David Lynch, not many directors out there enjoy such a dedicated following as this cult director. Personally, I still need to see a couple of his classics, and I’m not up to par with all of his side-projects yet. But I recogn myself a modest fan. So without further ado.. Tune in and for one [...]

Last week was the Memorial Van Damme 2010 over here in Brussels. And it could well have been the day when Usain Bolt would had crushed competition fingers pointing to the moon in his trademark pose, photographers around the world portraying the man… possibly in a shirt designed by yours truly. Faith decided differently, Bolt [...]

Poetry. Slam. Honestly, I’m not to big about it. But after watching Kate Tempest her ‘Line In The Sand’ I caugth myself staring at the screen, all goosebumped. That’s enough to share this video. A rugged boost of energy and passion. Real proper UK styling: “See I’m all city, except I got the hair of [...]

One of the most interesting producers out there at the moment, Martyn, is starring in his first shortfilm, which goes by the same name as his album debut: Great Lenghts, shot by Ramón Gieling. Great Lengths is a tribute to Martyn’s parents, his father, former PSV team-leading scorer Gerrie Deijkers, who died of heart falure [...]

Donny Hathaway, unsung hero of soul, with classics like Little Ghetto Boy, The Ghetto and Roberta Flack’s debut album and work with Curtis Mayfield under his belt, to name just a few (download this tribute mix if you want a nice overview of his career). A lifetime overshadowed by the darkside it seems: “During the [...]

Staff Benda Bilili is a group of street musicians who are paraplegic polio victims living in and around the grounds of Kinshasa Zoo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They call their disability a state of mind. Leader Ricky has dreams of his group becoming the best band in Congo Kinshasa. A documentary crew followed [...]

Blend’ was the track that put them on the map as Uphigh Collective (you’ve seen the live video, you’ve got the 7″ vinyl, or the mp3 – out on On-Point Records), gaining them international acclaim from Athens to Los Angeles over London and Amsterdam. Currently preparing their live show and with new tracks to surface [...]

Downtown Calling was just brought hom to day, only to premiere to a sold-out venue. This sure looks like a must-see documentary for anybody interested in what is most likely the most amazing outburst of creativity in one period of time, in one specific place: downtown New York, 1977 – 1985. (To know the background [...]

Wondering if a rambling movement like the one in the following documentary teaser exists in Europe… Surely it can’t be an American-only thing, right? It sure looks like a beautiful occupation, some sort of mini-graffiti, a lot less screaming for attention, a lot less ego-driven, yet at the same time…very, very much alike. Watch it: [...]

“We had no idea what that song was about, we just needed a b-side.” Well, if only more b-sides like this were made, creating a trademark sound for other genres to grow out off. Melvin Bliss’s Synthetic Substitution is one of those classic breakbeats you’ve heard over a gazillion times, sampled by your favourite hiphop [...]

Like two years ago, I went to Dour Festival (and Werchter too, but that’s less relevant for this blog) to shoot some interviews for the sites of Humo and TéléMoustique. Not all went well, not all were deep, but that’s all part of the festivalgame, isn’t it? The hectic schedules, the freestyled questions, the artists [...]

Fela. One of the artists we should all own as much albums off as possible. For the music, for the message, for the artwork, for the energy. A while ago, you’ve seen this documentary ft. the man himself and all of his wives. Now, with ‘Fela!’, the musical playing on Broadway, more videos are put [...]

One of the finer things in life, is arguably meeting New People. And so it happened that during our stay at OFFF in Paris, I saw a man with a t-shirt reading ‘New Shirt’. Black and Blue lettering in the same style as the logo of one of my favourite blogs…? Opportunity sometimes only strikes [...]

Always big enthusiasts of ‘making-ofs’ over here at the headquarters, I happened to stumble upon this impressive series of photographs. Of what seems to be like a real doll factory. Fascinating to say the least, for all you DIY cats out there, get inspired, or cough up a solid $6000. Her lips are full and [...]

For a four-day frenzy of quality music and warm Southern French vibes, it’s going down as of today : Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Festival. With acts such as Gil Scott-Heron, Dorian Concept, Martyn, Flying Lotus and many others, this is a music fan’s walhalla. The festival is happening twice a year, in Sète ànd in Singapore [...]

Almost a year ago, when we were vi-si-ting New-York City, Matthew at turntablelab tipped us there was a guy in town, which we really should go check out and maybe even meet: Turns out the guy was a boy, and so the day after, we connected with 17-year old Kyle Hall, who was in NYC [...]

At OFFF’10, genius came into play during the Art+Com lecture, when a professor of the institute not only showed how they had made a huge BMW installation and how the first tests dramatically failed, with metal balls crashing into the ceiling, but when after that he presented ‘The Image Fulgurator’, a brilliantly executed piece of [...]

Now here’s a fine OFFF’10 discovery which would have looked nice in the goodiebag: Lemon magazine. Unfortunately we had to settle with the presentation by Crady & Metcalf: Sure would have loved to blog some ‘open-magazine-on-the-desk’ type of pictures, but none were for sale at the event, oddly enough. Still have a look at their [...]

Knife Party is an animation collective, that’s been boiling up a little buzz lately, most notably for their ‘Coalition of the Willing‘ film. In this 15-minute animation, their aim is to explore the ways in which online activism can help in the combat against climat change in a post-Copenhagen world. With the main premise being: [...]

Like last year, I headed to OFFF over the weekend. This time the location wasn’t Portugal, but Paris, France. Three days of post-media culture together with my man Gunter – Eckelwood – Blokken. To be perfectly honest, compared to last year, this edition had a bit too much of agencies showing their campaigns and commercial [...]

Last Sunday On-Point Records was invited on national radio, as a part of Lefto’s season closing on Studio Brussel. JtotheC & the Bad Mothas were in the building, Nouk was in the building, Title was in the building, LuiGi was in the building, and most notably Delv!s was in the building, alongside the entire Uphigh [...]