It’s been a while since I dedicated a day to the man called IncrOne so I figured today called for another dedicated post. Still one of the hardest working artists out there he deserves all our praise. One of the most consistent: IncrOne.

Some of my favorite IncrOne works:

Although, just for the record, I’d have to add that, in my humble opinion, his best works are offline, and those are even better than the ones blogged above, so go figure… (and no it’s not airbrush damn it, it’s spraycan and traditional paint, markers, etc.)

It’s been a while but Borat is back at it again. Turning up the hype on his forthcoming filmdebute another notch, Borat gave a press conference. Click the picture for the full news coverage. Unfortunately no youtube moviefile yet, so you’ll have to click twice. Worth the effort though!

Ow and a comment learns us that “jak sie masz” means “how are you”, not in Kazachkstan, but in Poland. Should Sasha have done some more indepth-googling? Nah…

Here’s a nice anecdote, here’s the scenery (please do visualize):
The funksoulbrotha =vic= is doing his thing, working the daytime job, when a colleague steps up to the man:

Mr. DipShit: “Hey euh=vic=, some local bar asked me to spin two nights in Octobre, but you know me, being the important man that I am, running my busy schedule, I can’t do two dj-sets in one weekend.”

=vic=“Allright okay…”

Mr. DipShit: “I was wondering, you wouldn’t know of any dj’s I can ask would you?”

=vic=“Well, me and my brother =lloyd= are still rocking the decks.”

Mr. DipShit: “No but you scratch, they asked me for some real dj’s, that play nice music you know, those that can rock the party, get the crowd moving, etc.”

=vic=“Euh, well yeah, that’s what we do, we’re dj’s, it’s our life-time mission.”

Mr. DipShit: “No but you scratch and…”

So for those who thought dj’ing was easy in these days, think again. We have 0 upcoming dj-sets and this month’s brainless bookers have called us:
a/ sell-outs
b/ too commercial
c/ too difficult
d/ too uncommercial
e/ too hard
f/ too expensive
g/ too eclectic
h/ too narrow-minded (too hiphop, too house, too disco, too scratch, too beat-minded tout court)

Basically, the list goes on and on. My point is: where is the love? When even your very own home-town turns its back to you… No worries though, we keep on keepin on.

You know why?

It’s wot we do.
Music is our only crime,
guilty,
so we’ll do our time.

Godverdomme.

Word on the street is it’s =lloyd=’s birthday (today, the 27th).

I can but nod my head, meaning that’s the truth. Today, all presents are welcome just because I’m a little older now.

You know who else is getting old? Popeye!

It’s official now =vic= will djam with STIJN. Alongside Grazzhoppa and Smimooz he will demonstrate the art of turntablism backing up/backed up by the elektronikal-supercolliding-wonderchild STIJN aka the missing link between Roeselare and Bruxelles.

Two reasons why we love STIJN:
- 1 - the man made us the killertrack Sexjunkie
- 2 - the man’s down with the PPKLTS movement

And now for some info:

October, 14th 2006, De Pianofabriek Brussel
21h00
DJ’s: Grazzhoppa, JtotheC (aka =vic=), Smimooz
Guest: STIJN
Entrance: €3 (free if you attend the infosession, see below)
18h30
Infosession Simply Sampling
Hosts: PopPunt, DePianofabriek, DjBigband

Two days of pushing up =lloyd=’s stresslevel several notches, for an interview that eventually got cancelled; life’s a bitch. But I’m not dead.

Instead, Raph, of Alice fame, passed me this nice podcast tip: StreetSmartCoolCat featuring mp3 and video downloads. Especially the Dave Kinsey episode is worth checking out. So here you go:

“We hooked up with Dave in Bruxelles (Belgium), where his art is exposed, in the Alice Gallery. The complete interview is available in video and audiopodcast format. “

Dachten ze nu echt dat =lloyd= het niet zou zien? Eerlijk, dit vind ik schandelijk copy/paste werk. Forums zijn cool, maar als u uw inspiratie hier komt zoeken, vermeld dat dan ook even.

Deze blog teert op=lloyd=’s ego, dat op haar beurt weer gedijt op de steeds stijgende statistieken. Als we gaan copy/pasten zonder te linken is de pret er toch snel uit, beste Noorderburen! Where is the love?

En dan te bedenken dat ik ooit nog een niet nader te noemen evenement op de site gepromoot wou zien, in antwoordmail kreeg ik toen een prijslijst toegestuurd… Ga maar na…

A whole lot of things are happening in the on-point mansions (thusfar vic ‘n’ lloyd are living apart, together). But not all is blogable for the moment. So hold tight, stay tuned… your patience will be rewarded the day we unfold our magic in utter brilliance, believe you me!

Meanwhile, I’d like to share the portfolio of my partner-in-photos: Lieselot Dorme. I especially love the portraits, click right through and wander around, it’s nice! You might know her work from the Bai Kamara Jr article, blogged last year, future works will feature Sozy.One portraits, looking forward to that, yes ma’am!

(ow and of course, myspace is still a must, “add to friends“)

Dutch graphical mastermind Piet Parra, responsible for the Rockwell artwork and those dope-as-fuck Rednose Distrikt record covers, recently opened a new expo in Paris.
Have a look, into the mind of a genius combining typography, humor and style into this minimalistic mash-up type of thing. Simple yet with maximal effect.

Read all about it and meanwhile have a look, here’s one of my fav’s:

Here are some more (not all are featured in the Paris expo):

Got to big up digitalovers for pitching the latest!

You know the deal…

Outkast maakte met “Idlewild” een stevige plaat, die jammer genoeg net niet het niveau haalt van hun vorige. Enkel “Murton angel” blijft echt overeind in de schaduw van “The love below”, al was dat natuuurlijk een album hors catégorie.

Let wel, er is nog meer.

En hier heeft u natuurlijk al wat previews van de film.

7.55 a.m. and I call it a night. Tell me though, how was your evening?

I heard =vic= got down with some trumpetplayers and my man SNS turned on a huge crowd of teens, while as Duvelman found himself trapped on an off-point soirée and … and … and … all of that is nice, of course.

Brussels will be carless in about an hour, therefore I want to dedicate this day to Kerri Chandler. For making dope records, and that’s my word!

I’m on my day off. Cheerio!

Geen ideaalbeeld, geen postume nominatie tot zaligverklaring maar het ware verhaal van een activist die geloofde in zijn zaak maar zich gedwongen zag zijn visie te veranderen. Leest u rustig verder.

JtotheC & Mr.Mungus, aka the dazzling dynamic duo called =vic= ‘n’ =lloyd= are almost proud to present their sophomore mixtapeproject, following up the five year old volume 1, tape 2 is being recorded, as we speak.

Still figuring everything out, one thing is for sure though: it won’t be a cd-r but a 90-minute mixTape, featuring some exclusive beats and rhymes, edits and remixes, shout-outs by the rich and famous and the illest turntabletricks, of course. Overall niceness we say.

Stay tuned more news coming up, soon, maybe tonight, who knows…

Stream tonight’s Bass Boulevard show at m945.de! (20h00 - 22h00)

All-time favorite hiphopensemble A Tribe Called Quest is back at it again, touring the transatlantic side of the world. But who knows, if we’d collectively keep our fingers crossed, they might just jump on a plane and come bring us that good old mid nineties native tongue niceness. Here’s a review. And do scroll down for some lo-fi footage of their live version of “Electric Relaxation”:

And now, maybe, for a reunion album?

End of the month mr.Ego opens a new exposition, featuring first lady of Antwerp Ephameron, alongside Lucy McLaughlan (UK) and Logan Hicks (US). Go check it out and click the flyer below for further information. All is presented by Blenderhead, a NoNewEnemies project. A whole lotta links, a whole lotta names to keep ears and eyes open for. Brilliant!

If you’re walking down the block at nighttime, and two dipshits/parasites jump up, asking you very politely if you wouldn’t be interested in any hash..

If one steps up to your friend and the other tries to control your mind and vision by saying: “Regarde la lune/Check it, right the moon is right there!”,
while the other one tries to pull of the classic: “Let me show you a football/karate trick.” ..

Don’t be amazed, or at least try to look unamazed, and tell them:
“Guys, we don’t smoke, we know the moon is right there, we know that football/karate trick and hell, we live right there…”

If you’re lucky, that’s about all the urban knowledge you’ll need for the night.
In our case one guy ran away, while the other tried to start a conversation/discussion, which was ended before it got started with the classic line: “Bonne nuit!”.

Seriously though, keep in the back of your minds, in case you didn’t know already. This, of course, was an easy lesson to learn.

Consider yourself the most enthusiastic if you’ve noticed already (mentioned in the on-point agenda for instance) BUT: Sozy.One returns with his third exhibition in a year time (1 in Ghent, 2 in Brussels, that’s right). This time he’s back with parter-in-crime and fellow Ultra Boy: BYZ. Overlords II therefore will be a fact, the exhibition opens October 12th.

Sending all of my love to Raph and Alice. Seriously people, exhibition after exhibition serving us that fresher than fresh flavour, we can only love them for that!

Here are some myspaces for you to add: Gallery Alice, Sozy.One, BYZ.

Almost ten minutes dedicated to the one called Banksy. If you don’t know him by now, let me just briefly point out that Banksy has been the illest streetartist around for a while now and still is. See all about it in the reportage and take your time to check out his latest prank, (in which he bumrushed cd-stores with fake Paris Hilton cd’s!) right here:

So there I was, at the jam. My Frenchspeaking pal wanted to recover his backpack - but he’d be damned - one hell of a body was sitting on top of it. He, not scared of a lady, started a conversation about his backback being just underneath her tiny little butt.
The girl looked up in surprise, saying some rubbish. He stared at here, then turned to me: “Man, you speak English. Please, talk to her. I need my bag. Now!”

Me, myself and I, we stood up: “We beg our pardon but the man wants the backpack you’re sitting on, girl.”

“Ok,” she replied and lifted her ass. He was happy, and I thought, why not start a conversation? After all, socializing is a healthy habit, right?

“So, euh, you speak English?”

“Yeah, as you can hear,” she replied, turning her head in the air like nobody had ever done to me before.

Honestly, it felt like a kick in the nuts, so I was all shook up and got back to her: “Well, I couldn’t see, I could only hear, your highness!”

“Yeah, like whatever,” was all she said, giving me the evil eye.

She’s got shit for brains, my inner-voice told, fast as I could I turned my back and for the rest of the night she looked at me, in a cute/dumb way. Seriously though, I think she was too damn rich. There are better ways to treat a =lloyd=, I say!

Where I live, only a couple of housenumbers away, weekly jamsessions are held, literally down underground, in a cave.
I’ve been frequenting the spot for a while now, having recognized it for its ‘Brusselsness’, which I so very much adore.

After a while one gets used to the occassional surprise, it’s what you get when 85% of the crowd considers itself an artist, right. But tonight I really didn’t see coming. It wasn’t until the master of ceremony asked the crowded “Qui connait Belsunce Breakdown?!!!!”

And well waddayaknow! Bouga jumped on stage. Honestly, this was the first time I saw the mans face. BUT, I can recall when back in the days I copped the Belsunce Breakdown 12″ single, I was quite the outkast of the class.

Years later I was in a discoteque with =vic=, having a dj gig. We were lined up right after a techno-set. (This was when J-Lo’s “Jennie from the block” was still hot, people didn’t quite get it when =vic= put the Beatnuts “Watch out now” on the decks,…)

Anyway, that night we were supposed to rock the party, as an unknown underground dj-duo lined-up right after a techno-dj who had driven the crowd to insane hights … stressing, indeed. Untill I pulled Bouga’s “Belsunce Breakdown” record from my crate, gave it to =vic= and said something like: “Play it now, it’ll freak them out, trust me!”

Now =vic= didn’t know the record, but I tell you the crowd went màd, going into sponatuous ppklts’ing, spanking those asses, making vic ‘n’ lloyd feel very sorry for not being on the dancefloor theirselves. And the rest, of course, is history…

Tonight, the same Bouga, was holding it down at the jamsessions in my very own street. Didn’t dare to go talk to him, but one of his Brussels contacts told me the whole connection thing was set up through… MySpace.

Yes ma’am I feels good today. Just found my long lost walkman, meaning my two Rob Swift tapes will be on loop for at least the rest of the week.

Graduation project is finished, exams are done did, guess we’re going to apply for some jobs now, and finally get to some freelance action. Will keep you posted on that, got some new artwork coming up as well, by popular request.

Meanwhile, you cats be on the lookout, bootleg the podcastmix on cd-r’s and support the movement that is ppklts anno 2006! Vic ‘n’ lloyd up for bookings, we just want to spin rekkadz!

Track of the day: Ben Westbeech - I feel so good today
(out on GP’s brand new Brownswood imprint, check for the Domu remix too!)

Perhaps the ultimate promostunt for his highly anticipated upcoming album, but it sure doesn’t look like it. Mos Def was arrested for performing outside of the MTV Music Video Awards.

“According to authorities, the rapper pulled up in front of the venue in a flatbed truck at around 10 p.m. for an impromptu show for the people gathered outside.” Mos is now charged with disorderly conduct. He performed the song “Katrina Clap”.

Pulling up in a truck-with-a-stage at the MTV Awards? Sounds like somebody was doing a P Diddy, right?
Still, the utmost respect to Mos, now go back to the lab and make the album worth listening to, not like last one, please.

An oldy and a shorty by French filmmaker extraordinaire: Michel Gondry. The man’s a genius for translating his hcild memories and spaced out dreams to the audience. Scroll down for a short selection of his works.
But first, sit down for a minute and a half of floating around in the brain of Michel. Made me wonder what inspiration is all about, really.

Interview with Michel Gondry

The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl (Classic!)
Air France - Commercial (Must-see!)
Daft Punk - Around The World (Killer choreography)
The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be (Looping madness!)
Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World (”I’ll have that one”)

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Selected Parts
Dave Chappell presents: Block Party

And there’s lots and lots more, check out the dvd with a lot of his work, ànd the must-see autobiographical documentary “I’ve been 12 forever”. (Don’t act like you can’t find it, it’s in every Belgian library’s collection, probably abroad as well.)

In 2006 Gondry will bring us “La Science Des Rêves” aka “The Science Of Sleep“. I’ll keep you posted on that last one, since press screening is only next week. Looking forward to that, stakes are high!

Amp Fiddler is terug, maar niet echt overtuigend. Na “Waltz of a ghetto fly” klinkt zijn volgende album een stuk slapper. Fiddler moest het altijd al hebben van eenvoudige maar originele arrangementen, maar het is een raadsel hoe hij zichzelf hier verloren lijkt.

Het hoeft niet, maar u kan altijd verder lezen.

U merkte het al aan de nieuwe, bepaald onfunky vormgeving: het nieuwe schooljaar is in aantocht. Sterker nog, voor sommigen is het al begonnen. Ik kan daar verder eigenlijk geen zinnig woord over kwijt, de weinige woorden die ik de laatste tijd kwijt kon kaderden in een herexamen Spaans en sloegen dan ook (recto verso) helemaal nergens op.

Enkel nog dit, de koffie deze ochtend was van een dusdanig onovertrefbaar niveau dat ik overweeg te stoppen met koffiedrinken. Je moet stoppen op je hoogtepunt, zo werd mij toegefluisterd. Het aroma van deze ochtend indachtig zou dat nu wel eens kunnen zijn..

Just last month I quietly celebrated the first anniversary of this blog. That being said and done I’d like to point out the killer statistics: 1514 unique visitors dropped by to see what’s up. For the fans of numbers, On-Point.be is where you get 400 posts and 822 comments, contained within 8 categories. Which is nice, right?

I’d like to thank all of you for the continued support and especially those who dare to comment and those contributing.
Stay on-point! And tell your mother, tell a friend, get down with the program, etc. etc.

One.