A couple of Delete's good friends (Bertie & Simon) pointed out  today that our door step had a place in rock n'roll history.

Our new home features on the cover of 'David Bowie - The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' - nice.

Obviously we are out to make as big an impact on popular culture as Mr. Stardust - so moving in to his neighbourhood should certainly help.

Be sure to drop in and see us at 'ground control'.

Major Tom

If you're all about style over substance then this won't be for you, but if like us - you like to get down and dirty occasionally then we thoroughly recommend visiting this little East London gem located just off of Kingsland Road in Dalston. Mangal Okabassi does meat and does it well. It won't cost you much and you can bring your own beer. Perfect.  Timeout recently gave it a 5 star rating too. Go and get stuck in.

As you can see from the gallery above all that remained at the end of the night were plates of bones and a big bowl of uneaten salad.

Here at Delete we define the first official day of summer as the first day over 20 degrees (that and when Tom dons his flip flops for the first time).

So in celebration of the approaching 'warmer' months and that we've all just survived the coldest winter in a long time - we are launching our new T-Shirt Store.  

Whether it's for the festival circuit, the luau you have planned, or just hanging about down the park, a Delete T-shirt makes the ideal cladding for the top 'arf.  Nice

Check out the new T-Shirt store for the latest Delete T-Shirts and keep your eyes peeled as we plan to release new designs through the summer.

Delete T-Shirt Store

When we came across OK Go's latest video, This Too Shall Pass, we were struck by how cleverly it was made. Check it out below!

Code and raw data wouldn't normally appeal to traditional exhibition goers but this is Digital Art at its most breathtaking.

The raw material whether from social media, a day's worth of flight routes or human movement and sound is programmed using a mixture of Processing and other open source technologies which are constantly evolving through interaction.

Featuring Weave Mirror by Daniel Rozin, Joshua Davis' Hype Framework and Karsten Schmidt who created Social Collider - rewritten in Java to interact with Nintendo Wii remotes, visualising connections between Twitter data steams and there propagation.

The works attempt to disillusion the overwhelming amount of information that exists in Digital by showcasing data through abstract art, visualisations and interactivity.

Highly recommended, open until 11 April, 2010

http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/decode/

Perhaps you have not heard the name Dieter Rams before. You will however undoubtedly have heard of Braun and probably seen most of the German product designer' creations. He is hailed by many as one of the most influential product designers of the late 20th century and this is what sparked me to shoot across the river to the Design Museum on South bank to explore.

I think what attracts me to Dieter Rams' designs is the notion of clutter-free-ness. If something doesn't need to be there, it isn't.

Or in Dieter's own words — "Less, but better".

I found myself staring at electric razors for an hour, smiling widely as I recognized two models that I used to play with as a little boy and pretend they were spaceships. Much of Rams' work have become timeless classics and helped define the concept of "good design", so I suggest you go and check out the exhibition at the Design Museum to see it all for yourself! It's open until 9th of March.

No this is not yet another music blog about RAGE versus Joe. This is much more important than that. Here's what we've been listening to throughout 2009 on our ever reliable 1980's ghetto blaster. They really don't make things like they used to!

We toyed with the idea of compiling our playlist of the noughties, but we're a bit tired of all that to be honest - so we're keeping it real with our traditional yearly playlist compilation. As usual we've played everything from Indie to minimal techno, to pop, to reggae, to obscure jazz and even some classical thanks to our good friends over at Decca. We're sure there's been the odd sprinkle of Swedish rock filtering out too - at least we think that's what it was.

Enjoy.

Albums
Maccabees - Wall of Arms
Bombay Bicycle Club - I had the blues but I shook them loose
Loco Dice - The Lab 01
Post War Years - The Greats And The Happenings
Steve Bug - The Lab vol 2
Jamie T - Kings & Queens
Golden Silvers - True Romance
Vol 2. - Quando a Alma Não É Pequena - Dead Combo
Living with a Tiger - Acoustic Ladyland
Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
The XX - XX
Kings of Convenience - Declaration of dependence
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Fabric Live 44 - Commix
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Vitalic - Flashmob
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
White Lies - To Lose My life
The Black Dog - Further Vexations
Moderat - Moderat
Thomas Dutronc - comme un manouche sans guitare
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Kent - Röd
Imogen Heap - Ellipse
David Gray - Draw the line
Yeah yeah yeahs - Zero
Florence and the Machine - Lungs
M.A.N.D.Y - Get Physical 7th anniversary
Joris Voorn - Balance 14
Loco Dice - The Lab vol 1
LTJ Bukem - Fabriclive
The Presets - My people
Dixon - Temporary Secretary
Richie Hawtin - Sounds from Can Elles
Henrik Schwarz, Ame, Dixon - The Grandfather Paradox
Efdemin - Carry on, pretend we're not in the room.

Our Favourite Tracks
Damian Lazarus - Moment
Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
Chew Lips - Solo
Muse - Undisclosed Desires (love original and remix)
Jay Z - DOA
Doves - Winter Hill
Post War Years - The Red Room
Golden Silvers - True Romance
Jay Z - Empire State of Mind
Kasabian - Fire
Ame - Setsa
Cobblestone Jazz - Traffic Jam
Claude VonStroke - Aundy
Jus-Ed - Sweetness
Thomas Schumacher - Picanha
DJ Hell feat. Diddy - The DJ (guilty pleasure)
Maccabees - Bag of Bones
Noah and the Whale - Blue Skies
Post War Years - The Red Room
Maccabees - Seventeen Hands
Florence & the Machine - Rabbit Heart
Bombay Bicycle Club - Evening / Morning
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Fat Freddy's Drop - Big BW
Claude Von Stroke - Vocal Chords
Minilogue - Dooiise
Florence & The Machine - You got the love (XX Remix)
Flying Lotus - Roberta Flack
The Whitest Boy Alive - Courage
Temper Trap - Science of Fear
Boy 8 Bit - Baltic Pine
Wave machine - I Go Go GO