track diggin: dj krush

going through a hard drive full of olde music.

krush.

ah, krush.



krush was a gateway to a shitload of artists i still jam on, and is known as one of the forerunners of japanese (tr)(h)iphop.

my friend Manny was the first one to let me listen to the beast with his mixset album "code4109", named for the amount of seconds on the nonstop mix.

kemuri, off of "code4109"


then i had to mash "kakusei", a more experimental intrumental album, then "meiso" and "milight" and an onslaught of others. First song i ever heard was "final home", featuring Esthero.

final home, off "code4109" AND returning on "kakusei"


i made a mix of purely tracks hes done with female vocalists way back when and played that shit on loop, theres a lot and theyre all beautiful.

this is a cover of john lennon's "mind games", feat. eri ohno


skin against skin, feat. deborah anderson, off the album "milight"


message the the depth dealt with the war and burning hot political firebombs





milight and meiso dealt more with street bits.

real, feat. tragedy, off the album "milight"


duality(with djshadow), off the album "meiso"(i heart 1:36 so much)


only the strong survive, feat. c.l.smooth, "meiso"


and "ki-oku" was a dive into jazz with toshinori kondo, a famous japanese trumpet player.



"zen" marks a certain maturity for the artist and is a transformational shift into soundscapes, rather than purely beats, which would evolve into albums like bits of "message at the depth" and all of "jaku". if youve never heard a krush album, i urge you to begin your journey with "zen". my friend brent got a copy of it signed for me at coachella many years back and its one of my prized possesions to this day, its within arms reach right this second in fact.

song 1, off of "zen"


still island, off of "jaku"



so thats a quick post about someone that, if i believed in heroes, might just be a big one.

Drunk and Disorderly

by Ponderosa

Sztuka Fabryka: Paper Fiends

Sztuka Fabryka.

A crew of paper kids from Belgium, now located in Spain, doing all sorts of amazing things with the paper-y stuff.

Clothing, street shrines, sculpture, 2d action, all sorts of nutty stuff. They even started an encyclopedia for paper artists so quickly forgotten these days.

Disagree? Name one.







You'll be hearing more about them soon, until then,
Check out their site.

La Pluma Electri*k's QR night adventure

More pics and a short explanation here.

InspirationArtFestival Encore

Going up @ the olde Train Station (HaTachana) in South Tel Aviv
Sep. 24th to Oct. 24th.

Get there.



Deets.

New London Miles Gallery/Upper Playground show

Featuring Morning Breath, Ekundayo and Fernando Chamarelli

Opens Oct. 8th, running through Nov. 5th


From the press release:

"Considered one of America's finest creative studio's for innovative and influential design, Morning Breath, aka design duo Doug Cunningham and Jason Noto, have established themselves as torchbearers for the US counterculture with their work for the likes of Queens Of The Stone Age, Kanye West, TV on the Radio, Them Crooked Vultures and AFI to name but a few. Also enlisted by apparel giants Stussy, Vans, MTV and bleeding-edge label/art house Upper Playground, Morning Breath's work is fast becoming a totem of subcultural credibility within the hyper-commercialized industries of music and fashion.

Joining them, and fresh from his solo exhibition at Los Angeles Thinkspace Gallery this summer, Hawaii-born artist Ekundayo will be exhibiting his fiercely affecting artworks in the UK for the first time. Ploughing a distinctive furrow within the realms of the contemporary grotesque genre, Ekundayo's work combines both a subversive graffiti aesthetic with art-historical erudition to produce textured, transitory portraits full of movement and character using a combination of acrylics, gouache, watercolour, and ink - on occasion, literally carving his paintings from the viscous combination of these materials.

Our trio of new contemporary exponents is completed by the immensely talented Brazilian artist, illustrator, and graphic designer, Fernando Chamarelli; also showing for the first time here on UK soil. Explosively colourful and instantly recognisable for the seamless combination of organic forms with a modern, graphic sensibility, Chamarelli's intricate and finely detailed paintings, while instantly striking, reward even closer attention to detail, not least to the abundant iconography hidden within many of his pieces. The strong influence of Colombian indigenous art, ancient philosophy, and a general reverence for the natural world are all counterbalanced by the use of the many mazy, geometric patterns, harmoniously resolving the traditionalist/modernist binary. It is this combination of the ethereal with the empirical that affords such depth and intrigue to Chamarelli's timeless works. "

Click for details.

Monday Moneyscrawling Day: The Cartoon Edition

A few newish bits via der flickrgroupz, cartoon style.

Joe D!


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FutureboyColin



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Librarytime

Good Monday scumfilm, i trust your weekends were a blur.

Let's start the week with loads of visual stimuli, yes?

Yes; for my friend whisked me away to the library the other day. Havent been to a proper library in a very long while. Theres something that lives in a library that you lose when mining info in the great electric webosphere. Its like an ancient cave of wonders that smells ripe with paper gold.

I even got a card.

Heres a gallery of some of the books, it seemed selfish to keep them all for myself. Its not as good as the real thing however, might i suggest a trip to the library?

Enjoy.





this is my favorite shot. its quite beautiful.


Moar heer.




an awesome steambot, view gigantor for notes and background and things


Moar again.
(not morrigan.)

its friday i hear

enjoy your weekend sinners, see you on monday.

Waking Life

I've been watching a fair bit of sociopolitical garbage going on right now and its a bit more unsettling than usual.

Some things are universal and need to be addressed in the nowtimes.

Heres 3 excerpts that apply to now. Right now, and the very near future. Derive what you will.

Bioshock Infinite

I never really got into Bioshock, but I've always appreciated both its America-based historical foundation and its' timelines aesthetics, but the gold that is Bioshock is and has always been its ability to fuse storytelling and gameplay into a mutually symbiotic, completely greased functional anomaly not generally seen in games this far on their respective timelines.

Look at this gameplay demo of Bioshock: Infinite and tell me it doesn't look completely amazing.

You can't do it.



Fucking bizarre man.

let yourself feel.

via thenextweb

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