Jonanthan Edwards’ Imagined Landscapes book

Jonathan Edwards has a few new books out as well as featuring in the upcoming ‘Creature Couture’ book by Felt Mistress. This one is called ‘Imagined Landscapes’ and features all sorts of weird and wonderful locations in his unique style.

If you follow his twitter you’ll have seen these popping up over the last year or so and he’s collected them together in a 32 page sketchbook. I love the colours on the cover and wished there was more colour inside but then again it is a sketchbook.

He has copies in his online shop as well as more sketchbooks, prints, original art, comics and he’ll even do a bespoke portrait of you.

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Custom Lego Blade Runner Spinner

That’s right, a Blade Runner Police Spinner vehicle made from Lego, custom designed and completely unauthorised. It’s not big, it’s not clever and it’s certainly not cheap when they don’t pay all the postage and you have to pick up the bill. If you fancy it for Xmas then there’s the URLs to follow in the photo and they do all sorts of other vehicles from other sci-fi franchises.

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Star Wars Angry Birds trailer

[youtube width=”640″ height=”380″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6lYFO_tKlE&feature=relmfu[/youtube]
I’m not going to comment on the recent Disney buys Lucasfilm story or the current media scramble to find out who will be starring and directing because… honestly, I don’t give a shit. As I posted the other day, the other SW franchise hook up is with Angry Birds and I have to say, this is very well done. My kids play the game and if the new films failed to sell it to a new generation then this is a good start on the next one.

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Hellboy timeline

Only 3 more weeks until Hellboy In Hell arrives in stores, written AND drawn by the great Mike Mignola for the first time in years. If you’re new to this and fancy jumping on then now’s the time to do it and this handy resumé of Hellboy’s history popped up on the web a few weeks back.

Not that it’s any substitute for reading the actual stories (about 11 collected graphic novels now I think plus a handful of spin offs and B.P.R.D. which is a whole other story). Also this board had been created on Pinterest: The Gothic Genius of Mike Mignola if you need a fix of his artwork anytime.

 

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Love, love, love!

It’s been a bit quiet on the blog these last two weeks because I’ve been busy finishing the fulldome show for this weekend’s FulldomeUK2012 (tickets still available) and gigging in Tel Aviv, Berlin and Bucharest. There’s loads of stuff to come when I can find time to photograph and upload it all though. The studio is a mess, I can’t find anything without moving piles of crap, I need a day to sort stuff out but today won’t be it unfortunately.

Also this Sunday sees an appearance at The Regeneration Festival at the Tabernacle in London that runs for Saturday and Sunday and features Time & Space Machine, Wolf People, Bardo Light Show, talks and films on the psychedelic experience.
Besides that there’s all sorts of things going on behind the scenes as we prepare for 2013 and Solid Steel being 25 years old, starting with a new residency in Brighton at the Blind Tiger, starting this Friday with DK with support from 2econd Class Citizen and Banks.

Coming up: The 4xLP repress of ‘The Search Engine’ – yep, still not done, we went back and changed the cover from a heavy card gatefold to a quad foldout gatefold (remember the limited edition Paul’s Boutique LP? yes, like that), so I have to reconfigure the artwork this week.

Currently finishing a mix for Solid Steel that has a high proportion of music I was given in Israel, both old and new that is up there with the best of anything currently released on labels like Finders Keepers or Now Again (see the post of Markey Funk‘s ‘The Mystery of Mordy Laye & The Group Modular‘).
On Saturday I was lucky enough to get a ticket to the ‘Man Machine’ performance by Kraftwerk in Dusseldorf next January (thanks Tony Morley!) so I will be doing Kraftwerk Kover Kollection vol.8 to coincide with that early next year (the group are doing their 8 albums over 8 nights thing in their home town in case you didn’t hear, tickets sold out in less than 2 hours).

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Beta Hector – Trust Me (The Simonsound Remix)


Wow, this is right up my street. A video collage for The Simonsound remix of Beta Hector‘s ‘Trust Me‘, featuring clips from Psychomania, Mala Morska Vila mixed with oil projections performed on overhead projector. The original song, featuring Rosi Lalor on vocals, is re-imagined by The Simonsound as mythical adventure story, told using analogue synthesisers, Optigan orchestra, home made percussion, pre recorded flute replayed and performed on reel to reel tape machine, and a scattering of voices plucked from the ether.

Available as a free download from Tru Thoughts Records

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The Mystery of Mordy Laye & the Group Modular

I’ve just come back from Tel Aviv and while I was there I met Markey Funk, whose ‘Go Ask Alice’ image and mix I posted by complete coincidence earlier this week. He gave me a load of records including his latest album ‘The Mystery of Mordy Laye’ as well as a DVD with 3D glasses.

If you love radiophonic / moog / library / space beats then this is the album for you. The nearest I can pitch it is The Simonsound LP by DJ Format & Simon James on First Word last year. I definitely recommend this record, check out the album and the intriguing back story on their bandcamp page. On the same label, Audio Montage – also the home to The Apples – are a number of 45’s of old and new psyche, funk, surf, sitar material and the same goes for the Fortuna label which is only 2 releases old.

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Solid Steel – residency at the Blind Tiger Club, Brighton

Starting this month we have a brand new residency in Brighton for Solid Steel at the Blind Tiger Club. Each monthly gig will feature one Solid Steel DJ and support from locals Banks and 2econd Class Citizen.

DK kicks it off in on Nov 16th, then Cheeba in Dec and myself in Jan 2013, hopefully we can make the cold, wet winter months a little warmer. We’re keeping the door price low and the content high, 3rd Friday of each month is a date for the diary.

It’ll be nice to have something regular in Brighton again, it’s been a while now and next year we celebrate 25 years of broadcasting. We’re planning several different things for next year but those will be revealed in good time.

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Felt Mistress – Creature Couture book and talk

Felt Mistress aka Louise Evans has a book coming out of her creature designs from the last 18 years. 400-pages feature over 1,650 photographs, previously unseen drawings of her partner Jonathan Edwards’ original design ideas, details of every Felt Mistress collaboration with other artists and more. With in-depth interviews with Loiuse, Jonathan, Jon Burgerman, Pete Fowler, Ben Newman, John Knox, Nobrow and more, it looks like the definitive article.

If you pre-order the book from the publishers Blank Slate you’re in with a chance to win an actual Creature made by Louise which is featured in the book. One book will come with a felt ‘You Win’ ticket as seen below and details of how to claim your prize.

There are also versions of the book with Mr Tippy characters in regular and gold editions and, if you still can’t get enough creature love, you can hear Louise and Jonathan talk about the book at Foyles on Charing Cross Rd. on Dec 11th at 8.30pm. The talk is free but you have to book a place online and Jonathan will be doing creature portraits on a first come first served basis.

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Mister Jason – Son of Frankensteez EP

Out next week but having a release party this Halloween night in Boston is Mister Jason‘s Frankensteez project’s latest release – ‘Son of Frankensteez’. Anyone who caught the original limited Frankensteez 10″ will know the instant classic ‘Mister Jason Has A Posse’, a rap tune where 26 different rappers take a letter of the alphabet for four bars and let rip using as many words starting with their given letter as possible.

‘Son of…’s’ opening track ups the ante even further with DJ Format‘s remix where he swaps a classic break underneath each rapper at the same time. Also featured on the EP are remixes and production by The Herbaliser, Rain and J-Zone. The clear vinyl is limited to 500 copies and available to pre-order via UGHH.com, digital is via iTunes and there’s a whole album on Amazon.

They’ve knocked up this great video for the original ‘Mister Jason…’ track too.

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The Herbaliser – ‘March Of The Dead Things’ video treat


Just in time for Halloween The Herbaliser premiere the video for their next single, ‘March of The Dead Things (Night Of The Necromantics)‘ featuring Canadian duo Teenburger.

Directed by Caley Maclenan and shot on location in Halifax, Nova Scotia earlier this year it sees the zombie apocalypse happen right in the middle of their new video shoot. Damn! The group sent out a message to fans in the city to sign up for the shoot and gain entry to an exclusive gig whilst they were in town.

You can grab the new album, ‘There Were Seven’ from their online store on vinyl or download (Hit the red ‘shop’ tab, top right). If you want CD it’s available in all good stores, distributed by Kudos.

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Prophet

If off-the-hook sci-fi is your thing then you could do worse than read Brandon Graham‘s Prophet, now up to issue 30 although it’s a reboot of an old title so the new book actually started at issue 21. With a revolving roster of artists and short back up strips in each issue it has more ideas in one page than some comics have in a whole issue. Graham has also just launched another title that he draws AND writes – Multiple Warheads – which is similarly bizarre and comes off the back of his huge King City collection.

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Go Ask Alice

Never seen this poster before but Dangerous Minds posted it and you can watch the film on YouTube if LSD frightspoiltation films are your thing. Whenever I see the name Alice associated with LSD I’m reminded of the Kenny Everett jingle he once did… KE – Alice D
*UPDATE* Seems that this poster was made by Markey Funk in 2006, for Agitpop Records – not for the film at all. It was for a psychedelic mix and here’s it is in three parts with additional info – well worth a listen.

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