When I first moved here, I liked to stop by Bembe on a slow winter night like, say, Tuesday, and order a fresh coconut drink ("Coco Loco" or something) to make me forget it was freezing outside. I'm not even sure it will ever snow again, but I'm still bummed that it gets dark around 4pm and I'm jonesing for some tropicalia. So tonight's double bill of El Guincho and Lemonade —talkwasadream favorites from back in the summer days—will hit the spot by being exotic, electric, eclectic, eccentric... If not like a smooth coconut cocktail, then like some combo of herbal kombucha and a dose of theraflu—fizzy, warm and weird, and not something you should imbibe before operating heavy machinery. But you'll escape the holiday crisis season to another place, for sure.
Lemonade's Blissout and Guincho's Palmitos Park were my summer anthems. Sunchips is my new favorite, in which the bass just drops on top of you. The Ghosts on Tape Remix pushes the beat to nasty levels, and is part of Lemonade's new Remixtape. If you're missing tonight for band practice or something, you can also catch them Friday at Zebulon and next Tuesday at Annex with Friendly Fires.
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Tuesday, December 2 @ Le Poission Rouge El Guincho and Lemonade
$12 / doors 10p / music 10:30p tickets
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Track of the moment.
° College Feat. Minitel Rose - The Energy Story (DVAS Remix)mp3 via
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Quote of the moment.
"While survival, adaptation, and regeneration form the cornerstones of biological existence, it may be that culture is fundamentally a means for implementing qualitative transformations of man’s biological status. Art, then, and the whole image-making drive may be means for preparing man for physical and mental changes which he will in time make upon himself." — from Beyond Modern Sculpture by Jack Burnham, 1968
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Here's an interesting snip about the "undesigned" from an interview with Saville in Digital Arts Magazine:
Are there any trends in current design that you particularly appreciate or dislike?
There’s a trend at the moment towards the undesigned. There’s a lot in there that just gets directly to the point; it understands the truth in something. There are certain works at the moment that are just what they need to be – it’s like walking into Muji for the first time again. The worst thing, though, is ironic un-design that has then become a sort of design, and then become a mess. When it’s still radical – a spread or an ad in a magazine – it’s effective. Once 99 per cent of the publication has adopted a don’t-care poise, it’s a mess and has become that which it sets out to mock.
I've had this one saved to drafts for a while now, so when I read that The Depreciation Guild were influenced by Dario Argento films, I figured now was as a good a time as any to dust it off.
It took my roommate and I four months after Netflix sent it before we sat down to watch Phenomena. (Our catch-up-on-Lost marathons were seriously getting in the way.) But once I got over my aversion to horror movies, I really enjoyed it. Argento's 1985 classic has it all: blood, beauty, new wave fashion, a preposterous premise and, perhaps most important, a kick-ass soundtrack. As for most of Argento's films, Claudio Simonetti's prog-rocking Goblin does the title theme and mood music, and on this one Iron Maiden, Motörhead and Andi Sex Gang rip through the chase scenes.
° Goblin - Phenomamp3
(make sure you get past the intro to a minute:30)
Between ICFF and the NY Photo Fest there's plenty to do this weekend, but I'd like to direct your attention to one event in particular. If you've not yet visited the SoHo concept store Kiosk, their first Mini-Exhibition opening this Saturday is for a show by collaborative group Rich, Brilliant, Willing and will be the perfect opportunity. Continue reading for more about RBW (their "Candle Party" pictured below) and the story behind Kiosk's Hong Kong neon.
° Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Gardensmp3
In celebration of Cinco de Mayo, I was going to post details from this set of five cards I designed, and talk about how I want to print them with one of these Gocco kits. But instead, I started playing with the image above, and I think it fits these sounds better. (I mention the gocco cards thing hoping that if I talk about it enough, I might actually do it.)
Meanwhile... musics!
°Instituto Mexicano Del Sonido - Bienvenidos a mi Discomp3
