http://www.putsonline.co.uk/yoyopop stories, imagined facts, featured mentalness Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:05:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Vinyl junkie, hip hop addict and all-round beat fanatic Damu The Fudgemunk is keeping our ears warm this winter with more classic boom bap. His latest release Kilawatt V1 is limited to 1000 copies on vinyl, as well as a digital release, and has been bumping in my headphones for the ... http://www.putsonline.co.uk/yoyopop/music/042-damu-brings-heat-to-your-speakers/ Back in #003 we were the first to review Jemapur's debut album, Dok Springs. Now, two years later, Jemapur is still only 21 years old and yes, he's put out another album - Evacuation. For this second release, Jemapur has dropped from the hip-hop centric Hyde Out Productions label to work ... http://www.putsonline.co.uk/yoyopop/music/041-evacuate-with-jemapur/ Roman Signer is a Swiss artist and a very explosive one at that... 'Explosion' 1982 Since the 1970s Signer has been creating "action sculptures" (basically blowing stuff up) and generally just riding around in kayaks, attaching his hat to rockets, propelling umbrellas into ceilings and manipulating lightning balls. "Two oil barrels are placed ... http://www.putsonline.co.uk/yoyopop/art-design/040-roman-signer-exploded/ For hip hop heads, Stones Throw records has always been a consistent source of quality tunes. Even if you're not into Gary Wilson's eccentricity, Dudley Perkin's crooning or the never-ending infinity of Madlib's musical output, you can always rely on the Oh No / Dilla / Peanut Butter Wolf releases ... http://www.putsonline.co.uk/yoyopop/music/039-old-money/ Last week the internets were hit with the latest offering of album cover 'ReVisions' from graphic artist Joe Buck. After 'covering' Q-Tip, Kanye West, the late J Dilla and Barack Obama amongst others, the Madvillain project from supreme producer Madlib and masked emcee MF Doom got the treatment. the original cover ... http://www.putsonline.co.uk/yoyopop/music/038-madvillain-madness/ A live musical collage project, The Fragmented Orchestra is the sound-scape created when live music at locations across the UK are combined simultaneously. Sounds from London to Cardiff, Cornwall and Glasgow are collated as 24 sites feed a collective sound over 24 hours. Imagined as brain cells, each site (or 'neuron') ... http://www.putsonline.co.uk/yoyopop/music/037-the-fragmented-orchestra/ ONEDOTZERO a/v departures: live cinema triple bill the light surgeons + d-fuse + hexstatic [ 2045.15.11.08 @ BFI IMAX London ] exclusive reportage from our secret correspondant[+ pics by sal of CF] the light surgeons present true fictions / new adventures in folklore "a visual and musical essay on how places take their identity from ... http://www.putsonline.co.uk/yoyopop/music/036-onedotzero-av-departures-live-cinema-triple-bill/ Critical Mass London division - billions of cyclists meet every last Friday each month to have a moving party "on road"; stopping traffic and blazing tunes on a random route through the city. A joyous half hour until a sandwich stop and the train of noise was lost. http://www.putsonline.co.uk/yoyopop/stories/035-critical-mass-july-08/ The tri-racial and bi-lingual rapsters Giant Panda released their first album 'Fly School Reunion' in 2005. The album represented their love of hip hop and it's history and while it was a forward thinking hip hop album it still had some people labelling it as "throwback", "old school" or "backpacker" ... http://www.putsonline.co.uk/yoyopop/music/034-giant-pandas-electric-laser/ The latest work of Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien is a tribute to Albert Lamorisse's 1956 short film 'Le Ballon Rouge' ('The Red Balloon'). 'Flight Of The Red Balloon' follows the director's recent trend of making films abroad; his 2003 film 'Café Lumière' was a close documentation of Tokyo life, and his ... http://www.putsonline.co.uk/yoyopop/art-design/033-flight-of-the-red-balloon/