Memory 9‘s new 12″ packaging and disc, plus the new Falty DL release in retro Ninja house bag. Win both of these tonight on Solid Steel between 7-9pm GMT on Strongroom Alive. I’ll be in the studio with Jon More from Coldcut and Memory 9 is supplying the guest mix.
My mix has a lot of killer new Hip Hop including an exclusive first play from the new Herbaliser album plus DJ Format, 2econd Class Citizen, Mister Jason, Cut Chemist, Soundsci and an unreleased mix of ‘The Illectrik Hoax’ by The Amorphous Androgynous.
And here’s the show:
Nice simple design and tag line, this is for a forthcoming horror film, ‘V/H/S’, consisting of 6 short stories revolving around video tapes, looks like it could be good if you like that sort of thing.
Always enjoy Jim Mahfood‘s work, very much looking forward to his take on Tank Girl this summer. He also has a new book out collecting his online adventures as a working artist, Los Angeles Ink Stains. He has a print out to go with it too as well as toys, T-shirts and more. Go here
Not sure if I’ll use this in my forthcoming full dome show but it was fun to make.
Sequences from one of my favourite Pink Panther episodes, you can watch it below.
The Soundsci LP is finally out today! Ex-Dynamic Syncopation producer Jonny Cuba and current part-Herbaliser DJ Ollie Teeba – alongside ex-Mass Influence MC Audessey, U-George and Oxygen. The deluxe bundle I posted about a few weeks back sold out in a day but the regular vinyl and digital is out now. Here’s a little snippets mix by Ollie Teeba to wet the taste buds…
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and an even longer version on Soundcloud…
Steve Cook and I went on a scavenge for old magazines on my birthday earlier this year and, whilst in a well known West London basement, Steve found dozens of kids magazines from the 60’s and 70’s.
I’ve only had time to scan a few pieces but they are riddled with beautiful illustrations and typography from back in the day, check the Mini 22 logo on the toy gun ad for instance (there’s a telling amount of adverts for toy guns in each issue). Absolutely LOVE the robot cover and spread, which Steve graciously gave up for me from the pile, see also the ad for a vintage Lego train set.
These scans are primarly from an Italian mag called Corriere dei Piccoli (Italian for “Courier of the Little Ones”) and Steve has some from French ‘Lissette’ over on his Secret Oranges blog today. There’s plenty more from both mags to come from both of us so stay tuned and click images for larger versions.
I find these expression sheets for various characters in the Tron Uprising cartoon fascinating, totally in love with the styling of this show, reminds me of Robert Valley.
Nice font there, possibly by Mike Hinge? Interesting choice of cover ‘image’, forces you to focus on the type. The contents of the portfolio can be seen over on fredschiller’s site, there’s a great final page that looks like a storyboard for the opening of a film which I’ve nicked to show below.
‘The Search Engine’ album in an immersive 210 degree fulldome environment with 157 speaker surround sound mix. Presented over 2 nights, 4 shows, Tickets here
I always loved this image but never knew this version or its origin. Last night I saw it whilst looking for something else and immediately recognised it from my childhood, albeit in another form. In the UK this appeared on the cover of the first issue of Future Tense, all original context stripped from it and a re-colouring job that left much to be desired.
Future Tense was a UK comic anthology of reprints from old Marvel series’ trying to capitalise on the sci-fi craze started by Star Wars and maintained by 2000ad. Seeing the original colours here gives the image a whole new lease of life but reminded me of all the great strips that were in the comic: Micronauts (with Michael Golden‘s amazing artwork), ROM The Spaceknight, Warlock. Starlord, Paladin and more. There’s a couple of nice pieces about it with a more covers over at Slow Robot‘s blog, which is a great resource for old sci-fi ephemera from the 70’s and 80’s. Now, what Nick Fury was doing on the cover of issue 1 is anyone’s guess, as he wasn’t featured in the comic.
Syd Mead, another artist who just can’t make a bad mark. Found this whilst searching for Tron stuff for the kids. Check out these two puzzles available from his website.
[youtube width=”640″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PifvRiHVSCY&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Judge for yourself and other terrible puns…
Can’t resist posting this, photo of a test sample I got sent today for part of the packaging for the vinyl of the forthcoming album by The Herbaliser.
By Matt Kaufenburg from www.illustrationaday.com
Late last year I wrote an extensive piece in response to an interview by Miguel Angel Rolland for Gilles Peterson‘s Worldwide Festival magazine about design for music in the digital age. It’s finally been published over on Issu and it’s 16 pages long (!) You can order a print copy or just download a digital version and physical copies should be available at the festival this summer. Not sure why they didn’t credit Miguel or photographer Steve Cook for the studio shot either but I’m very pleased to have been given the chance to air my views.
The uber-talented Felt Mistress has some of her creations on show at the NoBrow shop for a final week before they move to Foyles bookshop in the west end to accompany her partner Jonathan Edwards‘ exhibition as part of the sketching the city season. She will also be giving a monster-making workshop in Foyles on July 30th, details and tickets are here.
Now up for pre-order from Ashley Wood’s 3A company – a 1/12th scale Mongrol from the ABC Warriors, the 1/6th version was way too expensive for me but this clocks in at $55 plus postage.
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I have to listen to this several times a day at the moment, the video makes it even better.
Long time heroes of mine, graffiti legends, absolute masters from back in the day whose influence is still felt. They have a show opening tonight in Soho, London. Can’t make it myself but will definitely check this out. See examples of their work here.
Grabbed from the excellent Retrowave tumblr site, don’t know who did it.