Drinks, Music, Art, Fashion
What more could you want !
Loving bntl like a fat kid loves cake.
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
YOU ARE ALL INVITED
Today 4pm - late
Drinks, Music, Art, Fashion
What more could you want !
Loving bntl like a fat kid loves cake.
Drinks, Music, Art, Fashion
What more could you want !
Loving bntl like a fat kid loves cake.
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Forget Me Not - Coco
One for the ladies...
Everyday BNTL get messages from new and old brands from around the world, we also get emails from up and coming artists....good and bad. Today we received an email from an artist going by the name of Coco.
Her background is illustration but she also creates scarves, which is what drew me into her work.
Some of Coco's Illustrations...
Coco's collection of scarves are going into their 4th season. Her hand drawn illustrations are digitally printed onto ultra-fine silk...
For more information on the scarves go HERE.
For more on Coco go HERE.
Everyday BNTL get messages from new and old brands from around the world, we also get emails from up and coming artists....good and bad. Today we received an email from an artist going by the name of Coco.
Her background is illustration but she also creates scarves, which is what drew me into her work.
Some of Coco's Illustrations...
Coco's collection of scarves are going into their 4th season. Her hand drawn illustrations are digitally printed onto ultra-fine silk...
For more information on the scarves go HERE.
For more on Coco go HERE.
DAYS LIKE THAT.
*ERROR ON FLYER - due to unforseen circumstances Noodles has had to cancel but has been replaced by Ramsey & Fen playing a 90 minute set instead.*
Check this out on Friday, resident dj on the night MJE was Scratcha's Rinse FM show for a UK Garage 'Days Like That' special earlier today, and you can download the podcast below.
Here's the direct link to the podcast HERE if you want to download it, right mouse click - 'save link as' or 'save target as'. Just click it, if you want to stream it.
Blackdown Interview Part 1
Here is the first instalment of a three part interview that I was extremely fortunate to have done with RINSE FM's very own; Blackdown.
Of course Blackdown is very well known aside from his DJing such as for his writing and production that he does alongside Dusk on his own label; Keysound.
I will let the interview say everything else.
So if we start right back at the beginning where did the your passion for music come from?
I think like most people I discovered a passion for music in my teens, which quickly developed into a full on addiction and hasn’t ever really gone away: I’ve just got better at managing it haha. But if you look at that question deeper – where does our love of music come from – it’s hard to answer at the lowest level. Fundamentally I love how amazing music makes me feel. Additionally I love being able to make it and to play it to other people, understand how it affects and what it says about other people and to be able to share what you we learn with other people freely – often people I’d not normally meet or have anything in common with - via my blog or other writings.
At any point did you envisage things going remotely the way they have gone in terms of your production / djing / writing?
Not really. If you’d told me ten years ago that I’d have seen some of the things I’ve been lucky enough to have see, like witnessing scenes be founded, writing for some of the more prominent magazines, being able to share amazing music via my blog or share some of my favourite tunes really loud while DJing at FWD, DMZ or Dub War etc, I would have been really amazed, so I’m honoured I’ve been given those chances and I see each one for what it is – a special, transient moment.
I’m fairly pragmatic in my outlook, I try and just focus on the next step and move towards that, rather than dreaming about super-far away goals. This keeps things manageable. The flip side is that is sometimes when I am blessed with an opportunity beyond what I would have dreamed of, say DJing on the main stage of the Big Chill festival as Dusk and I did in ‘08, I kinda get surreal giggles, going “erm, how am *I*… here? I think they let the wrong guy on!” But then I get on and mix with Dusk and have fun, like we have done together for years.
What were your reasons for starting a blog? Do you think that the blogging culture that has got extremely popular in recent years could be potentially on the brink of going stale?
I started my blog kinda by accident. I had a slow month work wise and I ended up signing up for Blogger just to see how easy it was to do. It was easy, which I think is why in those times (2004), blogging blew up. If it had required you to be a web developer with a grasp of HTML to get online, it would never have become this ubiquitous thing. The ease of publishing is what gives it such potential.
Once I had a blog I quickly got a real taste for it. I’d been through five years of being a magazine journalist so I knew how to find articles to write, how to write them and when. But now I could bypass the approval step of some editor who may or may not get where I’m coming from, which in the early years of grime and dubstep wasn’t often. I could be selfish and have tunnel vision. If people didn’t think what I was writing about, they could just ignore it. I loved being able to push my specialist musical tastes as far as I could and reach a global audience, no matter how small, for free. This is what is so fundamentally important about blogs: they get information out there, into the public domain, without the approval of PRs or marketing or editors who need to worry about PRs, marketers, advertisers or how big their audience is.
I also enjoyed joining in the dialog with other bloggers and for a while there I think there was a really healthy community of informed bloggers having a dialog with each other at a very high level (which is pretty much in total contrast with what a lot of dance music journalism was about at the time). But to answer your question I think yes, there is a risk about it going stale and I don’t feel that there’s this big discourse going on right now, not least between bloggers anyway, apart from the big but short lived “hardcore continuum” fight last year. Forums have a lot of the creative energy now, they’re like micro-town halls or village greens for niche musical communities.
Too many blogs come and go without developing a voice. YouTube is the scurge of blogging: blogging a YouTube video and nothing else isn’t blogging, that’s distribution or integration. I like how multimedia can enrich writing in a very immediate way (“this music is amazing, here’s why I think so (in words), now listen for yourself right here (via multimedia ie YouTube… ). So, you with me?”) but if you post YouTube link after YouTube link without any writing around it, what value have you really added as a blogger? There are many blogs out there right now but I’m just ploughing on regardless because in terms of competition, within my specialist field only really Fact magazine right now and perhaps Tim F are repping: so many other bloggers could do so much better in terms of output, ideas and vision. Forums concentrate much of the energy.
More Info:
BLACKDOWN'S BLOG
BLACKDOWN'S TWITTER
KEYSOUND RECORDINGS
Part two tomorrow!
Of course Blackdown is very well known aside from his DJing such as for his writing and production that he does alongside Dusk on his own label; Keysound.
I will let the interview say everything else.
So if we start right back at the beginning where did the your passion for music come from?
I think like most people I discovered a passion for music in my teens, which quickly developed into a full on addiction and hasn’t ever really gone away: I’ve just got better at managing it haha. But if you look at that question deeper – where does our love of music come from – it’s hard to answer at the lowest level. Fundamentally I love how amazing music makes me feel. Additionally I love being able to make it and to play it to other people, understand how it affects and what it says about other people and to be able to share what you we learn with other people freely – often people I’d not normally meet or have anything in common with - via my blog or other writings.
At any point did you envisage things going remotely the way they have gone in terms of your production / djing / writing?
Not really. If you’d told me ten years ago that I’d have seen some of the things I’ve been lucky enough to have see, like witnessing scenes be founded, writing for some of the more prominent magazines, being able to share amazing music via my blog or share some of my favourite tunes really loud while DJing at FWD, DMZ or Dub War etc, I would have been really amazed, so I’m honoured I’ve been given those chances and I see each one for what it is – a special, transient moment.
I’m fairly pragmatic in my outlook, I try and just focus on the next step and move towards that, rather than dreaming about super-far away goals. This keeps things manageable. The flip side is that is sometimes when I am blessed with an opportunity beyond what I would have dreamed of, say DJing on the main stage of the Big Chill festival as Dusk and I did in ‘08, I kinda get surreal giggles, going “erm, how am *I*… here? I think they let the wrong guy on!” But then I get on and mix with Dusk and have fun, like we have done together for years.
What were your reasons for starting a blog? Do you think that the blogging culture that has got extremely popular in recent years could be potentially on the brink of going stale?
I started my blog kinda by accident. I had a slow month work wise and I ended up signing up for Blogger just to see how easy it was to do. It was easy, which I think is why in those times (2004), blogging blew up. If it had required you to be a web developer with a grasp of HTML to get online, it would never have become this ubiquitous thing. The ease of publishing is what gives it such potential.
Once I had a blog I quickly got a real taste for it. I’d been through five years of being a magazine journalist so I knew how to find articles to write, how to write them and when. But now I could bypass the approval step of some editor who may or may not get where I’m coming from, which in the early years of grime and dubstep wasn’t often. I could be selfish and have tunnel vision. If people didn’t think what I was writing about, they could just ignore it. I loved being able to push my specialist musical tastes as far as I could and reach a global audience, no matter how small, for free. This is what is so fundamentally important about blogs: they get information out there, into the public domain, without the approval of PRs or marketing or editors who need to worry about PRs, marketers, advertisers or how big their audience is.
I also enjoyed joining in the dialog with other bloggers and for a while there I think there was a really healthy community of informed bloggers having a dialog with each other at a very high level (which is pretty much in total contrast with what a lot of dance music journalism was about at the time). But to answer your question I think yes, there is a risk about it going stale and I don’t feel that there’s this big discourse going on right now, not least between bloggers anyway, apart from the big but short lived “hardcore continuum” fight last year. Forums have a lot of the creative energy now, they’re like micro-town halls or village greens for niche musical communities.
Too many blogs come and go without developing a voice. YouTube is the scurge of blogging: blogging a YouTube video and nothing else isn’t blogging, that’s distribution or integration. I like how multimedia can enrich writing in a very immediate way (“this music is amazing, here’s why I think so (in words), now listen for yourself right here (via multimedia ie YouTube… ). So, you with me?”) but if you post YouTube link after YouTube link without any writing around it, what value have you really added as a blogger? There are many blogs out there right now but I’m just ploughing on regardless because in terms of competition, within my specialist field only really Fact magazine right now and perhaps Tim F are repping: so many other bloggers could do so much better in terms of output, ideas and vision. Forums concentrate much of the energy.
More Info:
BLACKDOWN'S BLOG
BLACKDOWN'S TWITTER
KEYSOUND RECORDINGS
Part two tomorrow!
WOOFAH MAG
Woofah, a new reggae, grime & dubstep magazine just arrived on my doorstep this morning, featuring some pictures I took of Newham Generals in an engaging interview. Including many other articles of interest, if you're in London, pick up your copy from Rough Trade, if you're not in London ... check the site for their stockist list - HERE,
Check their site HERE.
Hang tight The Droid.
Check their site HERE.
Hang tight The Droid.
Monday, 22 February 2010
The Treatment Show - Scott Schuman
Nice little interview on The Treatment Show with the man behind The Satorialist, Scott Schuman.
Enjoy
Loving bntl like a fat kid loves cake.
Enjoy
Loving bntl like a fat kid loves cake.
NEW VIDEO
New video online @ Dontwatchthat.TV.
Check the BNTL Channel here
bntl - HTB Wesr x Ages on MUZU
Check the BNTL Channel here
bntl - HTB Wesr x Ages on MUZU
Self Service Magazine “1-31″ Retrospect
Headed down to the Self Service Magazine Retrospective over the weekend, more info on the show here.
Sunday, 21 February 2010
"TRG - Now You Know" T-Shirt Give-away!
To celebrate the launch of TRG's double pack 'Now You Know' EP we have teamed up with the guys at Tempa to give away two exclusive TRG T-shirts. The tees will not be available in the shops so answer the question below for a chance to win one!
TRG has guested on the radio of a famous workwear/streetwear company but what brand is it?
Send your answers to INFO@BNTL.CO.UK with the subject "TRG COMP"
Don't forget to you pick up your copy of the 'Now You Know' EP! Available digitally from boomkat and other formats from all good record stores.
For more info on TRG check out: http://www.cosmintrg.com/
TRG has guested on the radio of a famous workwear/streetwear company but what brand is it?
Send your answers to INFO@BNTL.CO.UK with the subject "TRG COMP"
Don't forget to you pick up your copy of the 'Now You Know' EP! Available digitally from boomkat and other formats from all good record stores.
For more info on TRG check out: http://www.cosmintrg.com/
KEEP PLASTIC PEOPLE ALIVE
THE POLICE ARE TRYING TO SHUT DOWN PLASTIC PEOPLE.
A WORLD RENOWNED NIGHTCLUB, A WORLD RENOWNED SOUNDSYSTEM.
WE MUST NOT LET THIS HAPPEN. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY TROUBLE IN THE CLUB AND BERNARD, ADE AND CHARLOTTE ARE FANTASTIC MUSIC LOVING PEOPLE.
IF PLASTIC GOES, SHOREDITCH WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.
ALL MUSIC LOVERS PLASTIC REGULARS, DJS, PRODUCERS AND DANCERS---JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP HERE.
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!
A WORLD RENOWNED NIGHTCLUB, A WORLD RENOWNED SOUNDSYSTEM.
WE MUST NOT LET THIS HAPPEN. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY TROUBLE IN THE CLUB AND BERNARD, ADE AND CHARLOTTE ARE FANTASTIC MUSIC LOVING PEOPLE.
IF PLASTIC GOES, SHOREDITCH WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.
ALL MUSIC LOVERS PLASTIC REGULARS, DJS, PRODUCERS AND DANCERS---JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP HERE.
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!
Shoes Up...
Picture taken of me at the Nash x DC trip is featured in Shoes-Up magazine. If you haven't checked out Shoes Up then its definitely worth picking up. By far the best glossy sneaker magazine on the market. Stacked with decent content...
Props to my boy Julien for the photo.
Gourmet x UNDFTD Quattro
Gourmet's recent collaboration with Undefeated
Dropped yesterday 19th feb, available over at Dover Street Market.
Looks like a healthy investment for summer.
Loving bntl like a fat kid loves cake.
Dropped yesterday 19th feb, available over at Dover Street Market.
Looks like a healthy investment for summer.
Loving bntl like a fat kid loves cake.
Benny Gold
Graphic Designer Benny Gold does Hypebeast tv.
Got to love a graphic designer that puts pencil to paper first.
Got to love a graphic designer that puts pencil to paper first.
Benny Gold: Stay Gold
Loving bntl like a fat kid loves cake.
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Culture Clash
Review and pics are up on the Red Bull site from what seems to have been a fantastic night!
Review: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/london/event/?id=2
Check out the Audio HERE, I insist you check out the final round set from DMZ and the banter from SGT. Pokes stirring up all kinds of trouble..
Review: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/london/event/?id=2
Check out the Audio HERE, I insist you check out the final round set from DMZ and the banter from SGT. Pokes stirring up all kinds of trouble..
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