Photographer Lyle Owerko and inimitable Fab 5 Freddy talk boomboxes with NPR Music.
Jack White puts a 7″ record inside a 12″ record. For real. Watch the extraction at about 1:15. Jack designed and United Record Pressing built the triple decker record. Label Thirdman Records’ tagline is “Your Turntable’s Not Dead”—nice sentiment.
Time-lapse, Technics 1200, Tron Legacy audio—what’s not to like? Kim Pimmel mixes old school time-lapse, stop motion photography with some Processing–controlled lights. via Gizmodo
Blue Note Records has quite an amazing back catalog. Not just musically, but also graphically—a large part due to designer Reid Miles and founder/photographer Francis Wolff. Director Bante recreated and animated classic Blue Note album covers. via Font Feed and Retinart
Trailer for documentary film “To Have & To Hold” by Jony Lyle which digs deep into vinyl collecting. Serious love for records on display! Keep track of the film’s progress on its Facebook page. via Grain Edit
Breakbeat duo Hifana gets heads nodding by toe tapping some Ableton Live-connected shoes in a Nike campaign by W+K Tokyo. Software and sound programming by artist, coder, hacker, sound designer, DJ, VJ Daito Manabe. via Create Digital Music
Virtual DJ Shadow and Grandmaster Flash doin’ damage in the DJ Hero opener. Also featuring cut-and-mash of “Fix Up Look Sharp” by Dizzee Rascal.
“It took 3 days to shoot, was all shot on 10×8 inch film, so the quality in the whites is fantastic, so much subtle tone. … It seems the album is about that old school crafted production so its nice that that same method went into the shoot.” Sleevage covers photographer Dan Tobin Smith’s shoot […]