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IT’S A LONDON TING // MARGINS MUSIC FILMS

Last week Dusk & Blackdown posted a number of videos used on their recent Margins Music tour. Directed by Jonathan Howells, they make for intense watching, flickering between blurred guest MCs, immediately recognisable London emblems – the video for unreleased funky cut ‘Dasaflex’ travels along the conduits of Harry Beck’s map – and anonymous street shots, thrown into shadow by harsh fluorescence.

Created to accompany live performances of the duo’s restless, edgy tracks, the films do an impressive job of distilling some of their music’s key traits into visual form – a sense of spatial awareness and unease, sudden bursts of energy and excitement, the purple haze of nighttime in the capital. Mixed in – most notably in the two videos embedded here, ‘The Bits’ and ‘Darker Than East’ - are photos from AE close friend Nico Hogg, whose lonely, dreamlike London landscapes capture tiny details most people tend not to notice while rushing through the city along their predetermined routes. It’s great to see his photography gain some wider exposure, as it’s something we’ve been down with for a long time, and Martin Clark’s championing of his work has drawn some striking parallels between the worlds both are exploring, whether musically or visually.




The rest of the videos are up on Keysound’s >YouTube<, and this >short piece on FACT<, where Jonathan Howells tells a little about his role on the Margins Music tour. The final date on their extended tour is here in Bristol on the 10th November, and is the kind of one-off you really don’t want to miss.