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Light design

  Made by: Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph NautaMaterials: Phosphor Bronze, real dandelions and LED’s With Fragile Future III, Studio Drift fuses nature and technology into a fairylike multidisciplinary light sculpture. It consists of three-dimensional bronze electrical circuits connected to light emitting dandelions. The project can be seen as a critical yet utopian vision on the future of our planet,…

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You don't take a photograph, you make it: two artists working with found portraits

You don’t take a photograph, you make it: two artists working with found portraits

Fat Nancy’s been looking at things to do with photographs from markets and car boot sales, grandma’s attic and old photo studios … here’s two artists working with found portraits that FN’s been looking at again today. Playful and an absolute Fat Nancy favourite is John Stezaker. There’s a nice short interview from the Guardian here:…

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Kenya Special: Volume Two - Selected East African recordings

Kenya Special: Volume Two – Selected East African recordings

To many outside of East Africa, the Kenya Special Soundway compilation released in 2013 was their introduction to the full spectrum of the musical landscape of 1970s and ‘80s Kenya. The promotion of Kenyan music on an international level from the mid-eighties onwards had often been within a narrative of ‘otherness’, where releases were marketed as world music, focusing on a few genres with…

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The rise of coffee in Dubai and the Gulf

The rise of coffee in Dubai and the Gulf

‘Coffee continues to provide everlasting fascination. As a subject of exploration, it has more plots, twists and turns than an ‘HBO box set’. As a coffee roaster and Q-grader who learnt the trade in Wellington and London, I (rather foolishly) suspected that I would be stepping into the  ‘café scene from the dark ages’ when deciding to move to the United Arab Emirates… I was wrong… Naively wrong.…

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The Leaf Label was established in late 1994, with the sole intention of releasing music by Graham Sutton of Bark Psychosis. That first Boymerang 12″ sold out in a matter of weeks, so it seemed like a good idea to carry on…

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In late 1996 label founder Tony Morley took the plunge and left his day job at the influential 4AD label, making Leaf a full-time priority. They’ve had our ups and downs, but in an increasingly squeezed music industry, they’re stronger now than they’ve ever been. In 2004 they opened an office in New York, and the UK office relocated to its spiritual home in Yorkshire in 2006.

“Our passion hasn’t really changed in all that time – we want to bring the music we love from the fringes to as many people as possible. Every artist is treated as individual, with careful attention to detail and presentation, and we try not repeat ourselves, so the label keeps evolving. Our outlook has always been very international, and in artists like A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Colleen, Efterklang, Murcof, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Asa-Chang & Junray and volcano!, we have brought fascinating and original music to the attention of music lovers worldwide.”

Cover Story XI – The Leaf Label The Leaf Label was established in late 1994, with the sole intention of releasing music by Graham Sutton of Bark Psychosis.

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Soundway Records is a British-based independant record label founded and run by English DJ and music producer Miles Cleret. It started in 2002 with the release of a compilation of Ghanaian music from the 1970s : ”Ghana Sounds: Afrobeat, Funk & Fusion in ’70s Ghana”.

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Since then the label has released a series of critically acclaimed compilation albums and re-issues of African, Caribbean, Latin and Asian music from the 1950s – 1980s. These include the well-received Nigeria Special, Ghana special & Kenya Special compilation albums that Cleret spent years compiling. Since 2012 the label has issued a series of original contemporary releases as well as re-issuing older music. These include releases from acts susch as Batida, Ibibio Sound Machine, Debruit & Alsarah, Fumaca Preta, Ondatropica, The Meridian Brothers, Los Miticos Del Ritmo, Chico Mann, Bomba Estereo, My Panda Shall Fly, Konkoma, Family Atlantica & Dexter Story.

In 2014, Soundway was named by The Guardian as “One of the 10 British Labels defining the Sound of 2014”.

  Cover Story IX – Soundway Soundway Records is a British-based independant record label founded and run by English DJ and music producer Miles Cleret.

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The essential book for record collectors, Dust & Grooves

The essential book for record collectors, Dust & Grooves

This is the slipcase version of the second and revised edition of Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting. The slipcase cover features blind de-boss and red foil stamping. The second edition includes 20 extra pages including a new and exclusive full interview with Questlove as well as with Gilles Peterson, Kieran Hebden (Four Tet), The Gaslamp Killer, Egon and more. Eilon Paz’s 436-page…

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Sabado Coffee Club is two yearsold

Sabado Coffee Club is two yearsold

It has been two years since Sabado Coffee Club began bringing speciality coffee sipping to Dubais best cafes. So here are a collection of Sabado Coffee Club flyers from the past couple of years that brought Dubai  some fabulous coffee tasting.    

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The Designers Republic (tDR for short) was a graphic design studio, founded in 1986 and based in Sheffield, England. It was known for its anti-establishment aesthetics, while simultaneously embracing brash consumerism and the uniform style of corporate brands, such as Orange and Coca-Cola. The studio closed in January 2009, though Anderson has stated that “[The Designers Republic] will go forward after this”. Despite this, Warp Records announced in 2010 that the studio had designed Oversteps and Move of Ten, Autechre‘s tenth album and EP respectively, as well as designing their 1991–2002 EP collection artwork in 2011 and the album artwork for their eleventh release, 2013’s Exai.

Initially, Ian Anderson founded The Designers Republic to design flyers for the band Person to Person, which he managed at the time. His first ideas were inspired by Russian constructivism. An early client was Leeds band Age of Chance, for whom they developed a series of record covers between 1986 and 1987. The sleeve of the 1987 12-inch “Don’t Get Mad… Get Even! (The New York Remixes)” was selected as one of Q’s “100 Best Record Covers of All Time” in 2001.

In 1994, Emigre magazine devoted a whole issue to the Designers Republic, a copy of which was bought by NY MoMA. This issue is still Emigre’s best-ever seller and is now sold out.

The Designers Republic was introduced to a larger audience by their record covers for the English electronica label Warp Records (also based in Sheffield). In addition to designing the covers for much of Warp’s roster of artists, such as Autechre and Aphex Twin, tDR has also created covers for other label artists such as Moloko, Fluke,Funkstörung, The Orb, Pulp (and Jarvis Cocker), Pop Will Eat Itself, Supergrass and Towa Tei.

The Designers Republic’s works are often playful and bright, and considered Maximum-minimalist, mixing images from Japanese anime and subvertised corporate logos, with a postmodern tendency towards controversial irony, featuring statements like “Work Buy Consume Die”, “Robots Build Robots”, “Customized Terror”, “Buy nothing, pay now”, and “Made in the Designers Republic”. They also celebrated their northern roots with phrases like “Made in the Designers Republic, North of Nowhere” and “SoYo” (referring to Sheffield’s county of South Yorkshire) — affirming they were not from London’s design community in Soho.

Cover Story VIII – The Designers Republic The Designers Republic (tDR for short) was a graphic design studio, founded in 1986 and based in Sheffield, England.

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Art Dubai Commissions – Part 3 – Nile Sunset Annex

Art Dubai Commissions – Part 3 – Nile Sunset Annex

For the last seven years, Art Dubai has developed a series of non-profit, commissioned works to exhibit alongside the fair. They present an opportunity for visitors to engage with artists often informed by or from the region, who create new works and performances intended to question the fabric of an art fair. In the next three pieces, FNND asks three of the project artists some questions: Doa…

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Art Dubai Commissions – Part 2 – Sreshta Rit Premnath

Art Dubai Commissions – Part 2 – Sreshta Rit Premnath

For the last seven years, Art Dubai has developed a series of non-profit, commissioned works to exhibit alongside the fair. They present an opportunity for visitors to engage with artists often informed by or from the region, who create new works and performances intended to question the fabric of an art fair. In the next three pieces, FNND asks three of the project artists some questions: Doa…

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Art Dubai Commissions – Part 1 – Doa Aly

Art Dubai Commissions – Part 1 – Doa Aly

For the last seven years, Art Dubai has developed a series of non-profit, commissioned works to exhibit alongside the fair. They present an opportunity for visitors to engage with artists often informed by or from the region, who create new works and performances intended to question the fabric of an art fair. In the next three pieces, FNND asks three of the project artists some questions: Doa…

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The Bruer - Cold drip that's worth the wait

The Bruer – Cold drip that’s worth the wait

Let me introduce you to the Bruer – a cold brew coffee maker. The Cold Bruer is a simple and transparent way to make slow drip cold brewed coffee in the comfort of your own home. Made from all high quality materials like Borosilicate Glass, Stainless Steel, and Food­grade Silicone, the Cold Bruer makes up to 20 ounces (591 ml) of naturally sweet cold brew in as little as 4­6 hours. Unlike the…

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Singapore Deli, Karama

I visited Singapore with my family when I was 11 years old as a stopover on the way to Australia. The thing is, I remember nothing from that trip. I can barely remember last week. My brain is worryingly sponge-adjacent these days. So despite having actually been to the country, I’m still pretty clueless when it comes to the food from Singapore. [Originally published on I’m Not a Fiend] The…

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Sabado Coffee Club at The Coffee Museum

Sabado Coffee Club at The Coffee Museum

Sabado Coffee Club are proud to announce that the next Sabado will take place on the 27th February at The Dubai Coffee Museum 12pm. come down – no registration is needed – you just need to turn up. Yes, I know, it’s not the first saturday of the month but we have coincided with The Gulf Food show 2016 and this next Sabado Coffee Club promises to be lots of fun – We will have many of the worlds…

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Analog Africa releases unusual African music from the 70s, music with a certain twist that will surprise you or that you didn’t expect to hear from Africa, and that often had a strong impact on its country of origin. Frequently these recordings – all fully licensed – were never released outside Africa before. Considerable importance is also placed on detailed liners notes telling unusual stories about unusual musicians, complete with rare photographs, interviews and full discographies. Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb was born in Carthage, Tunisia, to a Tunisian father and a German mother. He was brought up in many different countries, such as Sweden, Tunisia and Austria, and is now based in Frankfurt, Germany. The idea of the label started in November 1999 when he came across a recording by the Green Arrows whilst digging for vinyl records in Zimbabwe. He was so captured by what he heard that in October 2001 he set up Analog Africa, his first project being a compilation by the Green Arrows. Apart from running Analog Africa, Ben Redjeb has established himself as one of the main sources for original African vinyl records for DJs, producers and collectors worldwide. Also, after a long break, he has started Dj’ing again. Together with his partner Pedo Knopp he forms the Analog Africa Soundsystem. Besides Samy, Pedo and Marc Petri (Jazzkeller Frankfurt) run the AFRICADELA

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Y club night in Frankfurt specialising in raw, funky and psychedelic tropical sounds from the 70ies. 

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  Cover Story VIII – Analog Africa Analog Africa releases unusual African music from the 70s, music with a certain twist that will surprise you or that you didn’t expect to hear from Africa, and that often had a strong impact on its country of origin.

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Safina Radio Project at The Dhaka Art Summit 2016

Safina Radio Project at The Dhaka Art Summit 2016

From 5–8 February, Safina Radio Project broadcasts conversations and performative pieces by artists, writers and curators at the summit, drawing on their encounters with the city. Subtitled ‘not as far as it seems,’ Safina Radio Project takes questions of belonging and home as a departure point. Responding to the practices, curatorial premises and work exhibited at the Dhaka Art Summit 2016, SRP…

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