http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/ Music, art, film and literature from outside the mainstream bubble, a platform for writers. Spread a little mp3 love. en-gb Copyright 2007 Spannered. All Rights Reserved. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT 240 http://www.spannered.org/images/skins/spannered/RSS.jpg http://www.spannered.org/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1417/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1417/ After two decades in the role of Japanese hip hop ambassador, DJ Krush releases his first DVD. Mon, 26 May 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1419/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1419/ DMC Championship winner and AV enthusiast DJ Kentaro drops a DVD of footage from his recent tour. Mon, 26 May 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1353/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1353/ Techno overlord Jochem Paap and video artist Scott Pagano unleash their audiovisual assault. But will it enjoy a lasting legacy? Kone-R investigates... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1249/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1249/ Giant rabbits on the rampage in the southern hemisphere’s most populous city? Al Fresco encounters the Gob Squad collective in South America. Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1223/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1223/ Adam Aiken and Eleanor Meredith present a wartime tale of bats, squirrels and forbidden love. Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1226/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1226/ The video to Latitude forms part of Spannered’s showcase of work by filmmakers Adam Aiken and Shelley Revill. The track was produced by Paul Blackford. Over the past few years, Paul's no-messing dancefloor electro has surfaced on Wide, Breakin' and Baselogic, and a slew of envelope-pushing net labels. Latitude was released in 2006 on Belgium's WeMe Records (The Hijacked EP). Co-workers at London's Sherbet animation production company, Adam Aiken and Shelley Revill have been collaborating on short film projects for the past two years. They have developed a visually rich style that stretches the boundaries of conventional design and moving image, using drawing, found objects, photography, live action, animation and digital manipulation to create an idiosyncratic, hand-crafted look. They have produced music videos for The Mountain Goats, The Delgados, Birdengine and R3mote, and have attracted the attention of film festivals in the UK and abroad. The duo's Thoughts Of A Falling Glass Man video has been screened several times at London’s ICA. Their work has also received critical acclaim on the BBC’s Film Network site.   Adam recently completed a video for UK electro pioneers Transparent Sound, utilising the illustration talents of Eleanor Meredith. Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1227/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1227/ The video to Duel forms part of Spannered’s showcase of work by filmmakers Adam Aiken and Shelley Revill. Duel was composed by electronic music artist David O'Malley, aka R3mote; the track is taken from his 2003 CD Remotion, released on Rotters Golf Club. Co-workers at London's Sherbet animation production company, Adam Aiken and Shelley Revill have been collaborating on short film projects for the past two years. They have developed a visually rich style that stretches the boundaries of conventional design and moving image, using drawing, found objects, photography, live action, animation and digital manipulation to create an idiosyncratic, hand-crafted look. They have produced music videos for The Mountain Goats, The Delgados, Birdengine and Paul Blackford, and have attracted the attention of film festivals in the UK and abroad. The duo's Thoughts Of A Falling Glass Man video has been screened several times at London’s ICA. Their work has also received critical acclaim on the BBC’s Film Network site.   Adam recently completed a video for UK electro pioneers Transparent Sound, utilising the illustration talents of Eleanor Meredith. Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1228/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1228/ The video to Thoughts of a Falling Glass Man forms part of Spannered’s showcase of work by filmmakers Adam Aiken and Shelley Revill. The track was composed by Dorset-born musician Lawry Joseph Tilbury, aka Birdengine, and is taken from 2004's Birdengine EP on Benbecula Records. The video has received critical acclaim on the BBC's Film Network site, and has been screened several times at London's ICA. Co-workers at London's Sherbet animation production company, Adam Aiken and Shelley Revill have been collaborating on short film projects for the past two years. They have developed a visually rich style that stretches the boundaries of conventional design and moving image, using drawing, found objects, photography, live action, animation and digital manipulation to create an idiosyncratic, hand-crafted look. They have produced music videos for The Mountain Goats, The Delgados, Paul Blackford and R3mote, and have attracted the attention of film festivals in the UK and abroad. Their work has also received critical acclaim on the BBC’s Film Network site.   Adam recently completed a video for UK electro pioneers Transparent Sound, utilising the illustration talents of Eleanor Meredith. Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1229/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1229/ The video to Slow West Vultures forms part of Spannered’s showcase of work by filmmakers Adam Aiken and Shelley Revill. The track was written by The Mountain Goats and is taken from their 2004 album on 4AD, We Shall All Be Healed.   Co-workers at London's Sherbet animation production company, Adam Aiken and Shelley Revill have been collaborating on short film projects for the past two years. They have developed a visually rich style that stretches the boundaries of conventional design and moving image, using drawing, found objects, photography, live action, animation and digital manipulation to create an idiosyncratic, hand-crafted look. They have produced music videos for The Delgados, Birdengine, Paul Blackford and R3mote, and have attracted the attention of film festivals in the UK and abroad. The duo's Thoughts Of A Falling Glass Man video has been screened several times at London’s ICA. Their work has also received critical acclaim on the BBC’s Film Network site.   Adam recently completed a video for UK electro pioneers Transparent Sound, utilising the illustration talents of Eleanor Meredith. Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1216/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1216/ This gallery features a collection of photos taken and art made during an expansive tour of the Middle East by artists Henry Hemming and Al Braithwaite. For more information, read Spannered's review of the resulting book by Henry Hemming, Misadventure in the Middle East, or visit his site.   Please note, Misadventure in the Middle East is not a picture book. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1203/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1203/ The streets of Stockholm are alive right now in an explosion of street art stickers, with many different artists working in almost as many different media. Sun, 20 May 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1200/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1200/ The mysterious Klister Pete shows Stockholm's street artists how to avoid falling fowl of the law. Wed, 09 May 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1174/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1174/ Photographic evidence from the first ever Bloc Weekend. Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1167/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1167/ Charade is a piece originally commissioned by Addictive Television for an ITV 1 late-night series called Mixmasters. The original film has lapsed into public domain and those Audrey Hepburn eyelashes were just too much to ignore. Si Begg did the music and the subsequent result was exhibited at London’s Institute of Contemporary Art, shown at The National Film Theatre, Raindance Film Festival and at numerous events worldwide. It has been hailed as one of the definitive film-remixes.   The Noodles Foundation and HoFuN HoFuN is a loosely woven set of multimedia artists. It initially formed to produce the CD-Rom that went out with the first 1000 copies of The Complete Death of Cool, a bonkers compilation album compiled by Si Begg for The Noodles Foundation in 2002. This release was sub-titled ‘The World’s Smallest Film Festival’, and with video compression techniques as basic as they were then, squeezing four and a half hours of some of the most peculiar film and video on the planet on to one CD was no mean feat. The founders Robin Mahoney, Anthony Alexander and Kel Mckeown then found themselves being invited to all sorts of happenings to show their stuff; sometimes as standalone AV mixes and other times as not-so-pretty pictures on the walls behind performances by the likes of Si Begg (he took us on tour), Tim Wright (he did too), Cursor Miner, Lusine ICL, Point B, Kelpe, Abstract Knights, Con Brio, Tipper, Crunch, Pole, Bitstream, Subjex, Claro Intelecto, Kansas City Prophets, Abstrakt Knights and Robin’s two-year-old son Sid. HoFuN’s eyewatering output continues with a series of UK Festival dates planned for summer 2007 and a full-length DVD album in conjunction with Si Begg, which is almost completed. Who the hell are these people? Robin Mahoney Robin started out a child. At the age of 24 he formed an allegiance with veteran filmmaker Mike Sarne and produced The Punk (aka The Punk and The Princess). The film went global with a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and worldwide cinema distribution. Off the back of this Robin got to direct his first movie, the feature documentary Glastonbury The Movie, a rollicking no-holds-barred trip through the world famous music festival. This too was released theatrically and also had the honour of being the very first feature film to be Lottery awarded. He also produced and edited Glastonbury and soon moved on to edit a number of other films, short and long. The short film Cereal Killer, that he cut and associate produced with director Robert Heath, won the ‘Canal Plus - Best European Short’ award at the prestigious Brest International Film Festival. He also achieved certain notoriety as editor of the seminal late night Channel 4 show The Trip, a favourite with insomniac clubbers of the late 90s. He also makes music, if you can call it that. And some of his tunes were on The Complete Death of Cool. Lately Robin has produced several music DVDs under the banner of  his production company Mensch for artists such as Basement Jaxx, The Prodigy, Pixies, White Stripes, Peaches, Badly Drawn Boy, Dizzee Rascal, Lemon Jelly and Electric Six. He is just putting the finishing touches to a special edition DVD for last year’s ‘Amnesty International - Secret Policeman’s Ball’. The triple disc box set of Glastonbury The Movie is also in the pipeline and features over nine hours of video and a staggering 24 hours of audio. www.myspace.com/robinmahoney www.hofun.org.uk www.menschfilms.com Si Begg Toying incessantly with genre conventions, Begg's bass-heavy tunes span the dance music spectrum; from breaks & electro funk to techno and UK Garage. To wean himself off a teenage diet of prog rock, electro and free jazz, Begg joined the notorious Cabbage Head collective in the early 90s, working with noted dance producers like Cristian Vogel, with whom Begg formed the Mosquito label. Since 1994 Si has released a deluge of tracks, recording as Cabbageboy, Bigfoot, Buckfunk 3000, SI Futures and under his own name on labels such as Ninja Tune, Chrome, Mille Plateaux, Tresor, Eukatech, Language, Mute and his own Mosquito and Noodles imprints. Solo albums include Director's Cut and (as SI Futures) The Mission Statement. Crammed label subsidiary Language issued the debut Buckfunk 3000 EP toward the end of 1996, and the 1997 Buckfunk 3000 LP First Class Ticket to Telos was followed by a Si Begg full-length for Caipirinha - the 1998 Commuter World. His plethora of remixes includes Sven Vath, Leftfield, DJ Rush and Sigue Sigue Sputnik. www.sibegg.com www.myspace.com/sibegg Read Overload Media's interview with Si Begg from 2001 Kel Mckeown (aka Kelpe) Kel Mckeown’s alter ego is Kelpe. After tentative pre-teenage forays into cassette recorders and joke rap bands with friends, Kel devoted most of his teenage years to bone splintering skateboarding mishaps before deciding that loops and samples might provide him with a safer past time than trucks and wheels. Despite adolescent attempts at computer music resulting in "crap rave efforts" made on a Commodore Amiga, the process of sampling and sequencing provided him with a discipline and focus that is of fundamental importance to the creative process that he currently employs in the execution of his gob-smackingly impressive "head-nod-tronica" work-outs. Coming to the attention of DC Recordings in early 2003, his first release for label was the 12" EP The People are Trying to Sleep, a wide-eyed carnival of fractured beats and warped electronics. This was followed by the critically acclaimed album Sea Inside Body (September 2004) and most recently, by bedroom discotheque 12" Sunburnt Eyelids (October 2005). With influences ranging from the bleeps & bass of classic Warp artists to the spectral folk of John Renbourn, and the minimalism of Steve Reich to the percussive space-scapes of Do Make Say Think, the diversity of the music that inspires Kelpe finds reflection in his own sonic adventures, informing his ever-evolving sound, combining as map and compass to guide his lunar-bound b-boy throwdowns. It's an awareness of this constant state of flux that shapes his recordings. Kelpe is currently recording his second album for DC Recordings, due in 2007.www.myspace.com/kelpemusic   Anthony Alexander Little is known about the history of this elusive chap. Spirtual founder of both Cabbage Head and HoFuN, he has known Mr Begg since they were both knee high to a grasshopper. Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1163/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1163/ Nayana Fernandez, fotógrafa brasileira, volta às suas origens paulistas. Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1160/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1160/ Brazilian photographer Nayana Fernandez returns to her birthplace of São Paulo. Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1155/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1155/ Spannered's Lady Chatterley journey's to London's South Bank for the art duo's retrospective. Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1143/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1143/ The mighty DJ Scotch Egg enlists a 50-strong orchestra to present this magnificent Game Boy opus. Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1144/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1144/ Brisbane’s foxy noise duo Kunt team up with Aussie associate Scorpio Scorpio for a pottymouthed punch-up with the old bill in this rock-fuelled diatribe. Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1145/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1145/ Directed by Steve Glashier ^ Watch Kunt and Scorpio Scorpio's Copper, filmed and produced by Nothing To See Here ^ Watch DJ Scotch Egg's Scotch Hausen, filmed and produced by Nothing To See Here Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/846/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/846/ London-based graphic artist Leinz creates artwork to stimulate thought on the world around us and the way in which it is governed, subverting iconic characters of the 20th century, from Mahatma Gandhi to Mickey Mouse, with his elegant digital take on the stencil aesthetic. Leinz is also a charming medieval Dolomite town located in the Austrian Tyrol region. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1132/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1132/ Meet the 2000 AD artist with many elbows. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1136/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1136/ Photos reproduced from Left London by William Eckersley and Alexander Shields. All images copyright 2006 Stucco Press. ^ Read Spannered's review of Left London Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1137/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1137/ Video filmed and produced by Doca of Prodigo. ^ Read Spannered's interview with Fulerô O Esquema ^ Listen to Pinga (Soulslinger & Disco D mix) ^ Listen to Pinga (Blackmass Plastics mix) Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1148/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1148/ With his armoury of bagpipes, Burberry, Michael Jackson samples and plenty of noise, anarchic Brightonion Shitmat gives us an insight into his mashcore antics. This candid little interview, filmed by our friends at Nothing To See Here sees the man himself talking about gigs, art, sampling, and also incorporates rare gig and performance art footage. Direction and interview by Max Leonard Other Footage by Steve Glashier Edited by Richard Bruce   Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1147/ http://www.spannered.org/spannervision/1147/ With his album selling like the proverbial hot cakes in record stores across the land and new single Nico Suave bubbling on 1Xtra, Musicalbear met up with Yungun aka Essa at his North London base to talk about how he came up, where he's at now and what the future holds for this promising young rapper. The backing track used in the interview is the new Latin flavoured 12" which was produced by Evil Ed and which also features Jehst and Asaviour on the flip, singing the praises of one of their favourite substances (can you guess what it is?). Camera/editor - Alexa Seligman Interview by Masta G ^ Yungun's album, The Essance is out now on Brighton's Janomi Records Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:00:00 GMT