If you are a follower of the African and tropical vinyl movement you will be no doubt have seen the energetic record sleeve designs of UK artist Lewis Heriz.
Read MoreMeeting by Change - 'Koi' world video premiere
Meeting by Chance is a solo project of Marcin Cichy co-creator of the legendary Polish duo Skalpel (Ninja Tunes), one of the most important talents from Poland to come into the international limelight.
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Revolution & Change: Lagos 1977
A programme of Music and Arts inspired by the Nigerian megacity
Friday 22 January 2016, Rough Trade Nottingham 6.30 - 11pm, Free entry
RIM KWAKU OBENG - RIM ARRIVES/TOO TOUGH (BBE Records)
It’s crazy how few people outside of the Afro-Disco digging fraternity knew about Rim Kwaku Obeng before BBE reissued his ‘Rim Arrives’ (1980) and ‘Too Tough’ (1982) albums in the latter quarter of this year.
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KADHJA BONET - An Interview
Not many recent records have moved me as instantly as ‘The Visitor’ EP by Kadhja Bonet.. I came across her devastating cover of 21st Century’s 1975 ‘Remember The Rain’ and pre-ordered her EP within a few minutes..
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Revolution & Change - Detroit 1968
Revolution And Change brings together film, art and music inspired by and from Detroit’s prolific creative community.
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Katrina Poem - Paula Sharratt
A politically charged poem about Karina by Paula Sharratt
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Revolution & Change - New Orleans Showreel
This showreel presents a selection of arts and cultural projects that give a snapshot of New Orleans culture. The videos highlight various aspects of the quintessential art forms from New Orleans, music, street art, and Rap/spoken word.
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Revolution and Change Mix #1 - New Orleans
Revolution and Change Mix #1 - New Orleans
A mix of New Orleans brass band music, hip hop and spoken word, showing the connections between the two forms of street music.
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PHOTO BY SIMON BERNACKI
Revolution and Change - An interview with Nick Hanson
As part of our Revolution and Change - Post Katrina New Orleans event, Nick Hanson will be adapting his ‘infamous’ tag ‘Have a lovely day’ into a bottle top installation.
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DJ Vadim - An Interview
The Dubcatcher, The Terrorist, the beatmaker, the chef..DJ Vadim is a producer and turntablist extraordinaire..with a brand new album and a twentieth anniversary to prepare for, he's a busy man but we managed to grab a few words and an exclusive mix from him...
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Cassetteboy - An Interview
Cassetteboy are the Arch Princes of satirical cut-up, video splicing and misquoting to create a surreal, very funny and probably truthful image of the so called 'great and the good'.
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Steve Cobby 'Everliving' - Album Review
'Everliving' is fourteen tracks of immaculately loose, funky and emotional instrumentals, played by a man who wants you to know he is present and involved..deeply. Ex-Friendly reviews it but you should just buy it!
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Label Focus #4: Squareglass
Label Focus #4 Squareglass - Elegance, abstraction and bleeps from the South East London label. Squareglass release their first label sampler. ‘Transparencies’, a nine track compilation released this week...
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Rave Against Racism - Interview with Jock Lee
Rave Against Racism is an organisation that aims to raise awareness about racism worldwide and the current rise of the far right in the UK and Europe. Their angle is through the world of clubbing and it’s ‘all are welcome’ attitude whether you are black, white, gay, straight, freak or football fan! Ex-Friendly chats with co-founder Jock Lee...
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Africa Oyé 2015 - Interview with Creative Director Paul Duhaney
Africa Oyé is the UK's largest free festival of African music and culture and takes place annually in Liverpool. Ex-Friendly caught up with old friend and Creative Director of Oyé Paul Duhaney...
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Art Diggin' - ROKK
Having recently moved back to his hometown of Nottingham, Rokk aka Paul Bryan has been a prominent figure and DJ on London’s queer club scene since 2001 working in both music and the visual arts. Fror Crate Diggin'/Art Diggin' he is creating something unique just for us!
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Art Diggin' - Artist Jim Brouwer
For the next two weeks we welcome Artist Jim Brouwer to continue our Art Diggin' session at Crate Diggin.
Jim Brouwer recently won 2014 Castle Open Grand Prize with a video installation made with performance artist Simon Raven.
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Crate Diggin Special with Steve Cobby (DJ Set)
Truth and Lies present Crate Diggin Special: Confetti Industry Week Wrap Up with Steve Cobby (DJ Set)
DJ OIL INTERVIEW- LE RHYTHME DE LA VIE
Lionel Corsini or DJ Oil as he is known when he throws his headphones on is a French underground legend and he has a brand new and pretty damn good album out on the mighty BBE called ‘Phantom’...
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