Since its inception Bonafide has gone from strength to strength, last year saw a bi-annual release (issue 02 & 03), the launch of www.bonafidezine.com and our first foray into events management. As we continue to grow we are looking to spread the load and acquire the services of an experienced Sales Manager. Click Here to find out more.
Eelus kindly helped with some visual candy for issue 01 of Bonafide and it’s great to see that his first solo show has just opened. Running from the 25th February to the 6th of March, The Colour Out of Space demonstrates how much he has grown in confidence and matured as an artist. For the musings of the man behind the spray can check out his blog where you get to see how everything comes together.
Kidkanevil has been a busy boy since we last spoke to him, check out the dope new video for Minjo by Ricky Kershaw, from his dope new album Basho Basho. Ever evolving, Kidk has flipped it yet again for his third long player and this one is truly epic. An abstract landscape of sonic sound textures played via a Boombox hooked up to a Commodore 64, which is hooked up to a satellite on the other side of Mars, which beams the sounds back to Tokyorkshire, recording over itself in a resounding auricular paradox. This is some next level future shit. You can check the album out and download it here.
You can also get the basho basho mixtape here.
In fact he’s been knocking out the mixtapes for fun recently, you can check his recent mix for knowledge mag here. and a mix he describes as “aggy bass music” for Data Transmission here.
And while we’re on the subject, you may have missed the video for his debut single Kranium Rock ft. Testament the first time round (also by Ricky Kershaw) way back in ‘05 – A Bonafide favourite recently re-upped on Youtube.
The Vauxhall Beatbox Championships are back, offering you the chance to win a brand new Vauxhall Corsa SXi. Beatboxer, to give the car urban bumps, presumably not included as part of the soundsystem.
Beatboxing is blossoming at the moment – something we explored in issue 03 with an exclusive interview Shlomo – and is hotbed of imaginative talent.
If you think you can follow previous winners including Beardyman and MC Zani, then pick-up-the-mic, if you can’t then go along and get a ringside seat at a set of nights than are guaranteed to go booooom.
After the stunning Neurosonics Audiomedical Lab video, director Chris Cairns has pushed the envelope further with the Neurosonics Live using beatboxer Beardyman, JFB on the ones and twos and Will Clark banging the drums (or Beardyman’s head depending on how you look at it). Crazy good sums it up.
Andreya Triana, one of Ninja Tune’s most recent signings, has a Bonobo produced LP, entitled Lost Where I Belong, coming out in August. She’s already provided vocals for Mr Scruff, Bonobo and Flying Lotus, and the latter has returned the favour remixing the lead single (also called) Lost Where I Belong, that has been made available for the down lo. Cop it here.
Warming to the theme, it’s also worth checking the Music Weekly podcast over at the Guardian. While it lacks the chaotic genius of the James Richardson led Football Weekly, this series of podcasts provides a solid overview on the music scene in general and the recent piece with Big Dada founder Will Ashton is well nifty. While your on the Guardian site check the affable Paul Morley utlising his laid back charm with Giggs, Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip. Excellent work.
Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy’s first real foray into film making, is getting a cinema release on 5th March and the documentary is getting an airing on these shores next weekend. To be one of the lucky ones to have their bum on a seat at the preview, head over to Pictures On Walls and enter the comp and cross your fingers.
Un-surprisingly we haven’t been invited to a press viewing, so the only thing I’d hazard to guess from the trailer is that the film looks like it might be a mixture of Who’s Been Framed meets Jackass, but with lots and lots of spraypaint, messy hands and hairy artists bungling stuff. I, for one, am looking forward to this.
On the exiting tip, it seems like Bansky’s tagging rat in Liverpool has daubed its’ last building. Having seen the rat in the flesh and then read the article there is no way they can refurbish the pub and keep the rat alive. If you are in the area, checkit before its goes down the sewer.
Greymatter’s Mind Over Matter album has just fallen to earth and there is an intense Illum Sphere remix of the track Too Much floating around for free. Well Bladerunner.
Head over to Suspect Packages and download the free Valentines mix by UK stalwart Disorda. Cheers to the man who is pretty much the backbone of the British hip-hop scene. Heads come and go but Disorda has been around since the early days.
In his own words the mix comprises of “sweet reggae love songs, ranging from the late 60’s through to the early 90’s. It runs for 1 hour, 8 minutes and 52 seconds (to be precise), perfect for burning to CD…”
Check it out at suspectpackages.blogspot.com Have a look round the rest of the site while your there, they also do a monthly radio show along with various other downloads and freebies. They will soon be stocking Bonafide magazine at suspectpackages.com too so Big ups!
RQM got in touch with the dope on his new project/EP, Colours Fade, that he has produced with street-artist Remed. Remed has provided an illustration that packages a limited run of 7inches and the image portrays the hedonistic tale that the wax tells. Nice idea, super nice execution. Available to all Berlin headz here.
