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Tomorrow, CDR Birmingham goes to the heart of the West Midlands in session with The Insomniax (Earnest Endeavours), Tony Nwachukwu & Guests.
Venue: Bull’s Head, 23 St Mary’s Row, Moseley, Birmingham, B13 8HW.
You can upload your tracks to be heard at the session to the CDR Soundcloud. Sounds of the CDR travels and more can also be found on the the bi-monthly CDR Audio Show on NTS. Get involved.
Let us hark back to a time when the cars were red, the design was pure and the roll cages non-existent. A beautiful piece of barely plausible engineering. No you’re not getting a lift.
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via Budnitz Bicycles of all places
Made in London, New York, Tokyo, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Cardiff & Tartu; the Earnest Endeavours worldwide family represent a true worldwide affair.
Our Nest Vol.1 is available for free, but comes with a minor trade-off. Listeners pay with a tweet or Facebook ‘Like’, ensuring that the word travels just that little bit further with every download.
SelfSays, Darkhouse Fam, The Insomniax, Widows, B. Bravo, J Todd, mfp and KiEnRa are the line-up for the label’s first compilation, representing enough eclectic boom-bap to mess up heads and ruffle feathers for some time.
The making of the hourglass is definitely worth your time. Marc Newson’s latest creation for Ikepod. Directed by Philip Andelman.
Craig Murray is a creative geyser that blows roughly every week or so, dousing us in directorial greatness in the process. His new showreel contains a dazzling array of work shot between June 2011 and March 2012.
All visual effects are made in camera by a process of photographic long exposure animation. All layers used are hand made. All his tees and jackets would be mine if they weren’t too small for me.
Were I to have received a penny for every programme that has been compared to The Wire, I’d have enough money tucked away to have executive produced Mad Men: one of the few shows worthy of such comparison, and one that has made its return on the Outer Hebredies of British television – Sky Atlantic.
Rather than dwell on my lack of free-viewing opportunities, allow me to delve into the impressive promotional photography’s ode to painter Edward Hopper. Subtlety of this nature is something one can come to expect from a show that is as true to life as it is a supreme work of fiction.
The angst, unrequited emotions and unspoken words present in Hopper’s work flow through Andy Ryan’s images, creating a suggestive, intriguing narrative. I couldn’t state with any certainty what Donald Draper’s take would be on this work, but Ansel Neckles says that if you are going to tell a story through picture, make sure it says the right things and has the viewer asking the right questions.
At twenty%extra, we believe The future is clever™. Sky Nash thinks the future is rude, but she’d just had a bad day. An illustrator with nothing to say is just an illustrator. Sky is an illustrator with style, and even more importantly, insight. All of which makes her work a visual narrative of modern living. Perfect really, as the work we’re doing together will be a reflection of the modern world we live in.
Rollover the images for a peep into Sky’s world. And watch this space.
The image of post-industrial decline looks pretty much the same wherever you go. Franck Bohbot charts the demise of railway infrastructure in the 10 miles between Nanterre and Ivry-sur-seine, west Paris. Franck’s work perhaps represents the first bit of love this particular area has seen in some time.
BBC World Service and documentaries: that’s what’s cracking in my world. But having overdosed on the realities of this planet, it’s time for music to aid with the come down. When I’m not been amazed by the latest intriciacies of The Insomniax’s Love She Wants EP in its pre-release form, I’m revelling in the synth-laden nirvana of upstate New Yorker Seth Haley; otherwise known as Com Truise.
This renaissance man has enough “mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk” to keep any beat junky busy for days. Throw in his Komputer Cast mixtapes and you’ve got plenty of analogue love for a digital age. Definitely makes the world I’ve been reading about feel like a slightly better place.
The answers to the Eurozone’s ills, all contained within the ill verses of Euro Neuro by
Eurovision 2012 Montenegrin entry Rambo Amadeus. Yes, I said ‘ill’. Yes I said I’m voting.
Let’s get this straight – I’ve never voted for any song in the Eurovision Song Contest in all my years of existence. This year though, is the exception.
Rambo Amadeus has been a cult figure in the music scene of the Western Balkans for more than 20 years. For late-comers like myself, the cult-like admiration starts now. Sorry Engelbert, you’ve had your day. It’s Rambo time.
