November 24, 2014Damn, this LP is really going to turn some heads. You know those releases that turn out to be game changers? The plates that swerve the way you start buying records, if only for a temporary time? I can recall a few; Blind Joe Death, Marcellus Pittman’s Erase The Pain 12″, The Heliocentrics, Rhythim is Rhythim and Ras G’s Ghetto…
October 28, 2014At 70 years of age, Jamaican-born Notting Hill-raised photographer Charlie Phillips has carved a life to date as one of the key documentarians of black-culture around the world. Emigrating with his family to West London in the fifties, from a young age Phillips was photographing life in the area, during the time of West Indian migration to London. Self-taught on…
October 22, 2014Almost didn’t make it through this, but I’m proper glad I did. A damn interesting book here, especially once you get past the background and first two chapters and in to the full-action of being part of the the urban exploration community around the world. Travelling shotgun around the world with the writer, this will make you want to go…
October 19, 2014With Illmatic cemented as one of the greatest of all time, as you’d expect there’s been a decent amount of hype around the release of this documentary, Nas: Time Is Illmatic. And while we’re still waiting on our copy to drop so we can watch for ourselves, early reports are pretty positive, with a bit of interesting feedback stating Nas’ brother,…
October 2, 2014Heavy viewing this, that left me torn on opinion and blessed with the gift of hindsight. Quite intrusive thoughts come from this brilliant documentary, that left us proper shook, and obsessively contemplating other paths that the lives of friends and ourselves might’ve gone. To be honest, throughout the entire viewing it was on of two extremes; either waves of disappointment…
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…
August 27, 2014In my limited experiences of sound system gatherings and street festivals, there was nothing I loved more than Notting Hill Carnival. It was on the calendar from January – you had to get down early for Jah Shaka, Aba Shanti and Channel One or there was no hope of getting near. The after-parties were nearly always quality, capping off a…
August 25, 2014If you’ve been in London for a minute you know about the Undercroft. The area underneath Southbank Centre is home to the cities finest boarders and BMX riders, known worldwide to skaters and credited with being the birthplace of British skateboarding. And as for the Southbank Centre itself, the level of inside and outside events, film, theatre, art and music…
August 12, 2014Call it content marketing or whatever you’d like, but I really enjoyed the first two short five minute films from Bose. Part three should be dropping any day now, closing off the collection, so if you’ve not seen these ones yet it’s worth catching up on. I’ve always loved Japan and the fact that you can find a scene for…
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…