I have visited the new studios in Portobello road a few times and made myself familiar with the area, the refurbishments are still ongoing and our first goal is to set up the group show for the 21st Febuary.
At I visited Rough Trade and Honest Jons record shops. Having completed a painting of records on sale in Berwick St in Soho I have continued a painting of records on sale at a record shop in Camden called ‘sounds that swing’ (see enclosed digital drawing).
I have took some recent influence from a book called ‘Retro-mania’ by Simon Reynolds and have begun some music drawings inspired by painting of my records in the Attic.
Ideas formulated so far include Accumulations music in record shops, studios and equipment, looking at ubiquitous music collections close to home in spare rooms, analogue items with no technologically up to date significance.
So far theres a drawing of a crossfader and of a stylus- items with a connection with DJ culture. A good friend of mine chose one of my drawings for his release on DirtyStuffRecords
http://www.beatport.com/release/lights-on-ep/85252…
