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Silver Anniversary Skank<br />
From Kingston to Queens, a new DVD<br />
tells the story of VP Records.<br />
Founded by a former jukebox record stocker–and situated<br />
in Jamaica, Queens–VP Records is now a hugely successful<br />
reggae label and distribution business. They’ve helped<br />
break Sean Paul, Bounty Killer, and Elephant Man to the<br />
American pop market, while maintaining their hardcore<br />
following via 7” and riddim album releases. What people<br />
may not know are the business’s humble origins back at<br />
17 North Parade Road in downtown Kingston, Jamaica.<br />
Or how political and social upheaval in the late ‘70s drove<br />
founders Vincent and Patricia Chin to explore opportunities<br />
in the US. VP Records 25th Anniversary Concert:<br />
Live In Miami (VP Records, $24) offers both concert<br />
clips from their star roster (Tanya Stephens, Sanchez,<br />
T.O.K., Beres Hammond) in addition to an informative,<br />
well-produced 45-minute documentary about VP from the<br />
‘60s ska era to the present. VP America co-founder Clive<br />
Chin, son of Vincent, talked with XLR8R about what the<br />
business has accomplished in a quarter century. Read his<br />
comments at www.xlr8r.com. Tomas Palermo<br />
www.vprecords.com<br />
Spragga Benz and Tanya<br />
Stephens live at the VP<br />
Records 25th Anniversary<br />
Concert, Miami<br />
Permanent Wave<br />
A design conference so fresh it will make your hair curl.<br />
When it launched in 2002, the Semi-Permanent design conference–curated by online<br />
magazine/portal Design Is Kinky–made everyone jealous they didn’t live in Sydney,<br />
Australia. But this fall, the little design conference that could will journey from the land<br />
of wallabies to the home of 50-cent franks and papayas. Semi-Permanent NYC 2005<br />
(held September 9-10 at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall) will feature events and<br />
lectures with a worldly group of unusual suspects from art and design. Interactive guru<br />
Joshua Davis from Praystation will rep hard, as will XLR8R contributor and 19-year-old<br />
Mac User by NoPattern<br />
boy genius Chuck “NoPattern” Anderson. Lobo and The Orphanage (behind the fx for<br />
Superman Returns and Sky Captain) are on hand for motion graphics tips, t-shirt company<br />
Threadless and French graf writer Fafi will discuss inspirations, and NYC’s art and<br />
fashion stalwarts Visionaire (of publishing and gallery fame) will explain how it all gets<br />
done. Aside from sheer, giddy inspiration, Semi-Permanent attendees also get to take<br />
home a 240-page design book with work culled from the presenters. Tyra Bangs<br />
www.semipermanent.com<br />
Works by Fafi<br />
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are the property of their respective owners. © Motorola, Inc. 2005.<br />
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RAZRWIRE<br />
Introducing the latest innovation from Motorola and Oakley—eyewear that lets you make calls on the fly.<br />
They’re quintessential cool. They’ve got state-of-the-art Bluetooth ® technology. And they’re perfect for people like you<br />
who want the freedom of a wire-free, hands-free connection to a mobile phone. So get RAZRWIRE and get going.<br />
To get a bigger glimpse of the RAZRWIRE and other cutting-edge Bluetooth accessories, visit<br />
hellomoto.com/razrwire
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