Posts Tagged ‘Vancouver’
HOOD BY AIR SKID AN ORWELLIAN UNICORN INTO 2010.
A few years ago we played a skid party in Vancouver at a club called the Royal Unicorn (skids are the straight Vancouver equivalent of the NY banji scene which is essentially a bunch of lesbi-gays making awesome fashion / music / dance partiness. Does that make sense?). Anyway, the Royal Unicorn was an old massage parlor in Chinatown converted into a Karoake club. The same owners still ran the show and did very minor retrofitting to switch over from rubbing to singing which meant rather then being greeted by a bubbly clubgirl you instead paid the cover at the top of the stairs to a man behind a bulletproof glass window who sat in front of a bank of mini tvs that were linked to security cameras throughout the whole place. It was like partying in the future. Blade Runner style. This Hood By Air lookbook for 2010 is like a Blade Runner party at the Royal Unicorn circa 2025. Damn. Read on
Ladyhawk Makes Perfect Soundtrack For Wearing Black All Summer Long.
We don’t usually post up mixes at WMIG unless they are our own; BUT – with that being said – these 2 mixes became exception worthy as soon as the syrupy helicopters flew in at the top of the tape. The FADER folks sent this over from the Ladyhawke blog and we had instant flashbacks of last summer on the oaky yacht decks of Vancouver after late mornings at the Gorgomish. Download them here.