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“I love Paris, why oh why do I love Paris Because my love...

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:13:18 +0100

“I love Paris, why oh why do I love Paris

Because my love is here” - Frank Sinatra

I am as excited about the release of ‘The Great...

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:01:00 +0100

I am as excited about the release of ‘The Great Gatsby’ movies as much as the next Jazz Age and modernism enthusiast. After I discovered this marvel in uni, I spent ample of my time over analyzing all the various events that take place on East Egg and West Egg, and what FSF was trying to say.

I’m now however quite scared that the movie might not give the book justice, and how could it, we are only talking about one of the greatest modernist writers to have ever graced us.

I suppose what is quite scary about this is the realization that once I do see the movie, whatever alternate movie that has already been created in my head after reading the book so many times, is going to be at at best distorted.

It is indeed a delicate balance, because so much resources and effort has been put into the movie, yet Hollywood does have this bad habit of ultimately caring more about profits than about artistic integrity. Alas, it will be quite sad if the movie was produced for the mass market. But ‘The Great Gatsby’ remains, and Mr Fitzgerald’s world at West Egg remains, and those words no matter how many times reproduced, remain. Hence why I will go into the movies not worried about the legacy of Mr Fitzgerald, but the legacy of modernist fiction as a whole.

An awesome street saxophone musician in Lille, France last...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:13:00 +0100

An awesome street saxophone musician in Lille, France last Monday. I stood there in awe for a good 10 minutes. He didn’t manage to seduce many women, but he seduced me (and my pockets)! :)

Yay for peanut butter! :-)

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:44:49 +0100

Yay for peanut butter! :-)

Beautiful mid-century modernism in #Beirut in...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:56:56 +0000

Beautiful mid-century modernism in #Beirut in 1968.

(via oldbeirut)

Just a quick on the fly edit. Although it’s a very poppy...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:05:00 +0000

Just a quick on the fly edit. Although it’s a very poppy track and I’m not normally into these sounds, I liked the melodic hook of the track. Nothing fancy, just extended it so I can drop it in my mixes and tweaked and filtered here and there. Free download for you lovely people! :)

The year has drawn to an end. Music-wise it saw the end of the...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:13:00 +0000

The year has drawn to an end. Music-wise it saw the end of the ‘District Funk’ series and the start of the ‘Disco Blasphemy’ series. Hence, this time around a Disco Blasphemy 2012 is in store for us. 4 hours of eclectic vibes drawing on grooves as far reaching as 70s Turkish disco and deep house tunes that made this year happen. Enjoy and have happy holidays, 2012 was a good one!

01- Dexter Wansel - Time Is The Teacher
02- Billy Paul - Let’s Make A Baby
03- Jazzanova - Rendezvous
04- Patrice Rushen - Where There Is Love
05- DJ Jazzy Jeff - The Definition (ft. Kel Spencer)
06- Ryo Murakami - Just for This
07- Skudge - Ontic (Rolando Understands Remix)
08- Moomin - Raw Like 97
09- James Mason - Nightgruv
10- Tiger & Woods - Gin Nation
11- Dusky - Henry 85 (Fcl Weemix)
12- Blawan - Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage
13- youANDme - Mouche (Luke Hess Electric Dub)
14- Mic Newman - Knickerbocker
15- Smallpeople - Move With Your Vision
16- Detroit Swindle - Guess What (Leftside Wobble Remix)
17- Homework - Cmon Start Moving
18- Drew Sky - Razzmatazz
19- Hodges, James & Smith - What Have You Done For Love
20- First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder (12” Remix)
21- Leron Carson - Dedicated
22- Rene Bandaly Family - Tanki Tanki
23- Objekt - Porcupine
24- Wil Maddams - My Turn
25- Phors - Fading Away
26- Phors - Shining Star
27- Everything But The Girl - Compression
28- Detroit Swindle - Jick Rames
29- Chasing Kurt - Galaxy Hero (Deep Space Orchestra Remix)
30- Pan/Tone - Stay (Nikki Gibler Remix)
31- Andrés - New For U
32- Joy Orbison - Ellipsis
33- WK7 - Do It Yourself
34- Tony Lionni - Afterhours
35- Green Velvet - Never Satisfied (Studio 54 Re-Re Mix)
36- Bicep, Ejeca - You (Steffi Remix)
37- Azuni - Raw Chord
38- Midland - What We Know (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)
39- Groove Armada - Don’t Take Your Love Away
40- Lee Jones - Moment (George Fitzgerald Remix)
41- Deep Future - You Need It (Detroit Swindle’s ‘Never Enough’ Interpretation)
42- Chris James - Kind of Heavy (Andre Crom Remix)
43- Jask - Life
44- Rahbani Brothers - La Tehtab Alayeh
45- Ziad Rahbani - Abu Ali
46- Erol Evgin - Sevdan Olmazsa

Awesome bourbon during prohibition? checkODing on Pomade?...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:43:28 +0000

Awesome bourbon during prohibition? check
ODing on Pomade? check
Cigarette attached to face? check
Incredible lampadina? check

Oh wait, out of this world tattoos?! CHECK!!

wehadfacesthen:

Tattoo parlor, 1920s

The view from the steps of La Basilique du Sacré Coeur de...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:07:00 +0100

The view from the steps of La Basilique du Sacré Coeur de Montmartre is one which no person can ever tired of. I still remember the first time I came up those steps and Paris in all its glory reigned down on me at once, I fell in love with a city, a fantasy, a beautiful painting, a myth!

No wonder this view has featured so heavily in popular culture, referenced everywhere from the legendary 1976 short movie ‘C’était un rendez-vous’ to Woody Allen’s soon-to-become cult classic ‘Midnight in Paris’, it’s been a view that has hardly been distorted along the years. Many have come and gone on these steps and wondered in awe, but Paris, La Ville-Lumière, remains.

A monkey with abadonment issues.

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:09:34 +0100

A monkey with abadonment issues.

Monsieur Salvador Domingo Dali, a constant cultural...

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:46:44 +0100

Monsieur Salvador Domingo Dali, a constant cultural and intellectual inspiration. Not a man known for simplicity, but there is something quite eerily quaint about the simple yet magnificent sartorial elegance in this photo, you can’t but love that pinstriped peak lapel jacket.

Taken by the great Swedish photographer Anna Riwkin-Brick in Paris, c. 1933, at the time still an amateur; Mr Dali was a very handsome looking 29 year old. The Surrealist group had been together for some years now but still considered new by most standards. Dali’s ‘The Persistence of Memory’, now 2 years old, had just finished it’s showing at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City and about to make its debut at MoMA!

Cuteness level: real life anime

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:11:46 +0100

Cuteness level: real life anime

Metropolis, the German expressionism movie which came out in...

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:53:00 +0100

Metropolis, the German expressionism movie which came out in 1927, is every bit as meaningful and poignant of a cultural critique of our society today as it was the day it came out. The movie explores a futuristic society in which people become drones enslaved in order to feed the metropolis and keep the engine going. It could very well just have been a documentary on capitalism, corporatocracy and consumerism in the 21st century.

vintagegal:

Metropolis (1927)

Dedicated to the life of Ms Donna Summer. RIP. Its #disco, but...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:51:00 +0100

Dedicated to the life of Ms Donna Summer. RIP.

Its #disco, but its experimental and its twisted. 5 Hours, 74 tracks, everything from Nancy Wilson to Portishead.

The concept here is to explore the other side of disco by fusing all kinds of sounds with disco to create that pink fluffy sound that suddenly goes haywire and fucks shit up. Listen to all 5 hours and judge.

01- Nancy Wilson - Aint No Sunshine

02- Gradient - We Can See The Silence

03- Faithless - Reverence

04- Monica & Brandy - The Boy Is Mine

05- Vtgnike - Maybe Tomorrow

06- Madar - Sebika

07- Kassem Mosse - Untitled B1

08- Jean Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields (Pt. 4)

09- The Speakers - Soulsalicious

10- Pete Rock - Collector’s Item

11- Maya Jane Coles - Nobody Else

12- Greyboy - Unwind Your Mind

13- Duff Disco - Return of The Duff

14- DJ Jazzy Jeff - Go See The Doctor

15- Kennet Bager - And I Kept Hearing - The Glimmers Extended Club Version

16- Nicolas Jaar - Too Many Kids Finding Rain In The Dust

17- Zero 7 - Home - MCDE Remix

18- 3 Chairs - When The Morning Comes

19- Kennet Bager - Love Won’t Leave Me Alone

20- Tiger & Woods - El Dickital

21- Chamboche - Smoke Screen - Bicep Remix

22- LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 - Prins Thomas Remix

23- Floating Points - Vacuum Boogie

24- Shock - Lies

25- Gil T - Broken Ambers

26- Collage - Romeo Where’s Juliet - Special Dance Mix

27- Desansis - Depression

28- Hit And Run - Dont Throw Hit

29- Joshua vs Davina - Come Over To My Place

30- The Midnight Perverts - Yes Sewer Thats My Baby - Franck Roger

31- Marcus Worgull - Dragon Loop

32- Onno - Paragroove - Dyed Soundorom Remix

33- Night Plane - A Face In The Moon

34- Omar-S feat L’Renee - SEX - Conant Gardens Posse Remix

35- Metronomy - Heartbreaker - Diskjokke Remix

36- Booka Shade - Teenage Spaceman - Booka In Space Mix

37- Kink - Rachel

38- Tony Lionni - Skys The Limit

39- Argy, DJ Said and Jerome Sydenham - Thick & Thin

40- Jean Carne - My Love Don’t Come Easy - Soulpersona Re-Edit

41- Amirali - Hear Me

42- The Ambassadors - Aint Got The Love Of One Girl On My Mind - scratchandsniffs extended Re-edit

43- Lemon D - Bad Man

44- Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots - Mungas Cabin Fever Mix

45- Moodymann - People

46- Inner City - Watcha Gonna Do With My Lovin - Def Radio Mix

47- Mark E - Deny This

48- Pete Heller - Big Love

49- George Benson - The World Is A Ghetto - sounho Re-Edit

50- Kurt Harman Project - Comin Back

51- Fred Everything & Olivier Desmet - Its Damaged V1

52- Donna Allen - Joy And Pain

53- Purple Velvet - Flashways

54- Prince - 17 Days

55- Infinity Ink - Infinity - Todd Edwards Remix

56- Aim - Underground Crown Holders

57- Doctor Rockit - Cafe De Flore - Charles Webster Remix

58- Streets of Haze - RnB Edit #1

59- Telepopmusik - Trishika

60- Faithless - I Want More - Part 1

61- Faithless - I Want More - Part 2

62- Bent - I Love My Man

63- Portico Quartet - City of Glass

64- Man with No Name - Vavoom!

65- Origin - Acushla

66- Cessa - Flow

67- Mount Kimbie - Field

68- Shigeru Tanabu - Move

69- Portishead - It Could Be Sweet

70- Plaid - Tokyo Drive

71- ID

72- Selçuk Alagöz - Malabadi Köprüsü

73- The Phenomenal Handclap Band - I Been Born Again

74- Donna Summer - I Feel Love - 12” Version

Being a gentleman is simple enough, yet you are more likely to...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:05:47 +0100

Being a gentleman is simple enough, yet you are more likely to bump into men who are committed to doing everything that goes against these rules… Cant say I’m punctual though!

Existentialist crisis, escapism not an option.

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:45:00 +0100

Existentialist crisis, escapism not an option.

c. 1898: The great John L Sullivan with quite possibly the best...

Thu, 17 May 2012 20:48:00 +0100

c. 1898: The great John L Sullivan with quite possibly the best mustache of all time (and one hell of an awesome hairdoo)! (Gentle)manliness defined?!

Mr Friedrich Engels, always a man of impeccable taste in women,...

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:01:00 +0100

Mr Friedrich Engels, always a man of impeccable taste in women, champagne, best friends and fashion. With a beard and moustache that would put Michelangelo’s illustration of God in ‘The Creation of Adam’ to shame, Engels was never a man to shy away from putting on an exquisitely sartorial gown and parading his life inspiring facial hair. Mr Engels, I salute you, and so does all the rest of the intelligentsia which continue to admire you!

How to tour on your bicycle vehicle.

Tue, 15 May 2012 20:04:56 +0100

How to tour on your bicycle vehicle.

Beautiful Paris, beautiful Montmartre, beatiful art. I would...

Sat, 12 May 2012 14:47:09 +0100

Beautiful Paris, beautiful Montmartre, beatiful art. I would reckon this was taken around the turn of the century when Paris had just about recovered from Paris Commune, and Montmartre was converting into this buzzing hub of everything art in Paris. This was around the build up period for the Jazz age, creativity was raw and rife in the city of lights! Magnifique!