http://www.bonafidezine.com Documenting Art and Music Culture Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:24:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's 13 years to the day since the passing of Biggie Smalls. On the 26th of March it will be 15 years since Eazy E died of AIDS and the 11th of April is the Day Proof (D12) was shot dead. With this in mind, recent Mercury Prize winner Wayne ... http://www.bonafidezine.com/2010/03/pour-out-some-liquor-for-the-fallen-soldiers/ The Breakin' Convention; The Seventh Annual International Festival of Hip-Hop Dance Theatre takes place at Sadler's Wells, 1st May (until 3rd May). Curated by  Jonzi D,the line up for this kinetic event features global talent, including Japanese duo Hilty & Bosch, mad popper Mr Steen; Phax, whose 'animation skills' have seen him labelled the slowest man on earth, France’s Pro-Phenomenon and Phase T, who ... http://www.bonafidezine.com/2010/03/breakin-convention-2010/ Tony Cook, one time drummer to James Brown and electro pioneer, is releasing an anthology, Back to Reality, in 2010. Check out this interview - persevere with it as the intro is a bit DIY - and listen to musical history speak. As it says Pt.1, I'm sure there are ... http://www.bonafidezine.com/2010/03/tony-cook-stones-throw-records/ Potential classic banger alert. As We Enter, the Nas and Damian Marley collab, is the lead single from the forthcoming Distant Relatives LP that is set for release this May and has been created to raise money for projects in Africa.  As We Enter samples Mulatu Astatke’s classic 1969 cut Yegelle Tezeta, that was ... http://www.bonafidezine.com/2010/03/big-tunage/ Leaders of the Next School Sup world, for the uninitiated allow us to introduce ourselves. We’re Associated Minds, a record label working with some of the newest rising artists from all over the UK, currently based in Cardiff. We’re not an experimental ‘sub-genre-of-the-month’ label but a hip-hop record label that still ... http://www.bonafidezine.com/2010/03/associated-minds-bonafide-web-exclusive/ Made over just 5 days, produced for less than a 10th of other 'Indy' Brit flick budgets (I'd hate to think how few weeks worth of dodgy back passes it took Rio Ferninand to finance his multi-million pound schlock fest) and more than treble the charm. Le Donk ... tells ... http://www.bonafidezine.com/2010/03/le-donk-scor-zay-zee-bonafide-web-exclusive/ 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 ... http://www.bonafidezine.com/2010/03/george-dubose-bonafide-exclusive/ Bonafide aims to be a creative resource; to make it as informative as possible, we worked with people characterised by a drive to achieve and who eschewed conservative, safety first PR attitudes. A strong example of this is the interview with design collective Ehquestionmark. Ehquestionmark openly discussed work for Lex, ... http://www.bonafidezine.com/2010/03/ehquestionmark-bonafide-exclusive/ “EXPERIMENTAL SEX MUSIC, AN ALTERNATIVE ‘DOGGYSTYLE’ IF YOU WILL!” − DAVID KANE MEETS THE AVANT GARDE CALIFORNIAN PRODUCER TO TALK POLITICS AND SEXUAL BEATS. After months of anticipation this summer saw the release of Flying Lotus’s sophomore LP, and Warp debut, LA. An atmospheric epoch for contemporary Californian music, LA explores ... http://www.bonafidezine.com/2010/03/flying-lotus-bonafide-exclusive/ James Pants makes the sort of intentionally ambiguous music that will make rap backpackers and electro nerds wet their pants in excitement. Alien wave, fresh beat and forum favourite, ‘quirky retro shit’, are just a few of the of the new fangled genre labels that have so far failed to ... http://www.bonafidezine.com/2010/03/james-pants-%e2%80%93-bonafide-web-exclusive/