June 17, 2011A lot of cats have been hanging for years now on the final edit for this film. It was originally set for a 2009 release, and did some of the festivals and preview screening to rave (no pun intended) reviews. For some reason however, They Call it Acid has been in final edit for about two years. It’s produced by…
June 15, 2011Not sure why I don’t shout out Retro Thing a lot more, especially as it may be my most hit website of the last 12 months. Get addicted to it and they’ll put you on to some amazing stuff. Their Do-It-Yourself section especially gets my over-excited, and leaves me planning on building an awesome-but-cheap retro synth or a ZX80 or…
June 13, 2011via Jimmy Monsta Funk The Chicago vocalist Darryl Pandy sadly passed away on the 10th June. Although his vocals appeared on many tracks, he will be fondly remembered for the huge vocal performance he gave on the worldwide hit Love Can’t Take Turn Around, a collaboration with Farley “Jackmaster” Funk (who co-produced the track along house music pioneers Vince Lawrence…
June 10, 2011When I read about this it sounded unnecessarily gimmicky, performing within a sphere, but watching the video it actually looks immense. Apparently DJ Shadow has been touring around the states in The Shadowsphere for time (since at least 2009) and the graphics work looks mind-blowing. Definitely worth the ever increasing cost of admission to see live. That said I’m…
June 7, 2011Wow, we’re only eight years from 2019. First time I saw this film in the mid ’90s it seemed an eternity away at the time. If you’re new to the world of anime, Akira is still the benchmark for 2D animation, and represents many firsts for film-making in general, including the lip-synched dialogue and the fluid motion of the movie.…
June 6, 2011He of the tea – Chairman Kato – is officially well under way with putting together his next art installation in the basement of Tea Smith. With Underbelly properly closed off then, and no one left in risk of spoilers, they’ve thrown up the promo video, that, unlike the installation itself, can now live forever in cyberspace. Big shouts once…
June 1, 2011This is my kind of art. Not just that, it’s quite possibly the best thing I’ve seen in a while (or at least since my hand-held Genesis). I can’t believe I’ve just found out about Hand Baked Arcade, a collective of sorts that offers installations of retro-games, old-school cabinets and gaming systems. They set them up as temporary retro-arcades in…
May 31, 2011The last Hear No Evil Presents… night delivered as expected. Now that they’ve got the sync industry in lock down I think it’s brilliant they’ve shouldered the responsibility of bringing their artists to the forefront of the live scene as well. On a night that seriously killed it with artists and DJs, an unexpected stand-out was one of the opening…
May 30, 2011The same company that brought us the brilliant Bob Moog, Allen Ginsberg and Raymond Scott dolls have announced that the next in line for their form of immortalisation will be none other than The Upsetter himself. Preliminary designs only, subject to change etc. designed as always by Archer Prewitt; he of Sof’ Boy fame in the comic world.
May 28, 2011Damn. Can’t believe Gil Scott-Heron passed away overnight. Back when I was doing the funk n soul show for FBi Radio in Sydney, the guy who did the punk / hardcore / metal show before me used to always ask for some Gil Scott somewhere in the first part of mine, so he could hear it while he was packing…