Back in 1998 Silas was born from British skateboarding culture, gaining attention from a wide variety of designers, artists and creatives alike. In 2007 Silas ceased their UK operation moving to Japan as a result of being acquired by B’s International.
Last season Silas returned to the UK market by opening up a flagship store in London. You may remember reading our interview with George Louch who runs the store in Islington.
Having established themselves back on home turf, here is a preview of some of the Spring/Summer 2012 stock in the form of basic t-shirts with nostalgic designs that look like they were made back in the 90′s. There not up yet but Silas have an up to 70% sale well worth checking out in the meantime.
The All Gone book series, curated by Michael Dupouy and his creative agency La MJC, annually documents the most sought after limited product over a year, after they’re ‘all gone’.
2011′s edition comes bound in two limited covers, classic leopard print (800 copies) and grey leopard print (600 copies). Across 248 pages you’ll see key product from street culture leaders like Medicom, Bape, Adidas, Supreme, Nike, Puma, Vans, Kaws, Bodega, Asics, HUF, Patta as well as many others.
Over on the All Gone site you can see a brief preview of All Gone 2011 as well as a look inside editions from previous years.
It’s December and time to get ready for Christmas. Ahead of their boxing day event at Fabric, Rinse will be running special giveaways throughout December – tune into Rinse for your chance to win. Keep track of prizes and competitions on their advent calendar.
The Doctor’s Orders knows what’s up! Sampled combines a sample sale with a record fair and club night featuring your favourite streetwear brands, some of the UK’s best record sellers and art stalls. If the girlfriend needs convincing let her know that there’ll also be a nail bar.
A strong hand picked selection of streetwear brands will be on offer at a fraction of their usual prices. Brands will include the likes of Stussy, Alife, Stones Throw, Gimme Five, DGK, Osiris and a lot more. For the crate diggers there’ll be classic vinyl, hip-hop box sets, rare soul and jazz LPs traded by Mr Thing, Crazy Beat, Rapandsoulmailorder, Jake BBE, JP and Nice Up will all ensure plenty of interest for any avid music collector. This will bound to be crate digging galore!
After the sale, Sampled holding a one off club night with an incredible line up of DJs including Mark Rae (Rae & Christian), Andy Smith (Portishead), Mr Thing, Spin Doctor, Mo Fingaz & BobaFatt.
On the heels of the Fleur EP and this summer’s Love Pressure remix project, Sepalcure has released their debut full length through Hotflush earlier this week. For a brief period it has been made available to stream:
The Brookyln based duo Travis Stewart and Praveen Sharma are already well established through their individual monikers of Machinedrum and Braille. The two are behind the Cassette NYC events as well as mix archive PercussionLab. For their eponymous album expect influences from tribal dub, house, dubstep and juke as Detroit techno chords cut through wooden 2-step beats, neon synths and dubbed out atmospherics.
Nuji is in short an online ‘Social Wish List’. When you browse products online use Nuji’s simple bookmarklet to tag them for your personal wish list. Besides it’s simplicity and clean design, a big selling point for Nuji is they gained the support from smaller more specialist brands and boutiques, and not just the big guns!
Nuji is currently invite only and will be launched to the public shortly. However, they’ve have been good enough to let us hand out a few exclusive invites.
oki-ni’s History of Denim begins with Levi Strauss and his less known partner back in the 1870′s. Read on to learn how cowboy films took denim into mainstream america, the controversy of a certain denim tuxedo and how Hip Hop was partly responsible for saving denim.
If you really want to geek out and missed them the first time around you should take a look at oki-ni’s other features: denim glossary, raw care guide and Jean Therapy.
David Vincent Reep, who goes by the pseudonym Elephant & Castle, put together a sublime mix for M.A.H.’s Xfm show. His ethos, “Anything emotion-based is usually my favourite kind of music” really can be heard in his selection. Having lived in Colorado, Texas, London and California, his influences are the likes of DJ Shadow, Flying Lotus and Burial. One to keep an ear out for will be his debut LP Transitions slated to be released on Plug Research in 2012.
Tracklisting:
Andy Stott – Passed Me By
Joy Orbison – Ellipsis
Slowlight – Wish I Went to School
Ifan Dafydd – Miranda
Balam Acab – Apart
Matthewdavid – Truss
Beep – Mbira (Shortcircles Remix)
Crazy Bald Heads – First Born
RaveDeep – Watch It
Thundercat – For Love I Come (Lapalux Remix)
High on Hope is a film which presents the real story behind what acid house meant in Northern England in the late eighties and early nineties. The explosion of electronic dance music has since become a multi-million pound global industry, but for the hundreds of people in Blackburn during this time period it was much more than that; an escape route from the crippling effects Thatcherism was having on their livelihoods and communities. High on Hope tells their story.
The film has already been premièred at several film festivals, winning best film in Barcelona’s In-Edit festival and won the audience Award at Leeds Film festival, beating the Kings Speech in the process. But whilst the film has been finished, financed by a combination of borrowing, call in favours, waiving fees and sown together by director Piers Sanderson’s hard work and determination, there are still costs relating to licensing the music and various scenes within the film.
For the film to be released on DVD and shown in independent cinemas, a small amount of money needs to be raised. There is a Crowd funding appeal set up.
Norse Projects have been making some great moves in menswear this year. Based in Copenhagen their collections are inspired by local weather (similar to our very own British weather).
Functional and clean, the Lindisfarne jacket is lined with heavy cotton/fur to keep you warm, whilst the British Millerain cotton canvas outer has a really durable feel.
