DM Playlist 4.2 - 4.8

These are the song of the day selections from April 2nd to April 8th
B F R 16 (Ate) by Daisuke Tanabe



Biocritical by Satol



here, in heaven 4 & 5 (CFCF Remix) by Elite Gymanstics



Limbo by Pazes


Sunlight by Dehousy


DumDum by Baauer



I'm so This Way by BE∆CHES

Night Slugs

After taking a look at the visuals of Ghostly International in a previous post, I began thinking of other labels whose style I enjoyed. Night Slugs was one that immediately caught my mind. Rather than the more historically mindful, eclectic approach of Ghostly, Night Slugs has a much harder edged, modern aesthetic. This makes sense given that unlike the more atmospheric focus of Ghostly, Night Slugs is concerned with music that has its feet firmly rooted to the dance floor. Their look is much more immediately cohesive. This is in part due to the minimal use of texture (or rather, obvious texture) on their covers. The digital look that the covers give off certainly matches their brand of music.

Lil Silva - Night Skanker

Girl Unit - IRL

Kingdom - Dreama

Jam City - Magic Drops

Bok Bok - Southside

DM Playlist 3.26 - 4.1

Check out a roundup of our songs of the day for this past week after the jump

Ghostly International: Some Music Visualized

Ghostly has been one of my favorite record labels for quite a while. It releases some of my favorite music, drawing on a stable of artists that as a whole typify a style of music that I love. This can be distilled as what Ghostly refers to as SMM. As they describe it, "a mysterious acronym that encompasses enigmatic ambient and experimental music with an emphasis on textural and melodic expanses". Indeed, many of our late night DM work sessions have been soundtracked by the Ghostly SMM compilation. Along with a solid aural appeal, the label puts out some strong visuals. Their attention to aesthetics can be seen on their website, both in the design, and in the Ghostly store, which promotes a range of desirable items. In fact, a few years ago I bought Mariel a typography based game from said store.

Their album art is always appealing, and representative of the sounds it encases. These are a few of my favorites (I tried to do away with bias based on the music they represent).

Matthew Dear - Slowdance
 

Dabrye - Two/Three 

Tycho - Dive
 

Com Truise - Galactic Melt
 

 Lusine - Lucky Numbers: The Ghostly International EPs

Playlist of the Week

For those of you who follow our tumblr account, you probably know that we do a regular song of the day. This is a playlist of all of those songs from the past week. Check it out after the jump.

Drake X WEDIDIT

We've been listening to some Drake recently. Take Care got put back into rotation, mostly thanks to some remixes from the WEDIDIT collective. Here is a short playlist of WEDIDIT memebers' Drake remixes. In case this AMAZING image above ever gets used as album art, yall can Thank Me Later.

First up is D33J's remix of Over My Dead Body



Earnest Blount's remix of Cameras



Groundislava's remix of Successful



Shlohmo's remix of Crew Love



Shlohmo's remix of Marvin's Room



RL Grime's screw of Club Paradise



Finally, RL Grime's Remix of Over

Drankenstein 3 by Bird Peterson by Mad Decent

Drankenstein 3 by Bird Peterson by Mad Decent


Still not over it yet. I think this is a mad appropriate (er...mad decent) St. Patrick's day mix. Be sure to sing it loud and proud, you're Irish today. Also, don't kiss anyone in a 'kiss me I'm Irish shirt today' just because we're all temporary faux Irish doesn't mean anyone (whether they are Irish or not) should wear that shirt, and they should definitely not be kissed for doing so!

Dress Me Issue 7

Thank you to everyone to helped out with Dress Me Issue 7!

//Music//
Featuring:
Benga
Chrome Sparks
Balam Acab

 Music Editor: Alex Snickers

//Fashion//
Features:
Photography:
Andrew Yoon & Michal Czerwonka
Johns Hopkins Congdon
Alex Brunet

Michael Pershes (from StyleShoutOut.com) & Cliff Pershes (BCBGMAZAZRIA)

Models:
Sophie Daigle
Elena Mudd

Interviews with:
Sophie Daigle
Johns Hopkins Congdon

Fashion Editors:
Fydez Tan
Federica Manca
Cindy Voong
Shaniqua King

Lovely Music

Looking for a soundtrack for your Valentine's day? Lovetap has just what you need in the form of this grooving lovey-dovey disco/house mix. This mix was created in part by Alex Vickers, our new contributing music editor, whose first article will be in issue 7 tomorrow. Check out the tracklist after the jump

Albums of 2011

So here is the continuation of the list I started before.  These are our top 10 albums of 2011:

Jürgen Müller - Science of the Sea 

EPs and Singles of 2011

So here is another year end list.  I'm specifically refraining from calling this a best of 2011 list because that isn't what this is.  This is a chance for you to get a sense of what we listened to this past year.  This is the soundtrack to our working hours, take a listen. Here are 20 of the EPs and singles that got us through this year in no particular order:

 

Lunice - Stacker Upper 

Dress Me Magazine Issue 6

Read Issue 6 of Dress Me Magazine!

Thank you to Slow Magic & LFTF and to all of our editors (Fydez, Holly, Cindy, & Shaniqua)! We love you! Happy Holidays!

SS12 Trend: Pucci Goes Totally Witch House

Now I know that most fashion publications are not going to list 'Witch House' as one of the trends from the Spring/Summer 2012 collections, but I think that is only because they do not know what Witch House is. It is a truly a shame too, they could have quite a bit of fun with it! Either way Lace, sheer, whatever this (Witch House) aesthetic is being called, Peter Dundas knew what he was doing with Pucci this season. That being said, I think it is fair to say that someone may be watching a bit too much Twin Peaks (whether that ‘someone’ is Dundas or myself, I am not really sure, it could be both!).

Looking at the images from the Pucci show reminded me of a fading Americana idea of the ‘cool girls’. The kind you would see in a 1950s timepiece, where cheerleading is still cool and where girls wear bobby socks because that is the only option. To illustrate this idea for you I made you the witch house version of these ‘cool girls’. Daphne is in the middle because she is the coolest of the cool girls AND she is in all white, which means she is innocent on the outside but totally horrible on the inside. I think that is how that whole good girl/bad girl thing works out, right?

Pucci was not the only Witch House looking collection this season either, have you been to style.com? I feel like I am at a Salem show, except everyone is fashionable, no one is on ketamine, and I am not listening to Salem (with the exception of a few songs), which is my sort of Witch House.

Music and fashion go hand in hand so here is a song by Salem that I DO like for you! I hope everyone has a wonderful Saturday! Later!

Inspiration: Purple

To keep with the purple theme try listening to one of our favorite summer mixes: Drankenstein by Bird Peterson. You can download it here.

Source: tfs, Tim Walker, random Tumblr, saved pictures on my computer, Mad Decent Blog

Joie ‘Jacaranda’ Peasant Top and Fluxus 'Lora' Dress

Some spreads I love from our newest issue!

Dress Me Magazine Issue 4

Dress Me Magazine Issue 4 is now online, read it here!

The DMM team would like to give a special thanks to Executive Assistant and Head of PR Tyler White!

Thank you to everyone who contributed and helped, we could not have done it without you!

Editors:
 Holly Alymore- Show Time
Fydez Tan- Style Fydez
Federica Manca- Style Parisien
Cindy Voong- London Fashion Week

Contributors:
Maya- Missoni Through the Ages
Priyanka Kochar- White Wash 
Remmy McCabe- InterviewShaniqua King- Location Based Fashion
Brittany Witkin- Fashion Diary
Vicky Vaughan- A Snapshot of Fashion Photography

Photographers:
Emma Burrington
Sarah Kjelleren- Shot the last look for 'In all the World Only Two: Part I of II'

Models:
Amy, Tyler, and David