Tuesday, August 12, 2008

the herbaliser SAME AS IT NEVER WAS

2x Vinyl LP. No reason not too in this case.



















After being with the Ninja Tune Label for 13 years, The Herbaliser has come together to produce their first release on the !K7label. Credit for this album include:

Ollie Teeba: Drum Programming and Scratches
Jake Wherry: Programming lead and Rhythm Guitars
Simon Picton: Electric Bass, Lead and Rhythm Guitars
Adam Phillips: Lead Guitar
Jessica Darling (the new singer)
Andrew Ross: Tenor Sax
Ralph Lamb: Trumpet and Back up Vocals
Ollie Parfitt: Clavinet, Piano and Organ
Chris Bowden: Alto Sax
Matt Coleman: Trombone
Mickey Moody Jr: Drums
Carsten Skov: Percussion
Pino Palladino: Electric Bass
More or Les: Vocals
Andrew Ross: Tenor Sax and Vocals
and yes, more.

{ UNKLE SURRENDER SOUNDS SESSIONS }

#3 unkle vs black mountain
#4 unkle vs autolux




















This is Future Funk; just what you'll need to accompany that late night bike ride or trip to the liquor store. Hard. Ass. Beats.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Not the way I would have done it!

new order CONFUSION (FAC93) This is "typography cool", which we know designer Peter Saville was a pioneer of. The color combination is also a code of numbers that corresponds to the letters of the alphabet. One would need the color wheel included on New Order's 1983 release Power, Corruption, and Lies to make any sense of the confusion. It's probably some useless fact anyways.



Although this piece would be an exception, Saville was famous for his "graphical appropriations" in some designs for New Order . The cover of "Movement" for example, is a clear reference to a 1932 poster by Futurist painter Fortunato Depero. When later asked to comment on this association, Saville explained that it seemed more appropriate to "quote Futurism verbatim rather than parody it ineptly". By making such an obvious statement about the origins of the Movement design, Saville believed that no one would think he invented it. Let's be real, not everyone has a copy of No More Rules or Megg's History of Graphic Design to reference. Depero may have been a household name in 1981, but it sure as hell ain't in 2008.