GHOSTPOET The Sound Of Strangers EP
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Just a little heads up about a free download by one of our favourite emerging artists GHOSTPOET. You can download his new EP absolutely FREE here.
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Filterwolf – Music For Tomorrow
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Neon recommends new album from Cologne based Bosnian techno producer and DJ Adnan Duric a.k.a. Filterwolf. The album is available now via Process Recordings.
For more info see Filterwolf on MySpace. We have also included an excerpt of our favourite track ‘Love Code’:
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VBS.TV & Palladium Boots launch new series – Uneven Terrain
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010Uneven Terrain, is devoted to urban exploration and uncovering the hidden, underground and forgotten corners of the world’s leading metropolises.
The series has been inspired by iconic footwear brand Palladium Boots; initially a tire manufacturer, Palladium Boots combined their rubber expertise with canvas and crafted an iconic and durable boot that was worn by the French Foreign Legion. Sixty years later, the brand continues to symbolise adventure, and is now traveling the globe, investigating the cities we live in and places around us.
London Pirate Frequencies the first film of this series explores the world of Pirate Radio, a phenomenon born out of British sea forts in the ’60s. This episode follows the team as they sail to the mouth of the Thames to find the forts to see where it all began, meeting the pioneers of pirate radio who defined an era by playing the music London wanted to hear.
When the authorities shut them down, pirate sounds went underground. Pirate stations are now an established scene in London, broadcasting music and the sounds of youth culture, from secret tower block studios. In constant contact with listeners via text messaging and chat forums, today’s pirates are the essence of mobile. Today you can find it in urban centers around the UK, pushing youth culture forward one neighborhood at a time.
During the making of Uneven Terrain, VBS.TV climbed to the tops of urban tower blocks to find homemade pirate antennas and were blindfolded and driven to the secret London studios where pirate culture thrives today. Host of the show Matt Mason, a former pirate radio broadcaster and author of best selling book The Pirate’s Dilemma, meet with DJs and station managers, rappers and MCs, and interviewed DJ Scratcha from RINSE FM, MC Flirt from old-school KOOL FM, J2K, Jammer and KISS FM’s Logan Sama.
Ulrich Schnauss ‘Missing Deadlines – Selected Remixes’
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Ulrich Shnauss combines multilayered synthesisers with beats and ethereal vocals, serving as an aural escape route from the trappings of reality: “I’ve always used making and listening to music as a way to escape – putting on headphones is a great way to leave reality behind for a while, reminding yourself why it still makes sense to carry on”…
See www.rocketgirl.co.uk for more details
Here is an excerpt from Madrid ‘Out To Sea’ (Ulrich Schnauss Remix):
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Alex Smoke New Album LUX
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Neon just received a copy of the new Alex Smoke album LUX out now on Hum and Haw records. If you like deep atmospheric techno we seriously recommend you check this beast out!
Here is an excerpt of ‘Platitudes’ from the album. See www.humandhaw.com for more details:
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VBS Meet Noam Chomsky
Friday, January 22nd, 2010VBS, the TV arm of influential youth magazine VICE have created a film with renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky. The film will form part of a series of one on one talks with influential people on important issues.
Professor Chomsky chatted to Kate Albright-Hanna, the Director of Video for New Media on Barack Obama’s revolutionary digital election campaign.
Fave 5 @ Mien Tay
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Mien Tay on Kingsland Road is an easy stroll away from the NEON office and lately we seem to be going there more and more, once we went for lunch and dinner.
The food is divine and the service sweet but NEON are stuck in a self-induced Vietnamese Groundhog Day. We can’t stop ordering the same dishes, generally some or all of below – depending on hunger and/or guest.
NEON are putting this down in writing to state that from now will not order any of the below and move on, stepping away from our fix. But you can try them and you should, but be warned they can take a hold on you ….
- Salt, Pepper and Garlic Squid
This is the original addiction. So amazing rumor has it one man repeat ordered this dish 7 times in one sitting. - Chargrilled Quail with Honey, Garlic and Spices
“At just £4.50, this (quail) is one of London’s most affordable luxuries” says Love Food Love Drink - Fresh Green Papaya Salad with Dried Spicy Beef
Light, fragrant, bursts of spicy beef, this is perfect balance to order with heavier dishes - Sliced Beef with Watercress & Fresh Lime
An alternative way to enjoy beef, sliced thinly and cooked in the lime juice - Seafood Hot Pot
Perfect sharing/prawn pinching dish, vast amounts of food and a boiling pot of broth to cook it at the table
Full menu can be drooled over here.
FTBC on the QT
Saturday, November 7th, 2009On November 11th NEON are going to be at the Proud Galleries in support of fundraiser juggernaut Natalie Legg and her charity event FTBC on the QT.
The event is a celebration and a thank you for a successful 2009 and a look forward to 2010 for Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. Heralded as the most iconic charitable fashion campaign, FTBC has raised over £11 million for Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s lifesaving research work.
The knees-up will be hosted by Pearl Lowe with music from Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Suffolk indie boys The Cheek (NEON is a new fan, check Do Nothing), folk-pop singer-songwriter Jharda and a DJ set from model Ben Grimes.
NEON may get in trouble for not keeping this to ourselves but we had a sneaky peek at the entry wristbands and trust us you don’t want to miss out on these. Natalie has promised more surprises that she cleverly did not tell NEON. Tickets are £30. See you there!
Boo!
Friday, November 6th, 2009
NEON always knew our friend Taffy was a handsome chap, and if we ever forgot he would never be too far away to remind/tell us. So we were naturally very proud when he graced the cover of Design Week, despite being covered in dripping paint he’s under there somewhere.
Taffy features in Boo Ritson’s latest paint orgy Back-Roads Journey, a two-site show about a fictional road-trip across America. Part 1 is titled The Diner and showing at the Alan Cristea Gallery, here Boo introduces the characters in a small town diner. Part 2 features our painted face chum at The Gas Station and follows two characters from the diners as their lives cross along the road. This is showing at the Poppy Sebire Gallery.
Boo Ritson paints the subject, literally, the results photographed while the paint is still wet. There is a window for this of 20 minutes before the household emulsion dries and Taffy is forever a trucker in a Hawaiian shirt.
The results are vivid and it is such an unusual technique you want to stick your nose up close to the pictures and touch to see if it is actually wet.
Both exhibitions close on November 21st and it is pleasant ten minutes Mayfair meander from Alan Cristea to Poppy Sebire to catch both Part 1 and Part 2. If all this glossy Americana gets you in the mood for Yankie fare Goodmans and Automat are local.
Win A VIP Trip to Paris for Gilles Peterson Album Launch
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009To help build awareness of the site Havana Cultura launched a Twitter Treasure Hunt this week and the prize is for two VIP tickets to Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura album launch party in Paris on 26th November. The winner will travel to Paris with a friend via Eurostar and spend three nights at The Hotel Amour – NEON wants to enter just for the name of the hotel.
The treasure hunt will run for two weeks via the Havana Cultura Twitter profile. On the Monday, Wednesday and Friday 2 clues will be posted, the first at 1pm and the second at 5pm. The ‘clues’ hope to encourage participants to have a good look round the site while searching for the answers.
How to enter – follow Twitter account @_HavanaCultura_
Find the clues via the site
Reply with your answer
To catch up the hashtag is #havanatreasurehunt
The winner will have to answer each question and then submit a final tie breaker – the winner will then be chosen at random.
NEON has recently spent a lot of time browsing Havana Cultura – a site that has been developed to give modern Cuban artists from the city of Havana a platform to showcase their work through videos. The featured artists present video clips demonstrating creativity that there is a thriving artistic scene beyond Buena Vista Social Club, introducing themselves through their favourite spot in Havana explaining how the area has influenced their careers.
NEON’s fave video is from composer William Vivanco reflects on the Malecón – the huge walled walkway between the sea and the city when, at high tide, kids play and Cubans wait for the huge sprays to cool them down.
As well as launching the site Gilles Peterson has collaborated with Havana Cultura to produce a 2-disk album that is the culmination of a year long project that saw Peterson travel to Cuba to find the very best new talent in Havana. The album features over 20 musicians and artists recorded across 28 tracks to celebrate Cuba’s freshest sounds that range from Latin, Afro-Jazz and Fusion to Hip Hop, Funk, Reggaeton and Pop. The album also includes a number of traditional Cuban classics re-recorded by Peterson.
