The new 032c is out, with 284 pages full of mad things from the wide world of art and culture. As a Berlin resident I am delighted to have great places like do you read me?! and Motto Distribution to engage in my (other) obsession: edgy magazines. I guess, I am a fan of 032c, so I will pick up my copy of #19 early next week and add some shots of exciting spreads here. Look at the incredibly cool composed (or better: photoshopped) cover with these little monkey dudes. They make me not look closer at this class lady. Awesome!
Monthly Archive for April, 2010
Beautiful etching on Deadboy's "If U Want Me" limited vinyl release
This record was supposed to be in the last part of our design column To Our Disco (Design) Friends #02. But as it had to be photographed properly, it gets delivered with an extra post. The label Numbers from Glasgow would actually fill a bunch of posts for this category, because they release some special music, some extraordinary graphic design plus they do care for music being pressed on vinyl.
One-sided pressings of tunes are always a bit prodigal, mostly an extremely consequent decision. Deadboy’s “If U Want Me” is such an example, a track that was flying around for while, could be heard in a couple of DJ mixes or radio shows, merging nowadays funk of UK Garage sounds with a bit of early Detroit Techno. The vinyl has sold out of distribution in one day. The space of the b-side is used here for a beautiful etching, a typographical illustration courtesy of German illustrator Powl Goudsmit. Before I expand on what this amazing label Numbers is all capable of — I consider to do that soonish, have a look at this, they have even been featured on The Guardian lately — I focus on the laser etching of the Deadboy 12″. Etchings on records are commonly used for text or hidden information in the run out grooves for which I should create another column here — “Auslaufrillentexte”. Anybody knows, where or precisely from which run out groove the headline of this post comes from? Only one tip: the record is also british.
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Some people talk about Roska these days. Brilliant artwork by GiveUpArt.
To Our Disco (Design) Friends #02
The story continues … But before I go on, here are some infos on the first column about the graphical world of Errorsmith, MMM, Smith’n'Hack and Soundsteram/Soundhack. All artworks of Errorsmith records were done by Tasche. Fiedel, the Berghain resident and half of MMM, made the stamps for the MMM labels and all drawings and logotypes for the Soundhack/Soundstream releases. For the new MMM release, he used graphics from a scientific youth contest called Messe der Meister von Morgen in the former GDR, which is also the name giver of MMM.
There is so much good music around these days and it feels that the possibilities to find wether fresh and unheard sound or old familiar tunes being repressed have never been so easy. With all these releases, a lot of good visual ideas come along, good graphic design or just nice packaging. I have been buying a lot of records at Hardwax during the last weeks, enjoyed the music very much and found some interesting and fresh approaches on graphics. I chose some of the vinyls and took some quick shots with my fancy phone, in a sense of reviewing them visually.
The picture on top of that article is a detail of the album/12″ artwork for UK Funky artist Roska by the brilliant designers of GiveUpArt from London, who did a bunch of great design works for the music industry such as Tempa, FWD>> or RinseFM or a photo book documenting the LA underground music scene — L.A. Dope.
Below are the examples of my recently bought vinyls, designed by different artists. As soon as I find out these craftsmen, I will add them to the captions plus some links. All of the music is great, too!
Please leave a note in the comments if you know someone of the creators/designers. Thanks!
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This will be awesome. If you’re in this town, you shouldn’t miss!
Sa. 10.04.2010 / 12 pm @ Horst Krzbrg, Berlin
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