This month harks the return of our star games reviewer, 8 year old Noah Mallassi, the true king of the joypad…
For my birthday I got a Nintendo Wii! My Dad tricked my by saying that they were impossible to get anywhere in the world, but then when I woke up on my birthday he had one for me! I almost exploded! But, I had to play the games all day first before I could explode… (more…)
The freshest forgotten albums of yesteryear. Not the usual fawned over suspects but albums that ‘net-trawlers and second hand record shop aficionados may come across and should snap up now.
This month Guy Oddy recommends the Rasta socialism of…
Max Romeo’s ‘Revelation Time’ is generally acknowledged to be the first concept album to come out of Jamaica. The album is made up of a set of reggae tunes from the roots era, played by members of the Soul Syndicate and Wailers bands, and a vision informed by both Rasta ideology and a socialist viewpoint. This is rebel music straight from the Kingston of the mid ‘70s. (more…)
Long Range are Phil Hartnoll, half of the dance music pioneers Orbital, and Nick Smith, who’s background lies with trance label Dragonfly Records. They have arrived with an easily digestible album, ‘Madness And Me’, which offers listeners a road trip through trance and broken beats flooded with rock, chilled and ambient sounds. They want more people to give trance a chance (wait for the T-Shirts…). (more…)
Talking with Flevans it quickly becomes apparent that his new album ‘Unfabulous’ was less a labour of love and simply more like going through labour. An unnecessary illustration to accompany the metaphor would likely be a sweat-drenched Flevans sporting a green hospital gown, mopping his own brow whilst the doctor slaps the newborn’s arse and from it’s mouth emerges sounds that only its parent fails to recognize as delightful. Slightly odd and overly dramatic a scene it may be, but it makes sense when you learn that he re-wrote the album five times and with Buddhist-like restraint, defied himself to make any new music until ‘Unfabulous’ was complete. ‘Tubular Bells’ it isn’t, but was a padded cell at the local institute ever on the cards? (more…)
With the UK summer season’s best festival, Bestival, just around the corner, resident field-wanderer Khalid Mallassi gets in the festival spirit by quizzing Bestival supremo Rob Da Bank…
With only a few months left till Bestival 2007, how are you feeling? Any nerves? Butterflies?
No butterflies, just a few caterpillars! With having sold out that’s one sweat out of the way but worrying if there’s enough loo rolls and what kind of random security will turn up are more the worries now. (more…)
Adam Oehlers studied visual communication at the University of South Australia. During this course he majored in Illustration and puppetry. These two art forms complemented his love of story telling and in 2001 he formed a puppetry troupe named ‘Mr. Fortune’. After two years of freelance illustration and puppetry shows in Adelaide he moved to England where he lived in Brighton for four years. Continuing with the puppetry, ‘Mr. Fortune’ grew to a seven-person troupe performing their shows in theatres and venues around Brighton. Their life-sized glow in the dark puppets danced their way through bizarre, changing landscapes to a live music soundtrack provided by local artists Lyricool Lips and Bunty. (more…)
A monthly rant on the tepid traits and tawdry interactions of the media machine. This month Khalid Mallassi takes a stand against our favourite keepers off the peace, bouncers… (more…)
For the past few months I’ve been working mainly on the cover art and graphics for our videos and live visuals, and as there really haven’t been any deeper Pepe audio explorations, I decided to take some time to answer a few questions we’ve received about the album Spare Time Machine. (more…)
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