Audible Landscapes

October 10, 2010 was the eleventh Beat Swap Meet at the Grand Star Jazz Club in historic Chinatown. The day’s highlights included records, food, breakdancing, clothing, art, and even a barber. Here are some pictures from the event. Check www.elevatorhiphop.com for more Beat Swap Meet coverage.

Instrumentals Volume One, a 2004 release by The Jones Orchestra, is now available on bandcamp and you can name your own price! Check out the audio and download link below.

Interplanetary Warfare is an upcoming instrumental EP by Audible Landscapes. All the tracks haven’t been uploaded yet, but you can download it here.

Teen Angels Magazine features prison art, pen pal requests, and photographs of women. I bought issue number 226 at a small sidewalk newsstand in downtown L.A. The collage-style pencil drawing featured on the cover depicts several symbols and images related to Chicano street culture.

Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials
Authors: Wayne Douglas Barlowe & Ian Summers
Publication Date: 1979

I picked up this copy of Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials at the now defunct Acres of Books in Long Beach. Wayne Barlowe is a renowned science fiction and fantasy illustrator who conceptualized this alien guidebook during the late seventies. In addition to the 150 full-color paintings featured throughout the book, Barlowe also includes detailed physical and cultural information regarding each represented species. The aliens depicted in Barlowe’s guide were culled from various science fiction novels.

Illustration by Christina Christoforou.

Hair-Portraits of the presidents. From left to right: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama.

source: NY Times

New podcast from Elevator Hip Hop.

Mixed by DJ Jahson.

Tracklisting:
01. Jneiro Jarel – Doinis!!
02. Sauna – Orchestrated Heat
03. Exile – Dirty Robots
04. Kid Sublime – We Don’t Play (ft. Illa J)
05. Chinese Man Records – You Suck Me
06. Mathematics – Untitled
07. Afro Samurai Resurrection – You Already Know (ft. Kool G Rap, Inspectah Deck, Suga Bang)
08. Flying Lotus – Interference
09. Onra – Super Genesis (ft. Hazel)
10. Dj Design – Down At The Post Office
11. Prefuse 73 – Mud In Your Mouth
12. Heliocentrics – Space Time Girl (Instrumental)
13. Exile – In Love
14. J Todd – The Night
15. Jake One – Kissin’ The Curb (ft. Bishop Lamont, Busta Rhymes)
16. Heralds Of Change – Stay Cool (Instrumental)
17. Jay Dee – Interlude
18. Bullion – Caroline, No

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