i-D Online: Chase and Status

Saul Milton and Will Kennard are the creative duo behind underground electronic project Chase and Status. Critically acclaimed for their debut album, the pair were recently awarded Best Video at the Q awards for track 'End Credits' which features Plan B.

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After generating wider recognition from more mainstream audiences with the official soundtrack created for film Harry Brown, Chase and Status have been quickly and controversially signed to major label Mercury to produce their second highly anticipated album. Previously working with and receiving praise from a whole crew of highly credible urban artists including Snoop Dogg, Pharrell, Andy C, Jay Z, Tempa T and The Prodigy, the pair have also produced and co-written Rhianna's platinum album Rated R. Keen to maintain the musically high standards they are feted for, the London-based dance act have scouted fresh talent to collaborate on their forthcoming album. Featuring SB.TV spitter Maverick Sabre and talented vocalist Delilah on hot track Time, the album is set for release in 2011, promising new direction and big hits for the boys. Currently touring, Will and Saul will be playing up and down the country over the coming weeks, with surprise guest appearances scheduled throughout.

Doing what they do, mixing drum and bass, grime, dubstep and dance infused beats, these talented London-based musicians continue to establish their sound, with nothing to prove but their love of good music. Boasting an impressive fan-base who loyally support each experimental project they undertake, Chase and Status are pioneers of their own scene, which is quickly influencing and filtering into every other. i-D Online went down to their recent gig at the HMV forum to get a first listen to new album track Sleepless featuring Maverick Sabre, before catching up with Will and Saul backstage after the charged set.

Congratulations on winning Best Video at the Q awards last night, how did that feel? It was a real honour to win. The Q awards are so prestigious, we were shocked and speechless when Tinie announced it was us who had won.

Where can we catch you next? You can catch us DJing around 4 - 5 times every week all around the country and we start a tour with the live band on 11 November in Cardiff.

You have a new album coming out next year - what kind of sound can we expect from that? It's an extension of our previous work, DnB, Dubstep & all, with a heap of different inspirations, great features, bigger songwriting & production.

Click here to receive Hypest Hype from Chase & Status as soon as it is available for download on 8 November.

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Text Milly McMahon

Best Video Q Awards: Chase & Status - End Credits (ft. Plan B)

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So here we go again… re-engaging with the internet.

Over the last year DoBeDo has slowly detangled itself from the web and it has been a pleasure! As the internet has become full of shit, endless material and stuff and noise it felt like the right thing to do.

DoBeDo launched in 2007 as a website with the main goal of promoting and selling the work of its contributors online. However over the 3 years that followed the most interesting thing about DoBeDo was the development of a really strong group of contributors who started putting on exhibitions together under the DoBeDo banner. The website became less significant and instead these shows and the bi-monthly filmnight ‘Reely and Truely’ represented DoBeDo.

But now we are back with a new simplified online face that reflects our overall simplified focus on photography and promoting the work of our contributors (through exhibitions, events, and here online at DoBeDo.co.uk). We still sell various goods, but this is no longer the centre of the website. All sales are now linked directly to each individual contributor, meaning that you will deal with them directly, they will benefit from 100% of each sale, and they will post you any sales themselves.

Check back regularly to keep up to date with up-coming DoBeDo contributor and photography related news and events.

i-D Online: i-ntroducing Summer Camp

i-ntroducing Summer Camp

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Encountering one another by coincidence at a gig just five years ago, Jeremy Warmsely and Elizabeth Sankey formed anonymous soft pedal synth duo, Summer Camp to create an incidental soundtrack to an imaginary world.

Building a mysterious Myspace, putting together a mixtape and going live only to experiment with the nostalgic, washed out samples they came to coin by accident, this insular, London-based duo are distinctly low-key about the acclaim they have received. Dreaming up a fantastical line-up consisting of seven swedish musicians, the illicit Summer Camp were instantaneously blogged by the trend-touting Transparentblog.com moments after releasing thier homemade material, and have since been profiled by The Guardian, NME, Pitchfork and Gorilla Vs Bear as ones to watch. After a period of time spent lurking in the shadows, reluctant to put a face to their name, Elizabeth and Jeremy's identities were revealed after a breach of confidence leaked during a phone-interview. Since then both have embraced the limelight and played gigs across the country, supporting Sunderland quintet, Frankie and The Heartstrings, fully committing themselves to simply being Summer Camp and moving away from the new wave of 'anonymous bands' with which they were being assimilated. Still choosing to represent Summer Camp through the medium of discovered holiday photographs from strangers, their press pictures are as misleading as their videos which strangely play-out moments lost from people they never met. Each track on their most recent EP opens with conversation from some obscure old movie, for no reason other than to make you forget the real world and introduce their own virtual interpretation of reality to get lost within.

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Describing their sound as that typical of a "Coming of age 80's teen film" Summer Camps' intentions are romantic, delicately weaving a hazy tapestry of sonic hope, a soundscape of easy, melodious notions that transport you to a simple place making you interact with your imagination. Modern daydream believers, this pair are likeable and ordinary in the most estranged and unusual sense.

Hear the Summer Camp exclusive i-D Online Mixtape here

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Text Milly McMahon

Hot City | Twist and Lonely Boy - MP3 remixes.

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Essential Killing

New film by Jerzy Skolimowski with Vincent Gallo and Emmanuelle Seigner

i-D Online: Iceland Airwaves Festival

Iceland Airwaves Festival

This year's Iceland Airwaves Festival hosted an array of today's most sought-after music. Assembling an outstanding line-up of bands and artists that have helped successfully establish the event as the biggest and best of its kind in Europe.

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Founded five years ago in Iceland's capital Reykjavik, the Iceland Airwaves Festival showcases an array of both local and international talent from the lesser-known to the more popular climates of alternative music. Tipping all those who play to be the bands you will be listening to non-stop, from now on, the parties are oversubscribbed and the atmosphere is electric throughout the city for six days. Transforming Reykjavik into a vivacious hive of activity, fun and good sounds are played out from morning through to noon and carry on through every night.

This year's line-up included a host of acclaimed artists such as Factory Floor, Teeth, Mount Kimbie, Hercules and the Love Affair, Silver Columns, James Blake (DJ set), Toro Y Moi, Junip and Slagsmålsklubben. Tickets sold out well ahead of the event so the festival's small, intimate venue spaces, spread throughout the town, hidden within book shops, boutiques and bars, were all packed out and alive for every artist's performance. With a thriving reputation and select crowd, Iceland's penchant for alternative music is the perfect landscape for this honest and lively gathering.

Text Milly McMahon
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Metronomy and Gallops: Exclusive

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Metronomy and Gallops: Exclusive

The London-based leg of the Bicycle Film Festival proved to be a truly unmissable event. Providing a wealth of bike related activity in and throughout the Barbican foyers, this year's special tenth anniversary party also played host to sell-out sets from homegrown dance pioneers Metronomy and Gallops.

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Proving rightful ownership of their prestigious position amongst our generations original breed of electro-pop heavyweight forefathers, Metronomy took to the stage on Thursday night to play a unique arrangement of songs, which also included music for a specially-created film alongside fan favourites old and new. The band's highly-anticipated performance was supported by Wrexham-based synth-thrash protégées Gallops, who also played in association with Eat Your Own Ears to support the project Brendt Barbur set up in 2001. Celebrating the adverse experience the founder encountered after being knocked off his bicycle by a bus, Brendt introduced the concept behind the BFF to provide a platform to celebrate the bicycle, through film, art and music. The event was opened by artist Kevin Turk who also introduced his own latest project Les Bikes du Bois Rond, which profiled the fleet of his twenty specially designed and painted bicycles to the Barbican with a team of artists and cycling celebrities on board. This multi-layered, energised event was a hive of positivity and creative energy. Check out the BFF website to find out what event is happening next your city.

i-D Online caught up with Metronomy before they got up on stage to find out what their plans for freshly released album The English Riviera will be.

Download Gallops exclusive mix-tape for i-D Online here.

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Text Milly McMahon
Film Edit Sean Baker
Images Selim Korycki

Bad Things Could Happen

Working individually and in a variety of different ways, art collective THIS IS IT aim to create simple, direct pieces with one clear voice. The self formed group of illustrators, animators, artist and designers are presenting thier first highly anticipated screening of Bad Things That Could Happen today at Jaguar Shoes. This self explanatory film is made up of seven short scenes, playing with scale, bringing objects to life to create a subverted world where the mundane becomes absurd. A bold, accomplished and exciting event, not to be missed.

Visit: thisisitcollective.com

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Released December 17th

Pamela's Top 5 Tips to Find Love

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Pamela's Top 5 Tips to Find Love

Eponymous jewellery label Pamela Love designs tough, intricate and spiritually ironic accessories that represent who she is, from the inside out.

Launched in 2006 and based in New York, Pamela Loves' tough and chic jewellery pieces quickly became the chosen 'it' item of fashion editors and stylists, making it down the hottest runways all over the world. Celebrated by uber style icons: Julia Restoin-Roitfeld , The Olsen twins and Alexa Chung, Loves' pieces are all personally designed, moulded and cast by this strong and unique woman. Both timeless and contemporary, Loves' S/S 2011 collection took the label in a new direction, sharpening her already established aesthetic and evolving the antique consideration of her jewellery towards a heightened state of refinement. Inspired by the science of lunar cycles and the representation of the moon as an object of femininity, Love juxtaposed her chosen theme by adding aggressive and masculine elements to each thick set piece.

Recently collaborating with a host of brands and labels including Opening Ceremony and Revolve clothing to create capsule collections which expand her jewellery's accessibility and affordability, 2011 holds many new exciting and challenging plans for Pamela Love. i-D Online caught up with the young designer to find out what is important to her in life and love:

Since the label's launch in 2006 you have forged a following that include some of the biggest names in fashion, why do you think the jewellery is so popular within the industry? I think quality is a really big factor. All of my pieces are hand made here in New York. There is a strong attention to detail and care that goes into each piece. I think the jewellery is tough yet feminine at the same time, which really works with what is going on in apparel right now. But the pieces also have a timeless feel to them, which transcends seasons and trends.
You have previously mentioned that you draw significant inspiration from nature and science, more specifically astronomy, religion and magic. Are you superstitious and do you practice any crafts? I’m definitely more spiritual than superstitious, and have always been interested in and inspired by magic, higher powers, and notions of death and afterlife. I believe in luck and fate and sometimes that can make me more superstitious that I probably should be.
Do the pendants represent anything symbolic about you, personally? All my pieces symbolise something about me, whether it’s an idea or an interest, but I’m most attached to my Talon Cuff. I never take it off..not even to shower or go to sleep. It's tough and dangerous looking, yet really beautiful at the same time.. I really like that.
Your process begin with wax carvings, casting models in silvers from the signature shapes inspiring you each season. Have your creative processes adapted with the expansion of the business? Each piece still starts out by me personally hand carving the wax model, and I have an incredible production team who work with me in my studio, making it possible to still produce unique, high quality pieces. My biggest challenge thus far has been keeping the integrity of my product with the increasing demand of my jewellery; so as the demand grows, the operations and production facilities will continue to grow.
Have you got plans to collaborate with any label or designer in the coming months? I greatly value collaborating with other designers and artists, so I’m always looking to work with new people.
Who are the most important figures involved with Pamela Love? My whole team...we are like a family.
What is your favorite item in your wardrobe? My vintage motorcycle boots.
What are your top 5 tips to find love?
1. Love yourself first.
2. Never pretend to be someone you aren't.
3. Be as open minded as possible.
4. Be understanding and patient.
5. Don't over-analyse things.

pamelalovenyc.com

Text Milly McMahon

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i-D Online: Sickboy

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Steering the British street art scene towards positivity, illusive graffiti artist Sickboy presents his first book and print box set 'Busted Parachute'.

Presented like undisclosed treasure contained in a wooden box, the highly anticipated Busted Parachute Box Set documents Sickboy's most defining moments spent painting, travelling and tagging. Cataloguing the past ten years of his career spent operating within the underground graffiti scene and revealing never before seen material, this limited edition anthology of contemporary art charts his work from its roots to its rise. Describing the cathartic process of collating the book as "cleaning out my closet", the anonymous tagger documents and annotates early works from his hometown of Manchester to his more influential national masterpieces, located in Bristol and East London.

Forced to operate under the cover of darkness on the wrong side of the law, Sickboy's work is identifiable through his unique trademark tag The Temple. Symbolising abstract, expressionist, Marxist beliefs, this emblem signifies his upbeat one-man mission to Save The Youth. Communicating to his audiences on a deeper sociological level to convey the hope he wants us all to believe in, embracing cultures and the next generation as opposed to chastising difference, Sickboy is passionate about art and unity. His all embracing attitude centres around the development of street art as a movement, ignoring its criminal connotations.

First picking up a spray-can at the age of fifteen, what followed is now carefully maintained on walls, billboards and vaults up and down the country. Residing in a secret location, working and living vicariously, Sickboy's studio is a hive of graffiti paraphernalia, bursting with rainbow colored spray-cans and markers, decorated with mind bending painted canvases and magazines. His pieces now typically fetch up to £5000 and his work is considered highly collectable. Sickboy has become a brand which advertises itself through revolution, creating the opportunity for the public to invest in a creative freedom legal forces forcefully attempt to ban. Busted Parachute marks a turning point in culture, demonstrating how rules and regulations can be broken, allowing chaos to bring order and anarchy to fuel effectivity.

i-D Online went undercover to visit Sickboy and find out what feeds his need to tag.

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The Busted Parachute box set and special edition hardcover complete with three hand-finished screen-prints are now exclusively available at thesickboy.com

Text Milly McMahon

Photography George Harvey

i-ntroducing The Antlers

i-ntroducing The Antlers

Pete Silberman is the reluctant and broken-hearted musician responsible for the massively affecting and critically acclaimed concept album Hospice.

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An intimate assembly of former strangers, The Antlers are made up of instrumentalists Micheal Lerner, Darby Cicci and band curator Peter Silberman. Based in Brooklyn and signed to New-York based label French Kiss Records, The Antlers' inaugural album Hospice was released on 18 August, 2009 and has since gone on to receive significant media attention, generating an equally large and continuously amounting level of intrigue into the background of this uniquely dark and emotive soundtrack. The product of a period of two years Silberman spent in isolation before the band's formation, each song runs like a chapter, from beginning to end of the album. Re-counting Peter's recent experiences nursing his late lover through the final and brutal stages of terminal bone cancer, each perfect song speaks desolately to the audience, communicating a devastating sense of loss in an inadvertent manner. Sending stark shivers down the spine and tears to the eye, this is an album realising the wreckage and heartbreak felt by a lover left behind, identifiable to anyone who has ever yearned or hurt.

Furious, fast and loud; mellow, quiet and melodious, Hospice is dynamic, versatile and instrumentally accomplished. Deeper than that, however, is the concept explored through the voices which guide the way through the twelve track album. Narrated via the perspective of carer, abuser and third party (left open to interpretation) this is a story drenched in injustice, abuse, pain but most importantly an all-consuming love. Opening with fragile lyrics, introducing this incredible tale 'Kettering', vocals purr "I wish that I had known in that first minute we met the unpayable debt that I owed you, 'cause you'd been abused by the bone that refused you and you hired me to make up for that." Unequivocally honest down to the final track's closing word, Hospice is essential listening, not just an album but a piece of art.

After past months spent touring, the band are ready to go back to their roots and progress, to move on from the success and devastation of Hospice and guide The Antlers forward. Reflecting upon the past two years, Pete remarked "It's like looking at a picture of yourself three or four years ago after some major shake-up in your life has happened, so it's still recognisabley you but it seems a little foreign at the same time. It began as a very cathartic thing."

i-D Online caught-up with Peter whilst he took time out at home to consider how he feels about his album's success and what he hopes the future holds for him and The Antlers.

Move: Choreographing You at Hayward Gallery

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Enter The Void

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Slow Talk Release Fshion Sense

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After two years in the making, Oxford Mississippi’s Steven Ross finally steps wide-eyed from his dorm room into the daylight clutching four songs that lay bare a soul in search of life’s bigger questions. Jaded and full of sardonic wit, Ross makes bold and uncensored music that confides what most of us would keep strictly under lock and key.

Staccato guitar and playful sounds cushion tales flooded with bitter acrimony. Schizophrenically changing pace from Pixie-esque sonic freakout to frenetic ‘on the brink of a nervous breakdown’ Bright Eyes. Ross spits out numbers as upbeat and singalong as their tone is black. His conversational vocals come from chords seemingly crosswired from the caverns of a darkened mind and the pulses of a misfiring aorta.

Always with a strong sense of narrative Ross exorcises his fear of growing up and older, waging a civil war against his own destiny with all the world-weary ‘make mine a double’ attitude a professional barfly would spend a lifetime perfecting. That he never loses the ability to keep his tongue firmly in his cheek arms the songs on Treehouse Politics with dozens of addictively sing-along lines.

Is it right to chase love? To grow a beard? Get high? How’s about wishing your friends dead whilst talking to God? All in the same night?! For the bittersweet sounding answers to these slice-of-life questions, Warmest Chord proudly presents ‘Treehouse Politics’, a deceptively upbeat collection of songs that capture the thrill of life’s chase, and the joy of being utterly and deeply lost.

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i-D Online: i-DJ

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i-DJ: Things I've Seen

Adam Tickle is the illusive and optimistic visual documentarist regularly updating his findings on the underground scene at thingsiveseen.co.uk

Creatively skilled and self-taught, Tickle is artistic and accomplished within the realms of graphic design and photography. Involved with various collective groups, his aptly named blog 'Things I've Seen' is an observational diary; a peep-holed stream into contemporary events and the lives of those driving today's culture. Originally hailing from Manchester, Adam moved to London after graduating from Bath University in 2007 with a degree in Visual Communication. He provides an unbiased insight into each social hub he encounters, allowing his images and online diary entries to feel honest and reflective of exactly what he sees.

Building up an impressive portfolio through his work with a vast range of commercial clients Adam Tickle is a brand, a service and a particularly personable young entrepreneur. Designing record sleeves, curating exhibitions, collaborating with club nights and working on a host of advertising and branding campaigns, a selection of Adam's current work can be found in publications including Rojo, Computer Arts, Tactile and within Reinform and Platforms' inner circles. To keep your finger on the pulse, head to the source. Keep up to date with Adam's adventures via his official design portfolio and blog.

Download and listen to the exclusive Things I've Seen mixtape here.

Adam suggests five things you should see this month:
President’s Lecture: Pecha Kucha – Everything is More Interesting than Your Desk
Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion
Platform's next Boiler Room session
This Sunday's Battersea Carboot sale
Commix Re: Call To Mind album launch

Text Milly McMahon
Photography Adam Tickle

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i-D Online Bella Howard Presents Drive-Thru

Taking pictures that feel as familiar and amiable as the photographer herself, twenty-four year-old Yorkshire born, London based Bella Howard presents her first exhibition at The Wayward Gallery. The aptly named ‘Drive Thru’ will last only four days and is located down a lesser-trodden backstreet in Bethnal Green.

Documenting a recent road trip around America with two girlfriends, each photograph selected for the exhibition feels like a precious moment captured from a coming-of-age adventure. First learning to take pictures as a young girl, Bella’s delicate love of photography stems from her desire to capture memories. With an accessible style, drenched in rich, brash colours and focused upon finding beauty in incidental oddity, the landscapes and portraits which feature in the sixteen image ‘Drive Thru’ series intimately profile the people and places Bella encountered by chance and remembers through film. Also stocked at the Wayward Gallery will be fifty limited edition homemade 'Drive Thru' zines, to represent the fifty U.S states, all lovingly handmade by Bella. Showcasing the images which made the gallery edit, each A5 black and white zine is customised and annotated, adding a real sense of personality to the informal feel of the exhibition's theme.

Previously interning at i-D and assisting Matt Irwin, Bella now works independently as a fashion photographer regularly contributing to a wide rage of contemporary magazines and working with an eclectic mix of today’s most influential stylists. Referencing Juergen Teller, Wolfgang Tillmans and Terry Richardson as her heroes, Bella’s work has a relaxed feel and is focused on light. After this life-enhancing trip, Bella has been left inspired, commenting “I just want to travel around the North of America now and see all around Seattle.”

i-D online visited the photographer on the eve of her exhibition opening to get an exclusive and interactive tour around the Wayward gallery.

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Text Milly McMahon

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Sunday Girl vs Rusko - 'Stop Hey'