M.I.A. Hajwalah
02.04.2012 | by Dylan | 2 Comments
About a year ago we caught wind of a ridiculous trend called “Hajwalah” or “Tafheet” in which rich Saudi kids drift stock Camrys and BMWs among traffic on the desert highways. Roman Gavras must have too and he ran with the idea, creating a commentary on feminism and middle eastern youth culture for M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls”
Watch some very real, very crazy Saudi drifting from 2011 below. Read more
Tags: Arabian Drifting > Bad Girls > Hajwalah > M.I.A. > Riyadh > Roman Gavras > Tafheet
Modified Turntable Plays Tree Rings
01.25.2012 | by Dylan | Comment
Rad: modified record player designed to interpret a fallen tree’s rings into rather dynamic piano pieces. Read more at treehugger.com
Tags: Bartholomäus Traubeck > Record Player > Tree Rings > Turntable
Soul Cal
01.23.2012 | by Dylan | Comment
Over a year ago we sat down with Real J. Wallace and BAM CIRCA 86, at Pokéz to discuss Brother Nature‘s Fresh Squeezed Lemonade mix tape. Since then they’ve continued to put in work and put out some seriously authentic tracks. I’m not a music critic, let alone a hip-hop critic but I know good when hear it and Real is still at it. In correspondence with his latest digital release, “The J∆hFather of So(u)l Cal,” Real J. Wallace explains, in the short film below, the music’s correlation with the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway (or ‘the 94′ as most San Diegan’s know it by).
Real’s laid back lyrical grooves combined with early 70′s breakbeats create a really unique, positive vibe that defines the ‘Soul Cal’ sound.
Listen up. Read more
Tags: BAM CIRCA 86 > Brother Nature > Hip Hop > Real J Wallace > The Mighty Few
