Studio Visit: Jas M.B.

The Sehmbi family opens up their London workshop for a look at how they produce such covetable leather bags

Stepping into the small, family-run facility that produces accessories for the decade-strong British label Jas M.B., you immediately know that leather is their business. The workshop-style factory—helmed by Jas Sehmbi and his son Taj—is packed wall to wall with beautiful hides of all colors and textures, which are soon turned into the covetable bags that grace his shop, Doors, not far away on Rivington Street …

Land of Light

The instruments behind Jonny Nash and Kyle Martin's brilliant musical experiment

Land Of Light, an eponymous new album from London-based duo Jonny Nash and Kyle Martin, is an ethereal labor of love intended for serious listening. The talented musicians spent the last three years creating the 37-minute-long LP, and the upshot is a highly sophisticated set of sounds that channels Nash and Martin’s interest in constructing thoroughly evolved, experimental compositions. To achieve the record that they …

Redhead

Joe Claussell takes on The Machine in a limited edition box set handpainted by Misha Hollenbach

Two years ago English producer and DJ Matt Edwards added a new moniker to his list, giving Radio Slave and myriad other aliases a momentary rest to pursue a different direction. This time filing his experimental sounds under the name The Machine, the new project saw Edwards combine his music with other creative media, namely art and video. For his first output—a collage-like album called …