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Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt A beautiful track of Vampire...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:33:50 +0100

Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt

A beautiful track of Vampire Weekend’s new album, Modern Vampires of the City

A bit slow on this, but it’s nice. Mayer Hawthorne ft....

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:52:56 +0100

A bit slow on this, but it’s nice.

Mayer Hawthorne ft. Jessie Ware - Her Favourite Song

Download this song: http://smarturl.it/MayerHerFavSongiT
The first single from the upcoming album ‘Where Does This Door Go’, out July 16.

Produced by Oak & Mayer
Additional Vocals by Jessie Ware

https://www.facebook.com/MayerHawthorne
https://twitter.com/mayerhawthorne

mrbibio: Many years ago I was in Wolverhampton library looking...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:07:06 +0100

mrbibio:

Many years ago I was in Wolverhampton library looking for music to take out. I was in the cassette section and there was an album cover which stood out to me - it was the self-titled album by ‘Free’. The cover is of a blue sky and a naked woman’s silhouette striding over the camera. Her silhouette is transformed into a hole in the sky showing the stars, or perhaps a ‘window’ onto the heavens. This beautiful image was created by Ron Raffaelli.

I’ve been in love with this image ever since. I’ve wanted to try out techniques to achieve things similar to that album cover for a long time, such as layering negatives - which is how I imagine that image was created… although I could be wrong.

I love the idea that the silhouette of the woman is a ‘window’ onto the stars, it got me thinking that any silhouette could be used in a similar way.

I created a variation on this idea for the cover of my album ‘Mind Bokeh’. I wanted to create an image of bokeh inside my head. I tried techniques such as layering medium format negatives but the result wasn’t quite what I had hoped for. I ended up using a mirror cut out into the shape of my profile, this mirror was then hung on a wall in my living room. On the wall on the other side of the room was a large black sheet of wool which I pinned fairy lights to. I then took a photograph of the head-shaped mirror hanging on the wall reflecting the fairy lights on the opposite side of the room. Due to the type of lens I used, the mirror and wall appeared in focus, whereas the fairy lights appeared as bokeh. This image achieved what I wanted to achieve - a head full of bokeh.

The mirror and lights technique looked and felt quite different to the silhouette image on the ‘Free’ album cover, which was still an area I wanted to explore. I thought that it would be interesting to explore a similar look to Raffaelli’s image in moving images. I had the first ideas for this music video in autumn 2011. The first ideas involved footage of me spinning or rotating in some way, I then combined those ideas with the idea of using my silhouette as a window onto other scenes.

When I finished Silver Wilkinson and the artwork, it was time to start work on the video. I contacted Russell Weekes to ask if he would be interested in collaborating with me. I had previously worked with Russell in 2011 when he directed the music video for ‘K is for Kelson’. I really enjoyed the ideas he came up with for that video, he’s a very witty and imaginative artist who doesn’t need to rely on huge budgets and pricey gimmicks - he is also a pleasure to work with and a very interesting chap. I told Russell about my ideas and he liked them, so we met up for a pint in the Southampton Arms near the Warp offices when I was down in London. We discussed ideas and techniques and at that point I realised he was definitely the right man to work with on this project.

We hired a studio in Birmingham so we could easily transport my gear from my home in Wolverhampton. We also hired a turntable for me to stand on so I could be videoed rotating. We shot all the silhouette footage against a white wall on my DSLR. Russell’s imagination really shone through here because he seemed to have all sorts of wonderful ideas on tap. I recall him going to a local shop to get us biscuits for our tea break and came back having thought of even more quirky ideas. We shot lots of variations of the silhouettes with different instruments. After the shoot, I then made necessary adjustments to all of the clips and sent them to Russell to cut to the music. Russell then sent his edit back to me - again, his talent shone through with his imaginative editing and comping - layering silhouettes to create new strange figures and shapes.

The next stage was to replace the background and silhouettes with 8mm film footage which I had shot over the last 13 years. I sent off all of my reels of film to be transferred to a digital format and when I got them back, I worked them into Russell’s edit using luma key and chroma key techniques. One thing I love about Raffaelli’s image is the warm, grainy 60s psychedelic look to it, so I decided that my backgrounds and silhouette ‘windows’ should be looking onto warm fuzzy scenes captured on genuine film - I’m not a fan of fake film filters, when you see real super 8 footage you realise what those filters lack. I was super happy with the result, it felt like a long-term ambition fulfilled, but not necessarily a closed book.

My review of the new album here:

http://www.nouse.co.uk/2013/05/15/album-review-bibio-silver-wilkinson/

Dimlite - Locked First track off the album This Is Embracing.

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:47:51 +0100

Dimlite - Locked

First track off the album This Is Embracing.

James Blake - Dlm Superb piano ballad off new album, Overgrown

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:18:13 +0100

James Blake - Dlm

Superb piano ballad off new album, Overgrown

thebakery-djcupcake: Jai Paul - Crush

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:05:38 +0100

thebakery-djcupcake:

Jai Paul - Crush

Jon Hopkins piano version of Modern Driveway by Luke Abbott

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:59:42 +0100

Jon Hopkins piano version of Modern Driveway by Luke Abbott

Tor Cesay - The Perch (Ft Flying Lotus, Oddisee & Phonte...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:28:15 +0100

Tor Cesay - The Perch (Ft Flying Lotus, Oddisee & Phonte Coleman) (by pinchofsaltrecords)

Flying Lotus - Bus Stop (by rotatethis)

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:06:55 +0100

Flying Lotus - Bus Stop (by rotatethis)

Flying Lotus is an outrageous individual

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:03:19 +0100

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/189702/Flying%20Lotus-Breathe%20Something%20/%20Stellar%20STar_The%20Cinematic%20Orchestra-Breathe/

So I was reading an interview with Cinematic Orchestra head J swinscoe on the Guardian website from 2007 and it referenced a remix of Breathe FlyLo had done that was “unreleased”. No sign of it on the internet, however it led me to the page above… I have listened to both songs probably more than 50 times each but I would never have spotted that. Amazing.Clue’s in the name though.

Glastonbury: Why it's still the best, despite the headliners

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:13:16 +0100

“2013’s line-up so far is a bit shit, at least by their own standards. The Rolling Stones are barely still alive, nobody cares about The Arctic Monkeys’ last two albums and Mumford and Sons, as Agatha says, have been placed a little above their weight. But there’s a reason why Glasto sells out before the line-up has even been released, and they’re not all getting bought up by those bearded Gandalf-impersonators who never leave the stone circle. The amount going on – food, drink, drama, crazy healing stuff, the occasional band – and the quality that stitches it all together means that Glastonbury, at least in this country, barely has any competition”

Read the rest here:

http://www.nouse.co.uk/2013/04/04/glastonbury-not-all-thistle-and-weeds/

Joy Orbison - Big Room Tech House DJ Tool - TIP! A legit...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:23:51 +0100

Joy Orbison - Big Room Tech House DJ Tool - TIP!

A legit version at last. Enjoy!

Debut 7” single from CHAMPS available now from all good...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:12:58 +0000

Debut 7” single from CHAMPS available now from all good independent record stores (Including Rough Trade - http://bit.ly/PQDGR4 and Tower Records - http://bit.ly/PrVqVn
Facebook.com/champsofficial

Gold Panda - Marriage - Baths remix

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:00:47 +0000

Gold Panda - Marriage - Baths remix

Mount Kimbie - Made To Stray (by MTHRFNKRFM)

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:09:38 +0000

Mount Kimbie - Made To Stray (by MTHRFNKRFM)

Today is a good day - new Bibio! À tout à l’heure

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:15:49 +0000

Today is a good day - new Bibio! À tout à l’heure

Listen to For What It’s Worth by Vanilla.

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:38:36 +0000

Listen to For What It’s Worth by Vanilla.

Listen to Step Pepper Sampler Vol. I by Various Artists.

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:29:02 +0000

Listen to Step Pepper Sampler Vol. I by Various Artists.

thevibeguide: Bonobo Feat. Erykah Badu - Heaven For a Sinner A...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:19:12 +0000

thevibeguide:

Bonobo Feat. Erykah Badu - Heaven For a Sinner

A very interesting collaboration with a pretty good end result.

!!! - “Slyd”

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:18:26 +0000

!!! - “Slyd”