Mike McMahon on Hellboy this December apparently, even if this is a one-off then it’s a match made in heaven (or should that be Hell?). Mignola and McMahon go Mexico for a follow up to the Hellboy in Mexico story, out in Dark Horse Presents #31
More gifs by Robin Davey who I’d unknowingly featured a few months back with his take on The Avengers. Blade Runner above in case you didn’t get it.
In 4 weeks time myself, DJ Cheeba & DJ Moneyshot debut a live 4 deck version of our reversion of the Beastie Boys‘ Paul’s Boutique album. Subtitled ‘Caught In The Middle of a 3-Way Mix’ we’ll be premiering it at La Bellevilloise in Paris on November 16th alongside DK and the 2013 DMC team winners, DJ Deska, Mr Viktor and Hertz.
We’ll be reprising it at the London Solid Steel at Fire on December 6th and then taking it to Australia in February 2014. Anyone interested in booking the show please contact Ben Coghill at Elastic Artists.
The final Ghost Box Study Series 7″ arrived this week and it’s a great one to close the 10 part set with, one of my favourites in fact. The sound definitely harks back to earlier GB releases with the nostalgic sound of summer, spoken female vocals and found sounds. Belbury Poly is joined by Spacedog (new to me) for two tracks wrapped in the usual, minimalist sleeve from Julian House. Nice to have the whole series at last.
As one ends, another begins, over at Finder’s Keepers they’ve launched a 10 disc Finder’s Kreepers subscription series – which I’ve just seen is sold out already! They’ve also reactivated their Disposable Music series for a second run of 5 LPs which is still available as well as a whole raft of new releases and an overhauled website.
Cribbed from Live For Films
and here’s a fake pulp novel cover by Timothy Anderson of the same
Not one but two albums were just released by JG Thirlwell aka Foetus / Steroid Maximus / Manorexia etc. etc. The first is ‘Soak’, continuing the tradition of four-letter titled LPs, and is an 11 track follow up to his last Foetus album, ‘Hide’.
The second is his original score for the Eva Aridjis film ‘The Blue Eyes’. You can listen and buy over at the Foetus shop now. I’ve not got them yet but I buy everything the man does and have rarely been disappointed in over 25 years.
I was lucky enough to hear this in full the other night and it is stunning. Straight up Hip Hop, the way you like(d) it but far from an old school nostalgia-fest. One producer, one MC and only one track featuring guests – it’s 10 tracks of no nonsense beats, rhymes and the odd scratch. Fast and funky as fuck with a Mr Krum sleeve to boot – another addition to the ever-growing list of great albums released this year. Out 28th October 2013 on Project Blue Book on Vinyl, CD and Download. Check out the video sampler below.
Those of you with a good memory might recall that I posted a short film nearly 2 years ago called ‘Keloid’ by the BLR_VFX studio – some of whom worked on District 9 and Elysium. BLR stands for Big Lazy Robot – check the out here. In the last 3 days they’ve updated it and all I can say is ‘wow!’ No one does mecha better, make a full length feature like this and I’m there.
A week to go until our gig in Bristol supporting DJ Shadow at the city’s official Solid Steel 25th anniversary date. Myself and DK will be joining Coldcut, DJ Cheeba and special guest Benji B to rip it up at Motion on October 11th.
For this I’ve put together a more dance floor friendly mix of releases than some of my recent offerings, taking in Mark Pritchard, Machine Drum, Om Unit, Reso and Drums of Death – the last three all of whom have appeared on the excellent Civil Music label who also have a room at the Motion gig too.
Jon Tye‘s Lo Editions series of online licensing albums gets another entry with a DJ Food sampler this month. This is music for TV and film use, fully licensed and ready to use if you’re signed up to Universal Music’s production music service. The tracks span from early ‘Jazz Brakes’ LPs up to ‘The Search Engine’ but all songs have any vocals removed as well as names changed from the originals.
Some are exclusive edits, instrumentals, reworkings and even unreleased in some cases. You can listen online and play spot the original but there won’t be a physical release because this stuff is mainly in the digital domain these days. Above is the cover image and below is an outtake from the design session which wasn’t chosen but that I particularly like.
The first collection of this is finally coming out very soon – perfect Xmas present for the ageing B-Boy. There’s also a great video overview of the project with Ed Piskor over on the Time Magazine website
One month until this happens, event page here…
Do you know about Trunk Records’ 50p Friday offers? Every Friday Jonny Trunk selects something from his digital-only catalogue and reduces the price to 50p. This week it was the turn of Russ Garcia‘s fantastic errr…. ‘Fantastica‘. Proper old school space music. You can sign up to the weekly newsletter here.
The great Zang Tuum Tumb Records turns 30 years old this month and to celebrate they have a compilation out called ‘The Organization of Pop’. I’ll be reactivating my dormant Art of ZTT site to post a host of updates later this month too featuring exclusive images from some of the people who were there at the beginning.
The label issued a short press release last week with the phrase, ‘Today is officially the end of the beginning.”
Looking down the track listing there aren’t too many surprises in the form of unreleased gems but the inclusion of both Grace Jones and Seal as the first two tracks hopefully means that some sort of legal agreement has at last been worked out and we can expect to see proper reissues of their work in the future. Also note that this is the New York Edition – further London and Tokyo Editions are planned for next year…
ZTT Records Presents The Organization of Pop (New York Edition)
Music From The First Thirty Years of ZTT Records
Disc 1: The Organisation of Pop (the Action Series, from ZTT)
• Grace Jones – Slave To The Rhythm
• Seal – Kiss From A Rose
• Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Relax (New York Mix)
• 808 State – Pacific (Justin Strauss 0101 Mix)
• Art of Noise – Beat Box
• Propaganda – Dr. Mabuse (Abuse)
• Tom Jones – If Only I Knew (Cold Stop Version)
• MC Tunes vs 808 State – Dance Yourself To Death (Dust Brothers Radio Edit)
• Propaganda – Sorry For Laughing (Unapologetic 12” Mix)
• 808 State – Cubik (Pan American Excursion)
• Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes
• Shane MacGowan and Sinead O’Connor – Haunted
• The Frames – Star Star
• Art of Noise – Moments In Love (Beaten)
Disc 2: The Disorganisation of Pop (the Incidental Series, from Zang Tuum Tumb)
• The Buggles – We Can Fly From Here (Part One)
• The Frames – Say It To Me Now
• Shane MacGowan and Maire Brennan – You’ve The One
• Lee Griffiths – Sweet Baby James
• Das Psycho Rangers – Homage to the Blessed
• Art of Noise featuring Rakim – Metaforce
• Nasty Rox Inc. – Escape From New York (12” Mix)
• ACT – Snobbery & Decay (That’s Entertainment Mix)
• The Buggles – I Am A Camera (12” Mix)
• Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Fruitness Mix)
• Lisa Stansfield – The Moment
• The Buggles – We Can Fly From Here (Part Two)
• Andrew Poppy – Kink Konk Adagio
LaBoca on the design here, way too much info to cut and paste in here, just go HERE to get a load of the festival and what’s in store.
Awesome.