HUE 001: THE ORANGE ISSUE

ISSUE 001 THE ORANGE EDIT

~ orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow... like biting into a tangerine at 4pm on a drizzly thursday afternoon, orange represents hope, even in the depths of the darkest season

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CONTRIBUTERS Niall Peers Emily Barker Bianca Mesce Bink Bulthaweenan Joe Main Tom Hull Sandra Ordóñez Helena Kay Adam Mosedale Peter O’Sullivan Jemma Barnett Medium Ceeramsden Atony Spiteri Beth Farrah Foreign TV Emily Nash Shona Sterling Pete McArdle EDITED BY Megan Marsden Tavis Taiwo 4

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A Label reveiw Written by aspiring writer/journalist

Niall Peers With the explosion of disco-tinged tracks and sample driven house of recent years influencing how many producers are approaching their music, there has become a wealth of edits and re-edits of both the commercially successful, and completely obscure. Among the hundreds of remixes and original releases, one standout label, hailing from Ireland, is Orange Tree Edits.

Run by Jimmy Rouge, the label is dedicated to putting out quality adaptions of rare African and Oriental gems, with each release combining the samples used with a decidedly housey beat, sultry disco groove and infectious feel good energy. The label releases have been lovingly put together

by Jimmy Rouge himself, who showcases his own talent and that of his peers. With the upbeat spirit of the label having remained true since it’s conception in 2017, all five releases span peak time club cuts to more downtempo low energy tunes, whilst all retaining the same positive, care free atmosphere. With samples ranging from plucky guitars and an ensemble of brass instruments, combined with subtle acid lines from 303’s and bouncy percussion, Orange Tree Edits create a unique musical experience in a scene with an abundance of choice.

The label is yet another institution that is adding to the already rich, but constantly evolving scene in Ireland.

Despite having recently relocated to Amsterdam, the label is still contributing to the Irish scene, with its most recent release featuring Dublin based DJ Santo, on a track with Rouge himself. Although still being fairly young, the label is clearly having a big effect on the scene, with some of the labels releases fetching astronomical fees from vinyl enthusiasts online. Rouge has even earned himself a Boiler Room at AVA festival, which showcases his talent behind the decks, proving that he is not only exceptional in the studio, but his track selection and mixing capabilities are second to none.

With a defined flair whilst playing, his DJing seems to mirror his music, creating an upbeat atmosphere that makes people want to dance.

In a saturated scene with many similar sounding releases, people are taking notice of what the Irish label is doing. With consistent quality releases, a unique sound, and proof of their DJing abilities, it’s safe to assume that any time you see Orange Tree Edits, it’s going to be feel good and have a serious groove. With growing popularity and support from all over the industry, there’s no sign of Orange Tree Edits slowing down, with a near endless selection of samples at their disposal, the only question now, is what they will do next. soundcloud.com/orangetreeedits

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Emily Barker is a visual artist based in Manchester.

Here we exhibit photos from her Tokyo travels, work taken on 35mm film. Hints of orange can be found imbetween a quaint feel and the hustle and bustle of city life.

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PHOTOGRAPHED AND STYLED BY, BIANCA MESCE

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PHOTOGRAPHED AND STYLED BY, BIANCA MESCE

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In conversation with Thai Film-maker Bink Bulthaweenan

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What kind of creative would you describe yourself to be?

I’m versatile.

We are featuring stills from your short film ‘Prawn in Cheek’, tell us more about this piece?

Tell us more about your background, where are you from?

Around autumn 2016 I started noticing that I no longer think in Thai, for a couple of months that realisation really played with my head and I felt like I had a fever.

I was losing sense of what I knew, and I wondered if other bilingual people experienced this transition. 2016 was my tenth year living in England, and I grew up in Thailand just for around a decade.

It became the mid-point of my life where I began to question myself ethnically, my family thinks I’ve westernised and my friends think I’m so Asian.

I’m Thai, I moved to Birmingham in 2006 to live with my mum who moved here two years before, and for education in Britain. I was not happy to leave my friends, family and dogs.I didn’t have a good time growing up in Birmingham but I became happier when I moved to Manchester for uni.

What is your favourite type of art to produce?

Anything about myself [chuckles].

I shares stories using mediums that I think suits, I mostly use ceramics, short films, writing, poetry and performance.

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I thought myself as half a 12-year-old Thai because that’s the age I left Thailand, and I became one year old when I first started the English secondary school, learnt the language to communicate, it was a hard-new beginning. For this film I put together footage of both Thailand and England that has similarities ‘same same but different’ to show the transition between the two as a background for my texts and narrations. The film reflects on how moving at the pre-teen age has affected my upbringing and language barriers.

Your award in Rotterdam is what got our attention in the first place, how did that happen?

This was another film I made recently to finish off as my final piece of my degree on Interactive Arts. It’s a self-mockumentary to embrace what I once was ashamed of – being a girl.

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A scout called Scout saw the film at degree show and passed my details to TENT art organisation in Rotterdam, I didn’t know about them, but they hosted TENT Academy Awards and for 2018 I was nominated the Best Foreign Films award. They invited all the nominees from UK Art schools, paid for the flight and hostel for the weekend of the event it was pretty spontaneous and overwhelming.

I don’t hold a British passport and almost didn’t get to go because my visa application was rejected due to being deep in my £2000 overdraft, one of the nightmares visa application requirements was a proof of some money in the bank account. I created a group chat of friends with my bank details and asked them to help me out and I gathered what I needed to have a positive bank statement over a night, that was special, am lucky.

Anyways, Rotterdam! The award show held at cinema KINO where both Netherland graduates and guest country England’s graduates’ films were screened, and the juries announced the winners at the end. I won the Best Foreign Film award, at that point I couldn’t tell the different between my anxiety and excitement, it was a blur. Do you remember the finale scene of Titanic where old Rose died in her sleep and dreamt that she had gone back on the ship and lined of beautiful people smiling as she walks up the stairs to reunite with Jack? It was that.

Music plays a huge part in life with you being a dj and future plans to produce, what of music are you into and how It inspire you?

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A mixture of genres from RnB to metal, Japanese, electronic, soul, pop, new wave, indie music and everything in between. I just like the sounds I hear, I don’t really have a favourite album; my playlists are considered bipolar - listening to songs by same artist or same type of music more than four times in a row can bore me.

What have been some of your favourite exhibits that you have been involved with or been inspired by?

My artists collective called TV babies had an exhibition of art work based on theme ‘Sweat’, there was indoor waterfall, lesbian toilet anecdote, homemade exercise video, spicy jelly shots, live massages, and live music by The Bim Williams Trio. That was my favourite event that we put up together as a collective.

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Last year we were part of a live art programme that Legroom, a Manchester based collective curated for Sounds From The Other City festival, we was invited to perform at The Kings Arms in Salford with live audience. We had a mega stressful last minute technical problems, but it was really fun to be involve.

The most memorable show I saw was The Infinite Mix, a showcase of sound and image in contemporary video at 180 The Strand, in 2016.

Not just exhibitions that inspires me, I’m also heavily influenced by the energy from LGBT communities in Manchester, going to see events that hosts by people like Moist collective, and Creatures of Catharsis has an impact on my confident.

What have been some of your favourite hat are your artistic goals in life?

To make a living of what I really love doing.

What plans do you have for 2019?

I’m going back to Thailand for three months at the beginning of this year, I’m hoping to write more whilst I am there. When I’m back I will try my hardest to not go back to long hours and low wage kitchen job.

The award that I won with TENT has earned me a 6-8 weeks artist residency at Het Wilde Weten in autumn 2019, I am nervous and excited about this.

Where can we see more of your work?

You can watch Prawn In Cheek here vimeo.com/288976353 I am yet to put A Real Girl, or my other stuff online.

But check out my collective website www.tvbabies.co.uk/

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Joe Main, a Manchester based artist, who’s work attempts to highlight themes of urgent social and political issues by using print, paint, film and photomontage. Main does this within modern day context, using a library of first-hand source material from all over the UK. He creates his work using studio portraits, political officials’ headshots, books and magazines, as well as 8mm and super 8 film, appropriating these methods to fit his subject matter.

The art addresses how as a collective, we take individuals for their face value, what we see as a society in relation to the subjects’ hidden intentions – it achieves this, to put it simply, through the layering of images and colour.

Mains art is primarily inspired by artists such as Barbara Kruger and John Stezaker, who provoke his methods of production. However, the source of his main inspiration is Protest art created around the 60s, by artists such as Sergio Lombardo, Franco Angeli, Mimmo Rotella and Michelangelo Pistoletto

This art was created after the fascist era within Italy, it questions America’s participation within their country, its past leaders and Italy’s political climate – exploring themes such as the spread of communism at the time, as well as its assertion to be one of the fastest growing country’s within Europe.

In his current project, Joe attempts to attack political aggressors in regard to land distribution – it represents themes of greed and self-preservation which can be seen within our own government today.

Brexit, a great weight looming over the young, orchestrated by a broken party and voted for by a divided country, it seems as though our futures are being mapped out by characters who don’t even know our names…

LWL 1 (2018) Assotate on lightboard 450mm x 300mm WL 2 (2018) Screen-print on paper 600mm x 400mm

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PIFF MODEL MAIA LEUNG PHOTOGRAPHED AND STYLED

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Tom Hull 2018 Dare to E nter?

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Sandra Ordoñez, an inspiration to meet, worked as a graphic designer in Mexico, creating pieces of work for national and i nternational non-governmental organizations. The pieces of work are considered to be, through the power of design, a means of communication - easily interpreted and understood by the people, a powerful method used to raise awareness of major political and societal issues that are prevalent within the Mexican community. Now located in Manchester, Sandra is focusing her time on the study of an MSc in International Development: Poverty, Inequality and Development at The University of Manchester, examining the many flaws within the framework of our modern society. Featured, we see a piece created by the designer named ‘PorNOgrafía infantil - Child PorNOgraphy’, which were a number of Postcards designed against child pornography - a painful problem in Mexico, and around the world. An issue that is widespread, and also close to home, the design effectively delivers its message to us through the symbolic use of the doll.

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Sandra is such an inspiration as she created this work to raise awareness, in a country which has much less rights for freedom of speech and expression, is a bold and heroic act. Sometimes in the UK and our society, we forget how privileged we are, and how we are able to speak out about issues - and consequently, this affects people’s determination to speak out about things– we believe there will be someone else already doing the job.

This piece of work, therefore, highlights the importance of protesting against these acts of cruelness and crime that still happen every day, it is up to us to always spread awareness! Doing this through graphic design is a very admirable way to do so, and should be advocated by our government.

For more information www.childrenssociety. org.uk

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Eleven, an Omeleto short film

the things we are exposed to, and the things our subconscious minds choose to expose us to.

Eleven, a short film, follows the journey of a young girl who is trying to fit in with the cool crowd at school, the film presents themes around strength of will, highlighting the differences between those who embrace their unique self, who act upon independence - with those who know no better than to follow the crowd.

A Film Review

By Megan Marsden Through its inviting warmth and heat, the hues of orange encourage both external and internal voyage, an open door into the self. In this private sphere, we as individuals, choose the way we will act in the world, the way we act being a major element in the construction of our identity.

From children, we grow in to adults - our delicate and susceptible minds become products of our social settings and the people who surround us...

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Re-occurring uses of orange and its symbolism emerge through the cinematography and design of the film, reminding us of its joy and ability to seek change and to help us look at the world around us in different ways.

Present in the beginning with the orange itself, we see the two protagonists, the outsiders, representing true friendship and the simple beauty within innocence.

Until, the equilibrium is disturbed, and we see Rebecca’s best friend abandon her in attempt to fit in with it clique - clearly yet to learn the philosophy of

‘we are whom we choose to surround ourselves with’.

Neglect, disloyalty and lack of morality are themes that are questioned by the action and behaviour of Rebecca’s best friend, and they are in contrast with Rebecca’s ability to embrace her unique self, uninfluenced by those around her - the film overtly highlights right from wrong.

The colour red is introduced, representing danger and malice in the form of paint, an unhappy ending, her friend paints the chair where Rebecca sits with ‘blood’. Stripped of her girlish-ness, the film explores what it means to be an adolescent, the journey from girlhood to womanhood and the choices we must make that will subsequently result in the type of person we become

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Rebecca is a token representative of the colour orange, strong and enduring in times of bleakness, destined for happiness, love and success. Why is it important for us to be accepting of ourselves from inwards?.. To express our own unique biochemistry? ~ There is only one of ourselves, in the entire world…and though, as humans we long for relationship, to feel as though we belong to something – we should not mirror the actions of others in hope to find this place of belonging, as, it is through solitary and the acceptance of ourselves that we truly find our home and place in the world.

Adam Mosedale is a young aspiring freelance photographer from the West Midlands. He tells us of his use of film as a medium to express ‘unaltered reality.’ Here Adam incoporates our theme of orange with his recent trip to cyprus, capturing the warmth and rural landscapes.

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kojey radicals orange beret at bestival photographed by peter o’sullivan.

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VARIOUS STRAINS OF BACTERIA AND FUNGHI ISOLATED FROM BARLEY CONTAINED IN 6 PETRIDISHES BY BIOLOGIST JEMMA BARNETT PHOTOGRAPHED BY HUE

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1. Hordeum vulgare 2. Fusarium sp. 3. Rihizoctonia solani 4. Ascochyta hordei 5. Xanthomonas campestris 6. Pseudomonas syringae

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On a Wednesday afternoon in Manchester, with a sharp chill present in the air and a common overcast sky, we met up with 22-year-old room-reading techno producer Charles Hughes, Aka MEDIUM who bared all about his work, the electronic music industry, and his soft-spot Manchester clubs.

Tell us a bit about yourself?

I’m 22 -year old electronic DJ, producer and promoter from Bath currently studying a music production course at BIMM. I’ve been a producer since 2014, so for 4 going 5 years now.

I decided I wanted to do it pretty much straight after I did my a-levels, I come from a maths physic-y kind of technical background – and I thought, what better way to use that than in the technical world of producing.

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I finished my A-Levels and went straight to college and did two years there studying a BTEC in music production and that was some of the best times I have had in the industry simply because all of the people who worked there were actually professionals themselves, it was very good to have teachers who weren’t deflated, all so still so serious about their decision to be DJ/Producers, they are definitely a source of my inspiration. My dad is a record producer and he has been in the industry for many years, he was a producer and drummer in pop punk 80s band ‘Adam and The Ants’ and produced ‘Tears for Fears’ first three albums, I grew up around music which of course inspired me as well. Me and my brother, who is also a DJ grew up being a part of this idea of academia and getting a science degree but as we got older we re-

What are you up to now?

Since 2015/2016 I’ve been running nights in this in club in Bath called ‘The Nest’ which I’m still doing occasionally and weekly through the summers. I play at the events and get people in, we’ve had about 60 DJs of different genres – all within the underground electronic music spectrum. Me and all the guys that run it (including my brother) all hold our roots within sound system/dubstep music – which is a big part of why I went into music, the simple effectiveness of it. We tend to go for the Dubstep bookings at the night because that’s what people wanna hear, we’ve booked DJs like sepia, who is on inferno sounds a Manchester based dubstep label – which is actually one of my favourites.

What other DJs and producers influenced you?

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Tell us about your music production?

I started off producing thinking i’m gonna make dance music, house, techno that sort of thing. However I’ve heavily tried to make other stuff and see how that feels and do different sets and different genres at nightclubs. I think a combination of the nights that I enjoy and the nights I enjoy playing at it is mainly techno, and what I make is usually relatable to techno so I’m hoping that is the avenue I will go down while keeping the dubstep interest for me personally - I can have fun and make a bit of money through the dubstep whilst creating techno music.

Where do you see yourself in the future?

As well as that, it doesn’t have rules of when it needs to open and close, and that actually shifts the sort of people who go, they want a night that begins at 1 and ends at 7.

Why should the legislation be against that? I think if any laws about The White Hotel change it will be a real shame. I also like, Hidden and Soup Kitchen. I really like Motion and Blue Mountain in Bristol.

If you weren’t producing music, what would you be doing?

I would be in the sciences! I still think that if things don’t go my way with my music, I will go back to UNI and study physics.

Outside of electronic music, what other genres do you like?

I want to be living in Berlin or in and out of Berlin as it is the mecca of the type of techno I want to be producing.

I hope to see myself as a label owner in the future I’ve been talking to a lot of people about making one. I’d quite like to take an executive role in what gets pushed, who gets picked and what the aesthetic of the label would be. I wanna go down the business route,but I also wanna be known as an artist in my own rights as well, like, yeah he’s

I really like Latin influenced jazz, Afro-beat and I listen to a lot of hip hop, I’m going to give a shout out to OGC and Hurricane Starang

Is there anything about the industry that you don’t like?

Mote-Evolver, Luke Slaters label.

Luke (who I have never met) has been a really big influence because his tunes are so out there and so is his choice of acts to sign on his label, especially Kamikaze Space Programme

Yeah, I don’t like it when promoters in general only book people because they think more people will come because of it. Not just with booking big acts, but even with booking small acts and not doing it because the music is good but because they have mates. Why wouldn’t you book someone because of their dj’ing and not because they have 10 friends they can bring?

What are some of your favourite venues in Manchester?

First off, I’m going to start off by saying The White Hotel. I think it has become amazing, it’s something that we don’t really have down south, and we definitely don’t have anything like that in London, actually it reminds me a lot of Berlin clubs. The reason it stands out is because when you look at it, it is more accurately representing the culture of the people that go there than most of other clubs I’ve seen.

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What is the label you would pick

“music has been the cement between everything our whole lives”

Do you have any advice for aspiring producers?

Stick it out, these things can be slow. Start small. If you want to be taken seriously by promoters, be viable and enthusiastic, be willing to change your look. Show that you really want it and are dead dead serious.

Future plans I’ve got 5 or 6 tracks which are finished, which I’m sitting on. I’m releasing an EP and I’m going to be calling it ‘NOT AN EP’ which you can find on souncloud.com/mediumc

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As an artist, my aim is to ensure that people are just doing what they love. I find that in life, we sometimes face all these different obstacles but we need to keep pushing forward. Being open about my mental health has helped me be the person who I am today, and get a better understanding of different situations I face within my every day life. My message is also to express how in life, nobody should hold you back, do whatever you want. If people are trying to hold you back, they are not worth it. This is your own life to live - so do you!

Get involved in the things that you love, and let your life timeline take you on your journey that has already been mapped out for you. Thing’s are always temporary in life, don’t try to change people - just accept, that is how people are; just do the things that makes you happy.

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In renown gig venue Jimmy’s in the Northern Quarter, Manchester’s lively and cultural hotspot – dance-rock band Foreign TV from Surrey played their first Manc gig, to which we had the pleasure of attending. Freshly formed, though fast to exhibit their professionalism and unique sound - we were immediately struck with warmth from the lights, oozing sounds of melodic guitar and slow tempo drum beats that transcended us into another time zone.

We had a conversation with 4- homie band, constructed as lead singer Jay, lead guitarist Max guitarist Rob and drummer Tim – all about how they united, their sound and future plans…

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Why are you called foreign TV? Jay: Well, I was in Amsterdam, a little bit dazed out (for obvious reasons) and I was in hotel with my girlfriend of time… I was staring at this TV… and it was all in Dutch, and I was just like, ‘This is crazy I’m watching foreign TV’, ha-ha. We wrote a song whilst we were in Amsterdam which is an acoustic track which is quite special to us.

When did music become a part of your lives?

We all met in school, and we didn’t really play any music at this point. Then, two of our other friends ended up buying guitars so we thought we need to buy guitars to really play any music at this point.

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Then, two of our other friends ended up buying guitars so we thought we need to buy guitars tomatch them ha. We all came together after university to focus on the band, a couple of us were initially in another group called chalet noir… because Jay has a chalet in their garden where we used to play, but we split up and formed foreign TV instead, we still practice there though.

How would you define your sound?

Rock is the pioneer of most of our music. The genre we are probably playing now is dancerock, we want to make stuff that is going to make people want to dance.

The genre we are playing now wasn’t really around 10 years ago and that is what we want to be a part of.

What are your goals for the near and distant future?

We practice every evening together and we just want to get better and better, we all contribute to writing the songs and making the music. We’ve recorded some new tracks, we’ve actually been working with someone who has worked with James Blunt, haha. At the moment, we are just trying to get singles down that all kind of adhere to this dancerock genre.

February we’ve got a gig with Radio X at the Victoria which is a really big one we’re looking forward to, and then we have one on the 8th of March in Islington – this is all on our events page on Facebook.

Who are your inspirations, favourite musicians and artists?

Tim: Tame Impala, Real Estate – bands with simple drums that works really well with the music.

Jay: Tyler the creator, Rex Orange County, Mac Demarco.

Robb: I really like Jazz Music because it has a really weird chord voice which adds a nice edge We all have slightly different tastes, and when we’re practicing it all kind of comes together and creates our sound.

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We want to keep doing personal gigs like we have been though, because you can interact and feel the energy much more – it is important for us to distinguish a relationship with the crowd because we are creating quite dance-y music.

We are working with what we’ve got, hopefully we will keep rising up and creating, hopefully establish something amazing – maybe a cup of tea haha. can be founds on instagram, spotify, soundcloud and facebook @foreighntv

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I hated it and I learned to love it.

Having no financial support from my parents has made me “the stingiest person ever” – my friends whose parents paid their rent for them and sends them money when they’re running low. Whilst being one of the few working class students that went to the Art School, I lived a certain way. ‘Fake it till you make it’, someone said to me.

When in town get around public toilets take myself home, A toilet roll.

I bought skimmed milk, THE RED MILK and told my housemates “I actually like it”. The milk that everyone my age despite and wouldn’t use. I hated it and I learned to love it.

Shopping at the big Sainos’ in fallowfield gives me joy, I heard is the most expensive Sainsbury’s in Europe.

Walking through aisles of well-placed items on the shelfs makes me feel like I can afford all the things. Mostly ever picks up stuff with red label priced on, the branded stuff with half a price.

Browsing in Sainos’ gives me joy, more than walking in the park.

When in town, shop in quality saves for toiletries because it’s cheaper than Poundland and everywhere else.

On a rare occasion, I ask to borrow friends a pound and they forget to ask for it back because it’s just a pound.

I did anything to save a couple of coins, so I can spend more.

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Written by Bink Bulthaweenan a creative independant based in manchester.

Photos of Binks cats.

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The Coral – Magic and Medicine

InI – Center of Attention

Way back in 2002, six fresh faced teenagers from the sunny shores of the Wirral peninsula broke through with a storm. That infamous bass riff twinned with Skelley’s coarse Mersey-influenced howl, ‘Dreaming o f You’, was, and still is a classic. Fast forward a year, and the boys had released their second full length EP, ‘Magic and Medicine’ on local label Deltasonic. The record oozed a maturity that makes little sense from a group of lads barely old enough to buy a pint. Skelley takes a step back on many tracks, with long thumping guitar riffs dominating the latter parts off the record. Blues, folk, soft melodies and madcap psychedelia all feature on a record as catchy as it is timeless.

Currently touring their new album ‘Move through the dawn’, The Coral are deemed by many, including myself, as one of the most under-rated bands of this era.

Best Tracks: Bill McCai, Confessions of A.D.D.D.

Center of Attention is one of hip hops undeserved examples of wrong place wrong time. Many of the smartest thinking kingpins of the underground, like Das EFX and Pete Rock, were overshadowed by the East-West coast beefs and tame commercially viable tracks like Gangsters Paradise. There is no standout track to this record, ultimately leading to shelving of the album for almost a decade; It’s only the mere power of the internet that lets this unreleased classic available for all to enjoy. With Pete Rocks faultless production and bars oozing with knowledge, there was no need for one track to overshadow the next. The smart, almost stoic lyricism consistent throughout this record ensures that the little-known New York collective will go down in Hip Hops hall of fame.

Favourite Tracks – To Each is Own, Fakin Jax.

Com Truise – Galactic Melt Hailing from New York, Seth Haley had been releasing synth heavy chill wave under a handful of pseudonyms before his debut Com Truise EP, Cynadine Sisters.

Snapped up by boundary pushers Ghostly International, Galactic Melt proved to be a carefully articulated, undefinable journey through the galaxy, which no doubt has been the soundtrack to countless interdimensional trips worldwide. Com Truise combines 80s drum beats with multifaceted synth loops to create a dreamy, spacethemed masterpiece, that deserves no less than to be experienced start to finish.

Trained as a graphic designer, Haley designs the fitting, instantly recognisable artwork on all his records. Later records didn’t quite show the progression fans would have hoped; however, Galactic Melt proves to be a timeless, Tron-like piece of art that has to be considered as one of the most forward-thinking synth based releases since the turn of the century.

Favourite Tracks – VHS Sex, Ether Drift.

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three orange albums reviewed by pete mcardle

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THE ORANGE EDIT PLAYLIST a selection of songs to acompany the magazine, to give you that ‘orange’ feel

1.QUE FAZER LUXORY GROVES

2.FREELANCE TORO Y MOI

3.EVERYBODY LOVES THE SUNSHINE ROY AYERS UBIQUITY

4.WHERE I’M FROM DIGABLE PLANETS

5.MY QUEEN IS ADA EASTMAN SONS OF KEMET

6.TAKE CARE LOOP EXPOSURE

7.RISE

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8. PASSIONFRUIT BENNY SINGS

9.DOWN THE LINE BEACH FOSSILS

10.SUPERMARKET WOMAN ROY AYERS UBIQUITY

11.TRY IT OUT GINO SOCCIO

12.SOMEWHERE ELSE MESITA

13.DIAMONDS SPY EDITS

14.SKETCH FOR A SUMMER THE DURUTTI COLUMN

15. NEVER AS GOOD AS THE FIRST TIME SADE

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Editors Note Hue Magazine has been created with aim to exhibit a collection, and wide range of artistic work. Hue, as a name, was selected with the idea in mind that each issue of the magazine will follow a different colour theme, displaying either work of that the colour, or that represents things associated with the colour – the first issue, is orange, depicting creativity, fascination, happiness, determination, individuality and stimulation.

Hues purpose is to provide a space in which unrecognised and under the radar creatives can present their work in an aesthetically pleasing format ranging from; photographers, musicians, writers, and other different types of visual artists. Open to all forms of creatives, we want to display an array of work, constructed and put together in a way that will take the reader on a visual journey – a little magazine that would sit pleasantly on your coffee table. It is of significance how it can be a space where people display their work in a real physical printed format, as opposed to the common digitalised method via online and social media that is so common in today’s creative society.

We would like to thank all of the artists involved for the contribution of their sublime work…

ISSUE02 – green (in progress)… ☺ Thanks, Meg & Tav x

Submissions:contact.hue.magazine@gmail.com Instagram:@huemagazine____ Facebook:Hue Magazine

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