This Friday we're DJing (Patchwork Pirates) at the private view / afterparty thang in conjunction with the new V&A exhibition FASHION V SPORT at the Secret Wars event on Exhibition Road. Affiliates-Studios sorted the sound. We used to play the original Secret Wars and Monorex stuff WAY back in the day - so it's dope to come back to it all. If you ever saw the Current.TV short doc. on Secret Wars - we did the music...

Extra note: Big shouts to our homie KISH who is getting a ton of love at the moment - the V&A used some of his sneaker collection in the V&A exhibition, the TIMES interviewed him (broadsheet biz) and the Footlocker ad campaign is awesome.

After launching KARBORN'S debut solo exhibition Nature's Concrete in Barcelona during Sonar Festival 2008, then taking it to the Big Chill festival we present the London opening this Thursday, 14th August at ArtKandy Gallery (top of Brick Lane / E2 7DG). The opening party features an exclusive live set (London debut) from Montreal's MOFOMATRONIX duo - residents (alongside Megasoid, Bling Mod and Lunice) of the city's hottest twisted bassbin party, TURBO CRUNK. Head to TrashMenagerie.com for an interview I did with the Mofos, inc. downloads of their banging Purple City mixtape and, in my opinion, their best refix to date of Nas' Made You Look.

affiliates-studios pres. Live Art Wall @ The Big Chill Festival, Eastnor Castle. Curated & organised by Terence Teh & Joe Roberts. Friday was Elementals - visionary old school Bristolian graffiti royalty Xenz & Inkie. Saturday was the awesome digital Nature's Concrete of KARBORN and Sunday was themed Leave No Trace, billboard re-appropriation / disruption by east London's infamous CutUp Collective. All pics by Pixie Felton.

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XENZ



KARBORN

CUTUP COLLECTIVE

All pics by Pixie Felton. Biggest crowd of the weekend. El naturalment. The Boosh. Is it all over now?

All pics by Pixie Felton. Lykke Li would be mainstream pop music if the world was a fairer place.

Wednesday through to Monday at the Big Chill Festival. Bear Gryllz can't touch our survival skills. We were asked to curate, organise (and build) the live art walls for this year's festival. Three 8ft x 24ft walls was the initial plan... We invited four visionary artists that fit the Big Chill ethos (Leave No Trace / recyc. / nature). Xenz, Inkie, KARBORN and The CutUp Collective smashed it. Art and artist pics to follow. Big thanks to the whole APEX crew and all the artists involved who made this happen. Terence Teh, Joe Roberts, Nic Carpenter, John Mitchell, Franky Lisk, Pixie Felton, Sarah Bruce, Polly Hughes.

CAMP BESTIVAL, the intimate 10,000 cpp. festival from Rob and Josie Da Bank (BESTIVAL's little cuz) is on this weekend - with headliners Kate Nash, Chuck Berry and The Flaming Lips playing alongside 150 other DJs, artists, authors, comedians and general smiley Bestival-y characters. For the last two years Bestival has been a highlight of my summer and so I was more than happy to write the Camp Bestival programme for this, their debut year. I did a yearbook-style publication - Name, Occupation, Best Known For, Least Likely to - for all artists involved. Available right this min, for all CB goers. Enjoy.

Dazed August issue out today featuring Danjahandz, Zooey Deschanel, Ladyhawke, an Italo Disco feat... I got Sinden, Herve, Loveys, Toddla, Detboi and Drop The Lime's supergroup MACHINES DON'T CARE and 20 YEARS OF DELICIOUS VINYL. You need to peep DV's Rmxxology album. It's nuts.

We (Patchwork Pirates) got hooked up to do the Delicious Vinyl mix for Dazed. Alex Pirates turned in a awesome back-to-the-Future-Primitive-LA-circa-1999-Cut-Chemist-Vs-Shortkut-inspired mix bringing it back when DJs could/would scratch. haha. It's freakin good - will be uploaded soon with tracklisting.

Following the success of le cool's Barcelona Changed My Life travel book ("one of the best travel guides in the world" The Independent / "the guidebook for people who hate guidebooks" The Guardian / "the guidebook for the been-there done-that set" New York Times) the good people at le cool have just published the London edition: le cool - A Weird and Wonderful Guide to London. As the title suggests (and similar to their weekly web mailouts) the book reads like your best mate telling you of London's hidden treats and charms in a diary / mag / fanzine style.

I wrote some choice features including "How to do Stoke Newington on the Cheap", "Upset The Rhythm's Top 5 Underground DIY Venues" and an interview with Paul Jones, owner of my favourite gallery in London, The Elms Lesters Painting Rooms. I also spoke to my good friend Remi/Rough about two iconic London graffiti spots - Remi then illustrated and hand wrote his quotes over the top for the/le book. top billin'. Thanks to Chloe, Tom and Mat le cool.

RRP: £15.99 // available Borders, Amazon, Magma and your fave independent book stores soon.

we sorted this EPIC sonar party at club Mondo with dazed, thugs & hugs and plat du jour. Jackmaster, Hudson Mohawke and Rustie played three back-to-back sets. LuckyMe linchpin Dom Sum hosted. Thugs residents Patchwork Pirates and Plat Du Jour DJs Slutty Oysters opened the party, Drums of Death closed. And in between our secret guests Yo Majesty and Rusko broke everything/everybody. Yo Majesty even jumped up and freestyled over a couple of Rusko's cockney bangers. One of the best parties sonar had this year. A few people told us that. ONE HOT MESS. BLOG HEATERS. Photos by Erkan Said.


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More pics here and here.

We had LuckyMe's The Blessings, Thugs & Hugs's Patchwork Pirates, Dub Terror and Drums of Death DJing at KARBORN's debut solo show (!) Nature's Concrete at Holala Art Plaza Gallery in Barcelona. Free Jaeger and Tiger Beer and art. Photos by my man Erkan Said.








More photos here, here and here

I have a handful of these prints left from KARBORN Nature's Concrete exhibition BCN. there are two different A3 digital prints, signed and numbered, exclusive for the Sonar / Barcelona Holala Art Plaza show, each printed in a set of 35, each costing £10. A tenner. email me terence@affiliates-studios.com for deets.

i. cant. think. so. until. the. full. updates. and. trust. me. it's. worth. it. peep. jack. revill. aka. no. one. hits. harder. than. jackmaster. his. slammin. mix. for. dazed & confused. which. he. pulled. out. of. the. bag. for. both. the. dress 2 sweat. feature. in. this. month's. issue. and. in. collabs. with. us. and. the. MASSIVE. party. we. just. threw. seriously. CLICK THRU NOW. soon. see. ya.

yo. full text below.

Jackmaster’s 6am Terror Thug Disco for the Freaks mix.

Jackmaster from Dress 2 Sweat, Glasgow’s finest (only?!) Baltimore Club imprint drops science on all of you with an exclusive Dazed mix of debauched, sweaty, warehouse bangers. It’s his love of techno peeping through the slap and tickle. Usually found at his Numbers party at the Sub Club in Glasgow (who win best tag line with: “School girls party styles. Bass, Beyonce & just a wee bit of techno.”) Jack will be playing at the Dazed Sonar party at club Mondo in Barcelona on Thursday 19th July - Plat Du Jour Vs. Thugs & Hugs (10pm – 5am) alongside Toddla T, Rustie, Hudson Mohawke, Dom Sum, Drums Of Death, Patchwork Pirates, The Slutty Oysters and secret LIVE guests. Like whoa.

affiliates-studios collabs with dazed and thugs & hugs and plat du jour for the baddest, raddest party in barc. hit the delicious vinyl rmxxology party first, then the karborn launch. then YOU DUN KNOW.

DAZED & CONFUSED OFF-SONAR PARTY - THUGS & HUGS Vs. PLAT DU JOUR 10.00pm - 05.00am @ Mondo, Moll D'Espanya, BCN


Special Live Guests (Y* ******Y)
Toddla T (1965 Records)
Hudson Mohawke (LuckyMe/Warp)
Rustie (LuckyMe/Hyperdub/Sutff/Wireblock)
Jackmaster (Numbers/Dress 2 Sweat/Wireblock)
Drums of Death Live! (Greco-Roman)
Patchwork Pirates (Thugs & Hugs)
Slutty Oysters (Plat Du Jour)
Hosted by Dom Sum (LuckyMe)

Dazed off-Sonar party goes off at the luxurious harbour-side club Mondo in association with east London's infamous Thugs & Hugs bash and Plat Du Jour, the tastiest local BCN party. It's bass butchering party fiends, all of whom have been featured over the past year in the pages of Dazed. Fresh from remixing Roots Manuva and Roisin Murphy is the dancehall wonderkid Toddla T. Glasgow's crunk creative prodigal sons Rustie, Hudson Mohawke and Dom Sum & Fineart (The Blessings) rep the LuckyMe camp. Dress 2 Sweat honcho Jackmaster brings his ballin' Baltimore (via Glasgow) Club music whilst Hot Chip's new best mate Drums Of Death escapes Haiti to bury Barcelona in bass, sirens and black magic. We (PP) rock resident badges with clare and bec Slutty Oysters. WITH SECRET LIVE GUESTS - think xxx-rated, lesbian Miami Bass gals dem. KARBORN brings his Nature's Concrete LIVE with an epic club installation and VJ set. KEY UP GANG!

@ MONDO Moll d'Espana, Barcelona
10pm – 5am 10 Euros before 12pm / 12 Euros after (all + free drink)
Advance tickets available from Ticketweb.

Exclusive Samurai FM Mix!
Hosted by our good friends Samurai FM (www.samurai.fm) peep this exclusive mix put together by Alex patchwork pirates - excloos cuts from all the BCN Thugs & Hugs artists.

Press Release HERE.

affiliates-studios presents the debut solo exhibition NATURE'S CONCRETE by KARBORN. at the launch party i'll be DJing with patchwork pirates alongside a LIVE set from the blessings - that's the mighty dom sum and fineart from glasgow's MASSIVE LuckyMe. it's the pre-party to the dazed vs thugs & hugs vs plat du jour off-Sonar party...

LAUNCH PARTY 8.00pm - 12.00am @ Holala! Plaza Gallery - c/ Valldonzella & Montealegre - BCN

KARBORN is the bitter (pref. Fullers Honey Dew), dubstep and bassbin fuelled visual artist moniker for John Leigh. The grimy 23-year-old Londoner unveils the urban beautification of his debut solo exhibition. The proud Bow E3 resident has worked with Nike, Arkitip, Talib Kweli, John Foxx, Dubterror, XL Recordings and Playlouder in the past, but today it is all about Nature's Concrete and east London vampires.

"The sub weight drops of London. Romantic and inquisitive visions of the ethereal stripping down inside looping super structures. Becoming the essential gentleman and planting into the concrete." - KARBORN

there's tiger beer, gold leaf, creative gals and some dope LTD holala prints available exclus to barcelona. canvases holla.

Press Release HERE.

i'll be DJing with patchwork pirates at the DV sonar barcelona showcase.

3.45pm - 6.30pm @ Holala! Plaza Gallery c/ Valldonzella & Montealegre - BCN

West Coast hip hop institution Delicious Vinyl celebrates 20 years saluting the iconic, vinyl-munching logo with the launch of RMXXOLOGY. The label that brought you The Pharcyde, Young MC, Tone-Loc, Def Jef, Mr Vegas, Masta Ace and The Brand New Heavies has called upon Peaches, Hot Chip Diplo, Aaron LaCrate & Debonair Samir, Frenchies Mr Flash and Breakbot and Brother Reade's own infamous Bobby Evans to remix and refix the bangin' back cat for RMXXOLOGY. Following parties in LA, New York, Miami, Berlin and London, RMXXOLOGY hits Barcelona. We'll be digging deep into the DV vaults playing classic tracks, 80's maxi-singles and the spanking new remixes. The party is free and we gots the Tiger Beer.

july issue is out now. guest edited by vivienne westwood. it's pretty boom. i got some beats from bullion, glasgow's finest jackmaster revill / dress 2 sweat records, johannesburg's blk jks (soon to be hitting london in august at nylo) and a head 2 head with kid acne vs greg wilson.


BLK JKS DL HERE.


BULLION DL HERE.


DRESS 2 SWEAT DL HERE.




KID ACNE VS GREG WILSON PT 1 & PT 2.

a lot of love for Dazed and dazeddigital.com family. standard. thanks to tim, jo, rod, ned, stuart, chris, sarah, hannah, karley, fran, alistair and dem.

DazedDigital.com archive - click-a-clack.

KARBORN, Jackmaster & Dress 2 Sweat, Blu Jemz, Nike & Carri Mundane & Kate Moross, Ed Banger, Plastic Little on 'Dopeness' video, David Kramer and Family LA, Shepard Fairey / OBEY, Brother Reade, Fourtet & Fridge, Philly Club All-Stars inc. Sega, Diplo, Casi G & Dirty South Joe, David Choe, SABER, Klaus Thymann & Neon Neon, Steve Aoki, Jimmy Edgar. Didn't get THIS ONE though, did I. Or THIS. Fuckers.

selected music / art / streetwear editorial work from the last couple of years. you can download all of the full features HERE.

PEEP: The Gaslamp Killer, Drums of Death, Family bookstore Los Angeles, IHEARTCOMIX, Aaron Rose, Kenna, Santogold, Dizzee Rascal, Common, Mad Decent, Aerosyn-Lex, Imperious Rex, Museum Paper, Trouble & Bass, Wiley, DJ Sega, Diplo, M.I.A, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Bonde Do Role, Justice, Neon Neon, Curses!, The Weekly Drop, Animal Collective, CSS, Ben Drury, Esau Mwamwaya, Buraka Som Sistema, South Rakkas Crew, Roots Manuva, Will Ashon, Hudson Mohawke, edIT, Chromeo, TTC, Ed Templeton, Plastic Little, Rogue Status, Robyn, Boys Noize, Jazzy Sport, Feist, David E Sugar...

James @ theChipFactory, John Leigh KARBORN, Gid @ Stylus Lab, Tom @ fabric, Patchwork Pirates and Thugs & Hugs worldwide fam, Jeremy and Esther.