DJ Vadim & Primecuts ‘Architects of the Great’

RELEASED: 1998
FORMAT: Cassette
LABEL: JAZZ FUDGE
CAT No.: JFRT001
DESIGN: Openmind
PHOTOGRAPHY: Openmind / Nancy Brown
EXTRA ZEN: Discogs page

Two sides of a cassette and two sides of the architectural coin: the background textures on this mix tape were of rusting metal and the foregrounds were the plans for Frank Gehry’s (then) new Bilbao museum.

I wish that had really been the intellectual intent behind this combination at the time but, in reality, I just really liked the colours on the decaying metal and the strange, organic nature of Gehry’s aerial view of his new creation. As a result, it’s nice to look at but ultimately very difficult to read and way too arty for a hip hop mixtape.