Our friends from ill-Studio have a nice feature on the blog Coûte que Coûte.

Big up!.

Check it out here:

We are going totally crazy at the office right now…listen to Black Sabbath and Bobby Beausoleil records and working like slaves on our new website launch , downloading the part 1 of our new line etc…Crazy work!!!. the site should be online quite soon.

The first Flaming Lips record i bought was  ” Transmissions from the Satellite heart “, since then i never stopped buying their music…

I was happy to hear they are back with a new album named ” Embryonic” in September…One track ” Silver trembling Hands” is already available online and sound amazing! I love how the cover artwork look like.

I always been impressed by the Kenneth Anger experimental movie aesthetic, with Werner Herzog is one of my favorite movie maker of all the time…i felt obligated to pay him some pretty cool graphics tribute in our next collection…We will show you very soon some graphics inspired by his gay satanist mythology. In the meantime enjoy the trailer below.

Kokoro et Moi « Renaissance Man » Tee-Shirt for Sixpack France

Early this week, we announced you the launch of Sixpack’s new musical series with the massive mix Renaissance Man and Sound Pellegrino did for us.

To celebrate this first release, we have paired the soundtrack with a very limited edition tee shirt designed by Finnish studio Kokoro et moi. (also responsible for Renaissance Man’s logo and identity),

Kokoro & Moi is an Helsinki-based multidisciplinary design studio oldely named Syrup Helsinki. They produced some very good abstract-always-surprising-various-media-based works for clients such as New York Magazine or Converse.

The tee shirt we have designed together uses the digital art mix cover.

Now available on our website: www.sixpack.fr

We wrote the text below  in 2008 to celebrate our 10 years, i thought it could be cool to post it here for the people who don’t know the brand  yet, and to be sure to give them the right vision of who we are.

“When some people watch the sand run through the hourglass of their life, this is the start of past memories’ sandy inundation. It was better before. Nostalgia, melancholy, mummies taking an eternal rest.

Sixpack, faithful to its epigraph – we’ll sleep when we’re dead – simply turns this hourglass around eager to see the next episodes.
But while they do that, let’s stop.
Pause.

Remembering the madness of the early days, the first raves and the silliness of old.
It was a time without high speed internet, with only one international news dealer where you had to rummage through the magazines to find The Face and especially NME or Melody Maker.
It was a time of treasure hunts in the small town of Avignon in search of the latest albums, unknown by the average Parisian : indie rock, weird pop, rap (obviously) and electronic (inevitably).
From Aphex Twin to Mo’Wax to Grand Royal to the Wu Tang Clan to Tortoise and Sonic-Youth.

Tons of graffiti, indelible brothers, fun and adrenaline, this obsession for graffiti is going to leave a deep impression on the yet to be formed Sixpack.
In 1998, they know they’re avant-garde, that one day everyone will understand ; and in 2008, everyone does.

In 1998, no more fooling around, enough with the games and messing around, the first Sixpack store opens.

First hourglass flipped, welcome to adulthood.
No business strategy, no daddy’s boys socializing.
They grow seeds by plowing hard on a not so fertile field.

This first store, next to old time whores, quickly becomes a well known crossroads to writers and dj’s. From Avignon or Paris, everyone comes by.
Friendships emerge, soon to be famous people join the family.

The store moves, to a great location filled with pretty white stones and beams.
A concept store without a concept, to show all the aspects of the same ethics. A window for brands carrying the same aesthetics.
Recognition and disenchantments, development, twists and turns, the time for learning is over.

Combining business lucidity with personal pleasure, the first Sixpack tee-shirt is made. The Rollerball image printed on it appears as a referent and subliminal message : it’s going to fight, sweat, bleed, and cry.
Highs and lows, that’s how life is, but they will never give up. Stagnation Reversed.

Step by step, tee-shirts made among friends begin to look like real collections.
Co-branding with French, English, German or American artists ; they thought they were all alone in their hole, but actually, there exists a whole community with similar tastes.

With the creation of a logo, seamstress and tags, Sixpack France starts emerging as a brand, but a brand different from the rest. A brand with a new approach and new process for doing things. With mutual interests, everybody wins.

Launching of the shop online.
The Sixpack family opens up to new members such as the Institubes’ record label. They soon appear trendy, but it’s just a peeps’ thing.
Exhibitions and articles in magazines, art and business, success and misunderstandings.
Suckers and haters.

They don’t give a fuck, continue on their merry way, faithful to the cornerstones of the house.

And faithful to their past too : for its 10-year’s anniversary, Sixpack, with the help of Cody Hudson, returns to the black and yellow moods, when everything started to light up for a whole generation.
Acid, visions, revelations.
Everything is connected : Crumb’s comics, Can’s sleeve designs, Ferrara movies, the Twin Peaks series ; amphetamine jazz, psychedelic funk, junky punk, cocaine disco, they understood it all. Nineties ecstasy.

1998-2008 : this art of living awake spread, barriers exploded as well as distinctions, underground is overground, hip hop is hi pop.
The Sixpack decade is one of transition, Usenet became web 2.0.

The old world is dead, but it doesn’t know it yet.
Sub-cultures from the past govern the living world.

Sixpack isn’t tired yet.
Time to flip the hourglass again “.

First shot of our new musical project series, the Renaissance Man mix for Sixpack France is a 50’ min mix illustrating Sixpack’s relation with contemporary electronic music scene. Since day one, Sixpack France was involved into music and electronic scene. Launching a serie of mixes was just a natural progression for us. To begin with, we turned ourselves to our long time friends from Institubes / Sound Pellegrino and asked their new signature to work with us : the Finnish Duo Renaissance Man.

We decided to get together for a Renaissance Man x Sixpack France exclusive mix.

To celebrate this release, we edited a limited run of 100  tee shirts designed by the Finnish studio Kokoro et moi.

The mix is now freely downloadable on on our Fairtilizer page and on the homepage of our website.