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45 MASTHEAD editors letter It was the first genuinely beautiful week of spring as we finished this issue, which meant we missed the sun. Hey-ho! At least we had Darwin Deez soundtracking our labours a more glorious, refreshing summer pop album we cant think of. They may be tales of heartbreak and ennui, but they sound like early morning sun light seen from the wrong side, walking home after all-too- late nights. Thats summer, for us. So close we can almost taste it. Were hitting a purple patch with our issues at the moment, we hope you agree. Another beautiful Notion, brimful of ideas and lush imagery to cut out and stick to things. We actively encourage you to do that, by the way. Magazines dont need to stay as perfectly bound objects, you know - thats just how they arrive. Special attention should be paid to our 55DSL advertorial, a beautiful concept carried out after Notion smashed all the other style magazines in 55s special foosball comp. Big up Liam and Ed, yall. B&M MASTHEAD founder & brand leader / Bill H billmusichqmedia.com Edited by / michael c lewin & Bill h michaelmusichqmedia.co CREATIVE Direction / HIDDEN AGENCY LIAMHIDDEN-AGENCY.com Fashion Editor / Alexis Knox alexismusichqmedia.com Film Editor / Matt Harvey matthmusichqmedia.com CLUBS EDITOR / kara simsek karamusichqmedia.com STAFF WRITER / SEBASTIAN LAW SEBMUSICHQMEDIA.COM DESIGN ASSISTANT / THOMASIN ARNOLD-BAKER THOMASINmusichqmedia.c FASHION WRITERS / AARON FRANCIS WALKER, SEBASTIAN LAW, EMMA BELL Fashion Co-ordinator / natalie hubbard nataliemusichqmedia.co ONLINE CONTENT proposals / infoplanetnotion.com NEW MUSIC / ROB DABROWSKI ONLINE MUSIC / KARA SIMSEK EDITORIAL INTERN / ERIN KUBIKI INTERACTIVE DIRECTOR / Olly Wetzig ollymusichqmedia.com Advertising / Edward Breakenridge edmusichqmedia.com Accounts Manager / Jez Ahmed Jezmusichqmedia.com notion is published by music hq media AARON FRANCIS WALKER FASHION WRITER Aarons thirst for fashion knowledge was triggered by his parents dressing him like Princes William and Harry as a little boy. Imagine being forced to wear knee-high socks and a tie in a school peopled with Kappa-trouser-wearing ruffians from council estates. Horrifying. Having barely survived, he went on to work for countless high-end fashion brands as a freelance publicist and consultant. Hes here at Notion to help you lot get laid and win friends by telling you how to be stylish. Go and buy a highlighter pen and read very carefully. He knows what hes talking about. Notion / Music HQ Media 4th Floor, 2 Plough Yard London, EC2A 3LP United Kingdom +44 (0)870 046 6622 www.planetnotion.com Notion is published by Music HQ Media Ltd. No part of this magazine may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or resold without prior written consent of the publisher. Notion recognises all copyrights contained in this issue. SEBASTIAN LAW STAFF WRITER Witha burgeoningcycling obsession and the latest rediscoveries in disco on his earphones, Sebis bringing a new perspective toNotionsfashion and musiceditorial and also Editingthe forthcoming Festival Guide. As if that wasnt enough, he alsoco- runsthe infamous ClubRees night, blogs at The Staple, and is a freelance sub-editor,ginger beer addict and bon viveur all the time according to his Twitter profile. Catch him on there sebulous. thanks KEONG WOO / STEPHEN RICH- ARDS / HANNAH GOULD / THE GOLDEN FILTER / DEBORAH & JOSIE DARK ROOM DIGITAL / NINA SMETEK / SHY CHILD / GHOST HUNTER / KRISTAN CARYL / HANNAH LAWRENCE / MARK CANT / DAVID RYLE / DARREN SMITH / 016 notionmag.com MUSIC . FASHION . CULTURE DARWIN DEEZ THROUGH THE GOLDEN FILTER Photography Project JUAN MACLEAN SNUFF CREW SHY CHILD FASHION: EMMA BELL Copenhagen Fashion Week AFREAKA & PURRSIA Fierce prints MI AMI Rage & Rhythm GHOST HUNTER Plurality of Hearing THE FISHERMAN & HIS WIFE Rural Heritage DARWIN DEEZ DARE TO TRANSFORM NEW STYLE CONNECTION surface shifting stylers Unleash your creativity. New Style Connection complements professional cuts through pioneering textures and high-fashion finishes. Cutting-edge products for surface transforming hairstyles. Do you dare? NEW VELVET GELATINE 07 cushioning blow-dry gel LIGHT, AIRY GEL MELTS INTO HAIR FOR A CUSHIONED FINISH WITH A NATURAL SHINE All rights reserved. 2010 WWW.STYLECONNECTION.CO. GET INSPIRED. BE PART OF IT. REDKEN.CO.UK 45 CONTENTS FEATURES 056 / DARWIN DEEZ NOTHING MATTERS WHEN WERE DANCING A man made entirely of elastic bands, with the look of a poodle in an american apparel store; follower of the indian mystic meher baba; performer of odd-ball synchronised dance routines; writer of lo-fi pop gems; and a super ni 45 MASTHEAD editors letter It was the first genuinely beautiful week of spring as we finished this issue, which meant we missed the sun. Hey-ho! At least we had Darwin Deez soundtracking our labours a more glorious, refreshing summer pop album we cant think of. They may be tales of heartbreak and e If your minds not Apple-shaped however, theres still plenty to keep you amused. A new compilation of the best of their output, entitled Ten Years, is absolutely essential listening, if only for the remixes of Telliers seminal tune La Ritournelle, which still has the power to overwhelm even the most BUSTER BENNET/LARRY TEE Here at Notion we love Buster Bennett, so when we heard he was teaming up with New York electro hero Larry Tee we had to find out more. From the sounds of it, Blow, their new Friday night event at King Cross club The Egg is going to be vey messy in more ways than one...KS GIV / LAYO & BUSHWACKER MMMMMM Is there anything more FOB / Notion MUSIC WWW.METROPOLITAN.COMO.B civilised than afternoon tea? A terribly British tradition, and with gorgeous food like this, its surprising that the concept has all but gone to the dogs. Appearances are deceptive though, and GENIUS IN A FOB CULTURE DIARY THINGS TO SEE HANNAH STARKEY MAUREEN PALEY, LONDON 29/0518/07/2010 www.maureenpaley.com Starkeys beautiful photographic tableaux capture the quiet, evident but unknowable dramas of inner city life. Ideologically concerned with The Lives Of Others, but aesthetically Lost in Translat FOB ME AND DIANA: WORDS & PICTURES / NINA SMETEK FORGET MULTIPLE ORGASMS, MULTIPLE EXPOSURES IS WHERE ITS AT! A LOVE AFFAIR BETWEEN A LADY AND A CAMERA. On the 25th of December 2009, I was introduced to Diana for the first time: ever since we have been inseparable. To begin with, I admit I was unsur ARKITIP #054 SERENA MITNIK-MILLER WWW.ARKITIP.COM WWW.ARKITIPINTEL.COM For those who find occasional lavish arts and fashion magazine- project Visionnaire a little pricey at around $200 an issue, weve recently been put on to a lush lo-fi alternative: Arkitip, whose magazines are a charming cultural Got Foosball skills? Need to get to South Africa this summer? 55DSL and Paninis Galactic Battle of Foosball is the answer. Contact 55DSLLONDONSTORE55DSL. to enter the UK Foosball tournaments in May. To celebrate, Notion have created a fashion shoot inspired by classic Panini foosball stickers using FOB 55DSL & PANINI FOOTBALL FEVER GOES NOSTALGIC! Holland designed by: BOLT GRAPHICS BOLTgraphics is the Amsterdam-based one- man illustration and typography circus run by Martijn Rijven. With feats of graphic daring-do, BOLTgraphics has put smiles on faces of people everywhere since 2000. Constantl FOB Brazil designed by: KAKO Kako works at home in a room full of music, within an apartment full of books, on the 9th floor of an old building full of windows right in the middle of a city full of people. WWW.kakofonia.com Spain designed by: INOCUO THE SIGN The studio was founded in 2002 by Javier FOB England designed by: IAIN MACARTHUR Iain Macarthur is a freelance illustrator from Swindon. He creates elegant and surreal characters inspired from cartoons and comics but also adds a zing of intricate pattern design into his creations. He also creates photo- realistic portraits with vivid explo FOB France designed by: NIARK1 Graphic designer and illustrator based in Paris, Sebastien Feraut aka Niark.1 imposes his crazy universe to an ever changing, colourful chart full of strange and assorted creatures. Influenced by street art, music and everything related to graphic design in general he FOB Thats when the real fun began then youd play swapsies, even go to swap meets. One Tony Yeboah is EASILY worth the entire Arsenal back-four, and similar shouted business negotiations would fill the playground. They were heady, happy times. GOT/NEED 55DSL & PANINI GOT FOOSBALL SKILLS? NEED TO GET POLITICS/MUSIC THE PARTYS OVER Its that time again. The obsequious sneer of The Rt Hon. Mandy flashes across Whitehall corridors, the BBC brushes away the cobwebs from a creaking Swingometer, the Queen perfects her smile n nod combo: election season. The Red, Blue and Yellow corners may be prepped f FOB FENECH-SOLER If youre one of the many people who cant enough of the remix of Marina & The Diamonds single Hollywood, then you have Fenech-Soler to thank. The group were originally a studio project dreamt up by brothers Ben and Ross Duffy and their friend Dan Soler. However, it wasnt until the tr FOB MEN ABOUT TOWN REPORT: MENSWEAR AT LONDON FASHION WEEK, FEB 2010 WORDS BY AFW PHOTOS BY LUDOVIC COGNETS LOU DALTON: SIBLING: Im quite literally obsessed with Sibling and have waited with baited breath each Fashion Week to see the new collection. This season sees Cozette McCreery, Sid Bryan and J POLITICS/MUSIC THE PARTYS OVER Its that time again. The obsequious sneer of The Rt Hon. Mandy flashes across Whitehall corridors, the BBC brushes away the cobwebs from a creaking Swingometer, the Queen perfects her smile n nod combo: election season. The Red, Blue and Yellow corners may be prepped f FOB FENECH-SOLER If youre one of the many people who cant enough of the remix of Marina & The Diamonds single Hollywood, then you have Fenech-Soler to thank. The group were originally a studio project dreamt up by brothers Ben and Ross Duffy and their friend Dan Soler. However, it wasnt until the tr FOB MEN ABOUT TOWN REPORT: MENSWEAR AT LONDON FASHION WEEK, FEB 2010 WORDS BY AFW PHOTOS BY LUDOVIC COGNETS LOU DALTON: SIBLING: Im quite literally obsessed with Sibling and have waited with baited breath each Fashion Week to see the new collection. This season sees Cozette McCreery, Sid Bryan and J to make sounds that create interesting landscapes for people to drift off into. The great thing about instrumental music is that your mind can wander off in any direction it likes without prompting from lyrics. Theres certain images that my tracks throw at me but I imagine theyre totally different f FOB WK AGENCY WWW.MYSPACE.COM/WKAGENC For those of you who think French electro begins and ends at Justice and their Ed Banger labelmates, you are sorely mistaken. Mustard Pimp, Chewy Chocolate Cookies and FCKN Crew are just a MINI REVIEWS EAMON MCGRATH 13 Songs of Whiskey and Light You can kind of to make sounds that create interesting landscapes for people to drift off into. The great thing about instrumental music is that your mind can wander off in any direction it likes without prompting from lyrics. Theres certain images that my tracks throw at me but I imagine theyre totally different f FOB WK AGENCY WWW.MYSPACE.COM/WKAGENC For those of you who think French electro begins and ends at Justice and their Ed Banger labelmates, you are sorely mistaken. Mustard Pimp, Chewy Chocolate Cookies and FCKN Crew are just a MINI REVIEWS EAMON MCGRATH 13 Songs of Whiskey and Light You can kind of THROUGH THE GOLDEN FILTER INTRO MICHAEL C LEWIN WORDS & PICTURES THE GOLDEN FILTER oluspa, The Golden Filters glacially cool debut album, teases us with a vision of something extraordinary: a world closeted in silk smoke, off-kilter colours, seen from a distance and seen with yearning. Their name of 052 / Notion 000 planetnotion THROUGH THE GOLDEN FILTER INTRO MICHAEL C LEWIN WORDS & PICTURES THE GOLDEN FILTER oluspa, The Golden Filters glacially cool debut album, teases us with a vision of something extraordinary: a world closeted in silk smoke, off-kilter colours, seen from a distance and seen with yearning. Their name of 052 / Notion 000 planetnotion WORDS MICHAEL C LEWIN PHOTOGRAPHY MARK CANT STYLING ALEXIS KNOX HAIR SUNANDA MESQUITA USING BUMBLE & BUMBLE MAKE-UP MIA YANG USING MAC PRO I work in pitched syllables, Darwin says, knowingly. Its the smartest medium to be working in! He laughs happily to himself. At that moment, I cant disagree. Its DARWIN DEEZ Where Im standing is opposite Darwin Deez (née Smith), so close I could lick him. And I quite want to lick him. Or tickle him, maybe. In a good-natured way, mind. He exudes the welcoming, wholesome adventure of the Famous Five, or a bizarre Brooklyn strain thereof. Innocent, naïve, whims WORDS MICHAEL C LEWIN PHOTOGRAPHY MARK CANT STYLING ALEXIS KNOX HAIR SUNANDA MESQUITA USING BUMBLE & BUMBLE MAKE-UP MIA YANG USING MAC PRO I work in pitched syllables, Darwin says, knowingly. Its the smartest medium to be working in! He laughs happily to himself. At that moment, I cant disagree. Its DARWIN DEEZ Where Im standing is opposite Darwin Deez (née Smith), so close I could lick him. And I quite want to lick him. Or tickle him, maybe. In a good-natured way, mind. He exudes the welcoming, wholesome adventure of the Famous Five, or a bizarre Brooklyn strain thereof. Innocent, naïve, whims Dealing with the same subject matter in an arguably more refined manner, The Last Station, starring such Hollywood illuminati as James McAvoy, was released earlier this year. Based on the biography of the same name by Jay Parini, The Last Station is largely faithful to the narrative of 1910 but marg FOB DANISH PASTRY CREW COPENHAGEN FASHION WEEK FEB 2010 WORDS: EMMA BELL PHOTOGRAPHY: MARK CANT Late February saw the Danish Pastry Crew; myself, Alexis, Liam and Mark venturing to the arctic climates of Copenhagen for a week of fashion and frolics following a lovely invite from Gallery Internationa EMMA BELLS HOLIDAY SNAPS The Fisherman & His Wife PHOTOGRAPHER DARREN SMITH MENSWEAR STYLIST ALEXIS KNOX WOMANSWEAR STYLIST NATALIE HUBBARD MODEL PAUL MITCHELL STORM KATERINA S PREMIER MAKEUP MIA YANG USING MAC PRO HAIR KIYO USING THERAPI FASHION ASSISTANT CLARA GOSSETT 068 / Notion SHORTS / ROBE DI KAPPA SHIRT / INSIGHT Dealing with the same subject matter in an arguably more refined manner, The Last Station, starring such Hollywood illuminati as James McAvoy, was released earlier this year. 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