brand which is really cool despite its name) and the man behind Style & The Family Tunes magazine. Watch it. This guy´s a genius.
Even though I´m kind of surprised about the frequency in which Rodney 2.0 (he even has a Twitter account and on his website pics are automatically pulled from Flickr) is dropping videos for his upcoming LP, I like how his Jamaican roots shine through in “Again & Again”. (However, I don´t know anything about cricket besides that the game even makes white British people go to Kingston, Jamaica, sometimes.)
via Nialler9
Puh. Back from Melt I want to huge up Daniel Haaksman and his Man Recordings team for setting up what was probably the best stage line-up at a festival I´ve seen in the past 10 years.
DJ Beware turned out to be the very right choice to open things up at 7pm on Saturday, filling the backyard he was playing in no time. From 25 to I guess 1250 people in about 1 hour. You know this means skills…
Unfortunately, heavy rain muffled the excitement a little so Gabe and me chose to get dry again watching Ms Platnum´s gig inside. Not a bad choice - she delivered a perfect live show backed by an amazing brass section and illustrated by wicked dancing routines.
Back at the Man Rec. stage, Edu K could then heat up things again, before Bonde Do Role had an ok appearance and Crookers totally tore things apart.
See some pictures over at flickr.
