A few pics from the launch of our TMA-1 headphone at Firmament in Berlin. We did it together with local friends from Keinemusik and made this studio-like installation where people could try out the TMA-1 on a live DJ performance by Adam Port, &me or some of the others from the Keinemusik crew.

Once again Blu as made an incredible combination of cinematography, painting and installation work – truly amazing!

Spleen United just released their new single "Sunset to Sunset". To celebrate this they have launched a cool mini-site with a number of puzzles to solve and prizes to win.

Here's a nice feature from Turkish Stuff Magazine ...

One of our TMA-1 testers Steven Ellison aka Flying Lotus just released his brilliant new album "Cosmogramma". Cosmogramma Fieldlines is an augmented reality application that celebrates this release.

TMA-1 Test Tour Vol. I 

As part of developing the TMA-1, we‘re cooperating with a wide range of talented DJ’s so that we can test our product. We’re doing this to gain the best possible insight into how we can improve functionalities and sound. Last week we received the first little test batch and they were immediately sent out to our testers. Over the next month, they’ll be playing with them and providing us feedback along the way.

This weekend we hooked up with some of them in Bucharest (Sunwaves Festival at Mamaia) and London (On & On at Fabric) to talk over the project with them, and follow their first little test session.

Below are some pics and explanation. More pics are uploaded to our facebook page.

Legendary hip-hop imprint Stones Throw Records has sent Mayer Hawthorne out on a journey through the US, and to mark the final dates of the tour, they have teamed up with Huf and Freegums to create a little special something.

The Teens from Stockholm just released a few demo videos of their up coming OP-1. For those of you who don't know much about the project, pls go to their website and explore - enjoy! For those of you who know a bit more, pls just enjoy.

Once again we're waving the flag for HuskMitNavn. This time he's done the cover for French Clark Magazine, which will hit stores this week. I guess it's somewhat related to his upcoming exhibition in French speaking Bruxelles at the Alice Gallery. If you're not able to atend the exhibition starting late March you should at least consider picking up this magazine instead. Apart from his new blog that I mentioned recently, he's just done a make-over of his official site. Loads of new drawings and features. Great stuff!

We were just featured in Esquire Magazine along side some other cool headphone brands ...

We still don't know what to think of the story regarding Sarah Palin and her entourage generously helping themselves to a load of our headsets at the Silver Spoon Gift Suite in Hollywood during the recent Oscar Week. Palin and her crew apparently liked what they saw: Overheard by someone there we trust: "These would be great for working out." They must be doing quite a bit of working out. Apparently, they the Palin crew made off with 40 pairs of our headsets! Good Grief.

Speaking of the Oscars, congrats to Joachim back by the way, who won an Oscar for best short film - The New Tenants - thumbs up!!

Click on the picture below to view the article from E! Online...

I've always liked the idea music-discovery sites and I've found a lot of new favorites while browsing around. My major issue with those sites, however, has always been that they keep interrupting me with new distracting features rather than just letting the music speak for itself. Thesixtyone takes just the right approach to that problem. No unnecessary comments, tags, or album covers, just the music and a nice big backdrop. Enjoy the community of upcoming artists' finest work in the "Hot" playlist or choose one of the mood-specific ones (like mellow, smooth, or trippy) to find just the right track. I wish all music services could pull of a design this clean.

Our Tracks were just reviewed in one of our favorite magazines Rolling Stone.

Friend of the house and partner on several little projects HuskMitNavn will exhibit with American artist Lydia Fong (a.k.a. Barry McGee) later this month. It will be interesting to see their setup, how they choose to integrate their art. From talking to HuskMitNavn it sounds like a pretty fun setup - looking forward to seing it...HuskMitNavn also launche a new blog a few months back, good stuff!

The Last Night

Exhibition: 25.03.2010 > 28.04.2010

Opening: Thursday the 25th of March 2010 > 18.00

A few months back Christian and I visited Jesper and his crew from Teenage Engineering to talk about different projects. In their Soedermalm garage studio we found everything from mint condition Ferrari's and Lamborghini's to a complete workshop, stocked with a laser cutter, CNC router, tools and even a music studio full of vintage synthesizers for sound experiments. Quite an inspiring work setting where pretty much everything can be done/made ...

...and here's our 7th Mixtape by the way. This time it's from Tomas Barfod, one of the Tartelets. The titel is Desert Mix. You can click on the tape below or on the Mixtape Equalizer on the left side bar. If you prefer one of our earlier version Mixtapes, they are still available in the Pop-up Faritilizer player. Hope you'll enjoy it.

We like our own mixes, but from time to time we like to promote others as well. "Ostinato" is a music blog started by Philippe - a graphic designer, art director and co-founder of the swiss fashion brand called +41. On Ostinato he posts weird mixes in any kind of styles, fields, genres made from his friends. Each mix is available at Colette, they all come in the same package (ziplock black opac, black CD, gold sticker), no branding, no track listing only some info about the style of music, who mixed it and the duration, that’s it. Each one have its own symbol on a sticker to make them recognisable, the music is burned on black CDs and the title of the CD is engraved on it and all the CDs are numerised as limited to 41 pieces. Every mix is available one month after its released as a free download on the blog.

Our first colab got mentioned in the highly anticipated All Gone. More colabs to come ...

Here's a few new colourways of our beloved Pipes. This time we've initiated a project where we - from time to time - will launch new colours inspired by things that have somehow had an inpact on us through out the years.

We just stumbled upon these great photos of the incredible concept of Dazzle Camouflage, which was actually the inspiration for our graphic nerd Mix, when he designed the cover for our Pipe lookbook ...

Our good friends at I'm a kombo have just announced their next pop-up restaurant. This time at one our favourite afterhour bars, the legendary Andy's Bar. It's a 5 day event (23-27 February) with room for around 40 guests per night. Bobby, one of the chefs, gave me the following keywords: Frozen Champagne & ditto fish, candy breadloaf, sing-a-long. Not sure how that really fits together, but they'll surely pull it off. Make sure you book real soon if your in Copenhagen one of these days. Book at popup@imakombo.dk.

To see a few pics from the first popup at the old A-house click here.

In Danish we call this "mesterligt!!" And Terry, we hope you'll consider shooting our next campaign. We have super budget (at least 500 US), so pls send me an email at fj@aiaiai.dk to discuss further....Thx!

And for those of you who want this delightful calender click here!

Our friends from Libertine-Libertine has just finished their campaign for A/W 2010. The campaign features a bunch of weird inventions by British artist Tom Gottelier. With all the wood, fire and gunpowder we imagine it must have been a pretty dangerous photoshoot - luckily no one got injured. Have a look at Sacha Maric's nice photos below.

We are very happy that we have been able to convince the cool girls from LA Graphic Design to share some of their design/fashion finds on our blog - see below and understand why....

"Each to his own" they say, and LOVE magazine has definitely complied with this fact for their Spring Summer 2010 publication. Lovely ladies Lara Stone, Daria Werbowy, Kristen McMenamy and Jeneil Williams are posing with stretched rubberbands for the 4 different covers shot by super team Mert & Marcus. Nice!

We just came back from the ”Bread & Butter” exhibition in Berlin, which took place in quite an interesting historical building: The Tempelhof Airport. Tempelhof has been designated as an airport since 1923 and in 1941 the current terminal building was taken into use. At one point it was among the largest buildings in the world and Norman Foster described it as ”the mother of all airports”. An impressive sight! Anyway, we were on the “1st floor” – a section for young and upcoming brands (read companies with limited funds!) situated rather remotely in the very corner of the old airport. On the lower left corner of the collage you can actually see the view from the "1st floor" and surely we where quite delighted not to be part of that borring, traditional-tradeshow-atmosphere down there. Instead the "1st floor" kind of reminded us of the old A-house days, with the small almost ramshackle rooms, where we could do whatever we wanted. Some local artists had installed the walls with some simple art, super well suited for our little setup. Our friend Rolf from HAY had helped us with some cool and simple furniture and Bo from I'm a kombo helped us with little fun play-stop-pause-rewind cookies that people could enjoy with their coffey from the next door café. Thanks to Rolf and Bo. Altogether it was three well-visited days in company with our friends from WoodWood, Happy Socks and Libertine-Libertine. And hey, we even got to try out the legendary Berghein Panorama Bar – quite an experience!