Drop Some Know1edge

A new delivery of Know1edge has just landed on our fine shores and we check out the man behind Know1edge to find out how it all started.

Brian Siswojo is the undisputed king of the Hong Kong street scene. With his shop 8FIVE2, 8FIVE2 Distribution, Know1edge brand and running numerous events, he has a hold on Hong Kong and takes his influence to the world.

Brian Siswojo started skateboarding when he was 14, it has become his life. Brian takes up the story “I skate pretty much on a daily basis. I was sponsored by a local skateboard shop called Now N Later in 1991 and later on with Airwalk in 1994, I remember it was NTS, the hardest skateboard shoes to skate on, there’s always a reason why a company closes down. As so many aspire to do, I started working many jobs in the hopes of saving enough to open my own business. In 1998, I filmed and edited Hong Kong’s very first skateboarding/urban culture video called Hollieday with not only Hong Kong’s finest skateboarders but also, LMF (Hong Kong’s first and most original Hip Hop group), Michael Lau, DJ Tommy, etc. The video premiered along with an LMF performance and a good 1,000 people showed up to support the event.

I met Alyasha Owerka Moore in 1999 at a skateboard spot, this is when skateboarding gave back to me. Aly handed me his business card and the moment I saw the logo, I decided to put in all of my savings to invest in my very own company, 8FIVE2 Distribution. I started out of the living room of my apartment out of boxes for those of you who still remember. I remember asking Aly if he would support me 110% if I started my own company and distribute Alphanumeric. He said YES and since then he has, THANK YOU Aly!!

We started selling Alphanumeric from just 2 stores to 12 stores within a ten month span in Hong Kong. It became the best selling brand of that time, no other brand even come close. It was then that the owners created a position for me as Sales & Marketing Director for the Asia region where I opened the doors of South East Asian.

I’ve always felt that Asia in general lacked some kind of authenticity in the origins of street art, skateboarding, and music. Although a niche market that has not been widely accepted by the mass, I opened a skate/street fashion shop that could properly merchandise a full collection while being informative on the brand history to the customers. 8FIVE2SHOP opened its doors in 2001 and has been apart of the transformation in Hong Kong’s street fashion/skate scene.

I started Know1edge, in 2004 from wanting to do special collaborations with friends. What started off as a small line of t-shirt collaborations quickly grew to a full line of menswear, accessories; premium denim, leather garments, knitted apparel, Swiss movement watches, etc." the rest is history or will be tomorrow.

Dubstep vr Reggae podcast

A bit early this week as we have a few things happening that mean we cant do it over the weekend, this weeks podcast is by yours truly and is another laid back mix of dubstep vr reggae/dub you can go to the subscription page and check ever podcast we have done SturbanClothing Podcasts

Tracklisting
Tosca - Honey
Sly & Robbie - Dub Glory
Kromestar - Old Step
Yabby U - Rally Dub (Apllo 440 remix)
Disrupt - THC
Soul Syndicate - Fittest of the Dub Fittest
Disrupt - Selassi I Cintinually
Big Joe - In The Ghetto
Kromestar - Here We Come
Tappa Zukie - Dub MPLA (Subsonic Legacy & MPLA remix)
Coki - Mood Dub
Scientist - Dance of the Vampires
Digital Mystikz - Ancient Memories

Justin Timberlake rockin RVCA

Check the above image of Justin Timberlake rocking RVCA suppose we should keep our customers identity secret but when they start rocking our wears for the world to see we have to give them a shout out, nice t-shirt by the way Justin I did like that design it was a big seller for us;-)

26 July SturbanClothing Forum Ping Pong Podcast

1 Bjork - Army of Me
2 Radiohead - Unravel
3 My Brightest Diamond - Lucky
4 The Mighty Diamonds - Right Time
5 The Revolutionaries - Total Dub
6 LKJ - Five Nights of Bleeding (sturban clothing mash up mix)
7 Ivor Cutler - Life in a Scotch Sitting Room
8 Ian Dury - Sweet Gene Vincent
9 The Birthday Party - Catman
10 Fred Wesley - House Party
11 Bob Marley and the Wailers - Punky Reggae Party
12 Sublime - Garden Grove
13 Symarip - Skinhead Moonstomp
14 Tommy McCook and the Supersonics - Reggae Merengue
15 Million Dan - Hip Hop U Dont Stop Reggae Music U Don't Quit
16 Soul Sonic Force - ????


So this month we have the forum ping pong podcast from the other week.

We are Always looking for 2 things

Drops: we need something along the lines "hi this is me from here and I shop at sturban clothing" but you can freestyle it

podcasts: if you wanna do one why not promote what you listen to your band and their influences, your night and the music it plays anything. So far we've had us, Tricksta from UkRunnings, Miss represent doing a d&b mix and currently there's a podcast themed around war. we do have a dubstep night and a d&b recording label both doing casts as we speak

check it

Juttla

We sponsor loads of people that you probably never hear about but Juttla is making big moves recently Mary Ann Hobbs has been plying his latest offering Sub Zero, here’s a little bit about him and some image of Juttla rocking Arcus he’s a name worth keeping an eye on always doing something different and original.


Producer Juttla first started out making music in the early nineties having a string of releases on various independent record labels. With a history of successful tracks under his belt, he began to fuse all the elements of his influences to create a unique hybrid of Eastern and Western sounds. With the release of his debut album Angels, Aliens & Assassins in 1998, Juttla soon began to get the respect he rightfully deserved blessing the covers of magazines, DJing all over Europe and South Africa, holding residencies at various club nights, receiving radio play in the UK and the US, as well as being commissioned to do a string of remixes for various labels. From breakbeat and chilled down tempo groovers, to leftfield hip-hop, cutting edge drum n bass and dubstep, Juttla has all angles covered.

Win tickets to Bloom Festival

Win a pair of tickets to the Bloom Festival, Friday 8th to Sunday 10th August, at Seven Springs, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.


Bloom describes itself as “a boutique festival of cultured electronic beats and bass”. Expect around four arenas with a blend of up-and-coming and established groups, artists, DJs and labels. Sounds will include music from a plethora of genres including electro, house, hip hop, jazz, funk and drum’n'bass. There’s also comedy and cabaret.

BIG friends of sturban clothing, Fly53 are delighted to be a host of this years Bloom Festival 8-10 August, one of the best boutique festivals around. Roisin Murphy, Roni Size 'Reprazent',Akil MC (Jurassic 5) are just a few acts scheduled to appear at this years event.

Fly53 will be taking control of the Beats Bubble Arena and to celebrate we are giving sturban clothing a pair of tickets to giveaway.

As part of the prize there's also the option to give us your phone number which we will pass on to Fly53 who will call you during the event to meet up for a few ciders and to give you some goodies, aren't they sweet. Just dont get drinking with Will R coz you may miss a few hours if not days.

WIN Bloom Festival Tickets

sturban clothing sponsors Drifter Jon

We like to try and support interesting people who are doing what they do for the love of it and are basically into sturban clothing and that's how we came across Jon Beezy, here's his bio in his words, we like him but before we go into it we found out 2 interesting facts. His track car does 5 MPG, and for every event he spends £400 on tyres, and that's why this guy needs free clothes from us;-)

Name - Jon Beezy.
Age - 23.
Special Skills - Drifting, Fitting into kids t-shirts, BMX and MX.
Vehicle - Mazda RX7 FC3S, Viper 140 pit bike, Federal division BMX, Full race 1380 mini or whatever's at hand.
Hometown – Ashford, Kent


From the age of 5 I started getting into the motorsport scene in MX and Trials. Done this till the age of 15 where I stopped and was getting big into riding the BMX all over the UK. By this time I was looking into cars and growing a big interest into the Retro car scene. So I started a full race spec Mini which taught me a lot about building a good track car. Back in June 05 I went up to Silverstone to see a drift demo with top drivers from Japan, that was that, I was now hooked so looked about and saved up and got a 200sx s13. Then I booked my first track day in November 06 and continued this throughout 07.

November 07 I decided to enter the Drift-racing competition. I managed this by getting given a wild card entry by the organisers as it was my first competition. Went into qualifying and ended up qualifying joint first place with my team mate. Then into the battles pulled through and made the finals where I ended up finishing second.

A good finish for my first competition, got approached by the organiser for JDM Allstars and asked if I wanted a wild card entry for one of the top championships in Europe. By taking this it put me in a class with the top European drivers.
Knowing this I knew I had to up my game so went out and got a pro spec RX7 it was the only one about as they are a rare car. At the monument I’m the only driver running one of these retro drift cars in Europe.

March 15th 08 Competed in round 1 and ended up qualifying 8th and top 16 finish due to break failure.

April 19th/20th 08 Then drove over to Ireland and done the first round in the Prodrift European series, and it was there that the car went bang.

Lucky Hayward Rotary’s pulled a sponsorship deal.

The cars is having a full rebuild and Porting, also will be running a GT35r turbo, 1860cc injectors and a new map, power fingers will be about 450hp @1bar of boost.
The car will be done in time for the next JDM Allstars round 2 Wembley London on August 9th '08.

Knowledge vrs HAZE

Our next delivery of Knowledge is on it's way from Hong Kong. Knowledge is well known for it's collaborations, Diamond Jeans, MHI and Crooks and Castle watches to name a few the few that jump to mind but they have a new one in the pipeline with Eric Haze. Eric Haze is a legend in the graffiti world he start writing in 72 using the name SE3 and in 73 changed to the name HAZE, he was part of the original graffiti cru's The Soul Artists and The Rebels. In collaboration with Knowledge they are doing a art exhibition in Hong Kong and bring out a watch which they are calling Time Peace and below is a sneak preview of the Knowledge Haze jeans.

Downbeat Podcast

Here's what I'm calling a downbeat mix it's a mellow bassy mix, I like it see what you think and if you think you can do any better do it we'll play it and it will get aired on HHBRadio.

Tracklisting
Coil - Broccoli
Burial - Ghost Hardwear
Life - Bomb Propoganda
The Mescaleros - Midnight Jam
DJ Krush ft Shuuzan Morita - Still Island
Quite Boys - Astral Space
Gravenhurst - Nicole
klashnekoff - Trace's
Benga - Skunk Tip
Jens Buchert - Gaia System
Deco - Slowmotion
Dubmatix ft Raffa, Rasta Reuben Kwabena - Dub In Me Hand
Kode9 & Spaceape - Quantum


Downbeat Podcast

Carrot t-shirts

Strange name for a clothing company I know but Carrot is such a cool company, pity our t-shirts got stuck in Serbian customs for a couple of months but they are here now. Designs by 123Klan, Flying Fortress and Dalek 3 of the leading graffiti street artists out there, keep an eye on Carrot even if you are not felling these designs as next season they are producing a major cut and sew line thats looking good

Zoo York Rain Jackets

British summer dont you love it? No. Why we ask, it may be pouring down outside but at least you can rock you Zoo York Rain Jacket;-) We have just had a restock of the 3 best selling jackets this spring/summer Coney Island, ZY City Ariel and Make Your Mark are all back in stock and if they sell as fast as the first lots they wont be hanging around so grab one quick

Best Of Synplife Part 3 - The Last Flip - Free download

If you haven’t heard the name SYNPLIFE yet then I think now is a good time to get up on of New York’s finest underground talents. Synplife has been rolling tight with D-BLOCK for a few years now and just has been signed to STYLES P’s new label ‘Phantom Entertainment’. This mixtape is mixed by TRICKSTA from Wolftown Recordings who is now officially SYNPLIFE’s deejay. For those of you living in America don’t forget to catch SYNPLIFE supporting SHEEK LOUCH on his new album tour. Watchout for some killer TRICKSTA production on this mixtape as well as seeing SIZE8 from VICIOUS CIRCLE making an appearance too. This mixtape is something NYC Hip-Hop fans will love, cherish and adore!!!

01 - SYNPLIFE 354 - SNYPLIFE SPEAKS
02 - SYNPLIFE 354 - STEADY DREAMIN (PROD BY RELL - 354 ENTERTAINMENT)
03 - SYNPLIFE 354 - BEST OF THE BEST FREESTYLE
04 - SYNPLIFE 354 - MURDA MUSIC (PROD. BY RELL - 354 ENTERTAINMENT)
05 - SYNPLIFE 354 - NO REPLACIN (PROD. BY DJ SHOK - RUFF RYDERS)
06 - SYNPLIFE 354 - G'D UP FREESTYLE
07 - SYNPLIFE 354 - THE FANS SPEAK
08 - SYNPLIFE 354 - BANG OUT
09 - SYNPLIFE 354 - SAY GOODBYE
10 - SYNPLIFE 354 - REAL NIGGAZ (PROD BY EMPIRE STATE)
11 - SYNPLIFE 354 - BLACK MARKET FEAT ST. LAZ (PROD. BY DJ DIGGZ)
12 - SYNPLIFE 354 - DEATH AROUND THE CORNER FREESTYLE
13 - SYNPLIFE 354 - GREW UP A SCREW UP
14 - SYNPLIFE 354 - TIMELESS FEAT HEMIE & M.E (PROD. BY MAKIN MOVES PRODUCTIONS)
15 - SYNPLIFE 354 - BRIGHTLIGHTS FREESTYLE
16 - SYNPLIFE 354 - DUMP ON EM (PROD. BY TEAM AFFICIAL)
17 - SYNPLIFE 354 - GAME WE PLAY FEAT. C-MINOR
18 - SYNPLIFE 354 - MAKE IT HAPPEN FREESTYLE
19 - SYNPLIFE 354 - HUSTLA'S MUSIC FREESTYLE
20 - SYNPLIFE 354 - THE FANS SPEAK
21 - SYNPLIFE 354 - SNYPLIFE THROWBACK FEAT DJ RADIO
22 - SYNPLIFE 354 - SNYPLIFE THROWBACK FEAT ST.LAZ
23 - SYNPLIFE 354 - N.Y GIANTS FEAT BRIX & DUTCH
24 - SYNPLIFE 354 - SYNPLIFE SPEAKS
25 - SYNPLIFE 354 - POP (PROD. BY JAYWAN)
26 - SYNPLIFE 354 - COCAINE CITY BOYS FEAT FRENCH MONTANA
27 - SYNPLIFE 354 - SNYP THROWBACK FEAT DJ RADIO
28 - SYNPLIFE 354 - ROLL WITH DA RUSH FEAT ST. LAZ
29 - SYNPLIFE 354 - THE FANS SPEAK
30 - SYNPLIFE 354 - RYDA MUSIC FREESTYLE
31 - SYNPLIFE 354 - SYNPLIFE OUTRO
32 - SYNPLIFE 354 - TALK TO ME FEAT SIZE8 (WOLFTOWN, U.K) & ST. LAZ (PROD. BY TRICKSTA)

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Join the SubSpecies

The story so far............

Breaking free from a maximum security zoo back in 2002, after ten years of torment & abuse Thade & Ceaser decided they were f#$@ed off being restricted from their true design talents. Being forced to work for big players in the clothing industry, picking up the odd banana award on the way. Their inner flair was being restricted by the evil empire of mass market clothing. Still wanted for crimes against the clothing fraternity, these monkeys disappeared into the jungle to lick their wounds & re-group. They began to create the evolution revolution, a new breed of subspecies which its members adopt new styles that are alien to the mainstream. A subspecies is a race within a species that shows identifiable characteristics different from other subspecies. On their journey they stumbled upon a strange monkey called Cornelius. He was a very talkative & friendly ape who had already envisaged a revolution in the cosmos. Between the three they concocted a plan for universal domination but still staying true to their beliefs. Then along came Nim. The youngster of the troop who was being imprisoned in a going nowhere but the grave job bottling natural spring water. Another greed filled industry that sell gods own creation for mass value profit. He escaped and after paying off some gorillas to find this new revolt. Joining the natural selection gave the troop knowledge into juvenility & what they perceive from this torrid existence..


Our time has come so join the evolution revolution and let us produce a new breed of subspecies .

Yes No Maybe 59Fifty Caps

the Yes No Maybe velcro 59Fifty new era caps have arrived, shear genius from buying one cap you can be wearing a different cap everyday and we have done a deal with our mate Ben at Yes No Maybe to provide an extra velcro patch free of charge so your getting your New Era 59Fifty fitted cap and two sets of patches and we were crafty and choose the best ones;-)

Check out these 2 Yes No Maybe animations which show just how versatile these caps are.

SturbanClothing July radio Show is live

It’s July and Tricky’s back! Its 20 tracks non-stop featuring some hot tracks from various genres including Dubstep, Grime, Drum'n'Bass, Hip-Hop, Reggae, UK Rap, Funk & Dub!


Find the link on site here's the tracklisting

01 - Benga - Middle Man
02 - Cotti - Port Maria
03 - Dizzee Rascal - U Can’t Tell Me Nuffin
04 - Lil Wayne - A Milli
05 - Tes La Rok - Kill Dem
06 - Calibre - Go Back To Go Forward
07 - The Roots Feat Malik B & Talib Kweli - Lost Desire
08 - Juju - Punks
09 - Dubbledge - 777
10 - Juttla - Ramp With Me
11 - High Contrast - Brief Encounter
12 - Size8 - Watchin Me
13 - N-Type - Street Justice
14 - Clint Eastwood & General Saint - Hey Mr. DJ
15 - Late Feat Ricky Lee & Jai Boo – Can’t Smile
16 - The Crusaders - Stomp & Buck Dance
17 - K-Rino - Amnesia
18 - L.D - Clock Watching
19 - Richie Spice - Getting Harder
20 - Lee ‘Scratch Perry’ - Upsetter In Dub