Madlib is a man of many musical styles and even more pseudonyms.
He recognises though, that the power of his music is nothing without the brand to go with it. Being a savvy type of fellow he also knows you’ll be cold if you don’t have something nice to wear, hence why the man with many styles has many super fresh t-shirts.
Mayer Hawthorne on vocals – singing a Tony Bennett classic with beautifully art-directed video and merchandise to match – can only mean another collabo pack from the niche marketing hit-masters over at Stones Throw.
It’s hard not to disappear into the carefully crafted slowmos, but if that wasn’t enough, the track comes loaded on a heart-shaped USB flash drive, thus ensuring that as my heart leaves for sunnier climbs, my wallet also leaves my pocket.
Once upon a time, Chuck Anderson was an illustrator who did work for esoteric fashion brands and artists like Lupe Fiasco and Lodown Magazine.
Nowadays the brands get no bigger than Google and Microsoft, because when it comes to the type of slick signature styling that Chuck Anderson can bring, everyone wants a buy-in.
Digging in the back catalogue of must-blogs we find legendary Detroit producer and king of Techno Carl Craig’s 2009 collaborative concert with pianist Francesco Tristano and Paris’s Les Siècles Orchestra.
Musical Director and Conductor François Xavier Roth, when describing the project is quoted as saying “There is no hierarchy in music, only a quest for high standards.”
I can’t put it any better so I won’t say any more, apart from to say give it a try; you just might like it.
An image of the past combined with the sound of the future courtesy of the music /marketing guru’s at Stones Throw and Bruce Haack, who was not only widely considered as one of electronic music’s true pioneers, but was also a man in possession of the most unassuming of faces.
This is a video of simple teenage abandon with not an alcopop in sight – just coke cans on the table.
We should have posted this weeks ago, but we spent too much time laughing and not enough blogging.
The success of the Shadrack series caught the attention of the Boxfresh crew, and this new video spot from the Man Dem highlights Boxfresh’s commitment to the cultural tie-in.
‘We Are You’ is Boxfresh’s tag-line. Directed by Steve Glashier, Shadrack has brought 300,000 odd ‘you’s’ to their ‘we’, so excuse the language and get with the clever, nuanced humour.
After a long wrestle with our Wordpress Blog, we lost the fight. Unfortunately after a mishap of an upgrade we lost of all the blog content. Boo!
So we’ve had to start all over again. But hold tight, as we’ll have more intersting goodies quicker than when all this snow thaws out. Remember we want some contributions from you guys as well. So gives us a shout if your doing anything we should be hearing about, eh em, Mr Femi – with a new t-shirt range. Come on, hook us up!
