There’s been a lot of press recently about both the impending B.P.R.D. issue 100 and Mike Mignola‘s return to Hellboy as artist with ‘Hellboy in Hell‘. Several articles have revealed forthcoming B.P.R.D. stories, the most interesting of which looks like ‘Sledgehammer’, a wartime agent not revealed before. Here are Mignola’s covers for the 2-parter that debuts next year – via the Comics Alliance site, more interior art over there too. Looks a bit like the Iron Man of this particular universe and I predict this is going to push all the right buttons with fans when it arrives.
Also Brian Bendis posted this old Dark Horse anniversary cover by Mignola a few days back on his twitter, lovely stuff.
Seriously revised pricing scheme for those who just want talks, or just want a ‘Happening’.
Saturday 17th November
Daytime (talks only) £12 / Evening (‘Happening’ only) £15 / All day ticket £20
Sunday 18th November
Daytime (talks only) £12 / Evening (‘Happening’ only) £15 / All day ticket £20
Weekend Tickets
Saturday & Sunday daytimes (talks only) £20 / Saturday & Sunday evenings only £25 / FULL FESTIVAL TICKET £38
A different kind of festival that I will be appearing at this November – Regeneration: “An interactive weekend of exploring altered states of experience”. I’ll be doing an AV set broadly based on various forms of psychedelia early evening on Sunday 18th November, at The Tabernacle in London.
Others on the bill include Wolf People, Time & Space Machine, the Bardo Light Show, talks on psychedelics and screenings of various shorts including the BFI‘s collection, ‘Solar Flares Burn For You’. The event lasts over the whole weekend and more info and tickets can be found on their site.
After stopping inexplicably after 8 episodes back in August with virtual radio silence as to why, Tron Uprising returns to Disney XD tonight at 7.30pm. Yay! We finally get to find out how Tron turned into Rinzla…
Starting tonight Shepard Fairey brings his Sound & Vision show to the StolenSpace Gallery in London. The show is themed around a record store with an installation including vintage turntables and part of Fairey’s own record collection on display. As well as that there will be designs based on record sleeves plus posters, stencils etc.
Fairey has been painting several murals around East London this week with his team (Rivington St. above), you can see plenty of photos over on his site: London trip Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4. The exhibition runs until Nov 4th at the Stolenspace Gallery, The Old Truman Brewery, Dray Walk, 91 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL.
Z-Trip is in town to play at the opening and we will have a special themed mix he’s done on Solid Steel next week (26th).
I’d love to embed this video but The Space site doesn’t let you unfortunately. Instead, if you click the image you can watch Raj Pannu‘s excellent 18 minute cut up of vintage Old Grey Whistle Test footage. You may know of Raj as the AV tour DJ with Coldcut or maybe witnessed one of his amazing solo DJ sets over the years in clubs all over the world. Either way, this is worth 20 minutes of your time.
Love Reso‘s stuff, always interesting to see where he’s going with things. Great cover on this one, slightly reminiscent of the Tame Impala one I posted below with the pink/red sticker and abstract image.
The track, ‘Check 1,2’, is a killer slice of 100bpm break beat thunder which reminds be of some of those old Prodigy B-sides that were better than the A-sides. Remixes come from Starkey, DJ Kentaro, Emperor and Danny Scrilla and it’s out on Civil Music on 12″ and DL with an album forthcoming.
Really liking the new Tame Impala album, ‘Lonerism’, especially the glam-stomp of the single, ‘Elephant’. Love these covers too, not sure who did them but I’m guessing it’s the excellent Leif Podhajsky who did some for them before maybe?
Furthermore to the post I made back in June about a little magazine haul Steve Cook and I made – here’s some more. Check the Kirby-ish collage on some of the illustrations, the psychedelic lettering and the gorgeous colours.
Sculpture recently posted these zoetrope designs on their site, if you print them and spin at the right speed you can get some amazing animated effects. The complexity of these blows my mind, there’s so much doing on I could look at them revolving forever it seems. The Digitalis label are releasing edits of ‘Slime Code’ (a tape-only release in an edition of only 7 copies (!) from earlier this year) and you can listen to excerpts here. I’m hoping that at least one of these designs will be on the vinyl release in November.
They also have a new Tumblr too.
Self-explanatory title for a series of covers to comics that never were on Comics Alliance. The Kirby-does-My-Little-Pony did the rounds a while back and there many more but these are my pick of the bunch.
Documentary in the works about the Stones Throw label – Kickstarter fund to finish it too if you want to help out and grab some goodies.
The forthcoming Pepe Deluxé ‘Queen of the Wave’ deluxe edition will have an EP of easy listening versions of album tracks by the mysterious Yol Gorro. Here’s the front and back covers, follow the progress of the edition on Facebook as more is revealed weekly in the run up to release.
Trevor Jackson‘s Playgroup recording project now has its entire back catalogue available digitally via Juno with an extensive list of remixes and versions of several tracks. Exclusive unreleased mixes and acappellas are up for sale including a track with Madlib that didn’t make the album and the ‘Hooked On U / Mad Love’ ‘release’ above. Trevor has also just designed the DJ Shadow compilation ‘Reconstructed’ with its lavish box set, seen here on the Creative Review blog.
DJ Food ‘The Search Engine’ live at SAT, Montreal from Solid Steel on Vimeo.
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be bringing my revamped full dome show back to the UK this November and showing it (remixed yet further) at the third Fulldome UK festival at the National Space Centre, Leicester on November 16th.
Tickets can be bought here (my show is on the 17th) and a list of contributors is here – full schedule to be determined.
In other dome news, the Search Engine show at the SAT in Montreal has just had its run extended by another 2 weeks until the 26th of October.
“Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are.”
Mr Armtone – Time Machine from Solid Steel on Vimeo.
St. Petersburg’s Mr Armtone returns to Solid Steel this week, with an AV mix no less, full of great material and up to our usual high standard both musically and visually. The overall theme is Time Machines so watch and listen out for various references cropping up throughout.
The second hour features both my recent DJ Shadow mixes and the guest mix debut of NYC’s Ill Chemist aka Alan Friedman, friend of Steinski and one time Break Beatle. His mix is a stunning gallop through all music styles from BeBop to Hip Hop, Jazz takes on the classics and a whole lot more, could this be the show with the most tracks squeezed into it?
I know, what the hell does that even mean?
Ma.K (aka Maschinen Krueger or SF3D) = Vintage line of Japanese toys by Kow Yokoyama and was one of (if not THE) originators of the weathered, realistic looking mechs and vehicles.
3A = Ashley Wood and Kim Fung Wong‘s toy company who have taken inspiration from Kow amongst others and raised the level of toy making higher than most in recent years.
Don’t ask when these will be available or how much they will cost because I don’t know, you just have to keep an eye on the 3A blog or sign up to their newsletter.
Love this cover and I was talking to the photographer who shot it the other week because he was explaining that it’s all real, not CGI as some people might think. They’ve been lugging it about all over the place photographing it in different locations but I’ll be damned if I can remember who it was I was talking to? Frazer Waller maybe?
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I played with these guys (Reverse Engineering) last weekend in Switzerland and they premiered this at the gig, love the look and location.