Make with a Red Stripe®

Make: event one

Wednesday 16^th November wasn’t exactly carnival weather – but we livened things up with our first full-on Make event: Make Something From Nothing, down at Village Underground in Shoreditch. The venue would be the perfect place to get Yuri Suzuki’s road-tested sculpture booming, with the help of Ben UFO, Spencer, Chunky and Al Fingers.

Outside, we’d let Aussie artist Buff Diss loose with some trademark tape, hitting the whitewashed wall with a load of sound waves. It all led to a giant speaker stack and down into the venue itself, where Yuri’s 2.5 metre sculpture loomed large. Set against the back wall, the DIY system – made from thousands of Red Stripe cans, red tape and a soldering gun – attracted a load of attention as it boomed out the evening’s tunes.

To mark the event, we also pressed a limited edition gatefold white vinyl featuring a classic dub version of Under Me Sleng Teng (the original digital riddim). There were only 200 of these, so if you see one – grab it.

You can get a fuller flavour of the night on our stream, or check out vice.com for more shots.

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Make something from nothing

Think of Jamaica’s amped-up DIY sound systems and you think of Red Stripe. So turning our carnival cans into something booming sounded just about right. We got sound sculptor Yuri Suzuki involved, along with designer Matthew Kneebone, some soldering guns, loads of rolls of tape, some speakers and two decks. The result was a 12-foot sculpture that was part art piece, part speaker stack. It looked awesome – but what would it sound like? We brought in Al Fingers and Gappy Ranks to give it a go…

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