Supreme NY  just released a range of shirts dedicated to one of my favourite albums of all times, the 1983 released “Duck Rock” LP by Malcolm McLaren (btw, produced by Trevor Horn). The limited edition T-Shirts feature various motifs from the “Duck Rock” album as well as the “Do You Like Scratching?” EP, both designed by Keith Haring. The motivs are all great, but I wonder why Supreme completely missed out on making a shirt with images from the “Double Dutch” single, one of the main tracks of the “Duck Rock” LP ? Hmm, maybe the song didnt represent enough old school hip hop culture for Supreme? But it was exactly the heterogenity of McLaren´s mixtape-cum-album that made “Duck Rock” so extra special. At least, we can show the video:

When recently posting the video of “Ghost Town” by The Specials in the “Man Recordings Inspiration Series”, I received various emails from across the globe from people saying that this song was highly influential for them too. On my trip to Buenos Aires with Deize, I met Fantasma, a musician who is appropriating songs from European pop and making the finest digital cumbia out of it. One of the songs he gave me was his cumbia version of “Ghost Town”.

Download it from here:
Fantasma – Ghost Town

Only two weeks after my posting I found out that NY T-Shirt chief rockers Supreme made a T-Shirt with lines out of “Ghost Town” (see above). Seems there´s something in the air about The Specials….

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