Vice Style UK has just posted an interview that they did with me and Lui about PRIMITIVE.
You can see the article here.
Vice Style UK has just posted an interview that they did with me and Lui about PRIMITIVE.
You can see the article here.
Ava Catherside is a new London based label that we are very pleased to stock in our boutique. This current collection is limited as the perforated suede is vintage and obtained from a limited source.
We are really in love with the skirt.
Their website is here.
Last night we attended an event at New Gallery in South London that was really incredible. There was a canvas cutting the gallery in two, behind the curtain the artists were playing music. Their images were projected onto the canvas and other images were layered over and behind them.
This is a monthly event and we are really looking forward to the next one.
Info:
The human race is like a person carried away by unconscious powers; our world is, so to speak, dissociated like a neurotic, a curtain marking the symbolic line of division.
And human nature is just like water. Just as water will equally flow east or west depending on its environment, so will humans become good or bad.
The separation of earth from water, dreams and power, death and survival. My right eye is the day, my left eye is the night. I open my mouth to speak.
Water changes to vapour and rises, becomes rain and falls again, becomes spring, brook and river, changes anew, flowed anew.
- http://yourbodyisatemplese15.tumblr.com/
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BENJY KEATING
http://www.posteternity.blogspot.com/
RIYO NEMETH
http://www.riyonemeth.com/
DOMINIK SALTER DVORAK
http://killadot.blogspot.com/
HARRY SANDERSON
http://failcore.tumblr.com/
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FELICITA (DJ/LIVE)
http://soundcloud.com/felicita
PALMISTRY (DJ/LIVE)
http://soundcloud.com/palmistry
UNIVERSAL SWIMSUIT (DJ)
http://soundcloud.com/universalswimsuit
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NEW GALLERY LONDON
http://www.newgallerylondon.co.uk/
Hype Williams are one of the best bands in London at the moment. They have just released a mixtape for FACT Magazine.
Ostensibly a duo – Russia-born Inga Copeland and London’s Dean Blunt – the story goes that Hype Williams is in fact a relay art project curated and possibly founded by one Denna Frances Glass, and that Copeland and Blunt are simply the current baton-holders. Who knows? What is certain is that the cult reputation Hype Williams have built up over the past year is thoroughly well-deserved, with several brilliant 7″s and LPs – not to mention a run of séance-like live performances around the world – already to their name.
Perhaps inevitably, the Berlin-based outfit often find themselves mentioned in the same breath as America’s deluge of hypnagogic pop acts, but Copeland and Blunt don’t see themselves as part of that scene at all. You can’t really blame them: while they are, like their h-pop counterparts, wont to repurpose the shrapnel of mainstream media culture in pursuit of a more surreal and psychedelic muse, there’s a hardness, a heaviness and a troubledquality to their tracks that renders them a world away from the nostalgic meta-pop cuteness of, say, Ducktails. Talking to Lisa Blanning in the current issue of The Wire, Blunt makes his allegiances clear: “I am really, really into sounds of the UK and I’m really into the darkness and the moodiness of it that no one else can do. It’s in Jungle. It’s in Hardcore, it’s in so many different types of music. It’s in music like Shadow Ring, it’s in This Heat…”
Indeed, even when Hype Williams source material is explicitly North American – as in ‘Ooovrrr’, their re-edit of Canadian rapper Drake, found on last year’s Do Roids And Kill E’rything 7″ – they bring an unmistakable UK burnish and heft to proceedings: withered synths somewhere between the miasmic jungle of Gerald Simpson’s Black Secret Technology and the provincial minimal wave of a Nagamatzu or a Sudeten Creche, and thick, over-loaded sub sounds clearly sculpted with soundsystems in mind. Even their most “lo-fi” productions pack a low-end punch that bespeak a long immersion in the heaviest underground dance tackle. And yet it would be foolish to suggest that there’s not a strong pop strain running in parallel through Hype Williams work. It’s there in ‘The Throning’, a haunting but unashamedly pretty cover of Sade’s ‘The Sweetest Taboo’, its skidding mousetrap percussion only serving to amplify the tenderness and vulnerability in Copeland’s vocal. Hip-hop is obviously a huge influence on their use of samples and slouchy, smoked-out rhythms, but so too is a very English strain of audio absurdism and necromancy – it’s easy to detect affinities with Mordant Music, The Focus Group and Vindicatrix, and it’s unsurprising to find a sketch from Chris Morris’s Blue Jam lurking in their FACT mix.
A lot of people have taken against Hype Williams for what they perceive to be an irksomely sardonic art-world sensibility, an ironic distance, and that conceited obfuscation of their own identities and strategies. But why should playfulness be so objectionable? If there’s one thing that deep immersion in the pair’s work yields, it’s the realisation that their playfulness is itself a kind of sincerity – behind the assumed names and silly titles there’s an unshakable naivety and idealism at work, a commitment to doing things their own way and bugger the consequences. “The best art is funny,” says Blunt. “The best art has humour in it. You can’t take yourself too seriously.”
Their FACT mix is an epic, intrepid survey of the Hype Williams universe, touching on the billowing AM pop of Steely Dan and Fleetwood Mac, rough-hewn garage and grime from So Solid Crew and Ruff Sqwad, black metal abstraction from Burzum, sun-dried dub from Augustus Pablo, urgent art-rock from Beat Happening and The Fall, gallows humour from Lenny Bruce and Chris Morris, paper-thin synth-pop from Bardeux, slick hip-hop from Jaheim. What’s more, you get two previously unreleased Hype Williams tracks, ‘Farthing Wood Dub’ and ‘Businessline’, in the bargain.
Having released two albums last year, Untitled on Carnivals and Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite, And Start Gettin Reel on De Stijl, Hype Williams are soon to release another. Entitled One Nation, it’s due out next month via Hippos In Tanks, the US label that’s home to White Car, D’eon, Laurel Halo and Dan ‘Oneohtrix Point Never’ Lopatin’s Games. They’re also embarking on a UK tour in support of it. (taken from FACT magazine)
You can download the mix here.
Tracklist:
buju banton-shiloh
fleetwood mac-dragonfly
steely dan-only a fool would say that
augustus pablo-satta dub
beat happening-red head walking
blue jam-suicide with an escape clause
steely dan-razor boy
hype williams-farthing wood dub
steely dan-haitian divorce
so solid crew-intro
the fall-C.D Win Fall 2088 Ad
ryuichi sakamoto-ice
ruff sqwad-swish
bardeux-when we kiss
lenny bruce-”to” is a preposition,”come” is a verb
burzum-I heimr heljar
eddie okwedy-happy survival
steely dan-babylon sisters
jaheim-jahs seed
hype wiliams-businessline
-And
Primitive is officially launching on the 12th of February and we are hosting a launch party in Dalston on the Friday the 11th at Visions Video Bar.
We are excited that two of the designers we are stocking Mademoiselle Yulia(GIZA) and Yoruko Banzai are coming for the launch and are dj’ing. Matthew Stone/Matthew Josephs will also be gracing the decks for us along with Universal Swimsuit/Felicita, L_A_N and ourselves.
There will be more info on our designers to come very soon and we will be launching our online store on the 12th also.
http://www.primitivelondon.co.uk – for more info
ディス マガジン
Woman merges w Car is a rhythmic puzzle performed in sequential gestures by three women. The performance is set inside an abstract bathroom, where one woman merges with nature, another with technology, as a third mediates between the two as a mime narrator.
http://vimeo.com/16453588
This is a bit of a light hearted post of when photoshop is taken in the other direction…. fat.
Enjoy
-Andrew
“L_A_N is a publication for the Fashionable Futurist with an interest in the world of tomorrow, today.
The magazine features innovative design, technology, silhouettes, new environs and dimensions that are provocative, strange and inspiring.”
Issue 2 is going to be released soon and personally I can’t wait!!!
Check it out… seriously. \——————> http://lanzine.com/ <—————— /
We will be stocking L_A_N Magazine when Primitive opens next year!
-Andrew
OUR FRIEND’S GALLERY ON MOWLEM STREET
JUST OFF VYNER STREET (E2)
+WARD MAGAZINE
http://wardmagazine.com/
