Clubbed For Heroes

RIP

2011-05-09T18:30:00.002+01:00

Glorious

2011-05-05T08:59:00.002+01:00

RESPECT

2011-03-23T15:14:00.001Z

Rest in Peace - Queen of Divas

Gulp

2011-02-17T22:56:00.002Z

Lisboa

2011-01-14T15:48:00.004Z

Brake window

2010-12-13T15:54:00.000Z

Pickled Eggs

2010-12-13T15:51:00.002Z

The 17th - END OF

It's back

2010-10-22T23:05:00.002+01:00

RIP the prof

2010-09-08T12:44:00.000+01:00

COP DAT!

2010-08-02T13:52:00.003+01:00

From HERE

SOON

2010-07-13T21:24:00.001+01:00

Pretty happy with this...

Rapha CC

2010-05-14T12:56:00.005+01:00

You wait ages for a cycle-centric cafe to open in London, then two come along at once, a stone's throw from one another.

At 49 Old St is Look Mum No Hands, to do the place justice I'll cover it another time but suffice to say the staff are great, the food is lovely and you can watch the Giro on a big screen (although it suffers in sunlight).

For now, the focus is on the Rapha Cycle Club

Based at 146-148 Clerkenwell Rd, it's a temporary cafe/gallery/retail space, taking the european model and adding the familiar Rapha sheen. Rapha seems to engender strong opinions but personally I love it - I doubt I will buy a cycling cap for a one-er but I do like their approach and there's no denying the quality. Anyway, if you have a passing interest in cycling I strongly recommend a visit here. The Coppi exhibition is great, especially the replica bikes and the coffee is good too. I also found the staff super friendly, contrary what some might have you believe.

A few pics below.

END OF.

2010-05-05T14:36:00.002+01:00

It's up to you.

I wasn't aware this was a big problem...

2010-04-29T09:22:00.002+01:00

Airwaves

2010-04-28T16:34:00.002+01:00

Firstly, massive thanks to everyone who turned out for the Secret Order on the 16th including Rhenna and the birthday crew and the usual reprobate suspects. Special big ups to Emma on the door (thank god someone took over from Will) and Tom Sheppard for his sterling job behind the jump early doors. It always feels a little dicey down Gramaphone but by 1am we had a good crew making moves on the floor - we'll have photos from the night up on the website soon (more details of that to come asap). We've got some interesting plans for our summer parties so stay tuned.

For the time being, it was my turn to do the faithfanzine radio show this week - some excellent music (even if I do say so myself) and my own little personal tribute to someone who was a huge influence and inspiration to me - GURU of Gang Starr and Jazzmatazz fame. On a related note, Mr Beedle did his own tribute on Ross Allen's show on Monday (putting my 4 records to shame with a 1 hour mix) so I advise you to check that out too, link here:

http://www.ministryofsound.com/radio/artist/RossAllen

Listen again to my show here:

http://www.ministryofsound.com/radio/artist/FaithFanzine

Or download from here:

Hour 1

Hour 2

Here's what I played, hope you enjoy the show... it was a bit calamitous - I turned up to the studio to find the CDJs missing! - but I managed to play all the music I wanted to. Dedicated to Keith and Malcolm.

Tracklist:

HOUR 1:

Freeway feat Allen Anthony - Alright (instr)
Gang Starr - Just To Get A Rep
Guru's Jazzmataz - No Time To Play
Gang Starr - Code of the Streets
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
Paul Weller - No Tears Left to Cry (Leo Zero rmx)
Pariah - Detroit Falls
Jozif - Jus You
Mount Kimble - Maybes (James Blake rmx)
Ramadanman & Midland - Your Words Matter
Grace Jones - Love to Life (Mala/Digital Mystix)
Falty DL - St Marks
Shit Robot - Norfolk Nights

HOUR 2:
Four Tet - Sing (Extended mix)
Ikonika - They Are All Losing the War
Ramadanman & Midland - Your Words Matter
Audion - Just Me
Oleg Poliakov - Caravan
Feygin - Khiara 003
Cosmin TRG - Groove Control
Komonazmuk - Dance Too (Lee Jones rmx) PIPS011
Boris Hotton - Artica (Moodymanc)
Africa Hitech - The Sound of Tomorrow

Until next time

Sunshine

2010-04-27T14:20:00.001+01:00

Make the most of it - it'll be gone by Wednesday

Rest in Peace Keith

2010-04-21T08:23:00.002+01:00

It was with genuine sadness that I learnt of the demise of one of hip hop's greats this week - Guru of Gang Starr and Jazzmatazz fame finally lost his battle to cancer. These events often pass me by a bit, I'm not one to break out the black armbands the moment a musical favourite passes, but Guru's voice was a huge part of my life. 'Code of the Streets' immediately transports me back to a time driving round looking for skate spots, and in my mind's eye I can still see the cover of the 411 skate video which contained 'No Time To Play' oversome US contest footage. I remember sending my mum out to pick up the Jazzmatazz album as I had flu but NEEDED it on release day and I have fond memories of playing 'She Knows What She Wants' at one of my first DJ gigs in London way back when.

Politics aside, his work with Premier will stand the test of time and is up there with the best hip hop ever made. In fact, while the likes of Nas, Biggie and the Wu got the headlines and the 'GOAT' plaudits, I felt Guru and Gang Starr were always sitting at the top table too.

Remember the music, and a pioneer with a unique voice.
Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal.

Cooly's coming!

2010-03-12T15:12:00.001Z

Prayers going out to Guru

2010-03-02T08:37:00.000Z

Personally one of the most important rappers of all time.

Faithfanzine on MOS Radio - Feb 23

2010-02-26T22:36:00.002Z

Hour 1:

Moon Duo - Escape
Viking Funeral - Teal Trim
James Blake - The Bells Sketch
Ghostpoet - Gone
Nick Chacona - Fear
Sade - Soldier of Love (Casamena Basement Edit)

CDJ ERROR*

Joy Orbison - So Derobe
Mosca - Gold Bricks, I See You
Kowton - Looking At You
Mosca - Square One

Hour 2:

Mirko Loko - Tahktok (Villalobos "Hilery's Chant" remix)
John Roberts - White
House of House - Rushing to Paradise (DJ Harvey mix)
DJ Harvey presents Locusolus - Gunship
Martyn - 74 (Redshape rmx)
La Pena 006
San Diego - Memories
Ryan Crosson - Don't Look Any Further
*RECORD OF THE WEEK* Shlomi Aber - Slow Dance

*ok it was me being sloppy

New York - Selected Highlights

2010-02-15T10:50:00.008Z

Faith Fanzine Radio - Jan 26

2010-01-27T12:46:00.001Z

Just me this time round, details below:

Hour 1

Hour 2

Tracklist:

Iggy Pop & James Williamson - Master Charge
Candi Staton - Revolution (Heavy Soul extended mix)
Jay Electronica - Exhibit C
Grand Pupa - Get It (Caspa rmx)
Jill Scott - Slowly Surely (Theo Parrish)
Wham! - Last Christmas (Diana dub)
Disco Love (Mr Smith edit)
Portico Quartet - Line (SBTRKT's less hang mix)
xx xy - Eulogise (working title)
Greena - Tenzado
Pangaea - Why
Missy Elliot feat Teyana Taylor - Put It On Ya
Memory Man - Got A Party
Cesária Évora - Angola (re-edit)
X-Press 2 - Down The Whole
Manik - N Train to Astoria
All In Records - Tool 39
Wookie - Solar/Taboo
Mark Asken & Matt Tolfrey - Babygirl
David Pher - Danzar
Paul Bennett - Backbreaker [Modernista 001]

Phonica

2010-01-19T13:34:00.003Z

...officially endorse Saturday's party. Sort of.

Get Down

2010-01-18T08:45:00.001Z

Update - last one of 2009

2009-12-31T12:24:00.003Z

First off, the New Year's Day extravanganza is about to go off!
Flyer below but you should all know about it anyway... all advanced tickets have now gone but there should be a few on the door.
GET THERE EARLY! I'll be dishing out the deepness downstairs.

Secondly, Stuart and myself did our 'Best of 2009' Faith show last night - TOTP style soundclash, links below:

Stu:

Jimmy:

Thirdly, Ministry of Sound Radio asked me to contribute to their 'Decade of Dance' shows.
For some reason I chose 2005 - my selection can be found HERE.

Tracklist below:

Kate Bush - Sunset
7 Samurai - Marvin (GAMM)
Rhymefest - These Days (J records)
Juelz Santana - Oh Yes (Def Jam)
Fujiya & Miyagi - In One Ear and Out The Other (Tirk)
Skream - Midnight Request Line (Tempa)
King Kooba - San Salvador (Freerange)
Alden Tyrell - Disco Lunar Module (Lindstrom & Prins Thomas mix)
Theo Parrish - Falling Up (Carl Craig rmx) (Third Ear)
Femi Kuti - Traitors of Africa (Q's Treacherous Beats) (Restricted Access recs)
Argy - Love Dose (Luciano rmx)
Solid Groove- This is Sick

Lastly, William and myself have finalised details of the January Secret Order party.
We're gonna be welcoming Ben UFO from the magnificent Hessle Audio (one of my fave labels of 2009) alongside the superb Ross Allen.
Expect H.O.U.S.E, dubstep, dancehall, techno and stuff to make you dance.
Flyer attached, should be a hot night so hope to see you there.

Uber modern 'event' pages here:

FACEBOOK

RA

Happy New Year

Jimmy
x

NYD bigness

2009-12-10T11:46:00.002Z

New Radio - Me and Me

2009-12-10T11:43:00.000Z

Me joined by me talking to me.

Tracklist:

Danton Eeprom - Give Me Pain
Floating Points - Argonaut II
Anton Zap - Pastilla
Darkstar - Aidy's Girl is a Computer
Shackleton - No More (Negative Thoughts)
Jose James - Untold (Joy Orbison rmx)
Four Tet - Love Cry (Joy Orbison rmx)
DJ Sprinkles - House Music is Controllable Desire You Can Own
Danton Eeprom - Tight
Hardway Bros - Pegasus In The Dark
Siopis - Really Love Ya
Tony Lionni - Sky's The Limit
Instra:mental - Leave It All Behind
Moodymanc - Omlette (DPlay rmx)
Damien Schwartz - Holloway
Omar S - Day
Iz & Diz - Mouth (Pepe Braddock rmx)
Ricardo Villalobos - Pilgrim
Sahin Meyer - World Cup of the Future (Jacek Sienkiewicz rmx)
Horacio - Durango

Hour 1

Hour 2

Dreamy

2009-11-17T10:10:00.000Z

If only the album version was this good:

Radio with me and APPLEBLIM!

2009-11-05T09:38:00.001Z

Tracklist:

Black Crowes - I Ain't hiding (Mavis edit)
Moon Duo - Love On The Sea
Bauhaus - She's In Parties (Here's the Dub)
Shriekback - Jumping On The Ribcage (Adrian Sherwood rmx)
Shackleton - A Mountain of Ashes
Florence & The Machine - You Got The Love (XX mix)
Floating Points - Transition
Jayson Brothers - Monster Box
Flextone - Feel The Rhythm

Appleblim:

Al Tourettes - Sunken (apple pips)
Al Tourettes & Appleblim - Lipsmacker (unreleased)
Instra:mental - Leave It All Behind (apple pips)
Greena - actual pain (apple pips)
Planetary Assault Systems - x speaks to x - al tourettes & appleblim remix (ostgut ton)
Komonazmuk - Dance To (apple pips)

Me again: Tony Lionni - Treat me Right (Jimpster rmx)
Darkstar - Aidy's Girl is a Computer (Kyle Hall rmx)
Alex Niggeman & Superlounge - Chip Chip
Agnes - can't remember what it's called

LINKS:

Hour 1:

Hour 2:

Star Spangled November

2009-11-03T14:17:00.001Z

Moodymanc Secret Order Promo Mix

2009-10-07T14:08:00.003+01:00

Ahead of his appearance for us next week, an exclusive mix from the grim north.

DOWNLOAD

Not the best kept secret...

2009-09-29T15:54:00.000+01:00

Latest Radio flex with special guest James Hillard

2009-09-24T10:07:00.002+01:00

Hour 1:

Hour 2:

Shot - Main Thing
Aliens - (Disco Bloodbath Effect)
Quixote - Before I Started To Dance (Chateau Flight mix)
Quixote - Before I Started To Dance (Prins Thomas Discomix)

James Hillard in the mix

HMD 12
Starguard - The Theme From Which Way Is Up
El Coco - Last Chance To Dance
Idris Muhammad - For Your Love
Love Unlimited - I'm So Glad I'm A Woman
Leonore O Malley - First Be A Woman
Steve Winwood - Penultimate Zone
Walter Murphy - Romeo And Juliet (Daniel Wang Edit)
Sylvester - Living for the city
Chris Rea - Josephine
Mascara - Baja

Back to Jimmy

Fire Island - In Your Bones
DJ Sneak - Some More
Deep N Suga - Oh Yeah
Record of the week: Alex Picone - Mon Amour
Harold Faltermayer - So High
Spencer Parker - You Got Me (Alex Kidd Rmx)

Book Club II

2009-09-02T11:19:00.002+01:00

New Radio - just me

2009-08-20T11:59:00.000+01:00

Tracklist & links:

Whitney Houston - Million Dollar Bill
Candi Staton - Victim
Giorgio Moroder - Knights in White Satin
Donna Summer - Lucky (Filthy Luka edit)
T. Valentine - Hello Lucille... Are You A Lesbian?
Major Lazer - Anything Goes
Pearson Sound - PLSN
Ramadanman & Appleblim - Justify (Will Saul & Mike Monday rmx)
Pearson Sound - WAD
Dinky - Anemik
Andy Ash - Raindance
Cally - Nashu (Anonym rmx)
Andrade - 2012 (Alex Niggeman rmx)
Alex Santos & Chris Woodward - Village Vanguard
Spencer Parker - Give My Regards To Holloway
Sebo K & Metro - Saxtrack
Tony Lionni - Golden
2 Armadillos - Hawthorne's Theme
Bomb The Bass - Boy Girl (Leo Zero rmx)
Luciano - Oenologue

*Jimmy P's Funky House Shelf of Shame Selection
Salif Keita - Madan (Martin Solvieg rmx)

Hour 1

Hour 2

Some recent ones

2009-08-14T12:00:00.001+01:00

Rest In Peace Sir Bobby

2009-07-31T10:33:00.001+01:00

For the WORK kids

2009-07-24T14:10:00.000+01:00

BOOK CLUB

2009-07-24T09:09:00.007+01:00

ART HOUSE

2009-06-23T12:39:00.004+01:00

Commissioned last year as a run of limited screen prints. Not sure if this will ever see the light of day now - blame GLOBAL ECONOMIC MELTDOWN.

Latest Faithfanzine show - myself and Tony Lionni

2009-06-17T09:11:00.003+01:00

Tony joined me to chat Manchester, north/south divides and living on the streets. Almost. Plus, the new BANGER from him 'The Brain'. I'm a huge fan of Tony's productions so it was an honour for me to get him on.

Listen again here!

(providing the MOS have updated it)

Download here:

Hr 1
http://www.zshare.net/audio/61482716859c1eba/

Hr 2
http://www.zshare.net/audio/61482720938d826b/

1st Hour

Eddie K - Smoke
Burial/Four Tet - Moth
F - Epilogue (Ramadanman rmx)
Ramon Tapia & Maxim Lany - Highway (Jus Ed rmx)
Ebony Bones - Muzik (Yuksek & Brodinsky rmx)
R.A.S.E - Get On Up (Groovy Disco Mix)
Soultourist - Fo Eva
Giom - I Knew You Were Right (C Soul rmx)
Lucy - Grainy Lines (Rene Breitbach's Deep Mix)
Thedoris Triantafillou - (Nick Curly rmx)
Spencer Parker - Give My Regards To Holloway

2nd Hour

Agnes - Love Tempo
Tony Lionni interview pt1
Tony Lionni - Joy
Tony Lionni interview pt2
Tony Lionni - This Feeling
Tony Lionni interview pt3
Tony Lionni - Found A Place

Record of the Week:
Tony Lionni - The Brain

Jamie Jones - Mexico
Markus Homm - Expander*

*actually I played the wrong one. The one I played was 'Tom'.

FAO Mr Brown

2009-06-15T11:15:00.001+01:00

This is how to rock a summer look.
Moorgate - June '09

Croatia

2009-06-01T14:32:00.000+01:00

June 26th - Kerri... KERRRRIIIII

2009-05-22T10:07:00.000+01:00

Don't Watch That

2009-05-14T12:08:00.000+01:00

TVTV

More Murray's Mum

2009-05-13T16:13:00.001+01:00

New Radio - me + Spencer Parker

2009-05-13T13:34:00.002+01:00

Faith Fanzine with Jimmy P

LINK

12th May

Hour 1

Mos Def - Casa Bey
Alborosie - Mama She Don't like It
Billy Paul - East (Moton edit)
Einfach 003
Story 002 - Deepcut59
La Pena 004 - Tribal Dance
Roual Galloway - Red Explosion
Adam Marshall - Tool For Early Chicago (Shaun Reeves & Seth Troxler mix)
Anonym -
Brickhouse EP - MIlton Jackson RMX
Ramon Tapia & Maxim Lany - Highway EP (Jus Ed rmx)
PM Dawn - Movin' On Up (Morales Club Mix)

Hour 2

Spencer Parker in the studio.
GUEST MIX: Spencer Parker.

Dan Dreij "Om" CDR
Radio Slave "Orchestrating Manouvres In The Dark" CDR
Spencer Parker "The Beginning" (Michel Cleis Remix) Buzzin' Fly
Boola "Amarijj" CDR
Nic Fanciulli and Steve Mac "10%" Ovum
Paul Ritch "Split The Line" (Dubfire Megaremix) CDR

For Kenny

2009-05-13T13:08:00.001+01:00

Latest flyer 'work'

2009-05-06T10:45:00.001+01:00

T Shirts are finally here!

2009-05-06T08:23:00.005+01:00

Pink and orange have all but gone - may have a couple left, email for sizes. White and grey still have stock.
jim.strobelighthoney@gmail.com

New Faith Show with me & Leo Zero

2009-04-15T13:10:00.002+01:00

Leo joined me in the studio to talk about Wigwam, beefing up the drums and glowsticks.

Links below:

Windows

Mac

Tracklist:

Nas - Stillmatic
Nas - Nastradamus
Al Green - Everything Is OK (Ashley Beedle's Love Boogie Edit)
Ashford & Simpson - Get OUt Your Hankerchief
Leo Zero - Church Love
Esther Williams - Pleasure (Fred The Shred edit)
Sade - Love Is Stronger Than Pride (Karizma mix) [Ashley's DJ Friendly Edit]
The Lost men - Pace of Mind

Record of the week:
Tony Lionni - Found A Place

Revival track:
Greg Cash - Party Chat

2nd hour:

Leo Zero Interview

Leo Zero feat Marcel - Syncopate & Elevate
Sam Sallon - You May Not Mean To Hurt Me (Leo Zero rmx)
Stricken City - Lost Art (Leo Zero Mix)

Leo Zero Wigwam mix:
Arthur Russell - 'Treehouse'
Rufdug - 'Dirty'
Arthur Russell - 'Treehouse'
Desmond & The Tutu's - 'Kiss You On The Cheek'
Underground Resistance - 'Transition' (acapella)
Blackadiscomental - 'Blackadiscomental Dub'
Los Hermanos - 'Afro Dancers'
Bo Diddly - 'Bo's Bounce'
Harry Belafonte - ' Jump Down Turnaround '
Leo Zero - 'Heyp Bah'
Safri Duo - 'Athena'
Here We Go Magic - ' Tunnelvision '
Panama II - 'Long Train Running'
Fela Kuti - Open & Close
Perfect Zebras - In For The Kill (Rat Salad edit)
'I Am' (Rat Salad edit)

Labels

2009-03-31T09:37:00.002+01:00

2009-03-30T14:50:00.001+01:00

The first in a limited series highlighting the genius of artist Tom Underhill. Under permission of Murray's mum.

MAY DANCE

2009-03-26T14:08:00.003Z

SPRING

2009-03-23T12:09:00.002Z

SOON COME

2009-03-16T16:54:00.001Z

Scrapes & Capers

2009-03-12T15:37:00.003Z

Easter

2009-03-12T11:35:00.001Z

Some new bits from the workshop

2009-03-12T11:10:00.002Z

March 20th - REACH

2009-03-11T11:03:00.003Z

10 Years of Faith

2009-03-03T10:28:00.004Z

Patch - £10 inc p&p
STRICTLY limited edition

T Shirt - £25 inc p&p
Various colours on heavyweight Gildan cotton. Individually screened with a blend so each t-shirt is slightly different.
Woven sleeve badge.

Paypal: jim.strobelighthoney@gmail.com

All orders need to be in by Friday 20th March

FIRMAMENT MYSPACE

2009-02-25T16:14:00.000Z

Here

Boy's Own details on Friday

Timbre Pitch

2009-02-25T14:54:00.003Z

A new venture from my pals Dave jarvis (Faith/Moton) and Roual Galloway (Shrunken Head/Faith)

Check it

You can find the MOTON tees I did on there too.

UPCOMING DANCES

2009-02-10T11:45:00.001Z

Next Week: Round 1

2009-02-09T20:58:00.001Z

90s Revival

2009-02-05T08:13:00.001Z

Long Time Coming

2009-01-19T11:06:00.004Z

It took a while - 20 year old acid house agreements never make things easy - but next month will FINALLY see these hit the shops.

Your best best for grabbing them is here

Long hair and purple converse optional.

NIKE BOOT ROOM

2009-01-09T08:15:00.001Z

Everyone knows Copa Mondial moulds are the best boots ever... but I've never worn a bad pair of Nike boots. This is a really nice mini doc about their custom program for pros:

Dear Santa...

2008-12-19T11:13:00.000Z

NOT EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS...

2008-12-03T08:22:00.002Z

In all the right places by the weekend.

Il Pirata

2008-11-21T11:41:00.000Z

Been waiting for the reissue of this for a while - FORZA IL PIRATA!

JC de Castelbajac x Lego | Virtual Fashion Show

2008-11-07T09:17:00.000Z

JCDC VS LEGO from Four H on Vimeo.

HIPSTER ALERT!

2008-09-25T12:36:00.000+01:00

Now where did I put my Vampire Weekend cd?

Honest to goodness cockerney murderers

2008-09-16T14:58:00.002+01:00

When did it become ok to advertise your 'British grub' credentials with a pair of violent murderers? Would loved to have been in that meeting of marketing bellends. Not even Guy Ritchie would stoop that low.

Oh, and don't bother going anyway cos the food is shit and a gaff calling itself 'Sausage & Mash' should really have mastered the mash bit without lumps.

Boneyards round 2

2008-08-28T11:02:00.002+01:00

Tomorrow night - last one was worth a visit.

AUGUST

2008-07-31T17:23:00.000+01:00

New tyres

2008-07-17T11:19:00.001+01:00

It might be boring to you, but these are the highlight of my week...

MAIDEN! MAIDEN! MAIDEN!

2008-07-07T12:46:00.003+01:00

Childhood ambition realised - I shall be wearing my tee all week for stinky authenticity

MBV

2008-06-24T08:30:00.003+01:00

30 minutes of white noise - seriously one of the loudest things I've ever heard, like a wind tunnel of noise. Gig of the year, no doubt and they even made Soon sound better than the Weatherall mix.

BONEYARDS

2008-06-23T10:17:00.003+01:00

Checked out the Boneyards party at Stussy on Friday.
Was good, especially the Heine's in brushed metal bottles and hot music selections from Acyde & Jude.
The Supreme cap-pre-sq-metre ratio was pretty funny too.
Had a chat with Andrew Bunney about some exciting Hideout projects coming up - keep 'em peeled, and we'll be featuring some in the August fanzine.

You should definitely check it out - the newspaper alone is worth the trip.

Boneyards mixtape here!

More pics on Andrew's blog - HERE

Radio vibes

2008-06-04T10:33:00.002+01:00

Stuart Patterson & me on Ministry of Sound Radio last night:

Download show

What no nail bomb?

2008-06-02T12:40:00.001+01:00

Christians are well rubbish - if this was one of Rushdie's inflammatory tomes you wouldn't be able to move for burning effigies. What does Hitchens get? A neat little slipover that doesn't even ruin the book!

A Boy's Own Odyssey

2008-05-28T14:04:00.001+01:00

Southend

2008-05-07T09:01:00.009+01:00

Went to the seaside at the weekend, here's some 'arty' pics of the pier that burnt down:

Just to redress the balance, here's some 'Ganja Rock'

SIMPLE COMMON SENSE

2008-04-22T14:00:00.000+01:00

adicolor x Strobelight Honey

2008-04-16T08:56:00.004+01:00

It only took me two years to decide what to do with them...

I Want It To Be Real

2008-04-15T15:27:00.002+01:00

Thanks to the lads at tothebone I now know what this record is called. Heard it loads on old WBMX tapes but never tracked it down - the spoken word section is HOUSE.

1989

2008-04-10T17:50:00.007+01:00

This shit was my life as a kid - I can't believe any of it is still intact as most of these mags got hacked into bedroom decoration. The designs still inspire me, especially the type - pre-illustrator baby.

The FILLED-OUT reader questionnaire will have to wait - unseen levels of bentness.

Oi!

2008-04-09T08:49:00.000+01:00

Soon come:

Spring Clean Mix

2008-04-01T15:36:00.009+01:00

Decided I'd try and get some use out of a few purchases made over the last couple of months. As usual I got bored (a mix of being excited about skating later and only having turntables at home - no CDJs) so it's only just over 45 minutes long and probably a bit sketchy in parts.

My bad.

Go figure.

Enjoy.

Tracklist:

efdemin - lohn & brot (sebo k version2)
Attias - Domino dub
Joshua - Come Over 2 My Place
Marvin Dash - Rush Hour
Move D - Workshop 04
Shackleton - Death is not Final
STL - Lost in Brown Eyes
STL - Birdart

Linkmans here

New London Architecture

2008-03-18T10:00:00.009Z

I didn't even know this place existed until my better half read about it. We went to check out the current exhibition 'UNDERGROUND: London's Hidden Infrastructure' but saw a whole lot more.

The space is billed as:

New London Architecture is a vital addition to the public debate about the future of London. The capital is undergoing a period of massive change and NLA is a place where everyone - professionals, politicians and public - can find out and get involved in what is happening to their city.

The NLA space is a centre for display as well as a centre for debate and for networking. It is where visitors to London can orientate themselves, where school children can learn about their environment, where communities can be consulted.

A permanent exhibition of a 1:1500 scale model of Central London, surrounded by a display showing a cross section of current building projects, is enhanced by a programme of temporary exhibitions addressing London issues.

On entering The Building Centre, visitors are greeted with a huge 3D scale map of London showing all proposed new developments from the olympic village through to the Shard etc. Sadly my flat was just off the map but it was properly fascinating - I could look at architectural models all day to be fair.

The real highlight was the 'UNDERGROUND' section of the exhibition. Broken down into sections (services, flood defence, transport, residential etc) the exhibition displayed ways in which the spaces underneath London streets have been utilised in the past, and how we can use similar in the future (in a sustainable way. Examples varied from the now defunct Post Office underground railway, stables underneath Camden up to modern developments such as the Jubilee Line extension.

One of the few exhibitions I've seen recently where I've read absolutely everything on the walls!

New London Architecture website

SIOUXSIE

2008-03-11T09:50:00.003Z

I was lucky enough to be at the Siouxsie gig last night. Not a fan of the Shepherds Bush Empire but managed to find a space by the bar between some old punks, a MASSIVE tranny and goth dancing with his arms like Fingermouse.

Siouxsie was incredible though, looked amazing and sounded like a recording (in a good way). Although she did a few classics (Hong Kong Garden, Arabian Nights...) it was more a showcase for the new album which after last night is certified ESSENTIAL. Aged blokes shouting out tracklists were met with stern rebuke as newer material was aired. It felt overwhelming modern and for want of a better word 'dancy' - made me wonder why there wasn't/isn't more Siouxsie-Balearic disco crossover.

This sounded great too:

FAITH STROBELIGHT HONEY - SPRING ISSUE

2008-03-05T10:04:00.002Z

Next week son:

BIG THINGS

2008-02-19T14:11:00.002Z

OK, so you can't really read it from a distance and the printer got the colour wrong but you know...

ROLL OUT

2008-02-19T08:29:00.002Z

Coming to a casualty unit near you

DISCO FRIDAY

2008-02-04T15:15:00.000Z

Get on it...

Lakai - Fully Flared

2008-02-01T15:59:00.000Z

Finally bought a copy of this. Like most scabs I'd already seen the whole thing online but a film this good needs repeated viewings and tangible ownership. I'll be watching it for years - not just the best skate video in years, but one of my best films full stop. Go and buy it so they can afford to make another.

Unfortunately for my aching bones it's responsible for getting me back out on four wheels. I'm too fucking old.

Inspiration

2008-02-01T15:56:00.000Z

Just got this - amazing scenes. Not new, but well worth picking up. Same person did the ESSENTIAL hip hop book.

Latest Artizan sleeve

2008-02-01T11:03:00.000Z

2008-01-18T09:29:00.001Z

HOUSE

Village People - Intro + Fire island (Live)
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