A few weeks ago I mentioned a film entitled One More Song: Hooligan Disco. This 45 minutes long documentary was released in 2008 by Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, also known as Para One. Para One filmed his US tour with fellow artists Curses!, Surkin and DJ Orgasmic – all signed on the French label Institubes. The […]
Loving covers #01
After sharing my favourite posters of the month in January, I decided to showcase my preferred album covers of the month. I personally give a lot of attention to album artworks and will buy music because of the artwork. This was the case for some of the releases listed below. I will also mention and […]
Tape Wizard
Tape Wizard is a short documentary by Kilian Vidourek. Focusing on the work of Portland audio and visual artist Randall Taylor, also known as AMULETS. AMULETS makes music that blurs the genres of ambient, drone and noise thanks to his use of tapes. Lots of them. Some of them are handmade, giving his music an […]
Loving letters: Gotham Black’s uppercase G
In 2008 I saw that letter for the first time in a music documentary entitled One More Song: Hooligan Disco. Made by French filmmaker Jean-Baptiste de Laubier – also known as an electronic music producer: Para One – the film focuses on the US tour of Surkin, Curses! and Para One himself. Gotham Black is […]
My favourite releases from 2020
At the end of each year, I create a playlist with my favourite songs of the year and publish it Spotify. I also try to have a list of favourite releases. I am happy to announce that the list is finished. However, this year I tried something different. I decided not to write anything as […]
Loving posters #01
One thing that pretty much every designer loves is a good poster. Posters are great because they allow for as many or as little information as we need to display. It may be for a concert, a movie, an ad, or nothing at all. Even though I haven’t had the opportunity to design many posters, […]
Behind the cover: Le Duc
As a graphic designer, one of the things I’ve always wanted to work on was an album cover. Thankfully, I also happen to make music, which allowed me to work on my own album covers. This way, I can create the perfect visual representation of my music with ease. Today I would like to take […]
Zine Of The Day: Crumb On Crumble by Arnaud Loumeau
I started collecting zines around 2008-2009. I do not own much, but as they are a part of who I am, I have decided to showcase them in this new “Zine of the day” series. In 2011, Emilie and I went to Offprint, an independent publishers’ fair in Paris and I was quite disappointed with […]
100 French Rap songs
I started this blog with the intension of sharing works that I love. I partly wanted to showcase my friends, colleagues, as well as my country. Vive La France – a series of playlists featuring French music by French artists – is how I will achieve that. For the first edition, I showcase 100 French […]
Behind the logo: Wu-Tang
At the beginning of the early 2000s, I started to give Hip-Hop a lot more attention. I was reading books and magazines about the culture and watching documentaries about it and listening to rap. I would listen to a lot of rap. I was obsessed with it: the beats, the rhymes, the flow. Everything was so […]