This is a very special episode, paying honour to Fase Miusic Sender, the Buenos Aires audio-visual quatuor. For this AirPod N°7, we are very happy to present you with two parts, a visual Part 1 with the video clip for Fase’s Missing Keyframes, which appears on our Extraction compilation. This video was EXCLUSIVELY MADE FOR AIRPOD!!! And an audio Part 2 with Fase’s new live set: Disaster! So put all of this amazing content on your iPod and enjoy the whole world of Fase! This is without mentionning that we are dying to officially announce our next digital release! Guess who?? Fase M.S of course, accompanied by a Sr. Replicante remix! How amazing is that… you will tell us very soon!!
Behind Fase are: Gustavo Gagliardo, Leandro Waisbord, Pedro Perelman and Martin Tibabuzo. Fase is a collective founded in the year 2000, that is active in Buenos Aires and works on both end of the audio-visual spectrum. From musical production to visual animation and street-art to VJing, Fase finalizes all-inclusive projects and shows, which create a truly complete realm, allowing it to fully expressing their vision. On the musical side, even if experimentation surrounds a Techno essence, some sounds have been surviving since the very foundation of Fase: Aquatic sounds, clicks and glitches, video-gaming bleeps. Fase keeps the groove as main purpose, using kicks and basses to create melodies coming right from the under layers of the earth, factory sounds and darkness. Detroit Underground and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work can stand as referents to the universe they perpetually share. Fase Miusic Sender plans its live sets to build climates and organically evolving structures. The video sequencing that comes to complete Fase’s world, is solely dependent of, and exclusively adapting to the evolution of the music. Exploring the graphic language, Fase keeps fantasy, synthesis, abstraction and powerful colors as main visual focus. Music expressing visuals, visuals expressing music… The circle is now complete.
AirDrop is proud to announce its participation and support in the “Naturaleza y Artificios” exhibition of the Centro Cultural San Martin of Buenos Aires. Opening today Tuesday April 15th, the exhibition regroups 16 emergent artists, including AirDrop’s preeminent figure in Argentina, Maria Bedoian.
“The exhibit explores the mestization between organic and abstract forms that expand themselves within various spaces, with the aim of creating an original nature, more bound to the artificial than to the natural. Art’s Nature, or Nature’s Art, both in perpetual threat for imperfection. The pieces presented invade the space and create a dialog with the architecture of pure and modernist conception, created by Mario Roberto Alvarez. The noble materials of steel, wood, glass and marble used in architecture, are in counterpoint with the recycled materials such as wax, fabric, chalk, cardboard and paper used by the artists. The contrast between the images of an idealized New York City and of a scarred Argentina, converses as well with this counterpoint. The whole results in a signalization on the diversities between the modern, and the creativity of the present, in a society that has been through the rationalist ideal of Modernity, the mistakes of the utopist Postmodernism, until perceiving a higher and open path, the one of imagination.”
We will be curating both live and online art shows over the next year starting January. If you would like to participate in any of our online, New York City or Buenos Aires exhibits (More locations TBA) you must submit your work for it to be considered and approved. Your submission must include pictures or videos with descriptions of the work as well as an artist bio.We prefer that you submit your file via the internet using such services as Sendspace and then email the link to henry@airdropmedia.com . The first AirDrop art shows will be announced January 15th.
SixFeet is a really cool street-wear brand here in Buenos Aires. I have been hanging out a bit with Nacho who takes care of the shop near my house. They have a total of four shops in the city and in addition to their collection, each season they invite local artists to put their designs on SixFeet T-Shirts. Last year, they also did a special series paying tribute to the like of Basquiat and Keith Haring.
SixFeet has helped pave the way for the artistic duo RunDontWalk. Street artists for over a decade, RunDontWalk have many projects, visions, and identities going on at the same time. You gotta know the whole story to tell if that stencil next to your building entrance is theirs. RunDontWalk are everywhere in the city, and now they’re even included in the AirDrop art collection! A while ago, they did this series all over town dedicated to monkeys and serialism, a recurrent theme in art when dealing with animals in danger of extinction. Check the pics here.
As AirDrop pursues its mission to help developing artists, and eventually, manage a large art collection, we are buying art that we like and consider affordable. I found out about “Sounds like another custom show” presented by Syrup Kids when I saw a funny looking sticker in Soho with the name to go along, Phallic Mammary. So, I checked it out and saw that there was going to be an event with custom painted guitars, which sounded cool. The event had a decent crowd and 17 custom guitars that were going to be auctioned off on eBay the next day. I saw a bunch that I liked, in fact if I could have purchased the whole collection, I probably would have.
I was able to take down 2 of the auctions, 1 for the Phallic Mammary guitar and the other for the Steve Raggie guitar. I have put two pictures below, I think you will figure out which one is which, but have labeled them just in case
Here are a few pics of other guitars that we were not able to purchase (sadly)
