So, my edu­ca­tion over here started last Mon­day.  One week has flown by and I’ve already learnt more than I expected to.  On Fri­day I had a Typog­ra­phy class.  When I first glanced over my sched­ule I was sur­prised to see a whole class devoted to Typog­ra­phy…  I thought to myself, “how can we spend hours talk­ing about fonts?”  I’ve seen some pretty stel­lar Typo­graphic work in my day, but didn’t know very much about the craft itself.  Well, let me tell you,  Typog­ra­phy is a fuckin’ sci­ence.  And a com­pli­cated one at that!  Con­trast, Space, Har­mony, Type­face, Type­fam­i­lies, Lig­a­tures, Dichotics, OSFs, Lead­ing, Kern­ing, PICA, 12x14.4/28, an em, and so on and so forth.  No idea what I’m talk­ing about?  Nei­ther do I (I’m work­ing on it, okay!).  I’m sure if there are any Typog­ra­phers read­ing this they are prob­a­bly laugh­ing their asses off.  Shit’s whack I tell you, hah.  Don’t get me wrong though, Typog­ra­phy is inter­est­ing as hell and I encour­age any­one intrigued with the ‘sci­ence’ to look into it.

As an intro­duc­tion to Typog­ra­phy we watched a doc­u­men­tary called “Hel­vetica,” which dealt with the world-renown type­fam­ily: Hel­vetica.  It has always been my favourite font, there’s some­thing so ‘per­fect’ about it.  It’s sexy, mod­ern, and clean.  I love it.  The film inter­views many who hold the same opin­ion and some who don’t.  But it also explores Typog­ra­phy, as an art, a pro­fes­sion, and much more.  It was a fan­tas­tic watch, I rec­om­mend it to any­one, whether you’re inter­ested in design, typog­ra­phy, or are just look­ing for a great movie to watch.  Viva la Helvetica!

Hel­vetica 預告片（紐約篇）: 一部關於 Hel­vetica 字體的記錄片 from D.NEWS on Vimeo.

All these classes has meant lots of home­work, which sub­se­quently means lots lis­ten­ing to music while I work!  So, have I ever got a sick bunch of tunes for you all this time around.  Slower songs first: I came across this tune “Bea­man Park” by Col­lar­bones.  Haven’t heard of the artist before, but it reminds me of Toro Y Moi or Washed Out, has ‘glo-fi’ writ­ten all over it.  Also uploaded that remix by Jens Lek­man of Au Revoir Simone’s “Shad­ows.”  Amaz­ing song, down­load it.

Now onto the more ‘dancier’ beats here: “Oh No!” remixed by Grum.  Awe­some, it’s like some sort of 80’s dance tune fea­tur­ing that great voice of Marina and the Dia­monds.  Oh no?  Oh Yeah!  I’ve uploaded a remix of Housse De Racket’s “Oh Yeah!”  I love this song and the french lyrics that seem to drive it, Housse De Racket are a solid act.  New Soul­wax!!!  Well, at least a remix…  Not the great­est but I was hon­estly relieved to hear that sig­na­ture ‘Soul­wax sound’ once again.  One of my favourite uploads this time is a Two Door Cin­ema Club remix of “What You Know” by Cass­ian.  Two awe­some acts col­lide to cre­ate a badass lit­tle tune, you must check it out.  I also uploaded another remix of the same song, by LightsoverLA.  I kind of pre­fer this remix more, they left that awe­some gui­tar track as the main focus and it really does it for me.  Have a lis­ten for your­self and decide which you pre­fer on your own.  New Shinichi Osawa album dropped at the end of June, titled SO2.  Here’s my favourite from it (so far).  True Shinichi fash­ion, if you’re a fan you’ll love this.  Another favourite of mine lately is called “Bliss” by a new guy on the scene, Mix Chopin.  Appar­ently he’s from Toronto, so noth­ing but love for this guy, he’s already mak­ing a fel­low Toron­ton­ian proud (plus he’s using the name of my favourite clas­si­cal artist– man after my own heart).  “Bliss” has a fat bass line going ontop of a really funky beat dri­ven song, it’s a must down­load, it has received many a-repeats.  Last, but cer­taintly not least, is a remix of the Foals’ song “Miami” by Tim Fuchs fea­tur­ing Flight Facil­i­ties.  Flight Facil­i­ties have been superb lately, and this song is no dif­fer­ent.  When it gets to the half way point the song goes all piano dri­ven (Flight Facil­i­ties influ­ence, no doubt), cer­tainly ear­gas­mic mate­r­ial.  But enough of my ram­bling– down­load the tunes and lis­ten to them your­self..  Enjoy!

Down­loads:

1. Bea­man Park — Collarbones
2. Shad­ows (Jens Lek­man Remix) — Au Revoir Simone
3. Oh No! (Grum Remix) — Marina and the Diamonds
4. Oh Yeah! (Wal­ter Sobcek Remix) — Housse De Racket
5. You Wanted A Hit (Soul­wax Remix) — LCD Soundsystem
6. What You Know (Cass­ian Remix) — Two Door Cin­ema Club
7. What You Know (LightsoverLA Remix) — Two Door Cin­ema Club
8. Love Will Guide You — Shinichi Osawa
9. Bliss — Mix Chopin
10. Miami (Tim Fuchs Remix feat. Flight Facil­i­ties) — Foals

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