As well as being a member of animation team SSSR, Yu Sato has been DJing at Lex events and running an excellent and eccentric monthly night Amapola at The Haggerston bar in Dalston, London… Musical themes focus around unusual and forgotten melodies of the old world, ‘jungle chic, beach parties in casablanca, deep cumbia stew, moonshine stomps, sea, sex and sambas’. Accordion and tuba duo Malphino provide live jams and accompaniment to beautiful ladies singing in their native French. Don’t miss out if you’re in town.

Kid Acne spent part of last year in São Paulo plastering the cities public spaces with images of mythological women with swords, broken limbs and a gangster lean. Today he releases a limited edition fanzine / catalogue of this work…

52 pages, hand-printed fluoro cover. Limited run of 250, numbered and embossed. Lots of interesting blurb and comes with a set of 8 glossy postcards.

Click HERE to buy a copy – £15.00 – More info at Kid Acne’s WEBSITE including 3 limited edition T-shirts (see above)

Jneiro Jarel (aka Shape of Broad Minds, Willie Isz, Dr Who Dat?) has remixed the forthcoming single from Dave Sitek of TVOTR’s solo producer/vocalist project Maximum Balloon. Groove Me features Brooklyn’s Theophilus London and is out September 21 – Free Download via RCRD LBL here:

DOOM is on tour this Autumn, visiting UK, Ireland, mainland Europe and most of Scandinavia. Extra shows have been added and one date/location change for Netherlands. Updated details here…

DOOM – EUROPEAN TOUR – FALL 2010

Tue 12 October – IE – Dublin – Button Factory *NEW*
Wed 13 October – UK – Manchester – The Warehouse Project
Thu 14 October – UK – London – O2 Brixton Academy
Fri 15 October – UK – Brighton – Concorde 2
Sat 16 October – UK – Bristol – O2 Academy
Mon 18 October – UK – Glasgow – The Arches *NEW*
Tue 19 October – FR – Paris – Bataclan
Thu 21 October - BEL – Brussells – AB
Fri 22 October - DE – Munster – Munsters Palace
Sun 24 October – DE – Leipzig – Conne Island *NEW*
Sun 31 October – NL – Utrecht – Tivoli *DATE/VENUE CHANGE*
Mon 01 November - DK – Copenhagen – Vega
Wed 03 November – NO – Oslo – Spikerboks
Fri 05 November - FI – Helsinki – Nosturi
Sat 06 November - SE – Stockholm – Göta Källore

Photographs © Matt Cheetham

Alan Moore is interviewed about his project Unearthing in The New York Times today – read the article online HERE. There is also an extensive Q&A on the New York Time Arts Blog. The video above is the third part of an interview with Alan Moore and photographer Mitch Jenkins who created the amazing images for the project. Pre-order your copy HERE.

Sheffield main man Toddla T has made a mini-mix version of Kid Acne’s South Yorks Vol.1. Compacting 40mins into just 11 – Turbo charged with more bangers in less time. Link below…

TODDLA T – SOUTH YORKS VOL.1 TRAMLINES CONDENSED MIX
17MB MP3 FILE – 192kbps VBR / CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

If you like that then you’re sure to love Kid Acne’s party tonight:

Kid Acne Presents
SOUTH YORKS Off-Tramlines
Friday July 23rd – 8pm while 2am
Bungalows & Bears, Division St, Sheffield, S1

Winston Hazel / DJ Pipes / Oris Jay / Chris Duckenfield
Benjamin Hatton / Kid Acne / Slick Dixxx

Following the success of the mixtape launch and Off-Sonar wig-out in Barcelona, another eagerly anticipated chapter in the South Yorks saga is upon us. Curator, wrecker of mic’s and ruiner of walls, KID ACNE is turning up the heat for this extra special ‘Off-Tramlines‘ event on July 23rd.

So, who’s who in the world of bleeps and Padley Gorge-size bass? Alongside KID ACNE, will be the ever impressive and hirsute musical maestro BENJAMIN HATTON and the ever dashing and dexterous DJ SLICK DIXXX. It’s a pretty heavyweight line-up, even by our standards. We welcome a quartet of steely dans who’ve taken the Sheffield sound around the world and back again.

WINSTON HAZEL
Original selector at seminal nights such as Jive Turkey & Club Superman alongside DJ Parrot in the mid to late eighties, where the two of them spearheaded the musical revolution in the city, which gave birth to WARP Records and a string of chart topping, genre smashing music. Winston has never really stopped DJing and producing, more recently holding down a residency and inspiring a whole new generation at Kabal and further afield alongside…
http://www.myspace.com/winstonhazel

DJ PIPES
A man of many talents, who has also been a lynchpin of the local scene, shouting loud and clear to anyone who cares to listen (and many that don’t) about just how good and vibrant this steel city is. Behind the decks, he made his name steadfastly showcasing black music in it’s many and varied forms, mentoring the teenage Toddla T, as well as also being instrumental in the rise and rise of the Kabal events. Oh, he also runs one the best Graphic design companies in the world.
http://www.peterandpaul.co.uk/

ORIS JAY
It’s hard to underestimate the effect Sheffield’s rich musical heritage has on young producers and DJ’s. Oris, for many, laid down the foundations for 21st century bass music with his early work on the Jungle, Breaks and UK Garage scenes. Always ripping up the rule book and pushing things forward. As well as a truly international DJ schedule, Oris manages to find and release music on his Texture label from a raft of celebrated artists like Benga, Geeneus & Loefah before they become household names.
http://www.myspace.com/orisjay

CHRIS DUCKENFIELD
Another local DJ who has achieved worldwide recognition, from late eighties DJ beginnings in the city, through the burgeoning UK Rave scene of the early 90’s and, again via WARP, to the international circuit, flying the Acid House flag far and wide. Taking the DIY ethic a step further by making, releasing and distributing his own music and managing a stable of respected labels via his All Ears company.
http://www.chrisduckenfield.com

David Lynch collaborated with Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse to create the visual elements for Dark Night of the Soul. A selection of 50 photographs from this body of work are currently exhibited in New York at Morrison Hotel Gallery – 313 Bowery, New York, NY 10003. Runs until early August. More info HERE. Album available HERE

Dark Night Of The Soul is is a new release by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, featuring a remarkable roll call of guests. Though news of this project’s existence began to circulate in early 2009, the music was never made officially available. Following months of talks, Dark Night Of The Soul has been rescued from ‘lost album’ status and is out now worldwide HERE or at the links below… 

iTunes worldwide / Amazon US – UK / HMV / Play / Best Buy

Danger Mouse, aka Brian Burton, is well known for creating widescreen musical landscapes for Gorillaz, The Good The Bad & The Queen, The Black Keys, Beck and others, as well as his own artist-led adventures with Gnarls Barkley and Broken Bells.

Sparklehorse is the pseudonym of Mark Linkous, a stunningly talented yet often overlooked singer and multi-instrumentalist, admired for his intimate melancholic country-folk. Despite Danger Mouse’s preferred directorial approach, crafting albums of sonic scenery into which collaborators enter, his enthusiasm for Linkous’s output led him to produce several tracks for the fourth Sparklehorse LP, Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly of A Mountain. The pair became friends and resolved to make an entire album together. They drafted a wish list of singers to appear on their new record, tentatively dubbed Sparklemouse or Dangerhorse, and what would later become Dark Night Of The Soul began to evolve.

The album opens with a trio of sublime psychedelic rock songs featuring The Flaming Lips on the mournful, melancholic Revenge, ever-inventive Welshman Gruff Rhys, the album’s only non-US artist, waging a Just War and Jason Lytle telling the biographical tale of Jaykub. The pace and intensity increases with Little Girl, Angel’s Harp and Pain which feature The Strokes lynch-pin Julian Casablancas, Pixies front-man Black Francis and punk pioneer Iggy Pop respectively. Elsewhere, Linkous reunites with Nina Persson, formerly of The Cardigans, and singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt, both of whom also appear on the 2001 Sparklehorse LP, It’s A Wonderful Life. New Yorker Suzanne Vega sings The Man Who Played God and the industrial- tinged Insane Lullaby looks towards James Mercer and Danger Mouse’s subsequent Broken Bells project.
Despite the guest vocalists never receiving specific direction, nor hearing any of the other material, Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse observed common themes emerging as the album took shape. The songs were dark, dreamlike and explored war, death, pain, twisted dreams and other haunting subjects. Wanting to investigate a possible visual dimension, Danger Mouse approached iconic director David Lynch whose excitement for the project resulted in a series of original photographs and remarkably, contributing two songs; Star Eyes (I Can’t Catch It) and the title track. Lynch’s imagery provides a spectacular cinematic element to Dark Night Of The Soul and has featured in an audio-visual gallery installation, a limited edition art book and will be incorporated into the artwork for this already unique project.

Whilst this official release of Dark Night Of The Soul is undoubtedly a cause for celebration, it is also shadowed by sadness following the recent passing of Mark Linkous. Dark Night Of The Soul now stands as a de facto tribute to this well-loved and brilliantly gifted artist. The album is also dedicated to the memory of Vic Chesnutt.

Alan Moore is interviewed in NME magazine this week, discussing his musical tastes, the forthcoming release of Unearthing on Lex and… Wizardry. Available HERE or in shops now.