Archive for the ‘random’ Category
interesting article with Sony designer Teiyu Goto about the making of the playstation controller & the design of its buttons.
READ HERE
Figured as I’m now an offical blogger(sweet)…id do something im sure has never been done before(kinda like creating a photo album on facebook called “random”) and start posting a track every week that im feeling….new,old or indifferent…
Jas James of paydayla.com put me on this nugget….Japanese funk group who made this funk/jazz fusion record in the 80’s,produced by Augie Johnson….who has produced similar sounding tracks to this one so it may sound familiar off the bat.
The part i love about the tune is the Nate Dogg esc backing vocals..Check it
Growing up i thought metal was the fucking tits,to me it was just guys like Dimebag Darrell or James Hetfield necking 2 bottles of wild turkey,kicking the fuck out of some queer then sniffing lines off a girls tits while busting out belters on the guitar…couldn’t have imagined anything cooler.
Throw in some Posion for the Hair metal dedication alongside Deftones who despite the “nu-metal” tag which developed once metal bands started wearing tribal t-shirts and calling people homies,still were fucking pioneers of there own sound.
and for the cunts that didnt like metal but enjoyed having long hair,bangles and leather chaps….don’t worry bout it….I GOTCH U
1988 - Washington Heights to Harlem NYC…..Teddy Riley was the genius behind the concoction that was merging the 80’s crooner rnb style with hip hop influx ,doing this with his own incredible twist on production,utilising james brown drum samples with heavy chord and vocal melodies.Riley used to sit in his studio on like 173rd st or something like that with ques of major releasing artists at his door for beats.80% of this style of music he created and pioneered…
When u listen to this just think of :
Olive suits with tangerine lapels
Wes snipes rocking the kangol with the black cane and gold chain in New Jack City…..
Triangular Kid and Play cuts with the blonde trim
dance moves like a co-ordinate epileptic
and Halle Berry in Boomerang
24flinching.com has compiled a great collection of photos taken in the NYC subway system in the 1980s.
This was sent to us from the lads over at ALL CITY Records. They are putting on a show in conjunction with OFFSET, witch is a design festival this august in Dublin. Looks like it going to be really good.
“SHOWOFF is a group show, it will showcase a wide verity of talent from some of Ireland’s established commercial artist to some of the countries most exciting emerging creative minds. These participants come from a verity of creative fields, including illustration, graphic design, photography, textiles, to name but a few.
Each of the artist has been given a letter of the alphabet,at random. They have been asked to create a visual solution for their individual letter. The result will then will be reproduced as a limited set of prints. All the results will on show in Article of Powercourt Townhouse.”
for more info check out their blog.
This little nugget was kindly put together and sent to us by mans like Psybr.
