Tag: Collectors

Neighbourhood life

Royal Museum for Central Africa: Can curatorial re-alignment make good on decades of colonial propaganda?

Royal Museum for Central Africa: Can curatorial re-alignment make good on decades of colonial propaganda?

Tervuren’s famed Royal Museum for Central Africa has reopened its doors to an eager public, promising “a contemporary and ‘decolonised’ vision of Africa.” Is the museum indeed finally offering new perspectives on collections that for decades were violently reduced to a colonial identity?

Neighbourhood life

Meet AME, Funky Bompa and DJ SoFa: Belgium’s biggest crate diggers

Meet AME, Funky Bompa and DJ SoFa: Belgium’s biggest crate diggers

Bart Sibiel's shout-out to three dedicated Belgian record collectors.

Neighbourhood life

Snowballs

Snowballs

A 250-strong collection of snow globes that first came to our attention for our white album and, due to popular demand, even made it to our white album release party.

Art

The Word magazine

Rock steady and rising

For those of you who missed out on it, here’s a piece we ran in our Skin Issue about Trojan Records, one of the most eponymous record labels out there. Commanding incredible loyalty from its hords of dread-locked fans (you know, Trojan tatoos, Trojan-named kids, and even Trojan-branded black eyed peas), the label has somewhat […]