Courtesy of the good folk over at Black Dog Publishing we have 3 pairs of copies of the first and latest instalment of the piously good Labels Unlimited series up for grabs. The collection includes editions on UK Indie music royalty Rough Trade and Andrew Loog Oldham’s Immediate Records but in Warp and Ninja Tune Blackdog have nailed 2 of our favourite electronic labels, and you can get a 40% discount on the books by quoting ‘Bonafide’ at checkout. …Read More.
Filed under: Competitions, Electronic, Graphic Design, Hip-hop, Photography, Record Cover Design, Reporting by D.K.
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With the World Cup now over the big boys can focus their efforts on Retro re-releases and new grails instead of million pound advertising campaigns on players who had tournaments to forget.
Adidas have thrown up another fruity range from fashion designer Jeremy Scott. Here we see the Adidas Forum in many incarnations some eye catching (the license plate blue’s) and some downright terrifying (the Teddy Bear Highs look like something Gary Glitter dreamed up).
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Filed under: Bonafide Exclusives, Fashion, Photography, Reporting, Sneakers by D.K.
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Roy Keane isn’t someone (as a Leeds fan) I would be expecting to writing about on this site. Indeed as this site is all about hip-hop and associated activities it seems a bit of an odd thing to post full stop. Stay with me though.
I remember seeing this image by Murdo Macleod in the Observer Sports Monthly magazine (probably around the beginning of the millennium) and it blew me away. Macleod uses a seemingly random prop to create a dramatic, distinctive and intense photograph that in many ways captures the persona Keane, as a footballer, had cultivated. In hip-hop parlance, it’s dope to the effect of a gazzilion and puts a marker down for what photographic portraiture should be about.
Anyone interested in photography should check out Macleod’s new exhibition, Gnuis, and the accompanying book.
Filed under: Art Galleries, Photography by J.G.
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DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing is probably one of the most influential and revered LP’s of the last 25 years. It also boasts one of the ill-est covers produced, a piece of art that embodies its creators musical soul and the culture he was (and remains) part of. Featuring create digging cats and one of the four legged variety, B+s photograph is a piece of musical history. The full panoramic version of the shot has been available for sale, put your best foot forward and head over to the e-shop.
Filed under: Artists, DJ/Turntablism, Photography by J.G.
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Jimmy was responsible for the excellent Dam Funk shoot in issue 03 of Bonafide and was recently commissioned by techno influenced dub-step pioneer Scuba to produce the cover art for his new album, Triangulation. Read more about the concept after the jump and you catch an interview with Scuba over at the nascent electronic dance site Hybridlife here. …Read More.
Filed under: Electronic, Photography by D.K.
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DJ Shadow has just launched a radio station and it’s worth checking out for the Dante Carfagna programme alone. No airplay chatter which in one respect is disappointing in another it isn’t – Carfagna chooses astounding track after astounding track that has you scratching your head wondering why you’ve never heard them before. I guess that’s why he’s a vinyl collecting deity and most of us aren’t.
If you’ve not heard of the man, try and track down his brilliant, effortless work released under the sobriquet Express Rising on the Memphix Records label.
Boombox pic courtesy of photographer Dan Medhurst, who has always brought professionalism to our wooly art direction ideas and made them look the biz.
Filed under: Free Downloads, Photography, Soul, Uncategorized by J.G.
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The Godfather of hip-hop photography.
A trip last February to the Beautiful Losers exhibition, Milan, highlighted that our potted history of the record covers wasn’t exactly watertight. We realised we had missed out influential heads, and furthermore might be wrong in theorising that the evolution of music packaging has lead to visuals being fine art. Perhaps it hasn’t been a linear progression, maybe it was down to different philosophies producing different types of work. Bonafide decided that the best thing to do would be to go back in the day and speak to an OG creative heavyweight. That someone was George DuBose. …Read More.
Filed under: Bonafide Exclusives, Photography by P.A.
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