Whoa!

A cool bike ad

A pretty cool ad for Alta bikes. They are a norwegian bike manufacturer focusing on simpilified urban single speed bikes as far as I know.

This is the reason I find it difficult to fit in skinny hipster jeans myself;-)

Stylophone

I need one of these machines.

Or I could see an emulator for these made for iPhone or some other touch screen gadget.

RING! RING!

Cocomotion vol 6 - killing you smoothly this weekend!

It's on again this weekend. As guest deejay, we're having Mange from Sweden (and the ever expanding Nerd Network Helsinki crew) who knows his italo like his back pockets! Info from the flyer above.

And on top of that, Magnus made a special promo mix for Cocomotion! Get it here, track list on the comments section.

Magnus Blomkvist: Cocomotion Mini-promomix 2009

Grand Master Roc Raida R.I.P.

No matter what you think about turntablism, the man was a true master.

Most EPIC Surf/Skate/Snow Movie Evah!

This might be tad bit long but worth every second ATMO. Despite the truly awful soundtrack.

Vybz Kartel 'Bicycle' (Tripple Bounce Riddim)

We love bikes, seen?

Pot Records

I guess there could be a steady demand for these kind of records even today.

Follow the golden fox!

This song reminds me that I should repair my old Groovebox to get my hands on its' filter knobs & arpeggios. To get that classic, durttty arpeggio sounds!

Btw this duo is coming to Helsinki tomorrow, so be there if this is your cup of juice.

Suomalaiset people

Just have to bring this classic back! Suomalaiset people in Helsinki!

Remember to recycle: Jay Z & Forever Young

This brings me back....Waaayyyy back....

Tocar la Gorda -Touch the Fat One!

Sounds nasty, don't it. But that's the name of a new short film by Juha Fiilin (yep, that's my bro), containing even a clip of Kriton Bangers' music. Lottery, sleazy porn producers, yachts, all sorts of craziness. See it at the Helsinki International film festival, if you're in town this week!

Tocar la Gorda on fiilin.com

Because I Got High

Nuff said!

Funk Balls

Now this ish is crazy. Cariocas gone mad...

"Police believe at least 60 young Brazilians have lost their lives in funk balls; dozens more have sustained serious injuries. Some have been paralyzed, some blinded.

Funk balls look like ordinary nightclubs with one big difference: They play music that incites the crowd to bloodshed. Funk's anger is contained not only in lyrics of murder and revenge but wrapped up in the very sound of the music, in a rhythm that chimes with the speed of a fist smashing into an enemy's flesh."

Read the whole thingy here

I know this is an old article, but still...

iSnowWhite

We all operate on Macs nowadays and many people love to 'personalize' their laptops with stickers and whatnot. Anyway, this is seriously the coolest design on any Mac laptop I've seen so far.

Black (metal) humour

Soo, is this

a) funny
b) weird
c) pathetic
d) finnish
e) awesome
f) rocking
g) all of the above

It's for you to decide

Komposti Sound Respect!

Much respect to Bommi Tommi & Komposti Sound! And Lifesaver! And combined, the best youtube playlist for yer sorry asses.

http://www.lifesaver.net/keskustelut/read.php?6,149407

Afro Puffs!

Last nite Snoop Dogg brought his pound to Helsinki for the third time. I honestly didn't have too high expectations - I excpected a good show from a charismatic rapper, but the show was actually top notch. The band was a bit progressive at times, but I really digged those arrangements that gave a new edge to the classics. The biggest surprise was when Lady Of Rage came on stage and they started playing "Afro Puffs". Big respect for the lady!

Snoop is mos def one of the only really big rappers that have had a long career, quite current hits and still manage to amaze you live.

Open letter to MySpace: Let me f***ng go!

I know that MySpace has lost the game to Facebook (at least if we measure daily users and user activity), but it still works prett well e.g. as a promotion channel for bands and artists.

However - I've been trying to delete my profile from MySpace for a week now, but I can't seem to manage to do that. I've clicked the proper buttons and tried to send my profile to the digital graveyard but no.

So Myspace guys: send me the f***ng confirmation mail so I can really delete my profile. It's nothing personal, it's just friggin frustrating and reeaally bad customer service.

Free online movies

We all know what Spotify has done to (free / ad sponsored) streaming audio. What I wait for is the next spotify for video, both tv series and full length movies. Hulu has been a big thing in the States for almost a few years now, and we all remember the hype around Joost but there must be something happening soon.

In the meanwhile check out Speedcine, one version of what this could be in the future.

Cocomotion promo mix is here! 2 Balearic 4U!

The Cocomotion club (at Bar Nolla, Helsinki) is tomorrow for the fourth time now, with the almighty Flipperi from Top Billin crew / Nightrunners / Helsinki 78-82 (a brand new hella good project!) as a guest DJ!

so i thought what better way to celebrate it than to to make a promo mix! The first Cocomotion mix evah!

Here it is: a massive hour plus mix of some balearic pop, electronic, disco and whatnot, including your favorites like The Art Of Noise, The Police, hannulelauri, Hercules And Love Affair, Desire, Helen, Studio, Pineapples, Holy Ghost! etc... (see track list on the comments!)

And make sure to come to the club tomorrow!!

Get it on ZShare! mp3, 82 minutes, 113 mb

There's more to...

... life than dance music produced in Jamaica. Like what?
For example LEGO.

Yuh love!

This starts to look like a reggae blog nowadays (well - we're into reggae, but also lots of other stuff too). I still had to blog this as well, it's Vybz Kartel's Yuh Love (prod. by Dre Skull).

This is just soooooooo sooooft and good.

Boys Of Summer

I was hanging out at the mall near by and this suddenly started playing of the PA. A perfect soundtrack for these last days of summer. Could have played it a bit louder, though.

Digital Album Covers

Nowadays more than nine out of ten of all singles sales are made in digital form, for albums that figure is reversed. Therefore Sony, Warner, Universal and EMI are soon starting to launch digital album covers that inlcude "computerised version of the sleeve notes that come as standard with a CD, including lyrics and artwork, and videos"

Nice idea, but let's see if has any effect on the changed consumer behaviour. I mean, the music album is a concept created in the 60's and the world has changed a lot since.

Bad Boys, what ya gonna do?

It's only August, but I guess I have found the best reggae riddim of 2009. It's a version of the classic "Bad Boys" by Inner Circle - thee song from the TV-series "Cops".

This is a fresh version, nice songs by Buju Banton, Burro Banton, Busy Signal, Perfect and others. More here...

Friday's reggae tunes

Here's a couple of my new reggae favourites than surely will be heard on friday at Fillarikorjaamo. Ramping Shop has been a huge hit for some time now, but check out Tarrus Riley & Macka Diamond as well, pretty nice stuff there as well. And Movado's ballady chune is big as well.

Fillarikorjaamo #3

It's on again next friday 7.8. with HennyMan and Alppila spinning discs like last time. I'll try to bring some new dancehall tunes & old punk rock classics, Alppila will mos def play some house music. And we promise to put a lot of AOR in between as well.

Here's some pics from last session

We'll start playing around 22:00 but there's lots of coolness before that as well.

Töölönkatu 51, B there.

Poker Face riddim

This seems to be a quite new riddim, although the original ladygagagaga version is quite washed out by now. But this is once again done in a typical jamaican style. Warning: lyrics contain explicit sexual references.

Serious Things On My iPod

I have never been following the dnb-scene, although I've lately been diggin' some older jungle stuff. However, last nite on a boring flight I had to rewind this song several times on my iPod. It's Cold Jazz and Wezzler Featuring Joey Fever - Serious Things. Basically a reggae singjay song with dnb-beat, but this has really strong vocals and a catchy chorus

I'd like to hear a more traditional remix of this still.

Yeah, I knowm the video ain't that great IMHO.

No Cassettes // Mixtape 1

NO CASSETTES RED BAND TRAILER from FonsecaFilms on Vimeo.

Sure, it's one of those fixy bike videos but worth posting here anyway...

Fillarikorjaamo feat. Kriton Bangers DJ's Once Again

Yes, it's on again! This time with Hennyman and Alppila spinning some weird science with guest appearances as well. Hennyman will be filling his Chrome Messenger bag with classics & fresh picks from Jamaica and Alppila will have a wide selection of electronic pop I guess. And 'cos we also rock Serato nowadays, you can expect anything from us, 'cos we hold no barriers when it comes to mixing great songs together. Mos Def a short MJ appreciation set at some point. Or then not.

So come to Korjaamo this friday to witness the fitness! Take yer bike as well.

Distant Relatives

The marriage of reggae and rap was a big trend in the 90's and I'd personally like to see more of that stuff coming out. I mean for an example the stuff that Nas and Damian "Junior Gong" have done in the past is sooo great (see this). Well now it seems that this ganja-lovin' duo is back in the studio and on the road mixing the roots to the hop. The snippet "As We Are" from the album to come sounds just what it should sound like. Damian is one of the best toasters on the market and Nas has always mastered the skill of clear and distinctive rapping.

Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version

Bonnie still rocks.

Murder She Wrote!

This suites my current love for 90's dancehall. It's
Murder time!

Never Forget The Warriors

A suprising combination here. Scenes from the classic flick Warriors with the music by Judge.

Both tell a different New York story, the first from the 70's and the latter from the 80's. I love both the film and the band. Hardcore still lives!

World Naked Bike Ride

Kinda hippy, but summery.

The Sports Documentary

B-Boy Jam For Today // Bay/Bronx Bridge

DJing to the masses

Once again, it comes from Sweden. This one's called Pacemaker. It's a handheld portable DJ-gear to democratise the DJ culture. Good be nice add on to those summer picnics.

And yes, one of the master minds behind this is Stakka Bo... Y'all remember this hit from the past?

'Saturday Night Fever'

Uuuh, I'm still loving this track just as much as when I first heard it years ago. 100% dope 'ish!

Death Of Autotune

We're all waiting for Jay-Z's upcoming Blueprint 3 -release. The album was initially said to feature a lot of songs that utilized the voice-altering technology, Jay recently removed all Auto-Tune from BP3, recording 'D.O.A.' instead. Apparently, he's sick of the trend. Well, autotune can be annoying but what's the stuff about dissing tight jeans?

"you boys jeans too tight, you colors too bright, your voice too light. I might wear black for a year straight, I might bring back Versace shades. this ain’t for z100, Ye told me to kill y’all to keep it 1 hundred, this is for hot 97, for Khalid we the best’n, yeah this is just violent, death of autotune, moment of silence."

A Day In The Life Of The Gonz

Kriton At Fillarikorjaamo Club

All right, us Kriton Boys have been booked to spin dem funky rekkids at the Fillarikorjaamo Club in the Korjaamo in Töölö every first Friday of the summer months, starting this week. First at the terrace, then later inside the club. The sound selection will be eclectic to the max and it'll be hot & sweaty fo'sho. We'll be there in different constellations with some others kids spinning vinyl too. There'll be plenty of other cycling-related activities there too, read more here and see yo'all out there! 

A Rancid History Lesson

Just to remind that one thing is cooler than Rancid, and that's Operation Ivy. Of course Armstrong and Freeman we're founding members of this band as well.

Op Ivy is too hectic for any occation, their sound was kinda crappy at all times, they play too fast for their skills, but they rocked the Gilman Street 924 back in the days.

Rancid ain't rancid yet

"We got it right, you got wrong,
Were still around (Last one to die)
Were going up, youre going down
Were still around (Last one to die)"

They're growing old and their gnarly tattoos are fading, but Rancid still can make a kick ass album. The new cd "Let The Dominoes Fall" comes with cool bonus material (making of -DVD, guitar picks, posters, an acoustic version cd). It may not be a classic as "Out Come The Wolves", but this is simply a nice album. The lyrics are pretty much about living in the Bay Area, which is a subject these guys seem to know a lot about. I really dig these guys, 'cos they sure ain't no CEO-punk or emo/neo type of anything, they've been pretty loyal to their game.

Just to get in mood, check out some old hits as well...

Time Bomb
Ruby Soho
Roots Radicals

This isht makes me wanna taky my bike and go coasting slooowly...

Danger Danger

I was really into some crappy hair metal bands back in the 80's when i was a school kid. Like not even just Poison, Winger, Ratt, Warrant and Dokken, but even ones that weren't as popular, but still equally crappy. Like Danger Danger from New York. They looked (and sounded) like bunch of little girls, but i didn't care. And at least their first album cover was pretty cool - in a geeky airbrush way (see above).

And all this blabbering leads me to this: last friday i met this nice dude named Jan at the Cocomotion club and he said that he has a blog called Danger Danger. And not just any old blog, but actually a really cool one. A music one. So unless you're still into crap hair metal, go check it out!

www.dangerdanger.org

Sports King

Too bad this is in finnish only, but I guess you could enjoy this even without understanding a word.

Get Busy

Another great artist from JA to pay a visit.

We gonna here this then, aigght? (Tic Toc)

Magnus Uggla - the ruler of modern music as we know it?

Sweet lord, this tune has been on massive power play recently at my place. A massive seasonal tune - and also a future Cocomotion anthem. Cosmic friggin swede-rock from 1981.

ps. get the file

Ward 21 & the undisputed king of all weed-anthems

I must state that this blog is not a political forum with a particular agenda , so our intention is not to promote drugs, crime, or anything illegal. We just find the whole drug culture just plain interesting as a part of our modern society and its' subcultures.

And as especially weed has had a long history with jamaican music (and hip hop as well) I have to put the third ganja-influenced link here in a row. It's Ward 21 and the BEST EVER ganja tune. It's all about the blue smoke.

(But we still promote tolerance in all of it forms - we're a bit hippies that way)

I Smoked A Spliff And I Liked it

This song dates back to last autumn, but the laterst post inspired me to look it up and share it to y'all. Great Katy Perry vibes here.

Mike Giant Spliff Rolling Lesson

Check out Mike G's Rebel8 here.

What the world (of nerds) is talking about

I haven't been too active with Twitter, but the whole online microblogging thing is kinda interesting as a phenomenon. You could think of Twitter as the biggest online discussion forum in the world. And tracking those discussions can be quite addictive.

There are some cool tools for that, try e.g. Twitscoop that shows a tag cloud in realtime of what people are tweeting about. Pointless, maybe, but fun in a way. Somebody's actually tweeting about Cosby now. Is it Bill or Theo perhaps they're buzzing about?

You could also track Twitter trends from Twist, which is kinda like Google Trends.

Nerdy, aye? Yes.

Do the COCOMOTION!

Brand new summer, brand new club. Yours truly, Fiil Inc will be starting a monthly Balearic/pop/disco club night with Lauri Soini a.k.a. 80's Cop at Nolla Baari. So if youre in town (Helsinki that is) next friday (22nd May) be sure to come and say hi. And enjoy the raw power of really smooth music. Maybe something on the lines of this:

Symbionese Liberation Army Bank Heist !!!

Why Did I Ever Cut My Hair?!!

Observe & Report

I've always been a fan of the crazy comedy flicks from Airplane! to American Pie. If the DVD cover says that it's Rated R for strong sexual content, crude humor, language and drug use it most likely going to do the trick for me. I haven't seen "Observe & Report" yet,, but based on this trailer it must have all of the above. I mean the scene with these coked up fake cops beating up kids with skateboards- you gotta love it.

Kids In Paris // How To Dance 'Electro'

La Belle Electro - Documentary from Director: Luke Blair on Vimeo.

Waste five minutes with this video and you know what goin' on in the 'Paname!' These Parisian kids are def on some next gen 'ish here. Just like they should too. 

I also like the fact that they all seems to have Le Gibus as their HQ and I actually used to live right across the street from it the last time I stayed in Paris. Good to know they still keep it keeping on over there. 

Next in electro pop: Passion Pit

Passion Pit from Boston is my new favorite electronic pop band. Their first mini album "Chunk Of Change" came out late last year (on Frenchkiss in the USA and through - OMG- Sony Music in Europe) and it was all killer no filler. The above video, "The Reeling" , is the first single off their upcoming debut album "Manners" (out May 19th). All whiny falsetto vocals, massive pop hooks, electro disco beats, layers and layers of synth, vocal harmonies and sweet melancholy vibes.

You cant help but love this stuff: their official label site says that the main Passion Pitter Michael Angelakos (who actually does all the music by himself in the studio) is equally influenced by both Giorgio Moroder AND Randy Newman! Also Google/imdb tells me that "Passion Pit" is the name of a 1985 porn film with Traci Lords and John Holmes, so how could you ever go wrong with something like that?

Won't see me coming like a swine flu

The first rapper to use the swine flu as a metaphor in his lyrics: Cam'ron feat Jadakiss - Let's Talk About

I guess we're gonna see more of this coming.

Let Me Twitter Dat

Now that the hype's growing more and more here in Finland as well, you outta check out Andy Milonakis- "Let Me Twitter That". Andy's a bit disturbed in my opinion (in a positive way, kinda...), but this has a certain truth in it. "My baby needs pampers, let me twitter that...."

Cheap iPhone clones

If you think that the iPhone is still too much for your wallet and you have a history of liking let's say... more accessible versions of known those more expensive brands, then this might interest you.

They're making a chinese version of the iPhone, it's a bit fatter and uglier and doesnt work that well, but it's way more cheaper and looks the same if don't come too close to it. They just call it "HiPhone"

Check out how it works

KWAITO! Sghubu sa Pitori // DJ Mujava: Township Funk

The sound of NOW!

Deep from the townships of South Africa. Tropical bloghouse, anyone?

New Luxux for them graff heads!

Our main man Fiskars (also known as one third of the six-legged party machine Top Billin) is one helluva graphic designer. Now this dude can draw them stick figures, to say the least. During the last few years, countless 12" record sleeves, cd-covers, t-shirts, party flyers, posters, even skateboards have had the priviledge to become illustrated with Fiskars' crazy nice vectors.

So if you don't know, ya'll better recognize. The man has put a new portfolio site out there for you to enjoy. Here you go: www.Luxux.com

Thomas Bangalter Knows Savate!

Daft Punk Thomas Bangalter getting it on in da club, with his Ed Banger electro warriors! 

Kicking some nasty bouncer's ass because someone of their gang was not let into the V.I.P, apparently. And probably all coked-up for good measure. 

Vive La France! 

FYI: Savate is mad french O.G. kick-boxing type of skill for kicking some ass. 

Thomas Bangalter - "Rollin' & Scratchin'"/"Signatune" (Bangalter edit) Live at Cinespace (Part 1) from la-underground on Vimeo.

I'm On A Bike // EPIC !!!

This starts bit slow but when they get the track going, on boy...

The New Jopo 3 - beauty or beast?

Here you go, the 3rd generation of Jopo with 3 gears. I must admit that the 2nd gen version from 2000 is way much cooler looking (well I ride an army green 2006 model like this . And we all agree on the fact the the og Jopo is the classic.

This time the designers have managed to come up with something that lacks the original feel and looks like a cheap copy. I don't mind the gears, they had version with 2 gears way back, but this just looks cheap. Like those foldable bikes for mariners...

And I also found out that all Jopos are made in Taiwan nowadays. Shiiiiet, at least mine was still manufactured in Hanko.

The Lost Tribes of New York City

The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.

Pirate Bay trial verdict: jail jail jail

Just read this: All of the Pirate Bay guys we're sentenced to jail for one year. And they'll have to pay a fine for 30 million swedish crowns (2.7 M€)for copyright violations.

Read more here in finnish.

And they're commenting this live on their site.

Let's see what this means.

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter '09 - alt-daddy's daydream

So cool, Nick Catchdubs and his alt-advisor Mr. Ducker made a sequel to their Radio Friendly Unit Shifter mixtape from last year. Which was maybe the nicest mixtape whole year. So that means that I don't even have to tell you that this sequel is SO NECESSARY!

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter ‘09 by Nick Catchdubs & Mr. Ducker (mp3)

Scraper Bikes Are Hella Good!

'Cos we love bikes... 

In The Valley

Whoah, it's about time that Kriton Music presents a new artist! Well, new is really a relative term in this case: In The Valley is 1/3 of Kriton Bangers. All further info about this project we will keep to ourselves. Here's the music:

In The Valley: Secrets Of Life And Death (mp3, 320 kbs) (roughly 14 mb, zshare)

The Juan Maclean FTW!

Maybe the best record already this year (along with Bat For Lashes and Fever Ray and a couple of others), is the new Juan Maclean album "The Future Will Come". It will be out soon, in the meanwhile check out that "One Day" video above. Crazy nice s**t, both video and track. Featuring a kewt AZN.

50 Best High School Movies

We changed our name from Kriton High School Bangers to plain Kriton Bangers, but we still love 'em high school flicks. Here's a list of best high school movies made by Entertainment Weekly. I've seen 31/50, how about you?

p.s. one thing, what the heck is Harry Potter doing on the list? I mean seriously? Hairy Potter I could understand but this....

394 & 54512

Just a note.

This blog is now #394 on Blogilista, which means that someone actually reads these posts. If we trust our web analytics service, we've had 54.512 visitors here so far.

Thank you guys. Have no idea why you come here, but we try to keeps on blogging in the free world.

p.s. its seems that a certain counter/sub/niche culture guys like us a lot, so thank you GUYS

Best Glam Rock Ever: Million Miles Away

From the theatrical spanish guitar intro to the corny sax solo, this is just pure rock history every note. And you can't go wrong with lyrics like "I smoked a lot of sky, I drank a lot of rain". And combine this with the melodramatic story of the band that almost got to be the biggest band in the world, you got something bigger than life.

Digitytöt!

Yes, it's finally open to all nerds worldwide! The Digitytöt are here. Go check it out, if you feel even a bit nerdy/techie/trekkie.

The concept obviously resembles Diggnation, but that's cool, 'cos they do this with a different twist.

Let's see if they have the stamina to keep this as interesting and entertaining as Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht.

RE: If Sci-Fi Nerds Ruled the World...

As a kid I found the Cylons quite scary, with their humming visor sound and all. But these Battlerstar Galactica Convention regulars in the previous post.... Their middle class version of the Cylon is more like Bender here. It's hilarious.

If Sci-Fi Nerds Ruled The Earth...

Fashion bloggin'

Fashion blogs are getting more 'n more popular every day, there must be hundreds of kids making them now. The swedes are obviously years ahead of us with Blondin Bella and others but we're getting there.

Just too bad they're mostly made by gurrls, so they concentrate more on the feminine side of life. If you're a chica in your twenties you could go fo' stuff like Fashion Overdose. That one is actually kinda cool, she's interviewing Annie and what kind of clothes Annie likes to wear - something you would expect from Anna Abreau perhaps, not Annie.

So if you know of any male oriented fashion blogs, plz let us know. Or better yet, start making one of your own, dude!

Collie Day 'n nite

I witnessed Collie's preaching yesterday at Redrum. I liked the show, 'cos he can really sing live and he's got a lot of good chunes as well. but I can see why some peeps find his weed anthems a bit boring lyrically.

However, check out the link above, A Collie remix of Kid Cudi's Day 'd Nite. Nice.

Omar Little as a shorty

I spent the last two months watching the all five seasons of The Wire. And it was all good, I mean it goes up there with Sopranos and such classics. Anyway, I found out that HBO has some cool prequels or such out there. And this is about Omar's youth. I gotta admit, Omar is the man.

Snoop Dubstep Millionaire

Yep, 2009 is the year when Snoop Dogg went dubstep. But whatever, this song is pretty damn crazy!!

Kriton Ice Rink Bangers live on 28.3.

On saturday 28.3 the Kriton Boys will be spinning discs at the Jääpuisto That's gonna be literally a cool happening, 'cos the place is an ice rink , a bit like the Rockefeller Center in NYC.

Wikipedia tells us that "An ice rink is a frozen body of water where people can ice skate or play winter sports. Some of its uses include playing ice hockey, figure skating exhibitions and contests, and ice shows".

We hope that there won't be too much ice hockey going on as we start playing them records, 'cos we don't have no "we will rock you" or any other sport event standards in our vinyl bags.

It's gonna be an early start, we'll be there from 4pm to 6 pm, and we're gonna focus a lot on easy going reggae, and maybe some smooth hip hop sounds. A good way to start the evening before you head out to the Tres Bien-club later on.

Maybe we'll play some eski-chunes as well...

It's all Tres Bien

I almost forgot to remind you of this: Yours truly, along with Top Billin' dudes Nenis & Fiskars, plus boogie and disco connoisseurs Pablo and Kalle will be deejaying in this fresh new club nite called Tres Bien. It's in Kuudes Linja, Hki on saturday 28th March.

Mixing it all together: the chocolate (boogie & disco) with the mayonaise (AOR & new wave), myself providing more of the latter. See you there!

Best hip hop song this year (so far)

Ya''ll should know this already: Cam'ron's "I Hate My Job". Already a classic.

So eagerly waiting for "Crime Pays", possibly the rap record of this year!

Best pop song this year (so far)

Hands down, this is where it's at: "Daniel" by Bat For Lashes.

The single cover features Natasha Khan a.k.a. Bat For Lashes standing on the beach topless (no, there's no titties to be seen, you dirty bastards) showing a portrait of Ralph Macchio as Karate Kid painted on her back. How friggin cool is that!

edit: here's that cover pic 4 ya'll!

Bitch Killer

Nasty? Yes. In 'Selected Cinemas'. Sure.

This Is Official: Richie Jackson Is The RADDEST!

I always sucked on skateboard and I've no problem admitting that. However, I've always had great respect for good skateboarders and blah blah. Anyhow, there's skateboarding and then there's skateboarding. Now in my world it should be about freedom, expression, skills, style, raddness and FUN. And none of that boring technical shit. 

And I've seen the light. Ritchie Jackson is my Man. He has the maddest chops and the raddest style ever. If I could skate for shit, I'd try to copy his every move. For real. 

Heavy Metal Monk

Sunday mornings are good for many things. One of them being pointless youtubing. Like watching videos like this.

A typical Slayer fan

SLAYERRRRRR!



I used to be into Slayer in the Hell Awaits / Reign in Blood / South Of Heaven -era, so I know what this guy is talking about. Well, Slayer still has way more street cred than most of their peers from the 80's. Metallica, Megadeth.... gimme a break.

Marmite tonite!

Not being an englishman, I cannot say what Marmite means to the peeps in UK. However I had to buy some Marmite for the first time in my life 'cos it just looked so appealing on the market shelf at one of these ethnic stores in Hakaniemi today (yah, maybe the british food culture is considered ethnic here, who knows). According to wikipedia it should have some umami qualities. Hmm. Let us see.

I'll probably dislike the taste of it, 'cos I don't even fancy any peanut butter or chocolate spreads on my toast. I'm all butter, jam, marmelade or cheese spread -man. Totally. No exceptions here. Unless the Marmite blows my mind .

Trek X Lance Armstrong X Kaws X Barry McGee

I'm trying to infiltrate my Fixed Gear Bikes Blog stuff into Kriton blog here but we dig graphic design, graffiti art AND cycling anyway so here we go:  

Check out these custom Trek Madone road bikes painted by KAWS and Barry McGee for Lance Armstrong's Livestrong Foundation. Some people, myself included, might not like modern road bike design so much but I gotta admit that these bikes look pretty hot with the unique art work on them and all that. 

It's an England story, mate, oi!

Like I opened up here before:good reggae can come out of somewhere else than Jamaica. And today I got reminded that actually England is the home of many great reggae / reggae influenced artists. I mean Aswad, Black Roots, Musical Youth, Steel Pulse and such are great, but as I bought the "An England Story Compilation, Vol I" by Soul Jazz Recordings today I remembered all these cool toasters who showed the rich multicultural heritage of the britons.

This cool compilation brought back the sounds of Tenor Fly, Papa Levi, Top Cat, Freestylers, RaggaTwins, Tippa Irie and their mates. Check out this vid to feel the ragga of the 90's....

Blow-Up Wolverine

MacBookWheel

Well, the Sony thing was funny, so we gotta laugh at the Steve Jobs' posse as well. The MacBookWheel

Piece of f#*@!ng s#!t.

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