Parisian office workers let off steam, have a bit of fun with the office stationary.
more at The Guardian
Category: Art
Fistful of Dub
A Fistful Of Dub is video mix featuring new and old dub and reggae recordings with clips from Spaghetti Westerns – not a mashup but an imaginary soundtrack where cowboys meet engines of rhythm.
Fistful Of Dub from Django’s Ghost on Vimeo.
Spotted at Dangerous Minds
Analoge Vinyl Sampling
Analog Vinyl Sampling from Ishac Bertran on Vimeo.
thanks to Jah People, Estéban, Julio for spotting.
Robots of Brixton
Kode9 brought this to my attention. Well done Kibwe and crew.
Robots of Brixton from Kibwe Tavares on Vimeo.
Madlib
I saw the documentary about A Tribe Called Quest a few days ago, phew, bloody brilliant. It’s so well put together, the story, the editing, it could be released as a audio file and it would still carry the weight, be coherent. As the credits rolled, Madlib’s name appeared, and it reminded me I had this link to the Pefect Sound Forever piece on Madlib. It’s here.
Photo: Marcel Sison
Beyond Digital
DJ/rupture, Maga Bo, lensman John Francis Peters and crew were in Morocco in June, working on a project delving into the rhythm of life there, slightly more in-depth than simply trying the local beer. We are dealing with what goes behind contemporary Moroccan music. /rupture is about the only person I can deal with regards to Autotune, I ain’t got time for it, however in this case……
More on the Beyond Digital project at Fader Magazine
Portishead
Portishead producer/musician Geoff Barrow recently bumped into Thom Yorke at Paddington station, where the Radiohead frontman told him the band had just finished their latest album, The King of Limbs. “… I went, ‘Fuck off! Fucking hell, man, in the time you’ve done another record we can’t find two notes that we like that we can put together.’ And we can’t. And then we get really scared of trying it.”
Portisheasd curate I’ll Be Your Mirror for All Tomorrow’s Parties in London this weekend, Grinderman, PJ Harvey, a reunited Company Flow on the bill.
The source for the above quote is from the The Guardian/Observer interview
Todd McLellan
Clandestino Fstvl 2
Mutamassik, Amazigh Kateb, Mulatu Astatke, Sparse, Baloji, Aleksander and John, New Tango Orchestra captured by Lotta Andersonn and Kari Jantzen
