April 22, 2015Damn, this seems to have barely lasted a second, though some stores still seem to be waiting on initial stock from last month so you might be in luck. Been sitting on it since last month but finally got it on deck and was reminded again while Kyle Hall is modern poster boy for Detroit house music. And that’s probably…
January 13, 2015This has probably been rinsed to death by now but I dig this project so much had to get it up here. Plus Nick Kyrgios is currently in the fight of a lifetime, so no sport fan in Australia is going to bed anytime soon. Taking the elements that made up those beautiful jazz LP sleeves of the fiftes and…
January 2, 2015Mad delay getting this up here, tradition does dictate first of the New Year but what can we say…it’s been a crazy series of events lately. Simply put, 2014 was freaking awesome. So much good music, new labels and strange directions for wax and cassette labels that kept us interested for the full twelve months, if consistently broke at the…
December 8, 2014For fifteen years the Sydney monorail was an under-appreciated piece of the urban landscape. Not as noticeable or iconic as say the Opera House or Harbour Bridge, but still an appreciated piece of landscape like the mountains in Switzerland or sand dunes in Morocco. The monorail was never talked about it as a key feature, and it may not have…
December 2, 2014Been a while since we heard from Timmy K aka Phomandark on the photographic tip, but it was well worth the wait. With camera in hand he headed down to shoot Afrika Bambaataa and crew on their ’40 Years of Hip-Hop’ tour, double billed as the ‘41st Anniversary of Zulu Nation‘. From djembe drummers opening the affair through a load…
October 13, 2014Had a bitch of a time tracking this one down, such was it’s popularity that the first two editions of 150 flew out. Out to the photographer behind the project – Brian David Stevens – as well as the publisher / distributor Cafe Royal Books for helping me track down the handful of remaining copies, and of course Awkward Movements crew…
September 12, 2014You’re going to have bear us with for a bit of a lengthy post here, but discovering this man’s work has been a rabbit-hole of rewarding discovery. Happened to catch Cyber Dreaming on ABC a couple of months ago, a short documentary around graphic artist Stuart Campbell, and the long-form directorial debut of Indigenous director Majid Heath. Cyber Dreaming focusses primarily…
September 1, 2014There’s been much written on this book already, but having properly immersed myself in it at last, I had to get some love up for it. Following on from Clarks In Jamaica, One Love Books have chosen to document Hudderfsield’s historical status as a dub and reggae capital outside of Jamaica in the ’70s and ’80s. Despite being geo-specific, Sound System…
August 2, 2014After three years in a coma, London graffiti legend Robbo aka King Robbo has passed away. Credited with bringing New York’s subway style of graff to London, his career as a writer ran from the early ’80s, during which time he became known as the self-appointed ‘King’ of the scene. His legacy might’ve ended there, but Banksy going over Robbo’s…
July 22, 2014So much in love with this project; the fact that the music so good is almost an added bonus. Okay, that may be taking it too far, as at it’s core is amazing composition, but you can’t ignore how well it ties in to a brilliant concept beautifully executed from recording to delivery. Theo Brown and The Folklore Of Dartmoor is…