I’ll be mixing the last selection of tracks submitted for the 64 Bar Music project early next month. Here are some previews of some of the 30 odd tracks submitted, mainly via the Ninja Tune forum. The standard is very high for the sixth installment, the brief being to write 64 bars at the tempo of 110 beats per minute in any style although the prevailing style seems to be very electronic.
64:6 promo tracks by 64barmusic
Love this Red Skull cover, don’t know who it’s by it’s by David Aja (thanks JB) – check his blog here for more. Here are a few more things from him in a similar vein. Nice to see comics quietly catching up on the graphic design side of things. I just found it whilst looking for something else, hmmm, 3 skulls in the last five posts.
UK artist Shok 1 recently painted this in China and it looks like the authorities now want it painted over.
3rd EP artwork variation, inks by Henry Flint, colours by Openmind
Musically it’s not my bag but the cover is great, reminds me of Trevor Jackson‘s work for Soulwax a few years back. New 12″ ‘Black Waves’ EP on Civil Music.
Shaky Kane – ‘Slim Jim, Hateful Dead’ illustration, 2011
(297 x 210 mm, pencil and pen on paper).
Unpublished drawing.
Funki Porcini aka James Braddell (disclosure: very good friend of mine, I’ve designed several of his record sleeves over the years) is putting out some sublime music right now through his own channels. His Bandcamp page is seeing regular updates of new tracks and there are some real gems emerging, the latest being his ‘Six Minutes In Manchester’ single, complete with 9 Lazy 9 remix. Also check out another recent track ‘The Devil Drives’ below
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Oh, I like that a lot, out on Stones Throw, myspace page here for more
More Henry Flint art for the album release, not sure how far this is finished yet.
Slick editing by Keith Carunida to Noisia‘s ‘Machine Gun’ 16 Bit remix
Nice graphics on a French Border Control leaflet I picked up recently
Art by Henry Flint, colours by Strictly Kev, coming this Autumn…
Just released with a first look trailer rumoured to be debuting this weekend with the last Harry Potter film.
So excited to finally be able to see this, I’ve been privy to some of the workings of this for the past year now (my wife works for them) and it opens this week in London at the National Maritime Museum. Part of a major new exhibition, although this will be a permanent installation, content-heavy video mapping based around the moon’s relationship to the sea, this is just a tiny part of it.
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I’m currently enjoying People Like Us’ (aka Vicki Bennett) new album ‘Welcome Abroad’, it’s a frequently hilarious mixture of cut and pastry based around her time stuck abroad due to the recent volcanic eruptions in Iceland. You can listen to the whole album on her Soundcloud page or buy it here. She also has her first solo exhibition, ‘The Doors of Perspection’, opening at the end of July in London at the Vitrine Gallery, previewing new films she has made by extending panning shots from existing films into widescreen format (if i’ve understood the press release correctly).
Also a few months back I received a lovely box set from the Edinburgh Printmakers‘ ‘Prints of Darkness’ exhibition, which includes a gatefold sleeve housing a poster and 12″ picture disc by Vicki entitled ‘This Is Light Music’. This 10 track mini album heavily cross references some of the music on ‘Welcome Abroad’ too and can still be bought here although it is limited to 250 copies.
PS: I actually think this is even more wonderful than ‘Welcome Abroad’, I’ll never be able to hear certain well known classics the same way again.
in production now, not the 3rd EP, not the album, more info soon…
Another killer album from Ghost Box regular The Advisory Circle, if you like mid-70’s Kraftwerk, melancholic Radiophonica and that undefinable Britishness of yesteryear then this is for you. Definitely in the albums of the year list.