Black Focus returns with New Heights / Snitches Brew, The first new material from Kamaal Williams since his stunning debut album, The Return.
Featuring co-production from Don Leisure & Earl Jeffers aka Darkhouse Family, New Heights offers up a fresh spin of properly hypnotic hip-hop, while Snitches Brew melts wah wah psychedelia.
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TweetSix years on since his latest appearance on the label’s main series, Stroboscopic Artefacts boss Luca Mortellaro, aka Lucy, returns with ‘Dyscamupia’ – an introspective, multisensory techno triptych revolving around the core sequence of Albert Camus’ classic existentialist novel, ‘The Stranger’. Also known as the ‘killing of an arab’, this pivotal moment in Camus’ seminal book – which also inspired The Cure their song ‘Killing An Arab’ back in the day, is here evoked through three variedly intense, deep and hypnotic techno variations – flexing from 120 to 130, onto 140 BPM – each of them translating a particular step in the author’s minute, focal-shifting depiction of the unknown man’s murder on the beach.
Dyscamupia will be released on March 15th.
TweetThe SL-1200 MK7 features a coreless direct drive motor that gives the turntable more rotation accuracy, powerful torque and a high level of reliability.
Outfitted with a microcomputer and the newest motor control technology, the new 1200 model ensures high performance in normal rotation and responds accurately to a wide range of DJ play styles, such as scratching. The turntable also features improved tracking, a new stylus illuminator, and a reverse play function to help DJs expand the breadth of their various play styles. The SL-1200 MK’s finish is matte black and features an all-black tonearm.
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The white Italian-made leather trainers were first unveiled amongst a swarm of streetwear-inspired silhouettes in Fendi’s SS19 runway show. They feature layered black mesh and brown panels printed with the iconic FF logo and are set on a chunky black bubble sole embossed with the house’s motif across the back
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In the February drop, Union present a bootleg Staff tee that shows the two locations of Union’s retail stores, a Radiohead shirt that plays on the word “head” in street culture (sneakerhead, metal-head, rap-head…etc), an ATLliens Outkast/Alien-movie tote, and also a very special shirt that imagines what Malcolm X’s tour merch for Africa would have looked like. The lookbook was photographed during the Martin Luther King Parade in Leimert Park.
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Imagine Me and You depicts strange terrain where clouds hover like rocks, ground is composed of jawbones, and mountains suspend writhing histories and political dilemma. Here, characters travel in groups or pairs, their features pocked and marred by exterior forces or molded by interior psychic malady. Alone and often monstrous, they struggle to inhabit their own image. Their figuration is informed by their task at hand and own felt sensation—a fishlike runner tries to escape her body on an endless treadmill, a lecturer giving a Ted Talk feels her face as she shapes it, and a multi-limbed painter tries to hold up her studio and canvas while the walls tumble in an earthquake.
The surfaces of Schutz’s new paintings are layered and built up with thick impasto. Figures become walking palettes as paint, daubed and squeezed straight from the tube, create scars, wounds, nipples or noses. Other times, the paint is sculpted, as in the painting Bat, molding it as an imprint of an iconoclast’s weapon that has swiped across the character’s face.
Opposite – Painting in an Earthquake, 2019
Exhibition runs through to February 23rd, 2019
Petzel Gallery
456 W 18th Street
New York
New York 10011
