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From Mad Decent:
After months of back and forth between these two musical nit pickers, we have a damn near perfect mixtape for you guys with unreleased business galore: three brandy new Santogold tracks, remixes of her stuff from Diplo, XXXchange, Mumdance, Switch, Radioclit & more, dubplates and a sprinkling of Santi influences. PLUS killer packaging design (digipack cd, you need to own this) from Mike Jones.
Buy at turntablelab.
Caught Ama Kip Kip on psfk a week or so back. AKK is a kind of premium street brand out of South Africa. I am told the shirts, designed by Nkosana Lesedi, are selling for like $35 a pop (or whatever that is in South African rands). Presently they only exist online as a Facebook group, but their site will be up in a few weeks. (Right now you can only pick up one of their shirts at Rosebank Mall in Johannesburg). People are talking and “the Bape of SA” is a phrase you are hearing a lot… we’ll see; but there is certainly some hype building up around the brand. Watch for them to go worldwide in 10 days or so. Boom? Bust? or Neither?
Pushin’ products, pushin’ products… Starting grad school across the city in the Fall so I am in serious need of a transportation option that doesn’t have anything to do with Septa. Trolling the internets I came across this ridiculous contraption by Derringer Cycles. OH LORD how nice this ride would be! Feeling lazy? Pop on that 180 mpg engine and enjoy the ride. Feeling eco-conscious? Get your lazy ass on those pedals. No more car-share for me! Even with gas at $10 a gallon, this would still be cheaper than the bus… Its like a Vespa for a dude (or a motorcycle for a chick). Ok, ok, unfair sexual stereotypes aside, this thing’s got a little for everyone. But then you start looking online for prices and they are conspicuously absent from any sites. That’s the catch, initial outlay looks like its around 3,500, which is kinda’ an issue (read prohibitively expensive). Oh well. I’ll settle for lusting after that iPod touch.
Update: Oh, and they are only sold in LA. For me, its probably for the better.
Update 2: Interesting video…
The Knife’s Deep Cuts album was amazing. José González’s Veneer album was amazing. Any coincidence that the song Heartbeats was featured on both??? OK, kidding aside, this is an incredible song and I recommend getting your hands on both versions (the original is by The Knife, though González’s might be the best cover I have ever heard… ok, that’s a bit of hyperbole, but its really good).
Both DJs Dert and A-Trak have toyed with these tracks recently. Dirt takes the mellow road and mixes Common and Erika Badu over González’s acoustic guitar. A-Track uses The Knife’s version to complement the decidedly non-acoustic synth of Ye’s Get ‘Em High. Both are pretty ridiculous and highly recommended.
Download the A-Trak version here. (Direct Download via CrownDozen.)
Direct d/l of the Dert track here. (Its part of a larger MixTape of Gonzalez/Kanye et. al. mash-ups - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow.)
I really like Matt Woodson’s work because it reminds me of really well done comic book art. Anyone read the Bendis/Maleev Daredevil run? He reminds me a lot of Maleev’s work. (In fact, check out his site here, where he has posted some comic panels that he did for Perry Ellis.) The guy gets around too and has a really impressive “selected” client list:
Action Heights Records, American Express, Bare Films, The Boston Globe, Complex Magazine, Digital Kitchen, ESPN Magazine, Fisher Mountain Bikes, Forbes Magazine, Ford, The House Of Blues, Image Comics, LA Weekly, Learning Media, Meathaus Comics, More Magazine, Nestle, NewYork Magazine, NextBook, Penthouse Magazine, Perry Ellis, The Royal Mail, Sandbox Strategies, Sparknotes, TFA, Threadless, Topshelf Comics, Type Records, UNICEF, Wired Magazine
Penthouse Magazine?? huh.
He also appeals because he can do dark and creepy without being too into it… you know? Its not cheap fluff. Its dark, weird, illustration that is satisfying to look at. He keeps a blog at with hands and hair and eyes and bones and knees, where he posts work as he completes it.
And speaking of Daredevil, if I wasn’t poor I would get this so quickly.
Maybe the funniest thing I have ever seen. Via heyokay.
So much new music, so little time. Now that I have given work my two weeks I have taken to trolling the Hype Machine for new music when I should be putting in my 9-5. This is such a cool, chill track. I haven’t really listened to Badu’s new album, but I am a big fan of Pharoahe Monch and am always looking for new stuff by him. Any Terrordome fans? That track is awesome.
Get The Healer Remix here.
Has anyone even tried to pirate Photoshop CS3 for the Mac??? It is damn near impossible. Installing it is a bitch. The serials never work. If you try and update it it realizes your sinful ways and locks up for eternity. Honestly, do yourself a favor and just stick with CS2. By the time you have CS3 in something slightly resembling working order, you have wasted so much time it might have been cheaper just to drop a few bucks on a pared down Photoshop lookalike.
Which brings us to an even better option. Pixelmator is a nice Photoshop replacement for us Mac users who have only a very limited interest in the actual inner workings of graphic design. Lets be honest, for most of us 99% of Photoshop might as well be in German. I downloaded Pixelmator the other day and have been pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to use… case in point the new header. Not big on pushing products, but this seems like a pretty decent graphic design app for the Mac. Get it here.
Maybe the coolest thing I have ever see. Jansen creates machines that move by harnessing wind energy. The things look incredibly life-like… I’ll shut up… no words…
