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'Sugar Shack' 1971 (used as cover art for Marvin Gaye's 'I Want You' 1976)
April 30, 2009

ernie barnes r.i.p 1938-2009

Ernie Barnes passed today and as in any of life’s passings it is a sad day, but as you see in his incredible paintings such as the ‘Sugar Shack’ above & endless others, his spirit will continue eternally ! So let us simply celebrate Ernie’s life and art and give thanks to a brother who so brilliantly captured the sport and art of life around him at all times.

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April 29, 2009

inspiration information-mulatu & the heliocentrics

We love a Classic at KSPACE.TV and there is no doubt that the Ethiopian artist Mulatu Astatke is exactly that ! His collaboration with The Heliocentrics live at Cargo last year is already legend and out of that has come the equally as fantastic just released ‘Inspiration Information 3′ album on Strut Records (listen in [...]

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April 27, 2009

are you reading me ?

Our good friend and local hero Laser3.14 will need very little intro to those living in Amsterdam or London’s Shoreditch area. His very apt graff style messages on the canals are already legendary and seem to pop up in a place and at a time when most needed. His messages (at least to me) capture [...]

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Gilles Peterson Sportswide – big week in football

Our Sportswide don Gilles Peterson (yeah huuuuge sports fan !) gives us his run down and predictions on a big upcoming week on the field. Stay tuned with us for his weekly GP Sportswide  column (and it’s not ALWAYS about Arsenal :
Big weeks in football don’t come a lot bigger than this ! – [...]

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eiko remasters the classic

The 2nd ‘Remastered Classic’ is now up for all to see here and at K-Space in Amsterdam and this time it’s by Eiko Ishizawa from Japan who describes her idea as follows:
I wanted to camouflage the figure of the statue in the glamorous or almost even kitschy and heavenly atmosphere of the typical classic garden [...]

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April 25, 2009

get drawn by michel gondry

One thing is for sure, and that is Michel Gondry will always surprise you ! and now he will even draw you  – are you ready for it ?Just check in at his newly revised relaunched site and for a stipend you’ll soon have the wacky director artiste’s rendition of your good or bad self [...]

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April 23, 2009

coachella celebrates 10 stellar years

If you live through a full-on wet, cold ‘n gray winter in the North Sea area, you will no doubt extra wholeheartedly jump at the offer to head out west to the Coachella Valley in Indio California to devour 3 days of incredible music, enormous and playful artful installations, the fittest and cutest girls and [...]

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April 21, 2009

Review: walls of sound at coachella

I’m still reeling from the sheer aural attack and unexpected magnificence of My Bloody Valentine’s climax at the 10th Annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio California this past weekend. Clearly I’ve never heard MBV live or I might have known what was to come but hey that’s exactly how I wanted to experience [...]

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April 17, 2009

bonno remasters the classic

To kick off the ‘live’ Classic Remastered series at K-Space Amsterdam, Bonno van Doorn has  covered one of the statues with a polyurethane plastic, whereby the piece is transformed into a  ghostly soul lost at sea on it’s way to the afterlife.”
Bonno van Doorn graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2008. In his work [...]

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April 16, 2009

record store day april 18

Yeah yeah i know, there’s a day for everything and so what – the so called ’special’ day normally just commercializes powerful concepts like love, peace, you name it. However you know that we love music and DJ culture here at KSPACE.TV and love to support our many friends who help make us happy and [...]

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April 14, 2009

classics remastered live series

Take a close look at our K-Space Amsterdam discobolos and the lady Venus, cause this is probably the last time that they will be looking as white and as ‘classic’ as they currently are. To tie-in with the release of the Classic Remastered series and kspace online creative expression site, our sublime posers are in [...]

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April 13, 2009

theophilus london tour dates

Nobody dances like Theophilus London ! and this you will find out for yourself when you catch him on his imminent UK Tour kicking off this Wednesday the 15th April in London and continuing through Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Lisbon and ending up in Glasgow. If you for sure cannot make it, less need for despair because [...]

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April 12, 2009

winners of booka shade shoe-congrats

Well it’s been a tough one sorting through the many incredible and way original entries to the Limited Edition K-Swiss Classic ‘Booka Shade shoe’ competition ! But we’ve done it and come up with another 3 winners for now (YES there will be more, so do keep entering !) The design is by Berlin’s Hort [...]

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April 10, 2009

aaron rose show in berlin

Our roving arty K-Spacer in Berlin, Tim Dobrovolny has sent us some pics taken at the opening of the Aaron Rose curated exhibition of artists Barry McGee, Ed Templeton and Raymond Pettibon at the fresh Circle Culture Gallery in Berlin. The show runs from today April 10th to 30 May so there is plenty of [...]

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April 9, 2009

classic remastered-step into the kspace

There’s a whole lot to be said about CLASSIC for sure !  but most of all it’s kinda that ease comfort and timelessness that probably best expresses the word. We’re very proud of our 1966 Classic original with its sport and cultural heritage, and with that in mind we welcome you to step into our [...]

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April 7, 2009

wicked jazz sounds band open trouw

There’s a lot to be said about simplicity, as there is to be said about ‘Classic’. For those who visit KSPACE.TV often, you know by now that we wholeheartedly support these 2 ideals and ways of life in whatever we do. So take the Wicked Jazz Sounds crew in Amsterdam for example – their motto [...]

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Carl Craig is all smiles on joining the killer lineup of the Worldwide Festival in Sete

carl graig and jimi tenor join wf lineup

The curating team of the Gilles Peterson Worldwide Festival just keep on pulling out the gems – latest editions to the already fantastic 4 days of festivities in Sete include an exclusive performance by Jimi Tenor and his band plus heavyweight don Carl Craig. In the next couple of days the full line-up will be out in the open for the last few of you who need even more convincing to finally purchase those passes. The stellar WF lineup includes Diplo, Laurent Garnier, Mocky, Soil & “Pimp” Sessions, Todd Terje, Gilles Peterson plus plus plus.

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April 6, 2009

map-in’ out london april 9-12

KSPACE.TV continues to graph out discoveries in London’s favorite zones. We’ve co-signed onto a new exciting club night experience aptly named MAP that blazes a new music trail through four key trend hotspots – Soho, Shoreditch, Ladbroke Grove, and Islington packed out in one week. A real savvy approach to debuting new talent by taking them on an inner city tour of the various water holes that makes up the dynamic London music scene.

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Lopazz live at the K-Space Sessions - just one of the many great Get Physical artists featured on this April podcast
April 5, 2009

get physical podcast april

Our good friends at Get Physical have completed their April Podcast and here it is for your enjoyment:
1. GPM108 – Lopazz – V Point
2. GPM106 – Tomas Barford & Fredski – Where Tom & Frewd Live, Let´s Go
3. GPM110 – Audiofly X – Get Smarter
4. GPM110 – Audiofly X – Mar Del Plata (Nick Curly [...]

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April 3, 2009

Gilles Peterson Sportswide – First Edition

KSPACE.TV welcomes our newest guest editor, none other than Gilles Peterson of Brownswood Recordings, DJ extraordinaire, BBC Radio 1 Worldwide host, curator, Worldwide Festivals in Sete and Singapore and mega sports fan – and yeah it’s more than just rants and raves about his all time faves Arsenal – here’s episode 1 of GP Sportswide and Gilles’ weekly predictions:

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