Music
Fat Albert Einstein – After The Beep
Here’s an ill project that the homie Clutchy Hopkins put us up on … Fat Albert Einstein – After The Beep. Monmouth Temple crew in Full Effect. Any heavy digger will tell you that collecting records is akin to a bad drug habit. You basically spend all of your time & money searching for that perfect [...]
Art, Music, Vinyl
Tewz – Helix EP
We are very proud of our newest release over here at Illektrik; the Tewz – Helix die-cut picture vinyl. This is definitely one of the coolest pieces of vinyl artwork that any of us have seen, and the music is equally impressive. With an initial run scheduled for 1,000, it actually only came [...]
Music, Vinyl
Amon Tobin – ISAM
If by some slender chance you still haven’t heard (or seen) ISAM, then you’re in for a real treat. You ears will thank us for introducing you. For Tobin’s latest trick, he’s been touring the U.S. with this massively elaborate projected stage show ISAM. I saw it at the Congress Theatre in Chicago and it [...]
Music, Vinyl
Orgone – Killion Vaults
I found this joint looking for psych funk records on Dusty Groove‘s website. Needless to say, I got what I was looking for. Here is an L.A. funk band playing in the same vein as 70′s crime library LP’s. I have nothing but good things to say about this album. It’s dope. Plain and simple. [...]
Music, Vinyl
Misel Quitno – Sleep Over Pieces
Misel Quitno’s ‘Sleep Over Pieces Vol. 1′, released in 2007 by Everest / Ehstrawlogy Produkte, was the score to an imaginary movie from an imaginary 60s or 70s. A library record with bass, drums, nasty synthesizers, funny voices and swirly, warbly delays. An experiment in creating a loose, retro-sounding hommage to the strange and beautiful [...]
Music
Fat Albert Einstein – After The Beep
Posted on 17 December 2012
Here’s an ill project that the homie Clutchy Hopkins put us up on … Fat Albert Einstein – After The Beep. Monmouth Temple crew in Full Effect. Any heavy digger will tell you that collecting records is akin to a bad drug habit. You basically spend all of your time & money searching for that perfect [...] Continue Reading
Art, Film/Video, Gear, Science
Turntable Drawing Machine
Posted on 27 March 2012
~Hola Been a while since our last post, (we’ve been busy getting things ready for new vinyl & tape realeases by Tewz & LoSt.aRk !) All that aside, we had to stop for a second when we saw this video … It sort of epitomizes everything we’re all about around here. Gear, art, turntables, & [...] Continue Reading
Film/Video, Gear
(SP-1200) 7 minutes of Sound w/ Grap Luva (Pete Rocks Brother)
Posted on 27 February 2012
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Film/Video
Simon Pyke / Freefarm
Posted on 27 February 2012
Freefarm Film from Simon Pyke / Freefarm on Vimeo. Really cool & inspirng short film on Simon Pyke about sound design and musical production. It really helps to think outside of the box when in comes to sound. Continue Reading
Art, Science
Talking Trees
Posted on 14 February 2012
German artist Bartholomäus Traubeck recently debuted a record-player he developed which is capable of digitally reading the rings of tree-slices and translating them into piano music. Tree-rings, are annual records of a tree’s growth rate — which in turn offer clues to the hardships and fruitful periods experienced over the life of the tree. YEARS [...] Continue Reading
Art
Charles Krafft – This ain’t yo momma’s porcelain!
Posted on 14 February 2012
Really fantastic work by artist Charles Kraft … I could write more, but these pictures really speak for themselves. I’ll try anyway. There’s something about taking an idea so loaded, like a gun (pun intended) and making it out of such a fragile material like porcelain that … well, ask yourself what it means? Kraft [...] Continue Reading
Science
What does the internet look like?
Posted on 06 February 2012
In the process of trying to find out more information about a BUND Reel to Reel “Black Box”, I suddenly found myself on a completely random blog page looking at images and reading information about topics that weren’t even loosely related to my initial search. This probably happens to everyone. I read somewhere recently that [...] Continue Reading
Art
Clayton Brothers
Posted on 06 February 2012
I discovered the Clayton Brothers by pure coincidence. A few years ago I happened to be at Chicago’s most intimate bar, the Matchbox. On that particular day I happened to be sitting next to graphic designer Monty Beauchamp. As he often does, he had with him a few copies of his magazine BLAB. I purchased [...] Continue Reading
Art
The Date Farmers
Posted on 06 February 2012
The Date Farmers continue to blur the lines between high and low art. Their work is socially powerful, culturally relevant, yet emerged in an outsider art aesthetic. When I look at their pieces, I see letters from county jail, home-made tattoos, urban decay, and Latino identity reconstructed in a elegantly beautiful and critical way. My [...] Continue Reading
Gear
Nagra Field Recorder
Posted on 05 February 2012
While age doesn’t always indicate quality, I would say that as a general rule they are directly proportional. Of course, if something vintage hasn’t been maintained properly (i.e. rust, battery corrosion) then that proportion changes inversely. But I guarantee that most well made older products with the proper amount of maintenance blow 90% of anything [...] Continue Reading
Gear
MPC Fly
Posted on 04 February 2012
MPC Fly merges unmatched Akai Professional technology with the power of your iPad 2, embodying legendary capabilities that have made the MPC an industry standard like real MPC pads, MPC Note Repeat and MPC Swing. Its multifunctional, double-hinged design gives you the flexibility to produce tracks anywhere, while also acting as a protective case between [...] Continue Reading
Art
Scott Campbell
Posted on 04 February 2012
Scott Campbell,Skull Cube, 2010, Cut US currency, 9 x 6 x 4 inches Scott Campbell b. 1976, New Orleans, LA Lives and works in New York, NY Scott Campbell is a sort of semiotician, studying the signs, symbols, and text, commonly found in tattoo culture. His work investigates a familiar lowbrow vernacular, and points [...] Continue Reading
Film/Video
MOOG
Posted on 04 February 2012
Yeah I know, this movie came out 8 years ago, but a lot of people I ask haven’t seen it, so i’m posting it anyway. It doesn’t have to be new to be dope. In fact, it’s usually quite the opposite. MOOG, the new (2004) documentary about Robert Moog, inventor of the modern synthesiser, is [...] Continue Reading
Art
TOOLS OF CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: THE CANS
Posted on 02 February 2012
“The Cans” is a three-print series created as companion pieces to Roger Gastman’s limited-edition book, The Tools of Criminal Mischief. The 24-by-36-inch prints feature vintage spraypaint cans from Gastman’s collection, which was recently featured in MOCA’s Art in the Streets exhibition. Gastman carefully selected the cans for each print, which includes coveted brands such [...] Continue Reading
Science
Crystal Caves
Posted on 02 February 2012
We don’t really plan on posting too many scientific articles around these parts, but truth be told; Science is dope. And these caves are just too cool not to share. They remind me of some bizarre LSD cocaine infused fuzzy memory that may have been the better part of the last decade. Anyway, enjoy. Cavers [...] Continue Reading
Film/Video
Meaning Of Robots – Michael Sullivan
Posted on 02 February 2012
When director Matt Lenski first went to Michael Sullivan’s apartment, he probably never imagined he would be walking into a den of robot porn. Sundance After years of working with Sullivan, who made miniature sets for Lenski’s commercials and music videos, the director went to his New York studio apartment in the spring of 2011 [...] Continue Reading
Gear
Pocket Piano Six-Mode Synthesizer
Posted on 02 February 2012
The Pocket Piano is a mini electronic synthesizer with a big sound! The synthesizer features six unique modes: • Vibrato Synth • Harmonic Sweeper • Two-Octave Arpeggiator • Octave Cascade • Mono FM Synth • FM Arpeggiator The Pocket Piano is housed in a sturdy aluminum and hardwood case and also includes a built-in speaker, [...] Continue Reading
Art
Riusuke Fukahori
Posted on 02 February 2012
Riusuke Fukahori Over the years the goldfish breeding business has reached an extreme, perfecting goldfish in a variety of colours and shapes, they are admired as beautiful objects like ‘living sculptures’. Fukahori’s brush strokes capturing the liveliness, delicacy and dynamics of the goldfish and his sculpture works create an illusion by using resin to captive [...] Continue Reading
Art
Haroshi
Posted on 02 February 2012
Haroshi makes his art pieces recycling old used skateboards. His creations are born through styles such as wooden mosaic, dots, and pixels; where each element, either cut out in different shapes or kept in their original form, are connected in different styles, and shaven into the form of the final art piece. Haroshi became infatuated [...] Continue Reading
Science
NASA Discover New Earth Like Planet – Kepler-22b
Posted on 02 February 2012
It may have a radius about 2.4 times that of our home planet, but NASA scientists have confirmed that Kepler-22b — depicted in the artist’s conception up top — is the first planet we’ve ever confirmed orbits within the so-called “habitable zone” of a Sun-like star, making it the most Earth-like planet we’ve yet [...] Continue Reading
