.BUSY BODY.

I have been....BUSY!...so busy I haven't even had time to put up all the different threads i could have used in the past month.....

Lets seeeee....

rewinding... we worked on the Omar and Zed Bias shoot which you can allready check out on the website....did fashion editorial for a designer called Charlotte Haggerty with the good man Ben Petrucci....and have gotten involved in a documentary produced by Miranda Sawyer and Red Bull Music Academy!!!!!!...

but to express the vibes right now....

here's what its all been looking like.....

Oscillations

Oscillation is the repetitive variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states.

The classic soundwave shape is an oscillation, peaking and returning to a central point along a continuous vector.

Its also the name of this wicked two part compilation featuring some of the best Beat Masons of the moment...including peeps like Slugabed, KidKanevil and Lunice...



Follow the link for an absolutely free download of both parts , courtesy of 'Just Like Music Records'

http://juslikemusicrecords.bandcamp.com/

enjoy!

Pepita

And now....... for something completely different.....





This is Pepita...she's one of a long line of house guests....that ends up staying for a while....

.Brainfeeder takes LDN.

A little snippet of some of the joys of doing what you love....this is what's been up.....! way UP!
This was a feature I did for 'Fabric' in London....RedBull Music Academy were co-hosting a what has become a legendary night with the L.A. super label 'Brainfeeder' and just some of their friends....

was mouthwatering line-up that delivered on every level....

Big shout out to the one Dana Hawley for being the absolute Lady Legend that I can already tell she is...!

beats n bliss with brainfeeder fam at the helm ....



check the Fabric blog for the whole series....

http://www.fabriclondon.com/blog/view/photo-gallery-brainfeeder-london-by-fabrice-bourgelle

peace!

Live,Life....and...Last....as whole as you can...

always....and ....still.......about change.....

...Have been really busy learning about the life I'm choosing...

its the best thing I've ever done no doubt... but not without its hardships......

Anyway....here we are back in the game and so much has been a going on....


The website is up and running and there's loads of new work....

gonna start giving the blog some more love now....just couldn't face spending even more time on the computer

so heads up......

http://www.photographybyfocus.com/

and here is a picture of me looking stupid to celebrate

ANDREYA TRIANA :: LOST WHERE I BELONG (FLYING LOTUS PREVIEW EDIT) FREE DOWNLOAD

Every now and again, a musical voice is born and sometimes the words that it pronounces happen to be deep... this is one of those rare occasions...if you don't know what I'm talking about...hear it for yourself.....and check the link below...about to fly away to tour with Bonobo playing in a town near you soon..catch this song bird to when you can.


ANDREYA TRIANA :: LOST WHERE I BELONG (FLYING LOTUS PREVIEW EDIT) FREE DOWNLOAD

Hyperdub -Worldwide Award Winning-

Big up 'Hyperdub' for winning the coveted Gilles Peterson Worldwide "Label Of The Year" award last weekend in London...

Five years in and still so much amazing music moments to bring....wishing Kode 9, the Artists, the hard working label staff and the fans, for respectively, creating, delivering and supporting intelligent new music for our generation and many others.

Best wishes for Hyperdub in 2010!

Check here

http://www.hyperdub.net/

or

http://www.myspace.com/hyperdub

Peace!

Lux Obsidere...obsession with light...

Always thought that 'the light at the end of the tunnel' vision is a lot like being born...

Guess it depends which way you come out.....

Anyway... my obsession with light started right then..when I was born....head first...true story...!

The truth is..were all pretty obsessed...unless you're blind..or goth maybe.....the point in mind being..that we see nothing....the only thing we see are our surroundings as they react with light......

We live...off light...there are enough disaster movies that turn the sky black and we all know were all finished by that point...but seriously speaking...'photosynthesis' basis for almost all vegetation's survival....basis for the rest of the food chain...


Light.. or the 'lack of light' affects our moods and our states of mind....happiness... activity...creativity....sleep...and consequently..dreams...its the switch to many of these.....its how perceive the world....its how we make our days and our nights....its the reason we get up in the morning,its part of what makes us what we are....and subsequently...its what we transmit to others...in other words.....its life....and for me..its madness...its breath.. its quite literally...love....!

Lux Obsidere....

A homage to light....a continuous homage to life...

...so...heres me playing with a light bulb...






"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out it has no meaning:just as ,if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark.Dark would be without meaning."

C. S. Lewis

BASHO BASHO Kidkanevil Album Launch

Have you ever had a moment when you've heard something,some rhythm, some sound, some instrument , whether familiar or unfamiliar.... and thought.....

Dam!

I wish I could smack a beat on that...!


Well, if you haven't heard of him yet... 'Kidkanevil' is one for doing just that...!

Though he is not one too overload things with samples left, right and center...his previous material has been laced with sounds from around the world..more notably,from the universe of percussion....In short,he manages to marry electronic tweaks with syncopated rhythms over beats that make you're neck hurt, and your heart stop....

His new album 'Basho Basho' is no detour from this, but with a sound that has now grown to another level, along with a seeming sonic fetish for all things Japanese. Its as if,he has tapped into a deeper part of his head, somewhere real dark,but still spacious enough to keep you nodding and light enough to keep you feeling your away for more.

If you haven't heard of him yet....then its time to switch on...and notice...Kid K in full effect.

I went down when him and his friends from First World Records put on a party to celebrate the launch..and this is how it looked...








Listen to his new album...here.. http://kidkanevil.bandcamp.com/

Photography by 'Focus' all rights reserved.

Fear & Faith

Me and someone special to me got chatting over coffee and this is what happened....

'Fear'

...Sometimes things can get thick with it...

Feeling...frustration...confusion....and that....general vortex..of shite..swirling round and round again and again.....

or

Self-deprecation...complacency....and that other inevitable vortex...you might feel... waking up one day ..way down...the line..thinking...What? How? When?...did I become...nothing.

That fear of nothing....is the greatest test we face,that emptiness we try to fill with things, people, places,love....it can all get out of control and can start to interfere with finding those very things that could truly fill that space.

The unknown....the unsure and the uncertainties within.......they are the fuel....the energy....that dissipates into us all ...until we are riddled with it...from the conscious to the sub-conscious, until it becomes us rearing its cowardly head without us even realizing.

Sometimes...

We work past it....the ego stops protecting itself and we show our light unafraid of the weight of the world that surrounds us. Though we don't know for sure....we push the outer-shell apart and expose ourselves...like a seed in the earth. There is growth...there is change.. awareness progression.

The element here is 'faith'...and it is by no means theological...

Its part hopefulness , part naivety...but before anything it is positive..

Working with the same insecurities, on the same emptiness,over the same 'nothing'...

Its the same fuel...creating its a different energy....

and that's where the challenge lieson a very fine line....having faith....or living fear....

....we can choose and we can be broken....but the only way things ever progress is to have some faith...

whilst always keeping the awareness that depending on faith alone to work things out is not facing you fear.... leading only to its our own demise...

We may not always ge what we want ..but we are more likely to find it if we point a lil'faith in its direction.

I wish I could make more sense sometimes..but I do keep trying...