Orisue Arrives in the UK

Above Sean Kingston rocking Orisue

A piece of paper is plain and dimensionless. By carefully following a series of precise folds, that piece of paper transforms into a three-dimensional work of art and craftsmanship. The finished product reveals itself as more than just art, but as a physical manifestation of the creator’s self-expression and individuality. Once known as Orisue, this craft is now commonly known as origami.

Orisue applies this methodology into a similar, yet unique medium of expression—clothing. Similar to paper, fabric is plain until it is birthed with design, color, and stitching. Once these features are meticulously applied to the fabric, the fabric takes life becoming its own—revealing the creator’s lifestyle and individualism.

Check out the new Orisue range at The Urban Shop, just arrive for it's first season in any UK shops.

Cause of East Midland Earthquake Revealed

As many of you will have heard a 5.3 earthquake rocked the East Midlands on Wednesday morning approx 12:53 GMT but you may not know the cause, so we have tracked it down.

Early on Wednesday afternoon The Urban Shop were preparing their email newsletter to be sent out that day and with lots of there customers having experienced the credit card crunch, they wanted it to be extra special, so they unsuspectingly went about writing it not knowing what they were about to unleash. Zoom forward to 12.52 GMT somewhere in Market Rasen, an unsuspecting customer of The Urban Shop with a T1 connection was about to unleash the full power of a superbly written newsletter. The email client was opened and the "receive mail" was pressed “Want some Feb Madness?” greeted the unwitting customer. "Looks interesting", thought Mr X who opened the mail and bang the beast was unleashed, the connection was fast and the prices so low that they caused a shift in the tectonic plates and shook the very core of the earth. A commenter from The Urban Shop says “we’re really sorry, we didn’t realise that these low prices combined with T1 connection could have such power, it even woke me but I just thought the big bird next door had fell outta bed.”

As the events unfolded it came to our attention that there is, in fact, footage of the event that shows the very moment of earth tremoring shock and the earth cracking;-)

Tags: East Midland Earthquake, The Urban Shop

Zimtstern Streetwear Collection

Zimtstern are a massive well know snow and mountain company that supplies serious mountain wear for serious people, but like many clothing companies have realised that they are dealing with cool people that would also like to wear their clothing brand off the mountain hence Zimtstern streetwear collection.

the range we have taken is a real mix of stuff from classic cut with extra detail rain jackets and crews to mad all over gold foil full zip hoodies that would look right in place at a CSS gig and one of the nice things about the European clothing companies is they produce some really nice different colours and you can bet we picked them.

Weapon of Choice - Mr Jago vs Inkie

As you may or may not know we are sponsoring the whole series of Weapon of Choice live painting sessions in Bristol, check out these images from the Feb installment Mr Jago and Inkie. In march it will be Cheo and Lokey at Mr Wolfs, Bristol first Tuesday of the month

Joe Gibbs RIP

The legendary reggae producer Joe Gibbs passed away last Thursday 21 Feb.

"Reggae music lost another champion of the island sound this week. Joe Gibbs, legendary producer, recording engineer and Gibbs record label founder, died of a heart attack at the age of 65. Gibbs created one of my favorite reggae tunes of all time - "Two Sevens Clash" - recorded and performed by Culture from 1977-present. Gibbs also created many of the big roots and rock-steady riddims of the late 60's and early 70's and continued to produce hit after hit into the 80's dancehall era." - VP Records President Chris Chin

Dephect Grows up

You know some clothing brands just stroll a long and keep doing same same year in year out and some grow. Dephect is a brand we have dealt with for years it fitted what we do they and a graffiti design background and produced some funky t-shirts but for us it didn't develop but this season that's all changed and if there's is aclothing brand that I had to tip to blow in the next few seasons I'd put some money on Dephect.



This season sees the introduction of jackets into the Dephect range, every kind of jacket from track to rain or showerproof jackets. each one is unique and they have not over done the design aspect and what you get is nicely designed jackets that don't have logos splatted all over them. you should check the out on The Urban Shop, you know it makes sense.

Mada sponsored surfer Bede Durbidge

When you think Mada what comes to mind? I know for me it’s music Lostprophets are wearing it over here in the UK but they are also a skate company and many of the riders are also sponsored by Ice Cream Shoes (come on you’ve heard of Ice Cream, Billionaire Boys Club and connections with Bape) well here the big new Mada sponsored surfboard Bede Durbidge is killing it (see his 07 figures below) from almost nowhere to this in one amazing year.

· Finished No. 5 on the WCT rankings
· Won the Pipeline Masters
· Became the first Aussie in over a decade to take out the Hawaiian Triple Crown
· With that latter double, collected the biggest single pay day in pro surfing history – a cool US $75,000

Is the Nu Rave look set to continue?

Is it New Rave Nu Rave, Neu- Rave or Nu-Rave? Anyway it’s a style of music fusing elements of electronic dance music and rock, which sorta got labelled by NME in 2006 and includes bands like The Klaxons, CSS (both of which Fly53 had in the live shows during 07) and NY Pony Club. The style is a pretty eclectic mix; hoodies with crazy all over prints, fluorescent inks on t-shirts and hoodies, tight jeans and Nike high-tops, cant go wrong.

TheUrbanShop Podcast

Funny really the things you say at times but in the event of me doing a Ratner here goes. I was chatting with Tricksta the other day about some of the old radio shows and he asked if like the current show (Jan 08)

Me “ nah a bit banging for me and as you know I’m not a big hip hop fan”
Tricksta “ you wouldn’t think that with the people you sponsor”

At this point we both burst out laughing

Me “maybe I should re-phrase that, I like what I like in music and hip hop is not really my background”
Tricksta “I know what your saying”
Me “ I know we sponsor loads of hip hop artists but that’s generally because they are putting the hours in and doing stuff that’s original, and to me that’s more important than the music” ......”take (nameless) I personally don’t like his sound but he’s been at it years, works hard and I listen to his words and feel for the guy. So I like the person and respect what he does and feel that sponsoring him helps him I don’t need to like the sound I can just feel the energy”

With that conversation in mind I have put together my first podcast, I’m not a DJ or music producer I’m just a normal Joe and this is my first attempt. I had a real hard job deciding what to put on here and had to remove some tracks as they did not fit, but it’s varied, maybe I’ll do another which will be more genre orientated or maybe you want to do one and we can host it maybe start a little podcasting group.

Tracklisting
John Lee Hooker & Miles Davis - Murder
Throbbing Gristle - Zyclon B Zombie
CSS – Art Bitch
Joy Division – She’s Lost Control
Benga – Night
LKJ – Five Nights of Bleeding
Prince Far I – Dub to Africa
Shitdisco – I know Kung Fu
The Raincoats – You’re A Million
Maceo – Soul Power ‘74
The Meters – People Say
Etta James & BB King – There is Something on my Mind
Kraftwerk – Radioactive(remix)

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Zoo York Ghostface Collab

Zoo York are to start a number of colabs with various people and here's the first with and GhostFace Killah. Limited to less than 500 promo-only pieces to release in early February 2008 if are wanting one I'd try the US because as far as we understand it they aint gonna be for sale except via Zoo York themselves but most will be given away.

Ian Watkins of Lostprophets Repping Mada

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins co-presenting Music:Response on XFM with Colin Francies - lead singer of The New 1920. Not content with spinning a few tunes Ian Watkins steps up for some pain with live, on air tattooing and they are all repping Mada.