Jason Dill and Anthony Van Engelen announced the launch of their new venture Hockey Skateboards under the Fucking Awesome umbrella. Now the two companies have released a 5 minute visual titled Fight/Fuck with Thrasher, featuring the likes of Gino Ianucci, Kevin Terpening, Donovan Piscopo and John Fitzgerald, along with Dill and AVE themselves. With the new video and label drops a Thrasher collaboration tee.
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Le Coq Sportif’s low-cut tennis shoe, the Arthur Ashe, has been reissued in new series of colorways in their new premium graphic Jacquard Pack. Taking stylistic and technical cues from the world of tennis, the French label marries the sneaker drops to a capsule collection featuring sweat pants, Le Coq Sportif’s Teddy zip-up sweater and polo shirts in two broad colorways of optical white or navy “dress” blues.
For the jacquard sneakers, the heel tab features the distinctive French fabric in three separate tricolor accents, supported by a premium all-white leather upper with quarter panels perforated and de-bossed with Arthur Ashe’s distinctive signature. The sole unit also features Le Coq Sportifs’ label stitched-in to the heel. The shoe still retains key elements of its design directly crafted to tackle the rigors of tennis: the “Aerotop” tongue uses the brand’s original designs engineered in collaboration with Ashe for increased breathability and performance, making the sneaker an elegant style statement that’s grounded in sport’s technicality and precision.
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The original soundtrack written and recorded in 2015 by Tuxedomoon and Cult With No Name for the Blue Velvet Revisited documentary, is based on footage shot by Peter Braatz in 1985 on the set of Blue Velvet, at the invitation of David Lynch.
The film…
In 1985, a young German filmmaker Peter Braatz was invited by David Lynch to Wilmington, North Carolina, to document the making of his new film.
Over the following three months Braatz was given unrestricted access to set, cast, crew and director, collating hours of behind-the-scenes footage, in-depth interviews and over a thousand photographs. Featuring exclusive, never before seen footage, the new feature-length ‘Blue Velvet Revisited’ finally offers the most intimate and revealing insight into one of the greatest films of the 1980s, and one of the world’s greatest directors ever.
The music…
The soundtrack for this new take on an old masterpiece is equally as significant. Uniting the talents of acclaimed UK electronic balladeers CULT WITH NO NAME with legendary post-punk chamber music pioneers TUXEDOMOON, the music for ‘Blue Velvet Revisited’ is every bit as noirishly evocative as the billing would suggest. Fusing elements of contemporary classical (‘Lumberton’) to jazz (‘So Fucking Suave’) to ambient electronica (‘Do It For Van Gogh’) to krautrock (‘Jeffrey Nothing’), but never fully surrendering to any, Tuxedomoon and Cult With No Name have produced a suite that is as unique as it is representative of both artists. In addition, the album sees a contribution from electronic music Godfather JOHN FOXX, the eerie ambience of ‘Lincoln Street’ providing a perfect axis around which Tuxedomoon and Cult With No Name can weave their magic.
With artwork featuring previously unseen photographs of David Lynch, Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Kyle Maclachlan and Laura Dern.
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From 25th October to 27th November, the Red Bull Music Academy will touch down in Paris to curate a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary culture programme of music events, workshops, lectures and art exhibitions. Returning to Europe for the first time since 2011, few cities can match Paris’ dual significance as a historical hub of creativity and incubator of influential contemporary culture, making it an ideal match for the Academy to celebrate forefathers and futurists alike.
For the duration of five weeks, 61 participants from 37 different countries are invited to work on music together in the state-of-the-art recording facilities at the Academy’s headquarters at La Gaîté lyrique, where a team of studio mentors including Modeselektor, Thundercat, Just Blaze and Dorian Concept will provide mentoring help and work side-by-side with the Class of 2015 around the clock. The acclaimed space for digital culture in the 3rd arrondissement will also be the home to the signature lecture programme that participants will attend. While the lectures will neither be announced nor open to the public, the video recordings will be uploaded to the Academy’s digital hub.
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Royal Mail has unveiled a set of 18 new Star Wars stamps, to coincide with the release of The Force Awakens. The stamps are illustrated by British artist Malcolm Tween and depict nine characters from the first six films and three from the forthcoming film too.
Released on 20th October, 2015.
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Stefan Betke, aka Pole, was responsible for a series of distinguished dub techno records during towards the latter end of the 1990s, but in recent years his release rate has slowed to a crawl. His last album was 2007’s Steingarten, while his only major releases since then have been a trilogy of 12”s (the Waldgeschicten series in 2011) and a one-off collaboration with Roll The Dice in 2012. Wald, Betke’s first studio album in eight years, carries with it a weight of expectation. Billed as a single, 50-minute piece of music split into three acts, Wald is inspired by Betke’s walks through the Isar Valley and the forests of the Alps.
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