April 19, 2012Just got linked up to this video, featuring Theo Parrish and London’s favourite uncle Jean-Claude vibing out in the one and only If Music. When I first got to London If Music was still located in Soho, with the Friday night after hours jams in full-swing. For those that remember, this video definitely kicks up a few memories of what used…
April 18, 2012Long overdue shouts to Keith Fullerton Whitman, proper master of experimental sounds and music engineering. Also he has a wicked beard, and takes a pretty decent photo. Wire ran a well-pieced feature on him a few issues back, definitely worth hunting down. Nothing I could add that wasn’t covered there, but I did come across this video today that needed…
April 10, 2012We’ve covered a lot of ground on documentaries relating to techno and the electronic music of Detroit, those who can’t do preach and all that. In The Dark: Voices is probably the most relaxed one we’ve seen though, where the subjects seem familiar with their sounds and surroundings. It may be the most amateurishly shot one too, but it’s not…
March 29, 2012Shot on iPhones and Flip cameras that were just occasionally left rolling, thought we’d get this up there as it’s started doing the rounds. Instead of just leaving the Soundcloud samples sitting at youtube with the centres we thought we’d give you some insight in to what went in to making the sleeves for the first press of Daojia’s Riego…
March 19, 2012Incredible documentary for anyone with an interest in modern music. The name Les Paul is synonymous with guitar manufacture, but way before the endorsement deal with Gibson the man Les was going well outside the box with equipment and technique. Starting at age 8 Les Paul created the neck harmonica holder, used by the likes of Bob Dylan and Neil…
February 20, 2012A long overdue doco looking at the electronic side of Chicago music from the last two and a half decades. Brilliantly done, From Jack To Juke: 25 Years of Ghetto House starts with The Warehouse (where else?) and Frankie Knuckles going through Trax Records up to Ghetto-house in it’s current state as Juke music. By swerving the “kids on corners…
February 13, 2012For those that know Rob McDougall is a design and motion graphic genius. As a collaborator with Chairman Kato he was the creator for the aesthetic on Science & Romance last year. Rob’s work pre- and post- this however is equally stunning, and has constantly Clocked on to his latest offering, a short animated video for Midnight Davis, the unidentified…
January 24, 2012We’ve been following Derrick May interviews and articles since we attended his four hour lecture in Melbourne many years ago (a lot of that time was spent talking about Strings Of Life I remember). ‘The Innovator’ is a proper legend, one of the Belleville Three who continues to shape what happens around us, and everytime he steps in to Phonica he’s a genuinely…
January 16, 2012I should pre-empt this by letting you know that only 250 copies have been made of Issue 1 – beg, borrow and steal if you have to but this is some print you want to own. A few months back we posted on Analog Love, a photo exhibition documenting the Bristol underground scene, accompanied by an amazingly unique zine of…
January 11, 2012Just revisited this the other day, off the back of The Boombox Project which exhibited last month. Although not a brand new offering, this mini-doc is straight classic and just too good not to share; out to NPR Music over in the states who are responsible for getting this up. Hosted by photographer and ‘boombox connoisseur’ Lyle Owerko (curator and…