Try and find something out about Vondelpark – it’s not going to happen. A very elusive band that don’t have a Myspace let alone a website, but surely, that makes it all the more treasured? I’m loving that woozy, two-step, downtempo melody paired with his strained and somewhat sinister sounding vocals – especially in the track, Start Life.

The debut EP ‘Sauna’ comes out this October.

Vondelpark – Jetlag

Vondelpark – Start Life (Be Side version)

Vondelpark – California Analog Dream

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I’ve been a fan of Erik Hamline’s work for quite some time now. This talented 23 year old from Minnesota, has an imprssive folio over at woodsandweather.com and also runs his own screen printing and design studiio at steadyprintshop.com. I’m a sucker for this style and would really love to see more work like this, coming out the UK.

Planet Mu, once again, realise one of their canny A&R maneouvres with this debut long-player from prodigious youngster, Oriol. Taking things a step further, ‘Night and Day’ takes the futuristic technosoul of musical contemporary, Floating Points, and cross-breeds with the analogue-alchemy of pioneers such as Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder and Weather Report. Stunning. You gotta love that art work too.

Oriol – Coconut Coast
Oriol – Memories
Oriol – Night and Day
Oriol – 5 Bars

Ian Mcarthur is an illustrator from Swindon. I love the combination of surreal patterns and fine detail in the portraits. It’s like breaking apart the shell of the physical presence, to reveal an insight into the subjects wild imagination.

See more of his folio at iainmacarthur.carbonmade.com

“As early as I can remember I was always fascinated by any record that had a synthesizer on it. The sound itself seemed to have such a strong, purposeful, and intellectual quality about it that tended to cut through everything else. When I was young my Dad bought The Music of Cosmos which was the soundtrack to the groundbreaking Carl Sagan television series. It introduced me to the music of Vangelis as well as classical composers like Toru Takemitsu. The music was just so evocative of the vastness of space and scientific discovery that I just used to sit by the speakers and listen intently to every sound. Later when I heard Kraftwerk and Detroit Techno for the first time those electronic sounds resonated with me. From my home in Australia, Detroit seemed like a vision of an exotic Bladerunner – like future – the crumbling auto industry had left in its wake a decaying urban centre, deserted and boarded up, but out of this environment came a group of pioneers who were making this wild new music with archaic synthesizers and drum machines. For me it just seemed to click. The re-appropriation of urban space was always a strong element in the early Techno movement. Utilizing car parks and abandoned warehouses for all night-parties of machine music just seemed very sci-fi to me at the time, almost post-apocalyptic.”

He also makes lovely models of retro synths

Check out more at his folio – danmcpharlin.com

Joe Skilton grew up in the walled city of York, and left home in 2008 to study visual communication at the Edinburgh College of Art.Having recently jumped ship to the United States, Joe has been based in Baltimore, MD for the past 6 months.

Inspired by loving friends and bad tattoos, Joe captures certain moments with whatever camera he decides is todays special. At a rate of 3 broken cameras a month, Joe hasn’t spent more than $5 on a camera since 2009.

Moved by the talent and enthusiasm of his friends and contemporaries, Joe’s photographs attempt to seize what he is most fascinated by, the highs and the lows of the people around him.

Recently, Photographs have been part of a group exhibition in Baltimore City, and are to be included in the first fourteen-nineteen exhibition in London. Printed material and collaborative works are all soon coming.

Collections are online through his Cargo Collective and other updates through flickr.com/becausehannahsaidso

This shot was taken from a photojournalism piece, covering poverty within white South Africa. Set in Coronation Park, many of the 400 squatters see themselves, victims of ‘reverse apartheid’. Race tends to play a large part in poverty in Africa, but this also shows that it’s a human issue.

You can see more of the collection in the Boston News

vanessabruno-Le Bel Eté-SS2010 from presse vanessabruno on Vimeo.

Great filming, great video, great girl.

It was made by Stephanie Di Giusto for French fashion label,Vanessa Bruno.

Many people have probably seen it already, but I couldn’t help myself. Fiona Banner has also discreetly adorned this Harrier Jump Jet with feathers, transforming this mighty machine into a strung up bird. There are more images from Harrier and Jaguar on Fionas site fionabanner.com

FLAIRS – TRUCKERS DELIGHT from 3rd Side Records on Vimeo.

WARNING If you are of a sensitive disposition and easily offended by extremely tongue in cheek 8-bit crassness, don’t watch.

I know this video isn’t exactly new, but very well done and it’s a catchy track to boot. Jérémie Périn (can’t find his site anywhere) made this for Flairs and you can now also get an iPhone app too.