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Gold Panda: The Kollektivnye Interview

by Peter Yeung on May 13, 2012 • No Comments

At the age of 31 years old, you can say that this man has lived, yet at the same time he fears living, or at least realises the extent of his existence. Gold Panda projects a demeanour instilled with soft modesty and brutal candidness, but it serves to conceal an...

Fashion / Photography

Jenny

by Lenara Choudhury on May 12, 2012 • No Comments

☾ ☽ ☾ Photographs: Lenara Choudhury ††† Modelling & Styling: Jenny Jokela ††† Dress & Jumper: Weekday †††

Film & Video / Reviews

Blade Runner

by Scott Kenneth Jackson on May 8, 2012 • No Comments

dir. Ridley Scott (1982), USA Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner may well be the most densely layered cult film of all time. The amount of excogitation, both intelligent and otherwise, that it has generated is astounding. So much so, that it rivals that of fellow travellers in cult science fiction, Star Wars...

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Music / Playlist

Kollektivnye Playlist #14

by Kollektivnye on May 18, 2012 • No Comments

This month’s playlist is delivered whilst we are laden with heavy hearts, due to the recent passing of two phenomenally influential artists. MCA of the Beastie Boys and just yesterday Donna Summer, left behind musical legacies that will last for ages to come, both truly were genre defining artists. Donna Summer, who we start and...

Music / Raw

[EAR001]

by Darcy Mitchell on May 18, 2012 • No Comments

Error Operator already produced a killer mix for us a few months back, effortlessly dissecting genres with a clean and well cut effort, truly defining the term ‘aural pleasure’. Now, he’s back to our nation’s captial with an EP launch off Earfood Recordings – which he, incidentally, runs. Businessman AND musician? Talented guy no? So,...

Music / Reviews

Willis Earl Beal – Live Review

by Alexandra Hayward on May 17, 2012 • No Comments

Willis Earl Beal | Hare & Hounds | 13th May 2012 Linked by their occupation with the act of recording experience, Charles Bukowski and our subject of study are otherwise, presently, two iconoclasts set far apart. One is dead; the other is just establishing an already blossoming career. Willis Earl Beal is very much alive,...

Arts & Culture / Design / Film & Video

Infographics, But Not As We Know Them

by Alec Dudson on May 16, 2012 • No Comments

Infographics are in essence, an aesthetically pleasing way of disseminating information, one that was conceived to conjure up a more palatable and successful means of engaging with audiences and one that continues to evolve in this rich world of digital communication. Those of you who are Facebook users, will in recent months have been toying with the idea of...

Music / Wipeout Beat

Niama Makalou et African Soul Band – Kognokoura (2012)

by Camille Bertin on May 14, 2012 • No Comments

Niama Makalou et African Soul Band | Kognokoura (2012) | Sofrito This reissue by the London label Sofrito of Niama Makalou’s 45rpm single “Kognokoura” originally released in 1978, allows us to (re) discover a pearl of Malian disco music. Recorded in Bamako, the nation’s bustling capital, this piece carried by a remarkable vocal intensity is enriched through the...

Arts & Culture / Design

Interactive Design

by Alec Dudson on May 11, 2012 • No Comments

Having stumbled across the interesting fruits of Cristina Chiappini‘s Interactive Design Workshops at the University of Venice IUAV Cladis, they seemed a little too good not to share with you. The following are a selection of projects completed between 2006 and 2010 by students of Giovanni Anceschi and Gabriele DeVecchi’s Laboratory of Fundamentals of two-dimensional design unit and Chiappini’s Laboratory...

Music / Reviews

Grimes – Live Review

by Kaan Kuzubasoglu on May 11, 2012 • No Comments

Grimes | XOYO | 9th May 2012 Well, this has to go down as a first. I cannot recall a gig where the only people mentioning tickets outside the venue were well dressed hipsters politely enquiring if I, or indeed anyone in the vicinity, had any spares with not a grubby, gap toothed tout anywhere...

Writing

The Pseudo-event and the Death of Heroes

by Kieron Sumner on May 10, 2012 • No Comments

This article will argue that there are no longer heroes on this planet, only celebrities (with due credit to Daniel J. Boorstin). Firstly, let’s establish what I mean by the pseudo-event. The first off last year’s riots ‘kicked off’ as a result of the controversy surrounding a police officer shooting and killing Mark Duggan and...

Music / Reviews

Young Magic – Live Review

by Alec Dudson on May 10, 2012 • No Comments

Young Magic | Birthdays Dalston | 8th May 2012 A prospect interesting on a number of counts emerged in the form of Tuesday night’s gig at Dalston’s latest hip-to-be-square venue Birthdays as New York-based trio Young Magic took centre stage at the as yet incomplete site. Having only opened its doors at the weekend, it...

Music / Wipeout Beat

Flights Of Fancy Vol 1 – Love’s A Dancer / Tempo of the Night (2012)

by Camille Bertin on May 3, 2012 • No Comments

Flights Of Fancy Vol 1 | Love’s A Dancer / Tempo Of The Night (2012) | International Feel Records Released in February 2012 accompanied by a magnificent cover , this first volume of a new series entitled ‘Flights Of Fancy’ by Uruguayan label International Feel offers two tracks of excellent cosmic Balearic. Hailed by heavyweights including Todd Terje and Soft...

Photography / The Camera Lucida

Miss

by Alec Dudson on May 1, 2012 • No Comments

Beauty Pageants are an odd occurrence in the eyes of many, events that have become synonymous with their competitors’ search for perfection and the seeming reality that the nature of this quest leaves many feeling like they have fallen short. In this respect, perfection is a frightfully troublesome concept with regard to physical appearance, the definition of...

Music

Mr. Oizo returns

by Kollektivnye on Apr 30, 2012 • No Comments

Mr. Oizo – Stade 3 Oizo is back (along with his roguish companion flat eric) and to celebrate his new EP ‘Stade 3′ has invested in a new website design, through which you can download the new record for free. A swift visit to the site and a rustle around the 1990′s style Oizo-puter and you can...

koll•ek•tiv•nye 
noun/kə’lɛktɪvni
1. A cooperative group of individuals, motivated by at least one reciprocal issue or interest, who work together to achieve a mutual objective.
2. Formed by collective; aggregated.
3. Denoting numerous persons or entities considered as within one grouping, frequently resulting in holistic gain.

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