Love Jam City!!! To anybody that makes it to the comments i'd like to give a mention to a track called Magic Drops, a tune on one of Jams earliest releases on Night Slugs. It felt like an earthshattering moment in club music when it dropped at least to me and my crew. We still talk about much fun it was/is to drop into sets. Sounded like the floor had fallen from under your feet. So good.
Dec 11, 2023·edited Dec 11, 2023Liked by Sam Valenti IV
Forgive me if I misremember something here, but I asked Bok Bok about the Classical Curves album cover - specifically, what was the story behind it. I asked because it was my favorite album cover. He lit up because it was his favorite too, and because he art directed it and was proud of it.
As I remember him explaining, there was in fact a backstory to the mise en scene, something I think he implied was personal to either himself or Latham and that he didn't want to divulge at the time.
But he did tell me that the original intent was to shoot it on location. Perhaps fortunately, the location they had in mind was closed permanently shortly before they were scheduled to shoot there, forcing them to re-create the scene digitally, a process that resulted in the uncanny look of the image (key to its success, IMO), and one they then used for later Night Slugs jackets like Bok Bok's own Your Charizmatic Self.
Love Jam City!!! To anybody that makes it to the comments i'd like to give a mention to a track called Magic Drops, a tune on one of Jams earliest releases on Night Slugs. It felt like an earthshattering moment in club music when it dropped at least to me and my crew. We still talk about much fun it was/is to drop into sets. Sounded like the floor had fallen from under your feet. So good.
Forgive me if I misremember something here, but I asked Bok Bok about the Classical Curves album cover - specifically, what was the story behind it. I asked because it was my favorite album cover. He lit up because it was his favorite too, and because he art directed it and was proud of it.
As I remember him explaining, there was in fact a backstory to the mise en scene, something I think he implied was personal to either himself or Latham and that he didn't want to divulge at the time.
But he did tell me that the original intent was to shoot it on location. Perhaps fortunately, the location they had in mind was closed permanently shortly before they were scheduled to shoot there, forcing them to re-create the scene digitally, a process that resulted in the uncanny look of the image (key to its success, IMO), and one they then used for later Night Slugs jackets like Bok Bok's own Your Charizmatic Self.