Back to the future - retro watchez!

13:51 h - CASIO Retro Digital Watch

11:44 h - ASOS Golden Digital Watch

3:26 h - Cal - Q - Tek 2000 Calculator Watch

00:00 h - CASIO Casual Watch

Round Table Knights - new amazing songs!

Round Table Knights... I don't know how they came up with this very random name, but it sounds good and I like it. The DJ duo comes all the way from Bern, Switzerland with some really nice tracks. It's strange that they don't belong to a particular style, they even say they like it "diverse", so they don't bother carrying whether their songs fit their style or not (haha cool!). They produce "all kinds of electronic / acoustic / futuristic / exciting / romantic / intense music". Cool! However, I fell in love with one of their songs called "Hold Me Back" - it has that cheerful, funky lyrics and melody that cheer you up whenever :) I also found a sweet remix by The Bulgarian, who is an upcoming Bulgarian electro DJ. Thank God, he gives me hope that the electro culture is finally going to hit there. There you go:

Round Table Knights - Hold Me Back [Buy]

Round Table Knights - Hold Me Back (The Bulgarian Remix) [buy]

Black Vs. White

(Click image to enlarge and see the sweet little designs on the t-shirts)

Black Vs White - the two opposites, that always go well together. Today I've made a rather casual combos with the always in fashion jeans and tee shirts.

1. Chick number one chose to wear a Neon Lines Oversized t-shirt, combined with Acid Black Vans jeans.

2. Number two chose one of my favourite Coloured Mirror Vest (I'm gonna kill her!) and Kate Vapour Leggings.

3. Number three was getting on my nerves, because she went mad, cos she said she was supposed to wear the Neon tee, but number One stole it from her in the changing room.. girls... Anyway, so the mad number three now is wearing a crazily designed Exploding tee by 55DSL with Ripped Denim Leggings.

4. Chick number four wasn't pretentious at all... so I chose for her a black Tiger tee by Free Gold Watch with my personal favourite Astara Wash Indigo Jeans.

Peaches - Talk To Me (produced by Soulwax) video

Merrill Beth Nisker, better known as the artist standing behind the name Peaches, is famous for her explicitly sexual and provoking lyrics. Back in 1995 in Canada, no-one would have guessed what was the drama teacher going to become... Now, her songs are played and known in the electronic culture, as well as they have been featured in many movies like Jack Ass Two, Lost in Translation, My Little Eye, Mean Girls etc.

"Talk To Me" was produced by Soulwax, (which immediately won my sympathies, as I have a passion for Soulwax's productions).. and is a part of her new upcoming album called "I Feel Cream". "Talk To Me" is an amazing result of the combination between the little taste of Justice with it's steady heavy beat and the simplicity of the melody, typical for Peaches. Love it.

From "I Feel Cream" album:

Peaches - Talk To Me (produced by Soulwax) [Buy]

Peaches - I Feel Cream [Buy]

Some other tracks by Peaches you might like:

Peaches - Fuck The Pain Away [Buy]

Peaches - Lovertits [buy]

Nid and Sancy - Kidzz video

NID AND SANCY - KIDZZ (Original Dub) from sixthsensemanagement on Vimeo.

Nid and Sancy (actually Sid and Nancy) are the newest of my electro artists. They're from Belgium and they got some CRAZY music and especially videos. "Kidzz" (produced by Little Red Robot a.k.a. Seth Shukovsky, featuring Merlin Bronques' photography) completely blew me away... I immediately fell in love with the video...

Little Red Robot is a company that has done animations, clips, and advertisements for world-famous companies like Coca Cola, Nike, EA, Activision, Universal Studios... I think the Little Red Robot deserves our applause :)

I'm sorry I didn't write much about Nid and Sancy, but, I'm still in the process of research, and I can barely find any info about them. I will make another post soon , entirely about the duo, and hopefully will post some of their tracks.

Wolfgang Gartner has gone electro too!

Woflgang Gartner - my newest of the artists I've discovered in the music branch. He's from the states, he's talented, and he's got originality. Joey Youngman, the name his parents gave him, made the alias Wolfgang Gartner as to put the beginning of his new self and his new style of performing. Youngman is describing his music style as club, although the tracks he has produced, according to me, are far from the boring old housish club music. “I was getting bored with house, with that whole sound,” he says. “I basically hadn’t evolved musically since the late 90's and had been rehashing the same ideas over and over. Something just snapped and I decided it was time for a complete change.” Well, he achieved what he was looking for. In an year he released 3 singles which hit the top 10's list at beatport.com. Here are some tracks I, personally, found sweet :)

Wolfgang Gartner - Wolfgang's 5th Symphony (Original mix) [MUST HAVE] [Buy]

Wolfgang Gartner - Flashback (Original Mix) [Buy]

Wolfgang Gartner - Squares [MUST HAVE] [Buy]

Wolfgang Gartner - Hook Shot (Original mix) [Buy]

Too many dresses

   Hello everyone! Today I felt like wearing a dress, but found out that the only one I have is super official boring @%^black #$ dress, which I've worn only twice - on my cousin's wedding, and at my father's birthday. So, typically me, I spent quite a lot of time browsing for a colourful, funky, cocktail dress, and again, I chose ASOS.com for that occasion.

   The conception I chose is pretty simple. The dresses are asymmetrical, not too extravagant, and the most important - they got COLOURS! 

    1. Number One is wearing a loose, silk Kimono dress with some really sweet designs, that makes it stand out from the boring black dress crowd 

    2. Chick number Two is wearing a tight Quontum Multi Stripe Bandeau Dress which can be perfectly combined with accessories and/or shoes of any colour.

    3. Number Three has chosen something rather more classical combination black and white asymmetrical outfit - perfect for both casual and official wearing. This is the ASOS Colour Block Jersey Drape Dress.

   4. Hot chick number Four is feeling jealous of number Two and chose the same outfit, but different model of the Quontum Low Back Stripe Detail Mini Dress. The colourful and sexy back of the dress compensates the plainness from the front of the dress. 

   

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N.A.S.A. Gifted (feat. Kanye West, Santogold, and Lykke Li) Video

One of the songs that is on my "Golden hits" list :D I'm never gonna be tired of it. So here's the video, which is as cool as the song itself. Kanye West have always been trying to stand out of the RnB crowd and all the music television's bullshit that's been flooding us since the television was invented. He's videos, his sounds, his outfit, and his lyrics have always been different. This clip is a perfect example of Kayne's sense for originality.

The combination of the artists Lykke Li, Kanye West and Santogold, was pretty unexpected, but very successful indeed. N.A.S.A. (North America/South America) is a project ran by the duo of Sam Spiegel (Squeak E. Clean) and Ze Gonzales (DJ Zegon). Those two guys are responsible for this cutting edge collaboration... and IT'S AMAZING! The video is a combination of bizarre-spacey-futuristic-innovative-transforming animation makes is absolutely unique, thanks to the enormous crew of top producers, designers, directors, animators, etc. P.S. I don't know why, but this reminds me of Karl Grandin and his wicked designs (check out previous post).

Note: listen to the lyrics :)

Check out The Aston Shuffle's remix!!

N.A.S.A. feat. Kanye West, Santogold, & Lykke Li - Gifted (The Aston Shuffle remix) [Buy]

Digital Space Invaders Are Coming!

Multitouch Space Invaders XL from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.

You have to throw balloons at the video wall to kill the space invaders. WEIRD!

This is a project by Multitouch Space Invaders XL.

Sofia Design Week is in Sofia!!

   Sofia Design Week is the first design festival to come to Bulgaria. The exhibition aims at transforming the city into a vibrant design capital. The event is organized and supported by Dutch and French embassies, along with the Bulgarian government, as well as lots of different brands; which indicates that the event itself is not just some random exhibition of ,what they call, "independent artists" (not that I don't like them ;) ), but rather shows us the best works of artists and desginers from a multitude of countries It's first aim was to welcome some of the most avangard designers from across the world.  From 05-12 June 2009 there will be 25 exhibitions in 11 different places - from galleries to apartments. The artists are mainly from the Netherlands (I don't need to wonder why they have so much imagination after walking into a coffee shop) as well as from France, USA, UK, Bulgaria, Germany, Belgium, Greece, and Spain. The exhibitions vary in themes from innovative furniture, to weird typographical installations. Since the specific details on all the exhibitions are too many to describe, and I don't plan on sitting here all night, I'll forward you to a site where you can check out the ideas and info on each separate designers' creations.

   Sofia Design Week includes workshops, lectures, and chill-out zones with free drinks and guest DJs, which makes it even more attractive for the people who esteem art, originality, and like having fun, of course. There's lots of neat stuff to learn during the expostions ranging from stuff like communication, product design to graphic design, and you can talk to the artists, and workshops, exchanging ideas, and find out some of the stuff that's in store for the future.