The seen. crew leaves for London town tomorrow to enjoy three days and nights of Notting Hill Carnival madness.
Listen the latest Guardian Music Weekly podcast below in case you want to warm-up yourself or to check what you miss in case you can not make it to NHC:
This week, the podcast team have slapped on their baseball caps, William Hague style, and are sipping from a coconut in preparation for this weekend’s Notting Hill carnival.
We meet DJ Norman Jay who tells us about his favourite carnival memories and how his life changed after the riots in 1976. Then we take a trip down to Carnival Village to see how preparations are going. And we’ve got an exclusive track from the Jamaican band The Jolly Boys.
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PS: Good news for all the ladies: before we leave to LDN, we will drop the ladies shirts you ordered at the post office, so you should hold them in your hands fairly soon.
Five years in the making, the »Guns’n'Roses of Reggae Rap«’s album »International Rudeboy« is finally about to drop. Judging from the preview it is definitely worth the wait.
King Megatrip »Solid Steel Radio Show 6/8/2010 Part 3 + 4«
Megatrip broke with the regular Solid Steel format with an all reggae/ragga/jamaica-centric mix ideal for a summer BBQ. Big Youth, Bob Andy and Major Lazer turn up the heat, while Capleton and Lady Saw keep an eye on the sausages!
Two hours of d latest, baddest n hypest dancehall n island pop outta twentyten! With »guest appearances« from Twins of Twins, Kartel, Chi Ching Ching n Ricky Trooper.
Recently, Spoek Mathambo (cover star of Fader Magazine #69) and Gnucci Banana were in town to shoot the video for »Hush (iggy iggy)« – one of the tunes that will be on Tim Turbo’s »Hush (iggy iggy) / Linyora« EP which will be released later this year.
Gabe passed by the set and took some nice shots of them on top of the roof of »Puerto Giesing« – a former shopping centre which has been turned into a sub-cultural hotspot earlier this year.
Thanks, Jakob, for setting this up and thanks, Spoek and Gnucci, for taking the time and looking good in our shirts (»Words, Power & Sound« / »Venom«)!
For more than one decade now, Rickards has been showing the world that Jamaica can look quite different than what we are used to from cheesy postcards, poor reggae album sleeves or cluttered Appleton night life guides – just by having a different look at it.
He has always been a major visual influence for seen. – from the days when we hunted down the first issues of FIRST in dodgy Kingston fashion stores and uptown rum bars to those when I drove from Mona Campus to Barbican or Stony Hill everyday after UWI classes to work with him on projects like The Afflicted Yard – Kingston 2002-2006 or reduxed versions of FIRST magazines.
On his new site, Rickards finally makes most of his work easily accessible.
Adidas original Quote was recently interviewed by the notorious Looky Looky Posse (crew love is true love!) and proved once again that he has great taste for music
TOP 4 ALBUMS :
The Streets – Original Pirate Material
Ton Steine Scherben – Keine Macht für Niemand
Max Romeo – The Coming of Jah
Lee Perry – The Upsetter
but for streetwear, too:
TOP 3 LABELS STREETWEAR :
Iriedaily
Adidas
seen.
Thanks for the kind words, Quote!
PS: The interview reminded me of the Bullwackie documentary I promised to send you long time ago. In progress now – I’ll hit you up on Facebook when it’s ready.
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