Category Music

Sneak preview: emanative

A sneak preview of the forthcoming emanative LP ‘The Light Years Of The Darkness’ (front and back sleeve shown below). The album is coming out on Brownswood recordings for the Steve Reid Foundation. And just in case you haven’t heard about the Foundation before I think it is worth me repeating the About page here: […]

Best Art Vinyl Awards 2014

Big news at Made In Earnest HQ today as our design for the Nostalgia 77 And The Monster LP ‘Measures’ has been nominated for the Best Art Vinyl Awards 2014. As you can see above it is a slightly unusual design with everything on the front cover, but we felt this worked well with the […]

The Secret List: Paris launch

The Paris edition of The Secret List is getting a swanky book launch in December at the excellent Superfly Records. I’ll be there to talk to anyone about the design of the books, but more importantly than that, the author will be there to discuss the project. There will be a book signing session, a […]

Mo Kolours Pan-Galactic Tour

Mo Kolours is about the embark on his Pan-Galactic Tour and to celebrate he has a new track here. The poster below shows the dates of the tour in full. The tour will showcase the debut Mo Kolours album that came out recently and as such, this is an ideal opportunity for me to post […]

Dig A Little

Not long ago Dig A Little was born and as the promotional material says, ‘it’s a monthly excursion into the joys of vinyl’. Basically, it’s a record fair with DJs and thanks to it’s success so far it has grown into a monthly DJ night as well (called Revolutions). The first Dig took place at the Forest […]

Your Love Weighs A Tonne

Your Love Weighs A Tonne is the new single from the Nostalgia 77 album A Journey Too Far. It is out now and can be bought from the Tru Thoughts Etch web shop.

Mo Kolours: Mike Black

Following on from the successful release of the recent Mo Kolours album comes the John Wizards Remix of the Cymande-inspired track Mike Black. This digital only release will be available first via One-Handed Music and the Mo Kolours bandcamp site.

The Secret List: Paris

Nearly there! Following on from Los Angeles, the latest edition of The Secret List will be Paris. It goes to print soon and will be available to buy from record shops (of course!) and online at Amazon. Images and spreads from the book to come once it is printed.

Sneak preview: Mo Kolours

Here is a sneak preview of the the artwork for the forthcoming Mo Kolours album. The artwork features an illustration by the Barcelona-based artist Miju Lee. It will be coming out on One-Handed Music and is being released as both a LP and a CD and there is also a limited edition tee shirt to accompany […]

The Secret List: Los Angeles

I am proud to say that The Secret List is now finished, printed and published! It has been a real labour of love for the author Sanjiv Ahluwalia, who came up with the original concept and then went about writing (and rewriting) about and photographing record shops on his travels. He visited all the shops […]