Alan Parsons Project: Pyramid, album art by Hipgnosis
Here it is, our Disco Design #04. No more announcement is needed, we’ve been saying much about Give Up Art in the past few days. Now it’s the turn of Stuart Hammersley to show his really great selection he did exclusively for us, mainly of old vinyls somewhere way down South. Brilliant!
Stuart: “You’ve featured a few of my most recent purchases in your last column actually (The Virgo LP, Ramadanman ‘Work Them’, and that Falty DL ep). So, rather than talk about really new dubstep/post-garage/funky whatever tunes I decided to highlight a few of my recent old vinyl finds from my trip to Sonar that I think people should check out.
Barcelona has some brilliant little second-hand vinyl shops. Seems like there’s one hidden away in every little alleyway. I found some great stuff there… from a music and design point of view.” Read more …
Valerie "Valle" Rosomako in The Journey to The Center of The Earth
You don’t have to be a obsessed with skateboards to like skate flics, they are thrilling and highly entertaining. But not all of them are pleasing as much as the movies by filmer and photographer Jonathan Peters, who is currently living and working in Berlin. It was his work that I got excited about two years ago and made my skateboarder heart bounce real high: Objectif Lune. Great filming, anything else than loudmouthed, passion for the detail and revealing personality both of the creator and the protagonists: some of the most progressive skaters of Berlin. Pure skateboarding and a special Berlin story starring the locals Carsten Beneker, Maxim Rosenbauer, Lenny Burmeister and the unbelievable Valerie Rosomako!
His newest project The Journey to The Center of The Earth has been screening last June. I stumbled upon the idea again, featuring this film on JB. as I met my friend Barnes last week for a short skate session. He said it is highly recommended, as Objectif Lune already has been. Until now I have only seen the trailers but I will investigate and hopefully meet up with Jonathan and write some more about him and the background of his new skate movie.
Until then check the unmissable Objectif Lune in full length here:
Big drum roll for the next musicdesign column! Within the next days, To Our Disco (Design) Friends #04 is coming from Give Up Art, the hyperactive design studio from London that has been brilliantly featured in the recent issue of XLR8R Magazine (p.74-81). We’ve been talking about this ace studio a couple of times. Stuart — founder and creative head of GUA, and a super nice guy by the way — selected some finds he recently spotted somewhere in the dusty crates of Barcelona during his stay for the Sonar festival. Just got it in my inbox, so be well prepared, some real highlights in there. A full feature about the works of Give Up Art and the people behind it, soon on JB. — online and, yeah… on printed paper!
Virgo — A seminal house album from 1989, re-released through Rush Hour
Inspired and powered by the current issue of Eye Magazine — #76, their Music Design Special Issue, a new part of our musicdesgin column had to be done once again. And after a couple of weeks, I finally managed to pick up some records from my shelf at Hardwax that had been waiting there for a while. So I have some newer stuff here plus two older examples that have already been in my collection, but old or new, that doesn’t matter anyway. Some great artworks, nice selection of colors in some of the designs or nice details like a piece of cloth on a stamped paper sleeve. And of course: some really stunning tunes! Have a look and listen as I included a few soundfiles. Read more …
North/South/East/West, a project by Give Up Art & photographer Shaun Bloodworth
A while ago, we at JB. started to take a closer look at musicdesign with a new column, “To Our Disco (Design) Friends”. In the future I try to follow this path more continously as there are a lot of examples, whether new or already totally dusty on my record shelves… I don’t do this for nostalgic reasons. I still believe in this artform, especially music on vinyl and their associated designs, things with a certain quality and value. The role of the designer or artists who created record sleeves some decades ago might have been more regarded, had recieved some more attention. But looking at todays artworks, I am finding tons of great ideas and designs, there are still a lot of people out there that continue the legacy of a Blue Note cover for example.
One of these outstanding music designers is the London graphic artist Stuart Hammersly of Give Up Art. He is the visual epicenter of dubstep or electronic music from England in the broadest sense. The next part of this column will be a small selection of records by him and I am really excited about, what kind of goodness Stuart will choose. Looking forward to this!
Eye Magazine #76 just released their “Music Design Special Issue” with a bunch of great art from iconic covers that defined new eras to current examples. If you are into the visual goodness of your music, take a first glance at the issue here and then go get a copy (or step by at doyoureadme?! if in Berlin). This is a must for all the music lovers!
The wait is over, as Juxtapoz magazine wrote. And it is true, every new work by Italian artist BLU feels like being relieved, as we said before about the collaborative work by BLU and David Ellis: “his animation videos are always mind-blowing”.
Large scaled paintings and suddenly emerging sculptures creeping through various sceneries (shot on different locations e.g. Uruguay, Argentina), he creates an animation with stop-motion and time-lapse images, a very detailed and time-consuming work. The story is “an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end.” Shot over the past year, the result of his effort he put into it is amazing. So refreshing and truly consciousness-expanding which makes a few things blank and unimportant … Big!
Today is a good day. It took a while to get new sounds for this. Different from the original plan, but well, good music needs its time … and you got to remember: we slow down when everything is going fast. Nevertheless, our close JB. friend and musical pal John Osborn recorded another mix for The Dusty Cabinets series. He already did #03 and this morning he passed over “The Curtain Falls” to us. Brilliant!
The mix is his very own preparation for upcoming Friday 9.7.2010, the 2nd birthday of the successful Dubstep invasion at the highly regarded Club Berghain in Berlin: SUB:STANCE. He will open up the night at Panoramabar alongside SCB aka Scuba, British Garage-legend MJ Cole while downstairs at Berghain the deeper shades of bass music are presented on the huge Funktion One soundsystem by some of the most important protagonists of this scene: Appleblim, Mala of Digital Mystiks, live performances by Mount Kimbie and high-tech three dimensional Techno by the irresistible Monolake.
Enjoy this journey through Dub-Techno sounds by John Osborn with tracks by the likes of Scuba, Omar S, Luke Hess, Skudge and get down to earth again with LFO/F.U.S.E. — “The Curtain Falls” … but first of all we will open it! Applause …
Direct download: The Dusty Cabinets #09
September
25.09. @ Crackers, Berlin. John Osborn b2b Jenne Grabowski
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19.10. @ Cookies, Berlin. with Keith Worthy, John Osborn, Jenne Grabowski
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@ Horst Krzbrg, Berlin. tbc
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Futura @ about blank … has been postponed. New date soon.
Jenne Grabowski + René Loewe (Vainqueur)
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