soul pop

kimbra

a 20 year old new zealand singer/songwriter based in melbourne, australia. 
her debut album "vows" is expected to be released this year.

square one

coldplay

from top: album cover for x&y. singles covers for: "fix you", "speed of sound",
and "talk". designed by tappin gofton (mark tappin and simon gofton) using 
baudot code-encoding (ita2). you can play with a code generator (here).

days go by

richard phillips
paintings used for dirty vegas' album covers.

tapped in

i have always loved the energy that exuded from these posters. designed 
by paula scher from pentagram for the musical bring in 'da noise, bring 
in 'da funk ('95-'96).

très bien

yelle will be performing this month at irving plaza, new york. another version 
of this video (ipad friendly) can be seen (here). their latest album, released 
two weeks ago, is Safari Disco Club. 

native tongues

 

a tight instrumental edit by cuetec taken from a tribe called quest's "rhythm 
(devoted to the art of moving butts)". 

the sweetest taboo

and so i decided to take a crack at blogging and start things off with sade.
why her? simply because her music has always soothed my soul. not to 
mention, i've had the biggest crush on her for as long as i could remember.