Tom Hinton

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The Castle: An Elephant Exhibition

If you live in South London, chances are you are pretty familiar with Elephant & Castle shopping center. If not as a retail destination then at least as a landmark. From the 24th to the 29th of May, Unit 237 on the first floor (formerly the 98p store) is going to contain an exhibition held by students of the Graphic and Media Design course at LCC. The work on show takes inspiration from the shopping center and the surrounding area.

Video: Simian Mobile Disco – Pareidolia

This video for SMD was directed by Hans Lo & Kate Moross . It features a lot of lasers. Like sci-fi movie levels. I think this is probably because Hans Lo is so similar to Han Solo. No? Just me? God lasers are cool

Download: Slugabed – Mountains Come Out of the Sky (Lapalux Saturation Remix)

Lapalux has just started an Australian tour. Pretty much as the weather here has resorted to being incredibly unpredictable in all ways apart from that it will be shit. Part of me is tempted not to post this out of jealousy and spite but it really is too good to be that petty about things.

Stream: Health – Max:Theme

People got very excited when we put up a stream from the new Max Payne game on Tuesday. Here we have a bit more of Health’s score. It’s much less of what you would expect from the band, all melancholy strings and no warped electronica or hypnotic beats, but it give you more of an idea of what they have put together. We also have a frustratingly short snippet of a bit of music called ‘Combat Drugs’ which is more like the Health we know and love.

Video: Kindness – House

Kindness has been having a little think about pop music. He decided to share his musings and discoveries with us and a small child instead of making a conventional video. Pretty strange.

Stream: Mafia Lights – West (Amusement Remix)

Last time we had an Amusement remix on the site it was their Disclosure one. I don’t see this one becoming quite so massive but it is very pretty none the less.

Download: Total Slacker – Oblivion (Grimes cover)

Total Slacker are about to embark on an American tour and have recorded a cover of Grimes ‘Oblivion’ before they set out. I think it’s the first cover of one of her songs I’ve heard and it works remarkably well. In fact I might go so far as to say I prefer the cover, but I think this might simply be a result of having played the original to death.

Video: Liars – WIXIW (A Short Film)

Liars new album is out on the 4th of June. Apparently you pronounce the name “wish you”. How they arrived at that spelling I don’t know, but they’re artsy types, they’re post-spelling or something. They’ve filmed a brief chat about the recording of it in their studio out in L.A.

ATP I’ll Be Your Mirror 2012 Mixtape

I’ll Be Your Mirror, ATP’s “Not In A Butlins Festival” is very nearly here. The lineup is incredible and it looks set to be one of the events of the year, if not simply for the chance to watch the mingling of ATP’s usual bespectacled cardigan dwelling crowd with SLAYER fans. It remains to be seen how well this will work, whether they will be able to cohabit Alexandra peacefully or if the collision of worlds will end in tears. It’s easy to guess who will be weeping should this be the case. With a little over a week to go ATP have put together a mix of the bands playing over the course of the three days. I doubt you’re going to hear another mix that starts with Raining Blood and features Antoni Maiovvi for quite some time.

Stream: HEALTH – Tears

I grew up playing computer games, they had great music but no matter how much we pretend otherwise Mario’s beeps are kind of lame without context. At some point this all changed and now HEALTH are writing music for games. Hell, I’ve even see it referred to as a score. I think it was pretentious stupidity and not a great gaming joke unfortunately.


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