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Titelstory: Vinyl-Report Paris
Auf 45 Seiten begeben wir uns auf einen ausführlichen Trip durch die Plattenläden von Paris, zeichnen die Entwicklung der Rockmusik zwischen Rhein und Atlantik nach, werfen einen Blick auf die Besonderheiten der französischen Vinyl-Kultur und stellen – von Françoise Hardy über Gong bis Daft Punk – 33 der besten Alben französischer Herkunft vor, die auch hierzulande ins Plattenregal gehören.

Clearaudio
High End Made in Germany: Wir besuchen die Produktionshallen des traditionsreichen fränkischen Familienbetriebs.

Vinyl-Laube
Wir verbringen einen Abend mit fünf Freunden, die in einer Dortmunder Gartenlaube ihre Leidenschaft für Vinyl teilen.

Master Class
Frank Wonneberg befasst sich in seiner Reihe zu großen Alben mit „Tubular“ Bells von Mike Oldfield.

Enthüllt: Yellow Magic Orchestra
Die Geschichten zum Cover von Yellow Magic Orchestras „Solid State Survivor“, fotografiert von Masayoshi Sukita.

Soundtrack Of My Life
Jethro-Tull-Mastermind Ian Anderson über den Folk-Klassiker „Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith“ von Roy Harper.

Weitere Themen der Ausgabe: Praxistests zu Plattenspieler, Phono-Vorverstärker und Tonabnehmer, über 100 LP-Besprechungen auf 50 Seiten, die Rubrik „33 1 / 3 Cover“, News-Features, Dr. MINT, Vinyl-Vorschau, das Sleeveface des Monats und vieles mehr.

Don Cherry's Organic Music Family, Gaika, John Butcher, Ahao Ssan, …

Themen Mint Nr. 36

Titelstory: Deep Purple Es existieren wohl nur wenige Bands, die so lange aktiv sind und zugleich so viele Besetzungswechsel hinter sich haben. Auf 40 Seiten widmet sich Mint deshalb zunächst jeder einzelnen „Mark“ der Hardrock-Pioniere, wie Deep-Purple-Fans die Besetzungen bezeichnen, sowie ihren wichtigsten Studio- und Livealben. In der „Master Class“ nimmt sich Frank Wonneberg in aller Ausführlichkeit Machine Head vor; das musikalisch einflussreichste Album der Band, während Fotograf Didi Zill, der die Briten über Jahrzehnte begleitete, für Mint sein riesiges Fotoarchiv geöffnet hat. Mint-Chefredakteur Dennis Plauk geht in „Enthüllt“ ausführlich auf das Cover der dritten, nach der Band benannten LP ein. Und nicht zuletzt stellen Sänger Ian Gillan, Schlagzeuger Ian Paice und Gitarrist Steve Morse die Soundtracks ihrer Leben vor.

Zuhause ist, wo die Plattensammlung steht Michael Reinboth, DJ und Chef des Labels Compost Records, gewährt Mint-Redakteur Florian Schneider einen umfassenden Einblick in seine Plattensammlung,

Signierte Schallplatten Mint-Autor Gerrit Terstiege erzählt von einem ganz speziellen Sammelgebiet, in dem er sich selbst rege betätigt: Vom Künstler selbst unterzeichnete Platten und Plattencover. Wie verifiziert man die Authentizität, welche signierte Platte ist die teuerste – und möchte man sie überhaupt besitzen?

Der Tütensammler Vinyl ist nicht der einzige Kunststoff, für den sich Roman Bühlmann begeistert. Seit 1980 sammelt der Schweizer Schallplatten – und fast genauso lange die Plastiktüten der Läden, in denen er sie kauft. Mint-Autor Florian Höhr besuchte Bühlmann in Schaffhausen und lernte eine Kunstform für sich kennen.

Musik-Bücher Fünfmal neuer Lesestoff zum Lieblingsthema. Vom Krautrock-Label Brain über eine Joy-Division-History, eine popkulturelle Chronik der 70er, eine Ringo-Starr-Biografie zu David Byrnes Abhandlung über die Wirkung von Musik.

Weitere Themen der Ausgabe Neue Boxen, Verstärker und Plattenspieler im Praxistest, über 90 LP-Besprechungen, die Rubrik „33 1/3 Cover“, News-Features, Vinyl-Vorschau, das Sleeveface des Monats und vieles mehr.

Featuring James Jarvis, Holy Family, Shabazz Palaces, Jonathan Glazer, South Bank, Joakim, Ricky Adam, Homeboys, Adicup, Salvatore Scarpitta, Tim Zom, Karen Green, Erik Jones, Vako Valo, Pedro Reyes, Nedda Afsari, Iga Drobisz and much more

FRANKIE FOREVER

Without Frankie Knuckles there would be no Faith or the culture we are built on. He has been our guiding star since we launched back in the late '90s.

So ten years on from his passing, welcome to the very special Frankie Knuckles / Spring issue.

Frankie was so much more than The Godfather of House as our many loving tributes, stories and memories from friends and fans show.

His legacy continues through the music and memories he has left behind. And thanks to the Frankie Knuckles Foundation who have helped with this issue, his mission as the global ambassador of house music continues through the causes he supported.

With much love and deep admiration, we give you our Frankie Knuckles special.

Keep the Faith.

Since ITS Inception, Orienteer HAS Taken THE Print Format OF AN OLD OS MAP. Moving IN A Progressive Direction, THE Mapazine HAS Transformed Into A 240-page Print Magazine.

THE Term Deimatic Behaviour Refers TO THE Patterns OF Bluffing That AN Animal CAN Display IN Defence. This Feat OF Nature IS Seen Across ALL Forms OF Wildlife, Especially Butterflies, Moths AND Small Creatures Like Birds AND Insects.

Since Turning PRO FOR @satisfyrunning, WE Have Been Keeping A Close EYE ON @stiandhl AND HIS Impressive Work ON THE Trails & Competitions. WE Travelled TO Oslo TO Meet HIM IN HIS Backyard, AND Then Caught UP With HIM Just After THE Black Canyons 100k Race TO Speak About ALL Things Trail & Gear. Stian Makes Cover 3 OF 4.

IN Stian’S Words: “running ON Trails CAN Heal THE Rift Between Human Experience AND THE Natural WORLD.”

IT WAS A Pleasure TO Work With YOU Stian AND WE Would Like TO Thank THE Satisfy Team FOR Their Support

— Includes Charlie Constantinou X 66north Foldout MAP — 240 Pages — 230x300mm — Spot UV Orienteer Logo — Cmyk + Neon Pink Print Throughout

Titelstory: Depeche Mode Anlässlich des neuen Albums „Memento Mori“ widmen wir uns auf 46 Seiten der Welt der Synthie-Pop-Pioniere Depeche Mode. Es gibt einen großen Vinyl-Guide zu Studioalben und Live-Bootlegs, dazu Interviews mit Sänger Dave Gahan, Bandentdecker und Mute-Gründer Daniel Miller und Stammdesigner Anton Corbijn. Zudem haben wir einem leidenschaftlichen Depeche-Mode-Fan einen Besuch abgestattet und blicken in Form von Historys auf die New-Romantics-Bewegung der frühen 80er und auf die Entwicklung der Remix-Kultur, die Depeche Mode geprägt haben.

Frauen und Vinyl Warum sind Frauen in der Vinyl-Welt immer noch Ausnahmeerscheinungen? Wir haben Sammlerinnen quer durchs Land interviewt und nach Antworten gesucht.

Coturn Ein neuer Plattenspieler setzt Maßstäbe für die mobile Wiedergabe. Der Weg dorthin war weit. Wir haben den Erfinder in seinem Atelier besucht.

Musik zum Lesen Von Pink Floyd über Prince bis Rory Gallagher: sechs aktuelle Bücher, in denen sich Schallplatten- und Musikfans verlieren können.

Master Class Frank Wonneberg widmet sich in der Reihe zu Albumklassikern „Surfer Rosa“, dem einflussreichen Debüt der Indierocker Pixies.

Enthüllt: Prince Die Ideen hinterm Cover von Prince’ „Around The World In A Day“, einem psychedelischen Meisterwerk, gestaltet von Doug Henders.

Soundtrack Of My Life Garbage-Sängerin Shirley Manson über „The Scream“ von Siouxsie And The Banshees

Weitere Themen der Ausgabe Praxistests zu Plattenspieler, Phono-Vorverstärker und Regallautsprecher, über 100 LP-Besprechungen auf 50 Seiten, die Rubrik „33 1 / 3 Cover“, News-Features, Dr. Mint, Vinyl-Vorschau, das Sleeveface des Monats und vieles mehr.

The fouth issue of our quarterly underground hip hop magazine.

44 pages – no ads, full color, 5.5″ x 8.5″ Indie rap interviews, articles, illustrations and more. Featuring: Wordsworth, Es, Sankofa, Codefendants (Ceschi + Sam King), Elemxnt + more. Contributors: David “319 Heads” Jaguttis, Aidan Searle, Allan Lorde, Donae’ Johnson, Max Rodgers, Brian Kayser, Chaps, Justin Boland, Matt Bomarr, Matt Greenfield, Werner von Wallenrod.

The third issue of our quarterly underground hip hop magazine.

52 pages – no ads, full color, 5.5″ x 8.5″ Indie rap articles, book reviews, illustrations and more. Featuring: Andrew, Chali 2na, Noah23, The Custodian of Records, Hand’Solo Records, Tase Grip: Akai Solo, ctyzn, GAM, iblss, Lungs, phiik, S!LENCE, Seji Beats, Shae Buttah, Wavy Bagels, and more. Contributors: David “319 Heads” Jaguttis, Aidan Searle, Allan Lorde, Hip Hop Toys, Matt Shaver, Brian Kayser, Chaps, Homeboy Sandman, Ralph Perez, Werner von Wallenrod.

GROOVE #177 is the second strictly limited special edition of the magazine since the discontinuation of the print issue in 2018. 156 pages bundle a selection of articles published on groove.de from the last year with exclusive content. This is also the case in the large dossier on trance, trash pop and TikTok. Where will the techno and house scene go if it flirts with the mainstream? The festival special with a look behind the scenes of the industry and of course all the important dates of the summer season offers the best prospects. Rave on!

The fifth issue of our quarterly underground hip hop magazine.

60 pages – no ads, full color, 5.5″ x 8.5″ Featuring: Buck 65, ShrapKnel, illingsworth, MC Paul Barman, Southern Vangard Radio, Drop the Needle director Rob Freeman, Myst Milano, Ben Buck, and more. Contributors: David “319 Heads” Jaguttis, Aidan Searle, Allan Lorde, Brent Fierro, Max Rodgers, Brian Kayser, Chaps, Homeboy Sandman, DJ Jester, Jonathan Balazs, Justin Boland, and Peter Agoston.

GRRRLS BY LODOWNMAGAZINE
it’s not just a buzz. It’s for real this time. Slowly but steadily, it’s gonna happen. That thing called change. And it will be a predominantly female-centric one.
You shouldn’t expect any kind of elaborate superstructure in this very issue though. There is no men vs women and its implicit over-simplified presentation format of evil vs good - because reality proved itself to be a lot more complex than that. Instead, Lodown’s latest issue GRRRLS presents itself as a celebration of all the uncountable female talent out there that’s dedicating their craft to turn this planet into something more beautiful, smart, reflecting and overall rad again. That’s it, really. It’s a celebration of those individuals with an intact moral and intellectual compass. The days where girls have to be something other than themselves altogether are finally numbered.


Highlights of our GRRRLS issue include…

- SARAH MAPLE... Celebrated British artist Sarah Maples certainly is no stranger to challenging your beliefs about society, gender roles, religion, Internet culture, the art circuit, and whatnot - she smoked in a hijab, got beaten live on tape, transferred Disney-princesses into the academic world, and is pro-orgasm while wearing a burqa. What usually would be considered as being downright smart and deliciously provocative immediately got incredibly scandalized because Maple’s not only pro-feminist but of mixed Islamic background.

- MENTRIX... All it needs to snap out of the current state of ignorance is reminding ourselves that it’s actually quite simple to become bigger than we’ve been recently - greater in spirit and more courageous. And Berlin-based Samar Rad aka Mentrix could be just the right musical catalyst for bringing this endeavor into fruition. At this point, the multidisciplinary artist is far from being exhausted from fighting the good fight, even though she basically spent the last four years working on the accurate transition to introduce her artistic vision to the world - and the result is nothing less than breathtaking.

- SHAUNA TOOHEY... When the cultural landscape becomes a drag, it is high time to create a new narrative. Multidisciplinary artist, designer, The Changes member and mother, Shauna Toohey advocates living joyously through community engagement, inclusive creativity, collective wah-wah and a decent dose of subversive rupture. The status quo has no choice but to mutate. Toohey is all for making culture collective and (psy) active in the here and now, not stuck in yesterday’s rut, but brandishing future vision and grounded in today’s fun.

- COMPUTER GRRLS... The first computers were programmed by women, 75 years ago, and women wrote the software behind Neil Armstrong’s ‘giant leap for mankind’. Since then, IT has become ever more important and gradually turned into a field for nerds where women seem out of place altogether. But the tide is turning: a new wave of Computer Grrrls presents itself through a fantastic exhibition at Rotterdam’s MU, which highlighted the historical role women played in the development of computer science.

- plus more elaborate features and visual awesomeness from the likes of: Abigail Varney, Mia Haggi, Brijean, Agnes Denes, Karen Hackenberg, Midsoomar, Issy Wood, The Paranoyds, The Evolution of IT Girls and many others.

Titelstory: Prince Unser Special beleuchtet das Lebenswerk des Pop-Pioniers und Ausnahmekünstlers mit einem besonderen Vinyl-Fokus. So erzählen wir die Geschichte rund um das neue Album „Welcome 2 America“, lassen Weggefährten zu Wort kommen und präsentieren sein Gesamtwerk an 39 Studioalben in einem großen Vinyl-Guide.

Posthume Alben The Doors, Jeff Buckley, Marvin Gaye: Wir präsentieren 14 Meisterwerke, die nach dem Tod der Künstler erschienen sind.

Bücher Lesevergnügen auf insgesamt 3.500 Seiten: Wir stellen 10 Neuerscheinungen vor, in denen sich Schallplatten- und Musikfans verlieren können.

Musikarchiv NRW Wir werfen im Musikarchiv NRW einen Blick auf 80 archivierte Jahre der Musik-Geschichte Nordrhein-Westfalens – und darüber hinaus.

Enthüllt: Oasis Wir beleuchten die Geheimnisse hinter dem Covermotiv von „Definitely Maybe“ – fotografiert von Michael Spencer Jones.

Ein Tag im Boxen-Labor Das Traditionsunternehmen aus Schwaben baut Lautsprecher der Extraklasse. Wir besuchen das Nubert-Hauptquartier.

Master Class Frank Wonneberg befasst sich in seiner Reihe zu großen Alben diesmal mit Back To Black, dem Neo-Soul-Klassiker von Amy Winehouse.

Soundtrack Of My Life Moby spricht über „Heroes“ von David Bowie.

Weitere Themen der Ausgabe Praxistests zu Plattenspielern, Tonabnehmer und Vorverstärker, über 90 LP-Besprechungen, die Rubrik „33 1/3 Cover“, News-Features, Dr. Mint, Vinyl-Vorschau, das Sleeveface des Monats und vieles mehr.

A 'Berlin Dirt' 'zine made on the occasion of MAKIN'PAPER 2. Graffiti roots coming of age - a very personal compendium. self published - 250 copies

32 pages, staple bound, 148 x 210 mm

Big Takeover returns with features on THE Damaned, Slowdive (part 2), Jesus & Mary Chain, Meat Bodies, Real Estate, J. Robbins, Alejandro Escovedo, Meat Puppets, Camera Obscura, Jane Weaver, Mary Timony, Umbrellas, THE Shop Window, Paul Collins, and more!

Titelstory: 1973 Von The Who über Pink Floyd zu Bruce Springsteen bis New York Dolls: Der große Rückblick auf ein Jahr, in dem große Bands den Zenit ihres kreativen Schaffens erreichen und letzte Meisterwerke aufnehmen oder auch Richtungsentscheidungen treffen, Ausnahmetalente ihre Debütalben veröffentlichen und damit den Grundstein für Superstarkarrieren legen und die Punk-Bewegung ihren Anfang nimmt.

Sugar Man Die Geschichte von Songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, seinen beiden wiederentdeckten Ausnahmealben und weiteren Meisterwerken, die ebenfalls fast vergessen worden wären.

Master-Class Frank Wonneberg befasst sich in seiner Reihe diesmal mit dem Akustik-Livealbum „Unplugged“ von Eric Clapton.

Rega Made in England: Wir besuchen das Werk des legendären HiFi-Herstellers in Leigh-on-Sea in Großbritannien und treffen den Firmengründer Roy Gandy. Soundtrack Of My Life MC5-Gitarrist Wayne Kramer über das Free-Jazz-Album „Ascension“ von John Coltrane, das seine Weltsicht veränderte.

Enthüllt: The Pogues Die Geschichten zum Cover von The Pogues’ Folk-Punk-Klassiker „New Peace And Love“, designt von Simon Ryan.

Weitere Themen der Ausgabe Praxistests zu Plattenspieler, Vollverstärker und Standlautsprecher, Über 100 LP-Besprechungen auf 42 Seiten, die Rubrik „33 1/3 Cover“, News-Features, Dr. Mint, Vinyl-Vorschau, das Sleeveface des Monats und vieles mehr.

Big Takeover returns with features on Slowdive, Sloan (part 2), Lenny Kaye on Nuggets, Fountains OF Wayne, Blonde Redhead, THE Clientele, Emma Anderson, Soft Science, Modernettes / LOS Popluaros, Crime & THE City Solution, Deer Tick, Mountain Goats, Sweeping Promises, THE 1981, and more!

The latest issue is a 200-page trip through the past, present and future, with a focus on the early 2000s. Memories of the Y2K era are relived with features on Peter Yee, the former Oakley designer responsible for the Ellipse logo and many of the brand's most iconic moments, as well as Linus Nutland from Nike Server. Racing to the present, the heat gets hotter with a world-exclusive reveal of Salehe Bembury's latest New Balance colab starring on the cover, with closer looks at the 'Magma' and 'Lava' 1906Rs inside. If you flick to the inside back cover, you'll also get the scoop on the new Sneaker Freaker book. World's Greatest Sneaker Collectors is a stonking journey into the priceless stockpiles and obsessive minds of footwear aficionados. At over 750 pages, this is our biggest and most insane publishing project yet!

On the cover: Still House Plants. Inside: Cheer-Accident, Lolina, NikNak, FUJI|||||||||||TA, Ana Lua Caiano, BBBBBBB, Fatboi Sharif, Angelica Sanchez, Invisible Jukebox: Kristin Hersh, Unlimited Editions: Tripalium Corp, The Inner Sleeve: Lee Gamble on Chain Reaction, Epiphanies: Jlin on Philip Glass, Global Ear: Tashkent, plus 40 pages of reviews including Kavain Wayne Space & XT, Natalia Cappa, Bianca Scout, NOUT, Ustad Noor Bakhsh, punk rock in Northern Ireland, Indonesia and Kosovo, female Latin American electronic music composers, Sakamoto on film, and much more.

On the cover: The Haxan Cloak. Inside: DJ Znobia, Linda Smith, Ariel Kalma, Billy Bultheel, Lumpeks, Yasuhiro Morinaga, John Pope, Invisible Jukebox: Kahil El’Zabar, Epiphanies: Edward Ka-Spel on Faust, The Inner Sleeve: Teresa Winter on Saint Etienne, Global Ear: Santiago, Unlimited Editions: Thanatosis Produktion, Unofficial Channels: The Blindboy Podcast, and in the reviews sections: Allison Burik, John Surman, Univers Zero, Techno Animal, Le Guess Who?, rap in Britain and much more.

Let's celebrate the 100st Issue of LODOWN with a proper retrospective of artists, films, music and more...

Inside this issue: Laraaji, Jun Togawa, Olivia Block, Global Era, Epiphanies, … plus lots of reviews and the regulars you know from Wire.

Dave Lombardo, Paul Dunmall, Alison Cotton, Verity Susman, …

Highlights of our Savages issue include… - Ricky Powell... It’s probably a truism, and doubly true for those of us invested in the idea of culture, that when we finally go, we have a nagging fear that others will eulogize us with half-baked notions about who we were, what we cared about, what we brought to the party. A lot of empty pontificating, getting the important details all wrong. Well, lemme tell you, Ricky wasn’t just interested or invested in culture, it was his lifeblood, his *‘raisin dead rat’*. Rest In Peace, brother!

- WHY Ebay... Every once in a while you get introduced to the work of an emerging artist that immediately makes you reflect on why you fell in love with graffiti, graphic design, fashion and getting inked in the first place. It is as if you suddenly got invited to observe things from an edge, wondering when and why you suddenly stopped to rethink - or think ahead - the many possibilities these mediums offer while admiring the audacity, presumed playful easiness and variety of ideas on display. And one of these artists goes by the capricious name of Why Ebay.

- Richard Kern... There are quite a few protagonists that portrayed the seedy underground of NYC in the 80s, and East Village-based Richard Kern certainly is one of the most prominent ones. As a filmmaker he was one of the driving forces behind the Cinema of Transgression, for which he explored hysteria, sex, drugs and violence through the punk rock lens - topics he committed to for a large part of his professional career as a photographer as well.

- Cali Thornhill Dewitt... Creating subversions of the American flag. Being a roadie for grunge royalty. Running a publishing house. Doing radio. Preparing for solo-exhibitions worldwide. Running a record label. Actually, the creative endeavors of celebrated artist Cali Thornhill DeWitt are too numerous to list, but it’s safe to state that the collaboration with Abloh and Kanye a few years back might have been the moment that catapulted his name into the mainstream consciousness once and for all.

- plus more elaborate features and visual awesomeness from the likes of: Marta Blue, Mark Mulroney, Clamm, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Icy & Sot, Dry Cleaning, Matt Hansel, Mike Osborne, Djinn and many others.

Highlights of our fifth VEHICULUM issue include…

PAUL WHITE… In this day and age, where everything and everyone is expected to be a disposable commodity, life is about performance only and not necessarily about permanence. It’s a shallow world ruled by limited shelf-life and the false hope of being obsolescent-immune. And the highly-detailed drawings of Australian artist Paul White capture the phased-out goods of that very process.

THE KRAGE LEGACY… Did you know that West-Berlin felt like the worldwide capital of Speed Boat racing in the 70s and 80s? Hans Georg Krage co-founded the MCR in 1973, and organized races on the upper and lower Havel river for the next two decades. His son Peer opened his impressive photo archive for this impressive (and speeding) trip down memory lane.

BODY KIDS… Photographer Bernardo Aviles Busch came across the Tokyo-based Lowrider scene rather accidentally. Luckily, he carried his trusted camera with him and captured the spectacle on the streets of late night Shibuya.

NEW YORK CHRONICLES … Brooklyn-based photographer Luc Kordas has managed to become an expert of dichotomy over the years. On the one hand he’s the creative mind behind the popular “You Live Only Twice“ travel blog, on the other hand he’s known as a street photographer who’s capturing the ever-bustling inner city life of NY.

- plus more visual stimulations and awesomeness from the likes of: Craig Steck III, Chris Labrooy, Kenton/Davey, Karl Hab, Ant Farm Collective, Tom Sachs, Jason Rhoades and many others.

- WHY Ebay... Every once in a while you get introduced to the work of an emerging artist that immediately makes you reflect on why you fell in love with graffiti, graphic design, fashion and getting inked in the first place. It is as if you suddenly got invited to observe things from an edge, wondering when and why you suddenly stopped to rethink - or think ahead - the many possibilities these mediums offer while admiring the audacity, presumed playful easiness and variety of ideas on display. And one of these artists goes by the capricious name of Why Ebay.

- Richard Kern... There are quite a few protagonists that portrayed the seedy underground of NYC in the 80s, and East Village-based Richard Kern certainly is one of the most prominent ones. As a filmmaker he was one of the driving forces behind the Cinema of Transgression, for which he explored hysteria, sex, drugs and violence through the punk rock lens - topics he committed to for a large part of his professional career as a photographer as well.

- Cali Thornhill Dewitt... Creating subversions of the American flag. Being a roadie for grunge royalty. Running a publishing house. Doing radio. Preparing for solo-exhibitions worldwide. Running a record label. Actually, the creative endeavors of celebrated artist Cali Thornhill DeWitt are too numerous to list, but it’s safe to state that the collaboration with Abloh and Kanye a few years back might have been the moment that catapulted his name into the mainstream consciousness once and for all.

- plus more elaborate features and visual awesomeness from the likes of: Marta Blue, Mark Mulroney, Clamm, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Icy & Sot, Dry Cleaning, Matt Hansel, Mike Osborne, Djinn and many others.

Highlights of our The Simple Issue issue include…

MIKE MILLS… His latest movie tells a story about the ties and strong interrelationship between kids and adults - and he does so in the most generous and truthful way. While “Beginners“ reflected on the life of his dad, and “20th Century Women“ put his mom and growing up in a matriarchal household in the spotlight, “C’mon C’mon“ is inspired by the relationship Mills has with his very own child, Hopper.

LISA VACCINO… The majority of us would initially refer to music, movies, family, and the friends we made when we think about our very own socialization. Some bright minds would then probably throw traveling and the brands we cherished at a specific time into the mix. And while Swedish artist Lisa Vaccino does all that, she adds a heavy dose of junk culture to her paintings as well that often feel like a trip down memory lane filtered through a messed-up dreamcatcher.

JAMES JARVIS… The body of work of London-based artist James Jarvis is constantly evolving, no matter if you like it or not. Having left his vector-friendly trademark style (partially) behind with “Spheric Dialogues“ already, the pandemic and connected lockdown saw him performing at his most free and adventurous: from static CGI through rather abstract collages to his latest series of consciously bad drawings.

CODY HUDSON… Chicago-based, heavily prolific artist Cody Hudson is constantly switching gears between a rather hectic life in the Windy City and finding a little peace and quiet in his small studio in Wisconsin - not necessarily trying to capture the essence of nature, but using it to find a place within himself.

- plus more elaborate features and visual awesomeness from the likes of: EVAN HECOX, ROB JABBAZ, RYAN SZULC, DANIELE VITA, ARTHUR LONGO, JULIEN BABIGEON and many others.

Come and join us for the launch of the brand new issue of Lodown Magazine, guest-edited by Sandberg Instituut’s Master Programme Radical Cut-Up. Released at Stedelijk Book Club. Print! Press! Publish! 2018, taking place at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

This time around, we are focussing on cut-up culture. Some might state it’s just a more sophisticated way to say that it’s based on stealing from others - which is actually true, yet this very movement cannot be pinned down by this simplification only. Copying from others and the art of de-contextualizing has a long history, it goes along with the age of industrialized reproduction that basically transcends everything of our life at any given moment.

We teamed up with the students and tutors of the Radical Cut-Up program at Amsterdam’s Sandberg Instituut to create this text-heavy and très heady manifest of a phenomenon that needs to be discussed.

Summertime might feel like this highly anticipated long stretch of lazy - but in actuality you just canalize your energy differently as you’d normally do because life just feels a bit easier as soon as you squint in the bright sun. You hustle as hard as you ever do but suddenly your daily routine seems to be filled with swimming strokes and mastering summersaults.
Lodown’s latest adventures into creative procrastination is titled “Lemonade“ - an aptly chosen variable for each and everyone’s favorite season - which will offer an even more colorful, wild, sexy, funny, silly, adventurous and overall entertaining ride than usual. Some might even say it is filled with the same magic usually connected to summertime only.

Featuring:

Benjakon, Ed Harrington, Saint Hoax, Icy & Sot, Cain Caser, JAck Daly, French Fred (Mortagne), Stephen Burridge, Sinziana Velicescu, Eve De Haan, Fanakapan, Erin D. Garcia, Olimpia Zagnoli

“Vandals“ by Lodown Magazine is an artistic exploration of how to do things differently and civil disobedience.

Highlights include…

• JOHN DIVOLA... As he nears 70, the legendary LA-based artist might have quit spraying symbols inside abandoned buildings, but his artistic acts of vandalism still feel irritatingly fresh after forty years.

• DAVE RIMMER... The former British music journalist and Smash Hits! editor talked with us about his forgotten masterpiece “Once Upon A Time In The East“, in which he tells true tales about mischief in West/East-Berlin before the Wall came down - his classic “Eastie Boys“ prank included.

• HARIS NUKEM... The celebrated photographer just had a solo show titled “Humans“ at the NR Project art space London in late summer, proving once again that “good vibes“ is a very flexible expression, as the very majority of his stunning portraits capture individuals consciously on a collision course with society and its established norms.

- plus more elaborate features and visual awesomeness from the likes of: ERIC BRUNETTI, KIDULT, MATIAS AGUAYO, SUPER DARK TIMES, DANIEL BUREN, SpY, GHOST, JELLE KEPPENS, BOBBY HUNDREDS and many others.

Skin as manifold exterior. Skin as signifier. Skin as identifier. Skin as protector and delicate receptor for Vitamin D. The surface is deep, evidenced by the 32 million bacteria occupying each square inch of your arm. Altogether that’s, well, don’t worry about the total number on your body. It’s gross. Or rad. Like this very issue, which will hit your reality next week. Elaborate stories on Kit King, Alice Hawkins, Sage Elsesser, Till Rabus, Grizzly Bear, Andreas Demeter, Mike Blabac. And. So. Much. More. For. You. To. Discover.

After the big Anniversary issue #100 we thought it?s a brilliant idea to deal with Youth and its subsequent cultures - before we?re getting too old to have a clue about it. This the first issue in a series of shape-shifting editions in a mono-thematic fashion.

And here?s a little sneak peek on what?s happening in our Youth issue?

• Don Letts ... the original culture clash master, who single-handedly turned a generation of punks into reggae enthusiasts, speaks his mind about youth culture?s rich past and rather sober present.

• Mark Oblow ... has been busy building his own brand moblow between surfing, skating, consulting, shooting photos for various clients and enjoying the beaches and food of Costa Mesa.

• Less ... the celebrated South Korean photographer is an expert when it comes to capturing Seoul?s youth, which has the tendency to completely lose it as soon as the weekend arrives.

• Sylvan Rand ... was there, he witnessed all the new styles and movements and protests of the last five decades, and saw how the youngsters finally liberated themselves - and luckily for us, he finally decided to open his impressive archive to the public.

- more eloquent statements and visual awesomeness about ?youth? from the likes of: Trevor Jackson, Zuza Krajewska, Mike Blabac, The Internet, Gaurab Thakali, Kazuhiro Hori and many others...

specs for the trump card players: 220 mm Width x 274 mm Height, portrait format, high quality print, different paper stocks, uv lacquer

Highlights of our Crush issue include… Karabo Mookie… The brilliant thing about authenticity is that you are either authentic or not. There’s no way to try it, no way to buy it. And that’s why, in the current climate of everybody wanting to be everything at any given time in praise of rising follower numbers, the work of Johannesburg-based photographer and filmmaker Karabo Mooki - and the way he explores local subcultures - cannot be appreciated highly enough.

Alison Blickle… Myths are deeply embedded in basically every culture on our planet. They were necessities to explain our surroundings and the world itself, long before any kind of elaborate academic vocabulary offered a different view on things. And, in actuality, people still love to create them in order to make sense of a world that’s changing at warp speed. Los Angeles-based artist Alison Blickle now combines the ancient with the contemporary to form urgent and highly topical narratives in her amazing paintings.

DRE Dogue… If you understand life as a state less shaped by borders and rules but by connectivity and options, then it makes perfect sense to be constantly in motion instead of showboating your permanent residence. And celebrated photographer Dre Dogue does exactly that. From Manila to Tokyo, from Bangkok to Hong Kong. And then some more. Living the life of a full-time urban nomad for many years already, he travels Asia’s primate cities and beyond with his trusted analog cameras - and luckily, he isn’t getting tired of it at this point.

JAY Wilkinson … Your sense of self is much more defined by what your mind tells you about yourself than by the actual truths your very own storyline is offering. It’s way more fiction less facts. It’s basically a composition of disjointed half-truths placed on a rather porous timeline that keeps you going. Texas-based painter Jay Wilkinson is very much aware of this fact, and his latest series “free Dirt“ is his take on how memories are built by the permanent absorbance of information.

- plus more elaborate features and visual awesomeness from the likes of: John Brosio, Sunandbass, Mark Gonzales, LA Pools, and many others.

Highlights of our Sound issue include… Peter Anderson… Regardless of what kind of music you’re into, it is more than likely that your idol - or, depending on your age, your idol’s idol - has been immortalized on a roll of black and white film by Anderson. He started to work at the NME shortly after he moved from Glasgow to London in the late 1970s, and later in his career delivered the goods for record labels (big and small) and publications such as Rolling Stone, The Face or I-D.

Eric White… Splitting the majority of his time between Los Angeles and New York, White blends New Hollywood myth-making with pop culture references and more than just a nod to the hyperrealist movement to create his very own narrative on modern Americana. The resulting paintings more than often tap into uncanny territories, as you feel that they’re just delivering snapshots of a higher plot driven by disorder, surveillance, and paranoia.

Conny Plank… Even before he built and founded the legendary recording studio “Connys Studio“ in the provincial backwaters of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1974, he had already proven himself to be a visionary at the mixing desk, with albums by Krautrock heavyweights such as Ash Ra Tempel, Cluster, Kraftwerk, and Neu! being rewarding examples of his craft.

Siren Kings … Siren Kings are members of a primarily Pasifika underground youth subculture, originating in Auckland, New Zealand, which gained popularity in the mid 2010s. The siren scene involves competitions where crews compete for the loudest and clearest sound produced by sirens, loudspeakers, or public address systems attached to cars or bicycles, to win the title of Siren King.

- plus more elaborate features and visual awesomeness from the likes of: Nik Nowak, Benoit Maubrey, Movies about Sound, Nate Langston Palmer, Maya Shenfeld, Edwin van der Heide. and many others.

Highlights of our Heat issue include… Jean Jullien… The French multidisciplinary artist just opened a massive solo show titled “Studiolo“, which basically runs for the entire second half of 2023 at Brussels’ Mima - his first European institutional solo exhibition, to be precise. It’s an immersive experience, celebrating the symbiotic relationship between art and language (and therefore the richness and complexity of the human experience), showcasing Jean Jullien's exceptional talent for combining the two.

Pose… Pose already started to sink his teeth into graffiti in 1992, and later became part of renowned crews The Seventh Letter and MSK. He then co-founded We Are Supervision in 2005 before deciding to focus entirely on his artistic career around 2009. His work takes pop culture out of context via an expertly executed cut-and-paste technique that deconstructs and reinterprets familiar compositions in order to create something entirely new.

Chicago Gang Culture… Los Angeles-based writer Alec Banks was revisiting his hometown Chicago for “Compliments of: Chicago Gang Culture“, an excellent new book that delivers deep insights on the visual history and exploration of Chi-town’s gang culture and its controversial standing within the city.

Will Cotton … New York City-based painter Will Cotton continues to write his very own take on Americana with his latest exhibition “Trigger“, that’s currently on display at Paris-based Templon gallery. His art might have a soft focus on first impression. In actuality though, it is not only a masterfully executed reflection on American pop culture and its often implied myth-making, but a first-rate deconstruction of ultra-masculinity, gender, and outdated role models.

- plus more elaborate features and visual awesomeness from the likes of: Andrea Orejarena, Caleb Stein, Tristan Martinez, Adali Schell, and many others.