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Notes: Val Wilmer, with Maggie Murray, founded Format Photographers in 1983, the first all-women photographers' agency in Britain. Wilmer is known for her writing and photography around African-American music, for which she has received many awards. More recently, Wilmer has become a patron of the National Jazz Archive.

36 pages
Printed in England
Staple bound
14cm x 20cm

Notes: New Order, sordid campers - festivals in the 80s.

36 pages
Printed in England
Staple bound
14cm x 20cm

Notes: The follow-up to Janette Beckman's, Hip Hop Years New York 1982-1992.

British-born photographer Janette Beckman began her career at the dawn of punk rock working for music magazines The Face and Melody Maker. She shot bands including the Clash, the Specials, Boy George and the Jam as well as three Police album covers.

Drawn to the underground hip-hop scene, she moved to NYC in 1983 and photographed pioneers such as Run DMC, Slick Rick, Salt-N-Pepa, Grand Master Flash, LL Cool J and more.

Beckman has published four books : 'Made in the UK, Music of Attitude 1977-1982', 'The Breaks Stylin' and Profilin'1982-1990' 'El Hoyo Maravilla' and in 2018 'The MashUp' a collection of her Hip Hop photographs reinterpreted by legendary graffiti artists.

Her work has been exhibited in galleries worldwide and is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Museum of the City of New York, Marseille Musee des Civilisations de l'Europe, and the Tokyo Nakamura Keith Haring Collection

She lives and works in New York, clients include Levi's and Dior.

36 pages
Printed in England
Staple bound
14cm x 20cm

Notes: Be Competent! The Competence Movement is a post-industrial music, film and literary collective founded in 2023 by artists whose works were derailed by the pandemic. To quote from The Competence Manifesto, "The gulf between the complexity of systems and the human's ability to navigate them has never been greater..."

Music For Basic Functionality is a digital music album of lectures on how to navigate the collapse of western civilization via social psychology, political theory and personal experience. Set to electronic and psychedelic music by members of The Underground Youth, Patheticist International, Surrealist Temple Band, Dada Jung Riley and Morbid Books, the album was recorded in three days and showcased at the 8MM Bar in Berlin in February, 2023, as a demonstration of competence in practice.

Music For Basic Functionality: A User's Manual is the physical release: a 64-page printed magazine that can be read in isolation or in conjunction with the musical lectures. Comes with free streaming and music downloads from thecompetencemovement.bandcamp.com. Featuring original material by Craig Dyer (The Underground Youth), Ian F. Svenonius (ESCAPE-ism & The Make-Up), Saul Adamczewski (Fat White Family / Insecure Men / Patheticist International), Daniel Hand (White Devil Disco / Surrealist Temple Band), Adrian Charvat (Dada Jung Riley), Tommy Hazard (Morbid Books), "MrPikes," Olya Dyer (The Underground Youth), Owen Godbert (Through the Eyes of Ruby), Luke Mayes (Rick Owens / Owenscorp), Anna Sebastian (Morbid Books), Palina Tsvirko & Lev Parker (Morbid Books / Surrealist Temple Band). Published by Morbid Books

Notes: "It was Saturday night, the year was 1993, and I had recently moved to London to try to push my photography career along when I went down to the 100 club where they play rare American 60's and 70's soul music.

I had been on that scene up until a few years before and was curious to see where it had gone in the meantime, so I took my camera along with me. Going down those stairs into that dark basement, seeing those shadowy figures moving energetically in sync with each other made me hesitant.

The scene had gone further underground, the crowd older, little new blood, the records more obscure and the attitude on the dancefloor was as fierce as ever. Could I really take pictures in this place? As I suspected, the blast from my first flash altered the atmosphere. I braved it to shoot a few more from different angles but things felt worse with each blinding shot.

The relief I felt when I heard the familiar opening bars of 'This Won't Change' by Lester Tipton. A fast, raw, jerky, but tender sound. I pushed the camera bag under a chair and got lost in the shadows until morning.

I very soon became a regular again, travelling to different venues around the country but I'd often wait till morning when the lights came on before taking any pictures. Mostly though I went to dance and enjoy the music with friends, leaving my camera at home."

Elaine Constantine 2023

Pictures were taken in varied venues including the Manchester's Ritz, London's 100 club and in a lad called Steve's kitchen, plus other places too numerous to remember.

36 pages
Printed in England
Staple bound
14cm x 20cm

Notes: 2023 first edition.

36 pages
Printed in England
Staple bound
14cm x 20cm

Notes: "In 1986 I embarked on the first of many trips to Jamaica. The images published in this book form part of a wider collection of images taken of sound system culture both in Jamaica and in the UK over a 17-year period. Between 1993 and 2003 I lived and worked in Jamaica, teaching photography at Edna Manley College while continuing to work on a variety of photo projects and stories both in Jamaica and the UK, including my 'Dancehall' series.

It was at a 'yard' in the capital Kingston Jamaica on a hot and humid night, April 1986 that I took my initial photos with a Leica and a handheld lamp (no flash) It was here that I truly first encountered Jamaican sound system culture and the nascent dancehall scene. I was instantly struck by the sheer exuberance and intensity of the songs, mixed with electronic dancehall beats and bass rhythms. From the mid 1980s on Thursday night's deejays and singjays battled it out for supremacy, with fast-draw patios over pre-recorded 'riddims'. The address was 1 Robert Crescent, home to Jamaican singer producer, Lincoln Barrington "Sugar" Minott. Widely considered to be the godfather of dancehall. Minott's Black Roots record label and Youth Promotions sound system was established in the Maxfield Park area of Kingston in 1979 with a recording studio operated from a bedroom in the front the house.

My photographs have been exhibited in UK, Jamaica, New York, Australia and New Zealand, and a selection of my images are held in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC."

Wayne Tippetts

36 pages
Printed in England
Staple bound
14cm x 20cm

Notes: The Drexciyan Empire presents A Drexicyan Duo Story (Featuring The Brothers Bounce) - 'Mayhem in Mu!!'

New Drexciya comic from AbuQadim Haqq

Please note: this is a comic rather than a graphic novel