Chris Frieze steps up for his first in a monthly residency for us at NN Towers and as Gimme 5 have produced a pack of tees to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the legendary club night RAGE we thought what better way to kick things off than for Chris to delve deep into his extensive record collection and produce a Rage inspired mix. “I didn’t want to just rehash the Rage classics as there is the compilation that recently came outand people would be familar with those so I did a bit of digging and put a mix together of other songs at the time along with a couple of recent remixes of Rage classics.” Listen above now and the Gimme 5 RAGE Pack is online now.
Gimme 5 The Rage Pack
It’s the 30th anniversary of the club night, “RAGE” and Gimme 5 have collaborated with Fabio and GrooveRider to celebrate this milestone.
The 1992 track Just 4 U London by Bodysnatch is the inspiration for the tee shirt pack and the result is an official collaboration with the Godfathers of drum & bass, who emerged from the late 80s underground Acid House explosion.
Check out the video to hear the guys explain the history of this legendary night and how influential it was in forming new genres such as Jungle.
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PADMORE & BARNES FOR NEVER NEVER
This season we have the pleasure to work with Padmore & Barnes, the legendary Irish footwear manufacturer based in Kilkenny. P&B were founded in 1934 and operated a successful factory for many years bringing them to the attention of Clarks. In 1964 Clarks purchased the factory and 3 years later they introduced the Wallabee with the Padmore & Barnes factory used for production. The Wallabee’s popularity soared and P&B were producing up to 25,000 pairs a week from Kilkenny with around 500 people employed at the plant and hundreds more employed to hand-stitch the shoes at home. In 1987 Padmore & Barnes had a management buy-out as Clarks moved their production to China and they have remained independent since, most recently revived by Frank Bryan in 2012. Padmore & Barnes have worked with some of the most respected companies in our industry including Supreme (way back in 2000), Starcow and Hanon.
We chose the Original Boot and have 2 versions in Black and Brown Reverse (rough-out) Leather for a more textured upper on top of an off-white Vibram Moreflex sole for a lighter weight and increased durability. We also give a subtle nod to A Bathing Ape’s Manhunt and have tonally embossed NEVER just under the laces on each foot. Finally adding a thicker lace and a keyring with the outsole pattern embossed over our logo.
Leomi Leon Sadler’s illustrations are known for their hand-drawn style featuring weird and wonderful characters. They have worked with clients such as Nike ACG and Givenchy and they are a regular in the Brain Dead roster of artists.
Sadler works in all kinds of media such as soft sculpture, ceramics, comics and painting and their work has been exhibited and published internationally.
The Brain Dead AW20 collection features their original artwork and can be seen on the back of the Burgundy Earth Syndrome Fishing Fleece. The jacket is based on some hand painted utility vests they made in 2018.
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Animal print goodness by Stan Ray (and Debbie Harry)
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ACEN | Life & Crimes of a Ruffneck 2092
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The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds
The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs is not what you would expect. It is a biography of the KLF but it goes far beyond the normal band biography template as John Higgs looks to link their infamous million pound money-burning event with Discordianism, Surrealism, the Kennedy assassination and even Dr Who.
One section that stood out was in relation their groundbreaking Chill Out album which is considered to be one of the earliest ambient house concept albums. Whilst the KLF enjoyed commercial success with electronic music that made people want to dance, their first album ruffled a few feathers as it was ambient music geared towards the after hours wind down. Many ravers felt let down at the time but the album has aged unbelievably well.
Here’s a paragraph from book which encapsulates the album perfectly,
” It was all about the end of the rave, when all your energy had been dissipated and all that is left is an unearthly glow, a sense of euphoria that has somehow risen from the worn-out body. It is a feeling of exhaustion where you can also feel extraordinarily awake. It’s a sense of expanded awareness, the sense that you can see for miles even when you are lying in a dark corner. It is that moment, in the small hours before dawn, that seems to hang outside of time. The lyrics and song titles of their later commercial successes, such as ‘3am Eternal’ or ‘The Last Train to Transcentral’, continued to echo this state of mind. This mental state seems to interest them far more than the music it inspired.”
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POUNDLAND BANDIT PLAYLIST
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