Mixtapes!

So the last few months I've been making some mixtapes for friends, under the impossibly stupid guise of DJ Hendy Boy. One of my favourite things in the world is giving new music to people who aren't quite as manically obsessive when it comes to music as me. So seeing as we have a blog I thought I'd make them available to all you internet folk. The tracklists and artwork are below, and you can download all of them through the below mediafire links. Happy listening!

#3 (November 2009)

1. King Tuff - Sun Medallion
2. The Almighty Defenders - All My Loving
3. Atlas Sound - Doctor (Five Discs Cover)
4. Summer Camp - Ghost Train
5. Toro Y Moi - Blessa
6. Small Black - Despicable Dogs (Washed Out Remix)
7. Surf City - Zombies
8. Ganglians - Lost Words
9. First Base - Nobody Makes My Girl Cry But Me
10. Deep Sea Arcade - Lonely In Your Arms
11. Jacuzzi Boys - Planet of the Dreamers
12. Nerve City - Sleepwalker
13. Eternal Summers - Fall Straight Back
14. Future Islands - Little Dreamer (Jones Remix) [ft. Victoria Legrand]
15. Wild Nothing - Confirmation
16. Local Natives - Cubism Dream
17. Tap Tap - Codeine
18. Wolf People - October Fires
19. Navajo Bixby - Moonlighting
20. Rainbow Bridge - Big Wave Rider

DOWNLOAD LINK

#2 (October 2009)

1. Real Estate - Beach Comber
2. The Mantles - Don't Lie
3. Kurt Vile - Freeway
4. Pearl Harbor - Luv Goon
5. Florence + the Machine - You've Got the Love (The xx Remix)
6. Memory Tapes - Plain Material
7. Toro y Moi - Not Only
8. Wild Beasts - The Empty Nest
9. Phoenix - Fences (The Soft Pack Remix)
10. Thee Fair Ohs - Summer Lake
11. Beach Fossils - Daydream
12. Holiday Shores - Phones Don't Feud
13. El Perro Del Mar - Change Of Heart
14. jj - Ecstasy
15. Animal Collective - Daily Routine (Phaseone Remix)
16. Fool's Gold - Surprise Hotel
17. Memory Cassette - Listen To The Vacuum

DOWNLOAD LINK

#1 (September 2009)

1. Girls - Lust For Life
2. Family Portrait - Mega Secrets
3. Gino Washington - Like My Baby
4. Ancient Crux - In Teen Dreams
5. Washed Out - Feel It All Around
6. The Big Pink - Velvet
7. Sic Alps - L. Mansion
8. The Cave Weddings - Bring Your Love
9. Larry And The Blue Notes - Night Of The Phantom
10. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - I Gotta Dance to Keep From Crying
11. Pisces - Dear One
12. Nodzzz - Good Time Crowd
13. Yo La Tengo - Nothing To Hide
14. Sunnybrook - Waving Hands
15. Taken By Trees - My Boys
16. The xx - Crystalised
17. Fergus & Geronimo - Glistening Smiles
18. Bare Wires - Looking For Some Action
19. Trailer Trash Tracys - Candy Girl
20. Jonathan Boulet - A Community Service Annoucement

DOWNLOAD LINK

Thanks to my favourite music blogs for all the tunes: Gorilla Vs Bear, Rose Quartz, Weekly Tapedeck, and Chocolate Bobka. And to Superbomba's kickass flickr page for all the cover images.

Angus Black

T-shirt lovers of Brisbane: you can finally rejoice, as Das Monk is now available in the flesh in a brand new store, Angus Black. The nice people over at Four Thousand are much better with their words than I am, so I'll let them give you the low down on this meaty new store...

Those who frequent Brunswick Street would no doubt have noticed a new shop-front pop up. Boys breathe a sigh of relief, this store has one intention only, and that is to please you. Welcome to the block, Angus Black, a butcher shop in it's ‘hey day', and now the latest addition to fall under the Natalie Denning umbrella.

The relatively large, sterile-like space cleverly emulates that of a butcher, as the store is aptly named after. As the story goes Angus Black was born in 1909, the son of the greatest butcher in all of the land. From a young age he was taught the importance of a quality cut and like the butcher himself, Angus Black stocks the ‘finest cuts from across the Australian landscape' all at an affordable price.

Expect to find cult Melbourne street-wear label Alpha 60 alongside the likes of April 77, Gram, Fortunes Fool, Das Monk, Black Noise White Rain, Vanishing Elephant and Henson.

Rare and well done, Angus Black has a beefy yet selective choice of stock set to impress the most discerning of male shoppers.

Where's the beef? Why it's at Shop 2, 354 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley.

Haha yeah how good are meat puns.

Evan Meister

Evan Meister (whose work you may know from our Ogre tee and Desert Eye tee) has just put out a few new artworks on his flickr page, and they're absolutely mind-melting. His latest drawings are set in some kind of weird ass world where science fiction meets Ancient Egypt in comic book style panels. I can't tell you how much I love this dudes work...

Gordon Magnin

I keep a very large folder of inspiration images on my computer from years of trawling through the big bad internet, many of which are collages, because that's my thing I guess. But it was only recently that I linked the fact that many of my favourite collages are actually by the one artist, that being LA-based Gordon Magnin. A lot of Magnin's work features the slicing and dicing of beautiful women and cultural icons, all being defaced somehow with a great sense of humour and fun. Below are some of my favourites, but check out his full body of work at his website.

The Grand Social pop-up store

If you look up at the top of your browser at this address, you'll see that the first part of the URL is "thegrandsocial.com.au". If you have no idea what that is, The Grand Social is an online marketplace for Australian and New Zealand designers. Over the past couple of years, they've managed to nab all of the top local labels and in the process have changed the accessibility and quality of online shopping for fashion in Australia. Obviously we're one of the labels that works with The Grand Social, and are pretty excited that they're now venturing out of the interwebs and into reality, firstly with a pop-up store in the MLC centre in Sydney (which opened last Thursday), and early next year with a permanent store in Darlinghurst, Sydney.

So if you're in the CBD, make sure you check out the pop-up store over the next few weeks. In store you can get your hands on everything from some of our favourite labels E L L E R Y, Chronicles of Never, Graz, Asuza, Limedrop, and many more. Oh and of course Das Monk.

The Grand Social MLC Store
Shop 7.08a
Level 7 MLC Centre
19 Martin Place Sydney