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Around 2006, New York did not have an identity. You can probably blame bitter rivalries between the city’s elder statesmen for their overall creative slump. To redefine the sound of the city, it might take a refreshing sound, like the electronica-driven sound of Europe’s dance scene, to change the tide. Enter Mickey Factz.
The Bronx-born MC began pushing the envelope by sampling forward-thinkers like N.E.R.D. Three mixtapes (Flashback, Back To The Future, and Heaven’s Fallout) later, and the 23-year-old attacked the blogosphere, releasing a new song every day this Spring with influences ranging from Portishead to The Prodigy (no, the other P). In this recent interview, Mickey puts his personal stamp on the Supra sneaker brand and talks about how he was rocking dance music influences before Kanye.
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Above: Brian Jungen Variant I (2002)
Sorry to burst your air bag hypebeasts, but the Jordan hybrid trend ain’t nothin’ new. Canadian-based artist Brian Jungen has been ahead of the curve, blending silouhettes of the VI, XIII, and the XIV since way before the Dub Zero dropped.
Jungen’s signature work was a series he started in 1998 (through 2005) called Protoype for New Understanding. The collection featured 23 different masks, all made up of manually pieced together Jordan parts. According to Jungen’s wiki, they represent the relationship between a consumerist artifact and an ‘authentic’ native artifact. Doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense, but we can’t knock his hustle. Besides the kicks, he’s re-interpreted furniture, a whale-bone sculpture and football jerseys throughout his career. We bet you can guess our favorite remake. See more of his Jordan work in a gallery below…
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