Saturday 28 February 2009

Pieces

I know shes going to hate the picture and hate me for taking it but I like it...

Asbo

this got dropped

the rest of the pictures were even worse, but our man Mathias has quite a few nice ones over on bntl.
In April we return to Plan B with Zinc, Plastician, Tayo, Patchwork Pirates and more. Will post soon!

Wednesday 25 February 2009

Jawdroppers


Erin Wasson X RVCA fall collection 2009

Tuesday 24 February 2009

Sunday 22 February 2009

Pitchshifter


In October 2000 I was at the Portsmouth Pyramid Centre when this song came on and I got kicked pretty hard in the knee. Some nerve got trapped, I got a weird knee disease, and I never had to do P.E. again. I was 14 and it was the first gig I ever went to.

Pitchshifter were one of the most important and ground breaking bands for mixing electronic sounds with a traditional rock set up. Like The Prodigy's angry neglected little brother (they even shared a guitarist). They began releasing dark experimental industrial music in the early 90's, which developed into a much more mainstream sound by the release of 1998's "pitchshifter.com" and 2000's "Deviant", that fused metal, trip hop, drum n bass and electro. They were extremely pro-active, giving away thousands of copyright-free samples to encourage kids to make their own music and releasing their last EP on their own label, PSI records.

I think that there finest moment is a track called "Please Sir" from "pitchshifter.com", which combines drum'n'bass style percussion with almost punk guitars and is a good example of front man JS Clayden's political, dark and deeply sarcastic lyrics. Album closer ZX81 is an epic instrumental piece which shows how far ahead of themselves Pitchshifter were, the deep brooding bass and driving drums sound as fresh today as they did when they were released over a decade ago. I might get in trouble for these so they might not be on here long, but here is a couple of download links for you to check them out. (Also, if you're reading this thinking "This is just some shit nu-metal band", then I strongly encourage you to download ZX81)


Walter Schreifels (of Gorilla Biscuits, Quicksand and Rival Schools) said this about them "My band Gorilla Biscuits played with Pitchshifter in 1990. Back then they were pierced, dredd-locked and drum-machined. I was kind of scared by them, but I was also very impressed. We toured together years later when I was in Quicksand. Pitchshifter were the first people that I had ever seen recording on laptops. I traveled with them to gigs and we became friends. For me, Pitchshifter were able to seamlessly mix modern technology with heavier than hell guitars.”

Despite their advances in the studio, I think that it was the live Pitchshifter experience that truly sets them apart, and to this day I am still amazed by full-live-band electro and dance music projects. One such project that has recently grabbed my attention is Tek-One, the brain child of the other Partyshank member (ie not A1 Bassline), Howard. They are soon to start playing as a full live band dubstep project, performing their own material and live re-mixes of big dubstep tunes. Embedding options are turned off, but do click here to see an amazing video of their drummer playing their remix of Caspa's "Where's my Money?" in his bed room.

I don't know if any of Tek-One were or are Pitchshifter fans, but it would be interesting to know if projects like theirs would have happened without a band like Pitchshifter inspiring so many others.

Pitchshifter have been on an indefinite-hiatous since about 2006, although I think they played a couple of random festivals in 2007. This year they are releasing a compilation to celebrate 20 years since they formed, so I expect they will tour to promote that. It's been 9 years since I last saw them but I would love to go and see them again, maybe I'll wear knee pads this time.

Joe and Will






Saturday 21 February 2009

Art type shit

Talent in abundence. I been on that art type shit son. Word

Thursday 19 February 2009

martelo x trinotron

Click Here To Download!

Martelo x Trinotron - "The Champion Mixtape"

www.myspace.com/mrmartelo

www.trinotron.com


stolen from Barclay James, thanks larve.

Go try and grab a hard copy from the Trinotron showroom, in some mysterious place near liverpool street.

besos.

p.s. Martelo playing tonight at Macbeth from 11. Free entry. Jager Bombs + some nice exclusive treats. YYEP.

Wednesday 18 February 2009

Deadly Rhythm X Mike Jones

Deadly Rhythm have been working with the MISHKA design team to produce some new artwork so expect to see stickers, tees and more goodies in the months to come. Also they will be doing a mishka t-shirt handout on the 27th so holler!

Here are some of the ideas for the logo. Tell us what you think.

Fuck the White Board


That's me reading page 54 of this weeks Time Out. If i'd have turned it over then I would have seen the feature on my new club photography blog Fuck The White Board. All good timing really as me and Al (under the helpful guidance of Long Leave) are throwing a fucking massive party at the Macbeth tomorrow night for our launch. Sex Dungeon, Man Like Me and the one and only Toddla T are going to be providing the music . Also it's free. so fuckin A. See you there.

12 disposable camera photos from Barcelona












Tuesday 17 February 2009

b&w


(view above large. looks old.)




mixture of old and new, i'm rubbish at keeping all my films together.

Sunday 15 February 2009

Tour of California is on

And our favourite cycling apparel brand Rapha have decided to cover the progress of 6 'better than average but by now means pro riders'. They have made this beautifully shot short film and will be posting more photos and videos as the tour continues.


Rapha Rides The Tour of California

Empire of the Snow