12 years and still rocking. Wow…where has the time gone? Huge thanks to 55DSL for making our 12th B-day one of the best yet. And of course all the talent: 2 Live Crew, DJ AM, Z-Trip, The Bloody Beetroots, Guns N Bombs, Congorock, Them Jeans and DJ Fashen
Once again DGV gives us a fresh look at the world’s current artistic movements. Rather than highlighting the staples of today’s mainstream design diet, Lemon Poppy Seed raises eyebrows by celebrating the young, international artists operating along pop culture’s periphery…before their creative vision is absorbed into the commercial atmosphere.
As an Earthbound alien in 1976’s The Man Who Fell To Earth, David Bowie assimilated quite well to human life, masquerading as the head of a tech corporation to create the means to return home…well, at least just long enough to be doomed by his own belief in the inherent goodness of man. (Sucker.) Conversely, Electroma follows robotic duo Daft Punk’s tragic misadventures through a bizarro California where everyone is a robot—Daft Kids on swing-sets, Daft Cops, Daft Preggers with strollers, Daft Lawn-Mowing Dads—but Hero #1 and Hero #2 just want to be human after all.
Joel Martin and Matt Edwards (aka Radio Slave) explore the eclectic range of crate-savvy styles, from tropicalia to psych-rock, surf-pop, and dub
Joel Martin is a Peep Show junkie. He said so when I called him at his London home on a Friday night. “It’s a great show. If you come to the UK or can find it, check it out; it’s funny stuff,” he promises, referring to the TV comedy. Martin, one-half of downtempo duo Quiet Village, has had a long, sensuous affair with moving images. “I used to be a film editor. The thing that got me interested in the cutting room was walking in and smelling the gear and the film and everything in there. But a year or so into it, everything went online. And having missed the computer generation, I was very upset for many years. I thought that my career had been stolen from me.”
Here, My Dear: Expanded Edition (Hip-O-Select/Motown/Universal)
Marvin Gaye’s criminally-underrated 1978 masterpiece, Here, My Dear gets a long-overdue reissue courtesy of this expanded, double-disc remastered edition.