The house sounds I’ve been consistently drawn to over the last few years seem to revolve around siblings Dubbyman and Above Smoke’s Deep Explorer imprint and the small coterie of labels they release on and share some kind of kindred spirit with: Yore, Mineundo, Fear of Flying to name a few. While the legacy of [...]
The title is only half in jest. Deep, dubby techno.
Some dubstep, techno, noodly stuff for February.
Desribing himself as the world’s first “beach calligrapher”, Cape Town letter artist Andrew van der Merwe has developed an original technique for carving letters in the sand.
You can see more of Andrew’s work, and detailed explanantions of how he goes about creating it on the Behance Network. Andrew also does commissions. If you’d like your [...]
Cape Town designer Jordan Metcalf, also known as sadmascot, has created some wonderful type treatments.
You can see a lot more of Jordan’s work, including some fine illustration work on his Behance page, or check out his Flickr stream.
Been listening to a lot of disco nuggets recently, as well as some 80’s synth stuff, largely as a result of recently being asked to play at Peroxide, a monthly synth-based night at Fiction in Cape Town. Had a great time there and have included a few tracks I played that night in my latest [...]
Site of the Week – World of Merix
The Yellow Llama (Mark to his mom) alerted me to this fantastic use of the jQuery javascript library by World of Merix, a polish web design firm.
Innovative uses of jQuery and other scripting libraries, along with HTML5, should hasten the demise of Flash which will be good news [...]
Perpetuum is a stop frame animated artwork by Cape Town photographer and artist Adam Letch.
The fine art and science of searching for the elusive beat.
“Like the beat digging, cuz that’s a whole science man. There’s a lot more to beat digging than a gamble. I’m still learning every day y’know. And that’s the whole beauty of it — the learning. We’re on some masters levels in beat digging in [...]
I first took notice of Dutch designer and conceptual artist Diddo when he brought out a range of designer gas marks, described as “high fashion protection”.
His latest project is a range of wetsuits, manufactured with custom inks and unique printing techniques that map textures onto the suits.
For the first edition he has created four original [...]
