Photograph: © Adriaan Louw

With the colours of the Bo-Kaap in our periphery, one small seed caught up with local electronic DJ – Tommy Gun – to talk about indie-electro music, the Cape Town music scene, and what inspired his unique rock-influenced electro style. We also had the chance to see the man at work at Trinity night club where he moved the crowd to his funky, vocal electro beats mixed with some heavy bass-lines.
 

 
After kicking off the day with a drink at the Wale Rose Lifestyle restaurant, we moved on to snoop through LPs at the local music store Mabu Vinyl in Kloof Street and drive around the city in Tommy’s 1970 Green Rocket. For Thomas de Moyencourt it’s about fun and catchy nu-disco beats mixed with dancey bass-lines; it’s about him being able to do what he loves.

 
Tommy Gun – November 2011 by Tommy.Gun

Photograph: © James Seigel

Tommy Gun – Fun In The Sun by Tommy.Gun
 
Tommy Gun’s beats could be described as Leftfield Indie, Nu-Disco and Electro: non-commercial, yet accessible… Check out his SoundCloud page. A regular at Cape Town’s best live-music venues The Assembly and Trinity, he spent 2011 playing around the country at festivals such as Oppikoppi, Rocking the Daisies and Synergy Live. Thomas has also shared the stage alongside top international artists such as Deadmau5, Datarock and Designer Drugs; as well as local artists like Desmond & The Tutus, Die Heuwels Fantasies, Jack Parrow and Gazelle.
 
Last words? Here’s something from the man himself:

I’m super amp’d about the April re-opening of a freshly-renovated Fiction and the revival of the weekly Untamed Youth parties.

We have to agree, Tuesday’s haven’t been the same since. Stay up to date with Untamed Youth new HERE.

images: Adriaan Louw, Jamies Siegel

Photograph: © Adriaan Louw

With the colours of the Bo-Kaap in our periphery, one small seed caught up with local electronic DJ – Tommy Gun – to talk about indie-electro music, the Cape Town music scene, and what inspired his unique rock-influenced electro style. We also had the chance to see the man at work at Trinity night club where he moved the crowd to his funky, vocal electro beats mixed with some heavy bass-lines.
 

 
After kicking off the day with a drink at the Wale Rose Lifestyle restaurant, we moved on to snoop through LPs at the local music store Mabu Vinyl in Kloof Street and drive around the city in Tommy’s 1970 Green Rocket. For Thomas de Moyencourt it’s about fun and catchy nu-disco beats mixed with dancey bass-lines; it’s about him being able to do what he loves.

 
Tommy Gun – November 2011 by Tommy.Gun

Photograph: © James Seigel

Tommy Gun – Fun In The Sun by Tommy.Gun
 
Tommy Gun’s beats could be described as Leftfield Indie, Nu-Disco and Electro: non-commercial, yet accessible… Check out his SoundCloud page. A regular at Cape Town’s best live-music venues The Assembly and Trinity, he spent 2011 playing around the country at festivals such as Oppikoppi, Rocking the Daisies and Synergy Live. Thomas has also shared the stage alongside top international artists such as Deadmau5, Datarock and Designer Drugs; as well as local artists like Desmond & The Tutus, Die Heuwels Fantasies, Jack Parrow and Gazelle.
 
Last words? Here’s something from the man himself:

I’m super amp’d about the April re-opening of a freshly-renovated Fiction and the revival of the weekly Untamed Youth parties.

We have to agree, Tuesday’s haven’t been the same since. Stay up to date with Untamed Youth new HERE.

images: Adriaan Louw, Jamies Siegel

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Announced by The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, the New Tork-based office HWKN (HollwichKushner) has been placed as the winner of the 13th edition of the annual Young Architects Program (YAP) in NY.

The winning proposal, known as Wendy, was selected from five finalists in the 2012 shortlist: AEDS Ammar Eloueini Digit-all Studio (Paris and New Orleans),Hollwich Kushner (NY), IK Studio (Cambridge),UrbanLab (Chicago) and Cameron Wu of Harvard University (Cambridge). HWKN will provide a unique setting for the popular Warm Up summer music series, constructing an outdoor summer installation at the PS1 courtyard in Long Island City, Queens. Warm Up is an annual series held in MoMA PS1′s courtyard; it follows a tradition of introducing audiences to the best in experimental live music, sound, performance, and DJs.

Rendering of HWKN’s Wendy, winning design of Young Architect’s Program 2012. Image courtesy of HWKN.

A bit about Wendy…

A large scaffold will craft an environment defined by shade, wind, rain, music and visual identity. The simple, inexpensive construction system will maximize the surface area with a 70’ x 70’ x 45’ volume. The structure will support a large amount of blue, nylon fabric that will be treated with ground-breaking titania nanoparticle spray, capable of neutralizing airborne pollutants. Wendy will clean the air to an equivalent of taking 260 cars off the road, while her ‘spiky arms’ engage visitors with a variety of micro-programs like blasts of cool air, music, water cannons and mists to create social zones throughout the MoMA PS1 courtyards.

Photograph: inhabitat.com

Rendering of HWKN’s Wendy, winning design of Young Architect’s Program 2012. Image courtesy of HWKN.

Barry Bergdoll – the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA – and other pivotal figures talk about this year’s summer installation at MoMa PS1: issues of sustainability; recyclability; and the winning HollwichKushner’s deisgn.

The jury was greeted with a particularly impressive group of proposals this year, all of which represented months of sustained research into problems both specific to a summer installation at MoMA PS1 and to new directions for architecture in terms of material research, ecological responses, and recyclability (Barry Bergdoll)

HollwichKushner’s design is at once based in emerging science of materials related to environmental cleansing—the material actually removes the carbon dioxide emissions produced by cars in Long Island City—but also on a zany quest for a space that is simply good fun. Even passengers on the elevated 7 train will feel compelled to head to MoMA PS1 to experience Wendy and figure out what in the world it can possibly be all about. (Barry Bergdoll)

Rendering of HWKN’s Wendy, winning design of Young Architect’s Program 2012. Image courtesy of HWKN.

Warm Up - Photohraph: blog.dubspot.com

‘HollwichKushner is proposing a monumental gesture in the MoMA PS1 courtyard that, in its dimension and volume, creates a dialogue with the, at the moment, currently installed geodesic dome,’ added Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at MoMA.

While the dome hosts our winter series SUNDAY SESSIONS, Wendy will enhance the courtyard environment for our famed summer Warm Up series. The project is not only innovative but also visualizes ecological awareness and responsibility.(Klaus Biesenbach)

Photograph: trustthebrain.com

‘HollwichKushner’s proposal for YAP 2012 is sure to make a memorable impression over the summer at MoMA PS1,’ said Pedro Gadanho, Curator in MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design.

It is iconic, but with a twist. By combining off-the-shelf materials and scaffolding systems with the latest cry in nanotechnology it is able to produce both an out-of-the-box ecological statement and a bold architectural gesture. It is economical and terse in terms of its design, and yet, through its positioning and scale, it also smartly projects different possibilities for use and social appropriation across the entire site where it sits—including the ability to reach out for those outside the museum’s walls.(Pedro Gadanho)

Wendy will open to the public in late June. Check out out these past winners: Interboro Partners Holding Pattern (2011), SO-IL Pole Dance(2010), MOS Architects Afterparty (2009) and Work AC PF1 (2008).

Photograph: inhabitat.com

Warm Up - Photograph: societeperrier.com

Source: Karisssa Rosenfield in ArchDaily

Reference: MoMA PS1
Cite:
Rosenfield , Karissa . “HWKN wins the 2012 Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1 in New York” 09 Feb 2012.ArchDaily. Accessed 20 Feb 2012.

Images courtesy of HWKN, inhabitat.com, trustthebrain.com, thepostups.blogspot.com, rjwcollective.com, societeperrier.com, blog.dupstep.com

Announced by The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, the New Tork-based office HWKN (HollwichKushner) has been placed as the winner of the 13th edition of the annual Young Architects Program (YAP) in NY.

The winning proposal, known as Wendy, was selected from five finalists in the 2012 shortlist: AEDS Ammar Eloueini Digit-all Studio (Paris and New Orleans),Hollwich Kushner (NY), IK Studio (Cambridge),UrbanLab (Chicago) and Cameron Wu of Harvard University (Cambridge). HWKN will provide a unique setting for the popular Warm Up summer music series, constructing an outdoor summer installation at the PS1 courtyard in Long Island City, Queens. Warm Up is an annual series held in MoMA PS1′s courtyard; it follows a tradition of introducing audiences to the best in experimental live music, sound, performance, and DJs.

Rendering of HWKN’s Wendy, winning design of Young Architect’s Program 2012. Image courtesy of HWKN.

A bit about Wendy…

A large scaffold will craft an environment defined by shade, wind, rain, music and visual identity. The simple, inexpensive construction system will maximize the surface area with a 70’ x 70’ x 45’ volume. The structure will support a large amount of blue, nylon fabric that will be treated with ground-breaking titania nanoparticle spray, capable of neutralizing airborne pollutants. Wendy will clean the air to an equivalent of taking 260 cars off the road, while her ‘spiky arms’ engage visitors with a variety of micro-programs like blasts of cool air, music, water cannons and mists to create social zones throughout the MoMA PS1 courtyards.

Photograph: inhabitat.com

Rendering of HWKN’s Wendy, winning design of Young Architect’s Program 2012. Image courtesy of HWKN.

Barry Bergdoll – the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA – and other pivotal figures talk about this year’s summer installation at MoMa PS1: issues of sustainability; recyclability; and the winning HollwichKushner’s deisgn.

The jury was greeted with a particularly impressive group of proposals this year, all of which represented months of sustained research into problems both specific to a summer installation at MoMA PS1 and to new directions for architecture in terms of material research, ecological responses, and recyclability (Barry Bergdoll)

HollwichKushner’s design is at once based in emerging science of materials related to environmental cleansing—the material actually removes the carbon dioxide emissions produced by cars in Long Island City—but also on a zany quest for a space that is simply good fun. Even passengers on the elevated 7 train will feel compelled to head to MoMA PS1 to experience Wendy and figure out what in the world it can possibly be all about. (Barry Bergdoll)

Rendering of HWKN’s Wendy, winning design of Young Architect’s Program 2012. Image courtesy of HWKN.

Warm Up - Photohraph: blog.dubspot.com

‘HollwichKushner is proposing a monumental gesture in the MoMA PS1 courtyard that, in its dimension and volume, creates a dialogue with the, at the moment, currently installed geodesic dome,’ added Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at MoMA.

While the dome hosts our winter series SUNDAY SESSIONS, Wendy will enhance the courtyard environment for our famed summer Warm Up series. The project is not only innovative but also visualizes ecological awareness and responsibility.(Klaus Biesenbach)

Photograph: trustthebrain.com

‘HollwichKushner’s proposal for YAP 2012 is sure to make a memorable impression over the summer at MoMA PS1,’ said Pedro Gadanho, Curator in MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design.

It is iconic, but with a twist. By combining off-the-shelf materials and scaffolding systems with the latest cry in nanotechnology it is able to produce both an out-of-the-box ecological statement and a bold architectural gesture. It is economical and terse in terms of its design, and yet, through its positioning and scale, it also smartly projects different possibilities for use and social appropriation across the entire site where it sits—including the ability to reach out for those outside the museum’s walls.(Pedro Gadanho)

Wendy will open to the public in late June. Check out out these past winners: Interboro Partners Holding Pattern (2011), SO-IL Pole Dance(2010), MOS Architects Afterparty (2009) and Work AC PF1 (2008).

Photograph: inhabitat.com

Warm Up - Photograph: societeperrier.com

Source: Karisssa Rosenfield in ArchDaily

Reference: MoMA PS1
Cite:
Rosenfield , Karissa . “HWKN wins the 2012 Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1 in New York” 09 Feb 2012.ArchDaily. Accessed 20 Feb 2012.

Images courtesy of HWKN, inhabitat.com, trustthebrain.com, thepostups.blogspot.com, rjwcollective.com, societeperrier.com, blog.dupstep.com

At the end of each week, we add two more images to that month’s gallery collection and feature the images in our weekly newsletter, sent straight to your inbox (which you can sign up to on our home page). All images are the featured works of members of one small seed network, our creative online community. To have your work featured in this series, simply sign up as a member and start uploading now!

We hope you enjoy our collection for the month of February 2012.

Week 04

Mpho H Mokgadi - "Untitled"

Keda - 'Eat Your Heart Out'

Week 03

THE LONG ROAD BACK by Zeno Petersen

SELF IMAGE by Dr-Benway

Week 02

TAKING ON THE SIXTIES by Xander vd Merwe

LIGHT by Jan-Lourens van der Merwe

Week 01

LE VISITOR 3 by SJ van Zyl

MUSE by Janine Kuschke - Van Der Tuin

At the end of each week, we add two more images to that month’s gallery collection and feature the images in our weekly newsletter, sent straight to your inbox (which you can sign up to on our home page). All images are the featured works of members of one small seed network, our creative online community. To have your work featured in this series, simply sign up as a member and start uploading now!

We hope you enjoy our collection for the month of February 2012.

Week 04

Mpho H Mokgadi - "Untitled"

Keda - 'Eat Your Heart Out'

Week 03

THE LONG ROAD BACK by Zeno Petersen

SELF IMAGE by Dr-Benway

Week 02

TAKING ON THE SIXTIES by Xander vd Merwe

LIGHT by Jan-Lourens van der Merwe

Week 01

LE VISITOR 3 by SJ van Zyl

MUSE by Janine Kuschke - Van Der Tuin

m-o-o-n.bandcamp.com

‘I’m an electronic musician from Boston. I make music I want to listen to. You might like it too.’ (M.O.O.N.)
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VCMG "Ssss" - mixmag.net

New track from VCMG’s (Vince Clarke & Martin Gore) Album Ssss.

© Kyle Watson

Listen to Jo’burg-born DJ/Producer Kyle Watson’s remix of Pascal and Pearce‘s ‘Disco Sun’, which is out on their new Passport 2.0 album.

Porter Ricks "Biokinetics" - hhv.de

‘Techno isn’t a genre that has birthed many consistent albums and the dub techno subgenre even less so, but one indisputable classic is Porter Ricks’ debut Biokinetics. Originally issued on the legendary Basic Channel sub-label Chain Reaction in 1996 following a trio of 12”s, ‘Biokinetics’ was the first of the label’s album releases, and still stands as its crowning achievement. The duo was made up of dark ambient pioneer Thomas Koner and sound engineer Andy Mellwig, and between them they re-framed the techno sound, imbuing the spacious ambience pioneered by label bosses Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald with a frosty, isolated experimental bent, and combining it with the sort of haunted minimalism of early Plastikman.’ (source: SoundCloud)

Piff Gang - dopechef.tv

This group of London-based MC’s, producers and DJs aka Piff Gang is all about spreading the happy vibes with their hip-hop. Think back to the days when it was all about ‘wiping your feet real good on the rhythm rug’ kind of shit. Listen to these tracks and then download the full tape HERE
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Childish Gambino "Camp" - goodishmusic.com

Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino recently released a music video for this track ‘Heartbeat’ off his album Camp released November 2011. Check out the MUSIC VIDEO HERE

John Talabot "fin" - israbox.com

Barcelona-based producer John Talabot has been described as someone who ‘creates a motley concoction of dancefloor-oriented, drum-machine-heavy-motorik disco’ (RedBullMusicAcademy). He’s just released his first full-length, 11-track album – ƒin - with tracks like ‘Destiny’ and ‘So Will Be Now…’ being co-produced with Madrid’s Pional. Check out this video interview that Red Bull Music Academy did with Talabot back in 2011.

source: mixmag, moon.bandcamp, kylewatsonmusic, hhv, dopechef.tv, goodishmusic, israbox, SoundCloud, Red Bull Music Academy

m-o-o-n.bandcamp.com

‘I’m an electronic musician from Boston. I make music I want to listen to. You might like it too.’ (M.O.O.N.)
Site
Facebook
Twitter

VCMG "Ssss" - mixmag.net

New track from VCMG’s (Vince Clarke & Martin Gore) Album Ssss.

© Kyle Watson

Listen to Jo’burg-born DJ/Producer Kyle Watson’s remix of Pascal and Pearce‘s ‘Disco Sun’, which is out on their new Passport 2.0 album.

Porter Ricks "Biokinetics" - hhv.de

‘Techno isn’t a genre that has birthed many consistent albums and the dub techno subgenre even less so, but one indisputable classic is Porter Ricks’ debut Biokinetics. Originally issued on the legendary Basic Channel sub-label Chain Reaction in 1996 following a trio of 12”s, ‘Biokinetics’ was the first of the label’s album releases, and still stands as its crowning achievement. The duo was made up of dark ambient pioneer Thomas Koner and sound engineer Andy Mellwig, and between them they re-framed the techno sound, imbuing the spacious ambience pioneered by label bosses Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald with a frosty, isolated experimental bent, and combining it with the sort of haunted minimalism of early Plastikman.’ (source: SoundCloud)

Piff Gang - dopechef.tv

This group of London-based MC’s, producers and DJs aka Piff Gang is all about spreading the happy vibes with their hip-hop. Think back to the days when it was all about ‘wiping your feet real good on the rhythm rug’ kind of shit. Listen to these tracks and then download the full tape HERE
Tumblr
Twitter

Childish Gambino "Camp" - goodishmusic.com

Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino recently released a music video for this track ‘Heartbeat’ off his album Camp released November 2011. Check out the MUSIC VIDEO HERE

John Talabot "fin" - israbox.com

Barcelona-based producer John Talabot has been described as someone who ‘creates a motley concoction of dancefloor-oriented, drum-machine-heavy-motorik disco’ (RedBullMusicAcademy). He’s just released his first full-length, 11-track album – ƒin - with tracks like ‘Destiny’ and ‘So Will Be Now…’ being co-produced with Madrid’s Pional. Check out this video interview that Red Bull Music Academy did with Talabot back in 2011.

source: mixmag, moon.bandcamp, kylewatsonmusic, hhv, dopechef.tv, goodishmusic, israbox, SoundCloud, Red Bull Music Academy

Tyron Kuypers, aka DJ Bruce Willis??, discusses the evolution of the electronic music scene in Cape Town. Since founding the popular Arcade event with Danna Gordon in 2006 to showcase a new electro music genre they were introduced to via the internet and from other musicians returning from overseas travels, Tyron’s style has come full circle back to his drum ‘n bass roots.

Since the bittersweet conclusion of the Arcade brand in 2010, which during its three year reign celebrated the marriage of electro with drum ‘n bass and focused on the party as an all-encompassing perceptual experience with ornate decorative themes, Tyron has moved on to some exciting new initiatives. Brick City is a platform he launched in 2009 with Graham Kennedy for up and coming artists to play live sets, and has propelled the careers of many successful Cape Town DJs.

Tyron dubs Cape Town as a creative universal hub, acknowledging tourism growth, the 2014 World Design Capital award, and the rise in social media and marketing as factors that have pushed the scene forward.  When it comes to the rich development of local electronic music, we think Bruce Willis?? has earned himself a fair credit as well.

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