Here was us, so stoked and smug about our latest edition, slamming it down in all the best places in LDN that we completely forgot about you digicats...we're sorry, this won't happen again. These are some sample pictures from Juke Vol. 2, but HO there are about a cazillion more. Have you even checked out the trailer at the bottom of this page yet?! pfft
Next time you're in one of the places listed on our Facbook site (c'mon, we know you've "liked" us already, surely?), glance down at the mag rack/the side table/the window sill/the bar and there we are, in all our shiny radness, just for you. We know you're going to be as hyped on it as we are.
Regardless of if we came up with it or not, a good idea is a good idea...is what we've been telling ourselves since we saw this from the matey at Chocolate Bobka. Truly inventive stuff from a seriously forward-thinking collective of people.
Imagine a world where advertising wasn't the boss of journalism? What a wonderous place of kind words, helping hands and luminous smiles that would be...of course, probably all the people who will be pledging work in media, were farmed there through a multitude of social networking tools and are currently saving up to buy that new iPad incarnation, but come on, let's just kid for a while.
In between skating, making music, shooting their own vids, smoking weed and fucking bitches, Odd Future took some time out to give Juke the first UK press that they’ve so far enjoyed. We were the original, but there will be loads more, for sure. Above are some of the shots that we got of the kids doing their thing.
They don’t like being compared to any one else (“unless it’s like Wu Tang or some shit”), so we’re not even going to attempt it. All we’ll say is that these are some hungry, venomous kids, who are doing shit their own way, and that’s pretty rad.
If you’re in the borough this evening, they’re playing a show in The Drop that is sure to smack your face off. Will we be there? Hopefully…
To read the interview, and for more copies of these and other visual lovelies, get your hands on a Juke circulating in a max out spot near you NOW.
Supersonic is a three part terror noise showcase in the middle earth of England. It happened a couple of weeks ago.
For three nights, sludge filled the halls of Custard Factory. Plenty of strobing, cataclysmic alterations in thought, and spinal-column-snapping helicopters were the order of the weekend. Of course, Juke was more than happy to attend and lend a hand.
Resident party man/picture maker, Alex de Mora, was our man on the floor. He then decided to naff off to NYC, being the international man of mystique that he is, so that's why these shots are a little late.
He was kind enough to provide us with some great shots now, though, and 3 words to sum up the event:
It's the day after every Stoner in California dragged their asses out (or didn't) of the well worn grooves in their sofas to go and vote for the right to smoke a bowl in public. This could either be a day of technicolour rainbows and flying ice cream trucks or just another excuse for cainers to stay in their backyards. Either way, to get into the spirit of things, JUKE has made a short playlist of some tunes we like to listen to when the lights are low and the smoke is strong.
Well, if you're asking, everything now! Mater Suspiria Vision are a ghost drone group from Kabul. But are they really? Nobody knows if they're even a group. All we know is:
1. They make some of the most terrifying noise around.
2. We like being scared.
Think of a vampire with bronchitis dying in a deep cave. Got it? That’s them.
They're coming to London soon whether you like it or not.
With more triangles than Juke Vol. 1 (yeah, that's a phrase now, and what?), NYC's future discoites Innergaze dash our eyes with some Tron for the new millenium, sans Jeff B. Try and make out Aurora Halal on the psychic jewellery...
Still Corners are a multi-national psych-experience to simultaneously make you fall in love and push needles through your skin from the inside out. After finally getting back to putting out some truly epic tracks after too long of being trapped in their projection screen (or wherever they’ve been hiding), they’re playing a set of shows all over London in the next month to remind people what they’ve been missing/turn them on/creep them the hell out.
As they’re not (that) new anymore, and new band interviews kinda get everyone a little fatigued, we spoke to Leon and Greg from the quintet about their love of all things visual.
So, you guys spend a lot of time watching movies, right? How do they inform your sound?
Greg: I spend a lot of time watching movies. Basically, I just wanted to exaggerate horror films, and it has always been a giant impact visually, audiolly…audiolly’s not even a word! I mean, trying to get that atmosphere across the way that David Lynch and Argento did and stuff was a goal of ours, and that has inspired us with the music that we make.
Leon: All the sparse melodies, weird sort of other worldly sounds…I don’t know what they are, but they just sound amazing.
Quite strange because, although you would possible categorise your music as Pop, it’s definitely got that side of darkness to it that is recognisable from that sort of cinema…
Leon: Yeah, it’s kind of borrowing from that, but it’s all Pop.
Greg: We love Pop music. I think we were just trying to make Pop music, but that little bit stranger. Something that was a bit more interesting…to us.
Still on the subject of films, what are the best films that you have seen this year?
Greg: New films or just films we hadn’t seen before?
Greg: And Seven Women For Satan. I don’t know, they’re lots of really dodgy horror films. I could run through a million of them, but Let’s Scare Jessica To Death was a really good one. Let’s stick with that one…actually, there was this other one I watched. I was reading this review of really dodgy horror films and they said that this was the movie that inspired David Lynch to make Twin Peaks, and it was called Wrath Of Women or something like that. It was a psychedelic horror, but it truly was amazing. It has become probably one of my favourite films of all time.
Leon: The title’s not as good as Let’s Scare Jessica To Death, though.
What are your top 5 favourite film scores, if you were put on the spot to choose?
Was there a film that made you want to start a band?
Leon: Rosemary’s Baby. Fucking hell, that was just awesome. I mean, we are more pop than that…that was Krzysztof Komeda, I think.
Greg: It was perfect. That whole movie was exactly how we want to make music as well. Just that weird, strange, “something else is going on, but everything seems normal” vibe.
Leon: Just those opening credits are really inspiring. I think it’s actually Mia Farrow singing it.
As you guys are so into films and they influence your sound so much, do you make you own?
Leon: We’re just massive movie fans. I mean, for me, I watch a few a week as something to do. It’s a massive love, but music is a bit more like my love and hate. Music I just want to make it a nice, pure enjoyment kind of thing. But, no, we just watch a lot of films…and talk about them too.
Your video for “Wish” is really great. Who shot that?
Greg: That’s one of my friends from Australia, Lucy Dyson. She’s made a few films in Australia and she’d just moved to London. She really liked the track and wanted to do the video. She knew what we wanted, and just came up with the perfect idea for it. It was really easy, actually. It all just fell into place.
Leon: It was all shot on 16mm, slightly over-exposed, so it gave it a nice warm feeling, which went with the song really well.
It’s cool when a band takes a bit more time about doing their thing. A bit more pride in their appearance. Like an old dog, but with some new tricks.
Art-infused Lo Light’s MySpace looks like someone smashed mid-90s Angelina Jolie all over binary code. It’s a total contrast from the, occasionally (wait for it), blissed-out synths, and adds an unexpected eeriness to their overall sound. There's a strong feeling that the visual is just as important as all the other elements that inform the glitchagramma of their noise. So many bands have those long exposure, warm-washed colour photographs adorning every inch of their sites(which we're into, FYI), but that shouldn't be a pre-requisite for cool, surely?
Image heavy - YES. Doppelgänger - NO.
These are a couple of our favourite images that they have posted. Oh yeah, their music is also very good, and with upbeat catchy song titles such as “Piece By Piece Into The Ants Nest I Go”, they’ve got all the bases covered.
