Lodown Exhibition + Ideal 10th Bday 2001 / Opening event


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Capsule invited Berlin based graphics magazine Lodown to exhibit at the Custard Factory in 2001. The event was part of Ideal Skate shops 10th birthday celebrations and included a ramp for the opening night as well as live performances from Bola (Skam Records) + Gescom (members of autechre), floach + papa november as well as inflatable sumo wrestlers which added much amusement to the evening.

 

LODOWN discover the blueprint of a specific subculture, who have set their focus on playing with and sampling urban mechanisms and transforming them to their own art of expression, deeply rooted in american pop art, electronic music, skateboarding, or whatever. enjoy more than exploit.< marok 2000 a selection of material from Schizophrenic, the second book by berlin based magazine Lodown, featuring new work from marok commissioned by capsule 28th september - 28th October 2001 exhibition curated by capsule

sponsored by Carhartt , west midlands arts, medicine bar

 

BOLA Manchester's Bola is Darrell Fitton, whose 1995 debut 12-inch for Skam under that name helped shoot the now-collectible label to underground notoriety. His self-titled Skam EP combined vaguely funk-fueled rhythms with harsh, austere synth textures and almost industrial-grade distortion.Soup, Fitton's LP debut is an impressive synthesis of the machine-beat ambiance of post-techno with warm, wistful analog soul. Text taken from Sean Cooper, All Music Guide

 

GESCOM Gescom, the more dancefloor-friendly identity of Sean Booth and Rob Brown, focuses on the more uptempo tendencies of Autechre paired with a harder, rougher, more driving rhythmic edge, Gescom material remains committed to the more adventurous side of electro/techno even as it gives DJs a bit more backbeat to work with. Text taken from Sean Cooper, All Music Guide www.skam.co.uk