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Glass Vibrations : Max Cooper - GetTheCurse Mix

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:16:18 +0000

Author: Monkey
Subject: Max Cooper - GetTheCurse Mix
Posted: 04 Aug 2010 at 2:16pm

http://www.getthecurse.com/2010/08/03/max-cooper-traum-veryverywrongindeed-gtc108/

Track List:

1. Opiuo - Spanners (Addictech)

2. Nils Frahm - Said and Done (Erased Tapes)
3. Minilogue - Seconds - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
4. Trentemoller - Prana (Audiomatique Recordings)
5. Art Bleek - Man on Wire (EevoNext)
6. Pierce and Jerl - Gimaee (Suara)
7. Hugo - Born to Bop (Triple Vision Music Group)
8. Los Updates - Breaking Spell (Black Rose Records)
9. Matthias Meyer and Patlac - Salt City - Nick Curly Remix (Liebe Detail)
10. Helios - A Mountain of Ice (Type)
11. Ryan Davis - The Wolve - Max Cooper Remix (IRM Records)
12. Hot Chip - I Feel Better - Max Cooper Remix (Parlophone)
13. Jim Rivers - 7 Days - Steve Mac Remix (Renaissance)
14. Midland - Play the Game (Phonica)
15. Apparat - You Don't Know Me (Shitkatapult)
16. Olafur Arnalds - 3055 (Erased Tapes)

Edited by Monkey - 05 Aug 2010 at 12:09am

Glass Vibrations : CONTAKT special @ Brixton Academy

Fri, 14 May 2010 17:48:28 +0000

Author: Monkey
Subject: CONTAKT special @ Brixton Academy
Posted: 14 May 2010 at 5:48pm

I wish I was there!:

CONTAKT special @ Brixton Academy

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Glass Blog : Helicopter Chic

Mon, 17 May 2010 09:37:01 +0000

Author: Peter Yeoh
Subject: Helicopter Chic
Posted: 17 May 2010 at 9:37am

You can now travel between Narita Airport and Tokyo in luxury. Mori Building City Air Services (MCAS) has launched the Narita Airline Connection Service to transport globetrotters in high-performance, low noise Eurocopter EC135s. The service also debuted Japan's first EC135 Hermes Edition helicopter. Each flight takes around 30 minutes (15-minute flight, 15-minute limousine ride to/from the heliport in ARK Hills).

Click here for fares: http://www.mcas.co.jp/en/flight/faretable/

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Edited by Peter Yeoh - 17 May 2010 at 9:37am

Glass Blog : Amanojaku Beats

Mon, 17 May 2010 07:20:01 +0000

Author: Peter Yeoh
Subject: Amanojaku Beats
Posted: 17 May 2010 at 7:20am

Amanojaku, the contemporary Japanese taiko troupe, brought edgy drumming to SuperDeluxe's art space last night. The drummers (with principals Isaku Kageyama and Daisuke Watanabe) enthralled the urban audience with dramatic drumming and melodic music. In collaborating with musicians, Amanojaku has made the traditional taiko – usually unaccompanied by music – a very cool act.

http://english.amanojaku.info/
http://www.isakukageyama.com/profile/english/profile/
http://www.super-deluxe.com/about/

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Edited by Peter Yeoh - 17 May 2010 at 7:20am

Glass Blog : Griao's Witches

Mon, 17 May 2010 07:19:48 +0000

Author: Peter Yeoh
Subject: Griao's Witches
Posted: 17 May 2010 at 7:19am

Legendary divas inspire fashion designer Walter Griao. Lee Miller was muse for his spring/summer 2010 collection. This autumn, he pays homage to Italian actress Silvana Mangano for her role in The Witches (1967). Despite using only an earthy and monochromatic palette – and deceptively simple shapes – Griao designs are surprisingly complex and sensual. Griao (pronounced as gree-on) grew up in Sao Paolo and moved to Tokyo in 2008; he debuted his eponymous label this spring.

http://www.griao.com/

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Edited by Peter Yeoh - 17 May 2010 at 7:19am

Glass Blog : Japan Fashion Week: Nozomi Ishiguro

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:14:26 +0000

Author: Peter Yeoh
Subject: Japan Fashion Week: Nozomi Ishiguro
Posted: 09 Apr 2010 at 3:14pm

By Philomena Keet
Glass Guest Blogger and author of the Tokyo Look Book

It's a sad but inevitable fact that there is a fashion brain-drain, a chic-leak if you like, flowing from Tokyo to Paris. Starting with the likes of Kenzo Takada, with Comme Des Garcons, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Tsumori Chisato, Under Cover, Dress Camp among others following suite (even if some return to Tokyo. tail between legs), the exodus of Japanese designers is such that seeing a great show in Tokyo means it may be one of that label's last few before they jump ship.

Nozomi Ishiguro, protege of another Paris exile Junya Watanabe, is still showing in Tokyo, for now anyway. Like many of his enfants terribles design compatriots, Ishiguro is showing outside of the official Japan Fashion Week. Shunning the barely existent glamour of the JFW, he lured his fans and critics to a business district backwater of Tokyo and up a dusty staircase to the interior of a gutted building for the show. The Harajuku mode kids were out in force, filing into the back rows having waited eagerly outside: Ishiguro is a firm favourite for them with both his CdG cred and outlandish garments.

This 'Nozimi Ishiguro Haute Couture' 2010-11 A/W collection's theme was 'ghost', but rather than the ectoplasmic supernatural it had a distinctly voodoo feel to it, with knitted skeletons flopping around necks and dangling from coats and leg warmers. The model's bouffant hair in purple and blue and their bold make-up conjured up images of exotic sorcerers. Prints ranged from everything to bright Aztec geometrical patterns to heart graffiti, whimsical pencil-like drawings of spiders and snakes, and pastel ice-cream cones. These were variously ruched, ripped, draped, shredded, embroidered to create the controlled chaos that is Ishiguro's version of haute couture. Colours were equally diverse - metallics, fluorescent tie-dye, deep warm maroons, natural browns and creams. Wool featured heavily, most spectacularly in a massive cream coat echoed CdG's previous body morphing bulbous creations.

Recurring elements running through the hotchpotch of looks included ripped printed leggings, the aforementioned skeletons, open-toe patterned sneaker shoes and leg warmers. Ishiguro is master of creating technically masterful visions of decay and pandemonium, two features to be found in the Tokyo youth fashion scene, but it would be no surprise if he soon starts working his voodoo haute couture magic in Paris.

Glass Blog : Japan Fashion Week: Banal Chic Bizarre

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:22:23 +0000

Author: Peter Yeoh
Subject: Japan Fashion Week: Banal Chic Bizarre
Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 7:22am

By Philomena Keet
Glass Guest Blogger and author of the Tokyo Look Book

The duo behind Banal Chic Bizarre apparently chose the words now comprising their name at random from a fashion dictionary when still at school. It is only the final 'bizarre' that could be used to describe their 2010-11 A/W show, although being a quintessential Harajuku brand, I'm sure they wouldn't want it any other way. BCB presented another unisex collection with an overall punk theme using leather and tartans, manifest in bondage trousers, zipped jackets and oversize jumpers with large 'A's on, hinting at anarchy.

Actually, there were elements of chic present, but these were subverted: spats were made into chunky heeled boots to be worn by men and women that came in bright blue and red as well as black and tan. Ruffled black shirts with black A-line knee length skirts may have looked chic, banal even, on women, but veered towards the bizarre on men. In fact, swap the men's and women's outfits and most of the looks would be closer to the banal or chic end of the scale than the bizarre.

This cross-gender dressing masquerading as unisex did have relatively successful moments such as a male model in pleated A-line skirt over pedal pushers and black high-heeled booties. Shun Nakagawa, one of the designers, is often to be found in a skirt and pulls it off, as he did when taking his bow after this show. For most of us however, the sight of a stretch of bare hairy leg between bright red heeled boots and short skirt will probably still take some getting used to. Other striking elements were the rather charming chignon hair styles for men, coats with unzipped exposed midriffs over half of the body and vast cloaks.

BCB opened their shop 'Add' in Harajuku about 5 years ago and since then have become something of an institution. BCB is one of the few brands to be regularly stocked by the mobile shop of Tune, the male counterpart to seminal Fruits street fashion magazine. Nakagawa and Ayano Ichige have set up their own magazine '√', digging their own 'roots' further into the Harajuku soil and extending their tendrils out into the rest of Japan. They are a brand that really links the Harajuku street to 'high fashion' (men in skirts and high heeled boots have been happening for a while there) and deserve attention for that. With a recent collaboration with Tokyo bag giants Porter also featured in this collection they are breaking through to the mainstream, bizarrely enough.

Glass Blog : Japan Fashion Week: Theatre Products

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:12:13 +0000

Author: Peter Yeoh
Subject: Japan Fashion Week: Theatre Products
Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 11:12am

By Philomena Keet
Glass Guest Blogger and author of the Tokyo Look Book

'Clothing that makes all the world a stage' is the concept on which three Japanese – two designers and one producer – founded the Theatre Products label in 2001. It was appropriate then that for their show this season we left the sleek business-like Japan Fashion Week venue of Tokyo Midtown behind for the genteel setting of an old Tokyo theatre. Built in 1927 and located on the 6th floor of Tokyo's main Mitsukoshi Department store, it was the first theatre within a department store in the world, and remains thoroughly charming. Before the show started, a Mitsukoshi 'elevator girl' in her hat, gloves and uniform stood in front of the red curtain and explained that it was also the location for the first fashion show in Japan.

Theatre Products shows are consistently inventive and, well, theatrical, and this season was no exception and particularly witty in its staging. The curtain rose to reveal all the press photographers sitting in two banks either side of the stage, looking smugly amused at their new elevated, 'centre-stage' positions, their cameras half-pointed into the audience. For this 2010/11 A/W collection the TP trio concocted a range of garments for an imaginary boutique, in which the charismatic owner has created four different corners: 'housedress', 'casual', 'dress' and 'accessory'.

The models sauntered on stage, posed, turned to face both flanks of cameras, then descended from the stage to do a lap around the stalls, affording us all a closer look at the materials. Of the four sections, 'housedress' was the most intriguing. It used 'roomwear' – a recent boom in Japan – as inspiration for 'normal' clothing, resulting in items such as maroon velvet slipper shoes, a towelling wrap-around robe in a blue feather pattern and sweatshirt with panda print resembling a kitsch pyjama top. Pastels were the colour theme for this 'housedress'. While much of it might only be recommended for indoor wear (perhaps the watercolour poppy prints that brought to mind grandma's dishcloths), there were some lovely pieces reminiscent of fine bone china plates patterns: a 'neglige' dress in pistachio with birds on branches painted on cream bands for example.

Theatre Products have always managed to come up with outfits that look more thrown on than constructed and designed. The remaining 'three corners' of this boutique show presented no strong aesthetic theme despite the interesting conceptual one: the dress section was described as 'elegant dress of mannish tailored styles and soft drapes'. Colours ranged from pastels and sherbets to wine-reds and dark blue-greens. Materials spanned organza silk, velvet, towelling, chunky rib knits, mouton and mink. There were orchid and paisley prints.

Threading the whole collection together to an extent were the accessories: large oval cream cameo-brooch style buttons, thick multi-strand pearl necklaces, leather handbags with netting frills and what seemed to be clip on furry pouches. Theatre Products have always engaged in interesting side projects, whether it be designing 'Tokyo souvenirs' or music label tie-ups. Strong on accessories and ideas, if not on integrated collections, overall this season they put on another fine show.

Edited by Peter Yeoh - 28 Mar 2010 at 11:12am

Glass Blog : LCD Soundsystem made Videos

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:07:56 +0000

Author: Monkey
Subject: LCD Soundsystem made Videos
Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 8:07am

A series of videos made by LCD Soundsystem around the creation of their new upcoming album:

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http://lcdsoundsystem.com/main/

http://www.myspace.com/lcdsoundsystem

Glass Blog : Roppongi Art Night

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:21:52 +0000

Author: Peter Yeoh
Subject: Roppongi Art Night
Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 1:21am

Art became truly public this weekend when the Roppongi neighbourhood was spectacularly transformed into a ‘gallery’ populated with sublime art. Tokyoites in a celebratory spring mood – and drunk with cherry blossom fever – mingled with monsters and strange creatures that seemed to have invaded the area.

The Roppongi Art Night was first organised in 2009 by the 'Art Triangle Roppongi' – comprising of the three major museums in the area: Mori Art Museum, National Art Center and Suntory Art Museum – and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. After its successful debut, the art event again brought the spectacle of pop and performance art into public space.

This year, Tsubaki Noboru's forty-foot gymnospermous plastic monster dominated the show, changing colours to carbon dioxide emitted by visitors. Compagnie des Quidams' surreal Michelin Man-looking humanoids with glowing, bulbous heads roamed the streets seeking light source while Choi Jeong Hwa's delightful plastic flowers and objects burst into life.

Roppongi Art Night 2010 simply asked us to rethink how we can save the environment, and how nature can work with us to save the planet. Incidentally, it coincided with yesterday's 'Earth Hour' where the world switched off its lights for just an hour, and as if in the same spirit, Roppongi elevated public art for a night.

By Peter Yeoh

Edited by Peter Yeoh - 01 Apr 2010 at 1:21am