The Tone Generation

The Tone Gen­er­a­tion is a radio series by Ian Hel­li­well ‘looking at dif­fer­ent themes or com­posers in the era of ana­logue tape and early syn­the­sizer technology’. The orig­i­nal globe-​trotting series: Great Britain, France, Ger­many, Italy, Hol­land, Scan­di­navia, East­ern Europe, USA, Canada, Rest of World. Bonus pro­grammes: Expo 58, The RCA Syn­the­sizer. All links are to MP3 files, except the first one. Alter­na­tively, you can slurp down the lot in one go by sub­scrib­ing to the pod­cast feed.

Theatre of the New Ear

The­atre of the New Ear. Two radio plays: one by Char­lie Kauf­man, the other by the Coen Broth­ers, recorded live and star­ring Steve Buscemi, John Good­man, Philip Sey­mour Hoff­man and Meryl Streep.

The Coen Brothers’ Saw­bones can be down­loaded from the site linked above, or streamed along with Kaufman’s Hope Leaves the The­atre here. Via Sub­trac­tion.

L’Officiel de la Couture et de la Mode

A com­plete archive of French mag­a­zine L’Officiel de la Mode, from 1921 to 2008. It’s a trea­sure trove for fans of fash­ion, pho­tog­ra­phy, adver­tis­ing and design.

Architecture, Sampled And Remixed

Dion­i­sio González makes pho­tographs of imag­i­nary fave­las, Filip Dujardin makes pho­tographs of imag­i­nary build­ings.

The Demarco Digital Archive

The Demarco Dig­i­tal Archive holds 10,000 images and doc­u­ments gath­ered by Richard Demarco, gal­lerist, Beuys col­lab­o­ra­tor, founder of the Tra­verse the­atre and a key figure on the Scot­tish arts scene since the ’60s.

The Lost Synthesizer Classics of Ursula Bogner

It seems almost incred­i­ble that Ursula Bogner’s musi­cal tal­ents should have remained undis­cov­ered until now.

A belt-​loop stitched to a waist­band, for extra strength.

Like the mighty Iron Heart IH-634S, they’re based on the 1955 Levi’s cut, though prob­a­bly not too closely, as Levi’s sued Iron Heart and other Japan­ese repro brands last year for trade­mark infringe­ment. Unlike the IH-634S, which is made of incred­i­bly hefty 21oz selvedge denim, the TWHR01 comes in a rel­a­tively light­weight 13oz selvedge, though it’s woven on the same 30” Riki-​Shokki—that’s Japan­ese for “power loom”—and from the same long-​fibre cotton.

Some more nerdy details:

• Goatskin leather patch
• Hidden rivets
• Donut buttons
• Button fly
• Selvedge detail­ing inside the watch pocket and the fly con­struc­tion of the jeans
• Two colour stitch­ing throughout
• Extra-​heavy twill pocket bags
• Half-​lined rear pockets
• Belt loops stitched into waist­band for extra strength

And if you order now, you can get an optional crotch rivet free of charge. Yes, you read that right, an optional crotch rivet!

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