The latest issue of Wax Poetics [my favourite music magazine] is out now – with features on Curtis Mayfield and Spike Lee.
The issue includes:
- Re:Discovery – Melvin Van Peebles, Manfred Krug, Marvin Gaye, Judgment Night OST, John Carpenter
- Roc Raida – The Grand Master
- Shadows And Phonographs – This sinister role of the turntable in Hollywood classics
- Brotherman – Blaxploitation soundtrack for a film that wasn’t meant to be
- Adrian Younge – Black Dynamite composer refuses to cut corners with his authentic old soul
- Gangs On Film – The South Bronx of 1979 documented in 80 Blocks from Tiffany’s
- Night Life – Photographer Michael Abramson captured the magic of 1970s South Side Chicago
- The Rhythm of Film – DJ/producer David Holmes approaches soundtrack composition with a less-is-more philosophy
- Mood Music – European libraries created soulful instrumentals for ’70s film and television
- The Next Hustle – Ex-pimp Robert Beck transformed into writer Iceberg Slim, introducing a new genre for literature, film and music
- Comic Truth – Animation and indie film pioneer Ralph Bakshi drew attention to race and culture
- Gangster Boogie – Curtis Mayfield injected his own cultural commentary into the Super Fly legacy
- The Provocateur – Director Spike Lee continues to tell personal stories by any means necessary
- Playing It Straight – Black Dynamite director Scott Sanders crafts high-caliber blaxploitation homage
- Analog Out – Cybernetics, Louis and Bebe Barron, and the sonic life-forms of Forbidden Planet
