Ben Strebel
Swiss-born Ben Strebel grew up in London where he’s beginning to make a name for himself as self-taught VJ and creative director. Having already worked for the likes of Madness and Stereo MCs, he’s also lent his name to the work of Armand van Helden and Fatboy Slim with his bass-heavy visuals and energetic approach to creativity. Aside from this, he counts his weekly resident VJ antics at London’s 333 as ‘a hobby’ alongside his work for Guerilla Vision. Quoting his influences as Chris Cunningham and Spike Jones, his visual décor accompanies music videos and commercials, though he modesty describes it thus: ‘I do it because I’m a bedroom geek’.
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This time of year, the office is invariably inundated with tins of shiny, wrapped chocolate from stationery suppliers and courier companies. Now, I am not one of those ‘I just love chocolate at my desk’ kind of people, though I will happily reach for whatever’s nearby while at work. But these grey sea salt-chrystalled ‘tiles’ have caught everyone unawares. Dark to the point of blindness and embellished with fine crusts of salt flakes and spices, they leave a warm, almost reddening flavour in your throat and seem to satisfy the mid-afternoon need for the sweet and the savoury. Packaged in a sophisticated and simple royal blue, as if a jewel, Poco Dolce chocolates are neither fussy nor complicated, rather a solid and — dare I say it — thoughtful chocolate. One is never quite enough. [see also In’t Veld chocolate and read about the new Nestle factory outside of Paseo Tollocan]
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Casio Keyboard Brooklyn trio Au Revoir Simone are about to release a collection of remixes and covers their musical friends have recorded of songs found on their second album, The Bird Of Music. Titled Reverse Migration, the record features re-workings by Best Fwends, Teenagers, Darkel, and more. We caught up with them recently. Why and when did you decide to release a remix album? Annie: ‘Our friends were making so many wonderful versions of our songs we wanted to share them with the world’. How did you select the artists? Annie: ‘Mostly they were friends who told us they wanted to do remixes! Very fun and easy’. Reverse Migration is out November 11 through the band’s own label, Our Secret Record Company. Listen to Ruff & Jam by Au Revoir Simone.
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