Sent to us by Constellation Tatsu this release comprises of new age flutes and drones from to seemingly spiritual people. "Valley Flutes: Composed by Paul R....

I cant remember how or where I came across Ryan Duffin's photos but I knowingly remember how visually crisp, perspectivally interesting and aesthetically pleasing...

hazy and warming to the heart, Fangor who actually recently passed away, created scapes of enticing colour and figure. Although these are just a selection of his...

Fantastic mix by bro DJ Dreamtime. Lush slow jams make way for dirty disco, on high rotation in the studio of late. Go get it. Leif

A few weeks back while viewing Frieze London I was reacquainted with the work of Etel Adnan, a few gallery booths having various paintings.... but anyway, seeing...

Polish experimental filmmaker and media artist Zbigniew Rybczyński's 1988 film The Fourth Dimension. Part of a series of films utilising then-cutting edge video...

Analog distortion is a process that relatively sticks out in Kim's work but also the relationship she has with pop art culture. Materiality then becomes a key...

Amazing showcase of music that came from Japan, released from 1930s to the 1980s. Not much to say other than one of my favourite radio shows. Listen to the...

A very celebrated designer here in the UK but sometimes I feel he is not spoken of as much as he should be. Watkins pioneered the use of experimental materials...

Another beautifuly strange mix by James Tom aka Hyperborea.

Leigh J. McCloskey is an actor and painter. His work delves into ideas of religion, mythology, philo-Sophia and esotericism to string theory, quantum physics and...

A conscious piece, one that travels. Motor City takes you on a visceral yet unpronounced journey. The album sways with dirty textural tones and hypnotic waves at...

Barbara Rossi has had a massive influence on the way my work has evolved over the last few years while being at university. I grew connected with the craft her...

Tom Furse (The Horrors) has been curating compilations of library music, alongside his show for NTS. An education in scummy pre-Beatles garage and the rougher edges...

Exotic art in decor fashion, Erté (1892 - 1990) constructs his work in a very unique manner through, (primarily) female subjects. He excelled through fashion,...

An experimental body of work, I could claim them to be ahead of their time but i know very little.. so I decided to do a little searching and found a Q&A; from The...

Here's a great example of an artist that blends fantasy, sci-fi and surrealism all together beautifully. Like Magritte meets Dali in a film by Stanley Kubrick,...

Ana Mendieta was a performance artist, sculptor and painter. "I have been carrying out a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own...

Another gem from Jakarta Records – 'Enjoy the new mix featuring music from Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon.'

Multi-dimensional visionary artwork by Maura Holden. Leif

Jesse Kanda is a London based filmmaker. His work is a gorge of contorted, slippery, futuristic, sensory overwhelming and alluring madness. An aberration into the...

The Orichas Collection consists of the series of drawings by Cuban-born artist Alberto del Pozo of the deities of Afro-Cuban Santería. Santería refers to the...

Great mix by Caykh Recordings of the golden days of somali music. sounds from before the war, songs from before the beautiful city of mogadishu became a battle...

Another classic from Fervent Moon.

Peaking Lights ACID TEST Daydream Mix - "Mixed on 2 stanton turntable w/ broken tone arms a numark dm 950 mixer with broken faders and recorded on garage band ,...

John Holmes was a artist and painter best known for his surreal and minimal book jackets. he worked on numerous titles including; HP Lovecraft, Thomas Pynchon and...

Take another eclectic trip with my homies Young Magic. Including unreleased edits + tracks from the duo's recent benefit album Remixes Vol. 1, Young Magic present...

Another ambient, electronic gem from Post-rock Paper Scissors.

Alex Grey, (1953-present), has been at the forefront of art based on the evolution of human consciousness. A psychedelic visionary, his paintings express our minds...

"What really ties the music together on the label is geography. It's also all music that for one reason or another, doesn't make it onto the world stage. One of my...

Johfra Bosschart was a Dutch modern surrealist painter. Johfra described his works as "Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the bible, astrology,...

High Wave Mix Pt 2. By Leif Podhajsky Psych / Dancehall / Space / Afro / Reggae

Rare boogie Brazilian mixtape from Kirkis, Australian composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. Legal.

Good selects from top selectors. Via NTS

A dark and mystic slow burning psych mix.

Ink drawings by Roland Grabkowski. Leif

A luscious, ambient, space mixtape series from visual artist and Melt favourite Dan McPharlin. Check our other post on his work HERE Leif

High Wave Mix Pt 1. By Leif Podhajsky Psych / World / Space / Afro / New Wave

Jim Burns is a Welsh artist born in Cardiff, Wales. He has been called one of the Grand Masters of the science fiction art world. Nick◊

Peaking / Lights / Acid / Test - get lit.

Philty constructs surreal scenes that grasp you instantly. Through his line or colour work Philty creates all-encompassing worlds dug in with the characters and...

Containing flutes, essences of surrounding ambiences and other chilling noises or stillness, this album will relax you. For me its great to paint to. Give it a...

Electronic, Experimental, Dancehall, Reggae

Mixtape of funky Arabic tunes from the ’60s and ’70s collected by Jannis of Jakarta Records. Part I Part II Leif

Hassan Hajjaj is a self-taught and thoroughly versatile artist whose work includes portraiture, installation, performance, fashion, and interior design, including...

Recently got put onto these mixtapes by Fervent Moon on NTS. They have been filling my days ever since. Pure gold. Here's a few to wet your whistle – thx...

Detailed and fiercely vibrant marker pen artworks by Joey Salamon. Leif

Roger Garland's vision for fantasy is always vivid and alive in his work. He is best known for contributing illustrations for J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and...

This mix is long and messy. I love to dance. I hope you do too. Turn up the bass for the Liars track - the synths are EXTREMELY HEAVY. Tracklist 1....

Blake was on another planet. His belief in the transcendent power of the imagination and the manifestation of that imaginative power through art is as powerful and...

It's the light that gets me. How it can shine when it's just ink on paper; a drawing. And the water. The clouds come in and you feel you're there. In the rain. In...

I've found things in stones; or I'm trying to anyway. They loomed out of the mist on Bodmin moor once not too long ago. The ones in front appearing out of the mist...

I like stuff where nothing happens. I like doing nothing. The world is too fast. A car can go at the right speed sometimes. This is a road movie for driving...

Hapshash and the Coloured Coat is the name of an influential British graphic design and avant-garde musical partnership between Michael English and Nigel Waymouth,...

A Selection of Japanese illustration and design. Depicting strange and surreal visions of the future. From the collection of 50 Watts

Californian-born Tom Killion takes inspiration from 19th century Japanese prints to recreate epic engravings of American landscapes. Lore

Complexification Mix ≠ Leif Podhajsky Tracklist A Singing Comet – Tagirijus Track 12 – Jay Dee Intro – Karriem Riggins Sparocolius...

Gleaming spacecrafts depicted amid fantasy landscapes or upon sparse skyscapes comprise much of pulp sci-fi artist Peter Elson’s works....

Magnificent and majestic landscape paintings by Dale TerBush, who brings vivid and serene representations of mother nature onto...

Jonathan Zawada is an Australian visual artist, graphic designer, and creative designer. His work ranges from album covers for bands, to t-shirt designs and his own...

Critically acclaimed and award winning artist, Bob Eggleton is truly a master at his craft of fantasy, science fiction, and horror art. Whether creating art in each...

A Selection of Japanese illustration and design. Depicting strange and surreal visions of the future. From the collection of 50 Watts

A Selection of Japanese illustration and design. Depicting strange and surreal visions of the future. From the collection of 50 Watts

Tracklist: - Intro Stereo Test - Peaking Ights - Bad With The Good Euromix Tony Allen - Black Voices Remix Talking Heads - Moonrocks Cassette Version White...

French artist Guy Billout's universe of ironic illustrations has a tendency to magnify one's anxieties, whilst offering humor and a look into a bizarro version of...

Aleksandr Kosteckij is a Russian surrealist painter. His strangely all too familiar realms seem to effortlessly resolve the contradictory conditions of dream and...

Was driving round the Portuguese coastline with these wonderful sounds – Leif "It’s likely that you’ve already encountered French selectors Julien Dechery...

Art that has everything you could want in 1980's nostalgia. Her use of vibrant neon colors and the swirly, zig-zagged and geometrical designs that defined the...

They're back. A blistering second album from the Swedish band Goat. Commune by Goat Tracklisting: 1. Talk to God 2. Words 3. The Light Within 4. To...

American illustrator Ralph McQuarrie might seem like an obvious choice, but from Star Wars to E.T. to Battlestar Galactica, his cross-dimensional aethetics have...

Matias Santa María is an intriguing artist based out of Santiago, Chile. His work is an eclectic mix of science fiction, abstract, and landscape illustrations. A...

The Swiss painter uses acrylic materials to create strange and fantastical universes in which skyscapes merge with seascapes and trees sprout from the cracks of...

The Flemish engraver was trained by his Father in the family profession. His rich portraits of religious figures, iconic leaders and powerful monarchs have forged a...

Mix by photograther wizard – Neil Krug

These beautifully pieces from the "Small Figures" series combine dramatic metallic like gradients with bold concise colours echoing from various abstract movements...

Some amazing images from the mind of Elvis Barlow-Smith. James

Based out of Los Angeles, CA, Leo Eguiarte creates unique visual art with beautiful use of colors and subject matter. His work consists of behind-the-scene issues...

Listen and learn. Lese Majesty by Shabazz Palaces LP

The father of fractals. These videos explain all. Enjoy. Tom

Great interview with the legendary producer. Enjoy. Leif

"Formafantasma’s work explores such issues as the role of design in folk craft, the relationship between tradition and local culture, critical approaches to...

Tereza Zelenkova is a Czech photographer whose dark and complex images capture epic landscapes and occult symbolism in a bleak yet beautiful...

A Jazz mixtape showcasing artists which converted to Islam at some point in there career. Thanks Melati

Michael Kaluta is an American comic book artist and writer. Kaluta was one of the four comic book artists/fine illustrator/painters (the others being Jeffrey...

The harrowing "Psychic Meditations" of the enigma known as Master Wilburn Burchette. It is proposed his name was a pseudonym, and all the artwork for his albums are...

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto is a Japanese character designer and manga artist. He is most notably known for the Neon Genesis Evangelion manga, which then became a highly...

The "Father of Modern Space Art", Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986), was and has been an important figure in science fiction, and even the American space program, where...

Tropical Dance Party

Ruysen Flores Venancino is from the Ucayali region of Peru, located in the Amazon rainforest. His artwork is created by using the visions he receives while on...

Augustin Lesage was an untrained artist who, in 1911, heard voices tell him "One day you will be a painter". He decided to explore the spirit world through seances...

Vibrant colors and lush scenery, imaginative landscapes by Ji Seon Kim. "I am exploring the intersection of abstraction and representation through the imaginary...

Organic visual interpretations of her mind, Christine Ödlund creates art in a very unique way. She combines meditation into her creative process, and then allows...

Gilbert Williams is a New York based artist and has been contributing his work to the world since the 1970's. His work is of fantasy worlds which have a...

Ljuba Popović is a Bosnian-born French surrealist painter. He is renowned for his many erotic and unconventionally juxtaposed subject matters. Leif

"WANDER/WONDER" is Balam Acab's debut LP released in August 2011. It has a certain underwater ambience that drowns your ears in blissful harmonies, but always gives...

Irving Penn Regards the Work of Issey Miyake displays the wordless harmony of the artistic relationship between Irving Penn, one of the great photographers of the...

Hirō Isono was a Japanese artist born in 1945, and passed away on May 2013. Shown in the majority of his work, you will notice that he had an affinity for trees,...

Tom Sewell is an artist, designer and image-maker based in London. Tom creates his surreal work over a multiple of medias, which include animation, printing on...

Highly fun work from Edward Carvalho Monaghan that gets you looking into each image again and again. Need I say more? Tom

Perspectively interesting handmade and digital collages filled with curious ideas/thoughts from Ventral Is Golden. Also check out his writings HERE Tom

'Furniture bondage' sculptures by Melanie Bonajo. “When I was a child, I was very restless and never wanted to sleep. To have a little rest my parents would...

California weirdo, sun stoned, sludge, psych strangeness from Morgan Delt. To me it has crossover with the weirdness and fairytale beauty of Pink Floyd's 'Piper...

"My work is my own inner experience and involvement with the mysteries of nature and form which is expressed in colour, line, space and light". - S. H....

Photographs by Maiko Takeda. Leif

Beautiful abstract paintings by Avan J. Podhajsky. For sale enquires please email for more inforamtion HERE.

"the recording of a natural imprint, research into the body theme and experiments with Land art. Barbara Leisgen’s silhouette is set, and leaves its fleeting...

Dynamic, colourful, and thoughtfully composed; posters, prints, photographs, designs and sketches by Melbourne based artist and graphic designer - Julian...

John Augustus Knapp was a Kentucky-born illustrator whose work graced the faces of early 20th-century tarot cards and the covers of mystic and occult...

A stunning video from Moon Gangs which combines technically interesting 3D and 2D imagery including succulent and curious illustrations from Katie Scott. "Our...

Dismissed by critics as difficult at the time but later heralded as a masterpiece. Out of print on vinyl and never released on CD. A dark lonely affair recorded...

Ivan Bilibin was a 20th-century Russian illustrator and stage designer who took part in the Mir iskusstva and contributed to the Ballets Russes. Throughout his...

Photographs by Ruben Brulat. Leif

Cai Guo-Qiang is a Chinese contemporary artist and curator. Leif

Desert Breath by D.A.ST. Arteam The project is rooted in our common desire to work in the desert. In our mind’s eye the desert was a place where one...

Photographs by Emmanuel Coupe-Kalomiris Via ButDoesItFloat

Following a career in commercial illustration, American illustrator Dean Ellis became a prominent name in sci-fi artwork throughout the '60s and...

Weird cosmic, disco synch gems. These eleven tracks were taken from the scores to 'Muscle Up' and 'School Daze', from the Fox Studio archives; porn film...

Georges Rousse, The Grandfather Of Single-Perspective Installations } Nick◊

Masterworks of the dream realms: Paul Lehr Paul Lehr (1930-1998) is one of the greatest future-fantasist painters of the post-pulp era. He was very prolific and...

So whilst the second Hobbit film was pretty good, i loathed the over the top Hollywood action and pointless additions to the story. They ruined the best parts of...

Oz was first published as a satirical humour magazine between 1963 and 1969 in Sydney, Australia, and, in its second and better known incarnation, became a...

Lashes of Sci-Fi Impressionism by John Harris Nick◊

Exquisite and intricate drawings from French artist Octave Marsal. Stay tuned for exhibitions and future work. If you would like to purchase an artwork please...

Another Beats In Space featuring the man DJ Harvey. Solid disco, turkish, psych, world rarities.

Using just "useless" bits of fabric these women of Boykin, Alabama (also known as Gee's bend) have created quilts that exude rich but dark history of slavery....

Sickly trippy and highly bizarre work from Ben Mendelewicz . Tom

Yves Tanguy, was a French surrealist painter. 1900 - 1955 Leif

Paintings by Theo Altenberg Leif

An amazing journey of our oppressive times and man's journey to spiritual awakening. Heavy with an array of highly symbolic images this movie suggests many things....

Digital Artworks by Adam Martinakis Explore Photo Realistic Surrealism Nick◊

Set design and costumes by Gary Card Leif

Illustration over photos by Alana Dee Haynes. Leif

Taken in the '50s on a year-long expedition through Mexico, Eliot Porter's vibrant images capture a sprawling snapshot of the country's culture at the time: from...

Surreal paintings by Wojciech Siudmak. Leif

Myoung Ho Lee photographs solitary trees, separated against the natural environment with a simple white canvas. Exploring ideas on nature, art, reality and how we...

Collages by Lola Dupre. Leif

Secret Circuit laying down some mystic future tunes. Via - Beats In Space

These highly detailed lithographs by Shuji Wako really caught my eye while researching Japanese prints for my personal work. The components within each lithograph...

Charles Fréger visited 18 European countries in search of the mythological figure of the Wild Man. His strange and beautiful photobook, Wilder Mann: the Image of...

This book is further out than far out. It's an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by the Italian artist, architect and industrial designer...

Fractals by Tom Beddard. Leif

Gravity defining photography from Chinese based artist Li Wei. Leif

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Philippe Druillet is a French comic artist, creator, and an innovator in visual design. Nick◊

Terence McKenna talks us through a DMT trip, reproduced as stunningly and accurately as is possible without going down the wormhole yourself...

The multi-layered landscapes painted by Stephens are dreamlike juxtapositions concealing deeper levels of philosophical and religious...

Manuel Göttsching leader of the group Ash Ra Tempel or Ashra, one of the most notable German groups of the 1970s and 80s, as well as a solo artist, he is one of...

90's bombs. Tak tak Lukey

Incredible hand made collages by Hugo Barros. Exploring the serene, the apocalyptic and the strange. Pap•il•lon

“The meaning of my work is the motivation that is of the purest – money. What I did for Playboy is very good and your payment is equal to the task." Salvador...

Ontario-born Nathan James conveys black humour through the medium of oil paint, as Hollywood-style masks bubble and melt like hot wax in this grossly hypnotic comic...

Holy Other made one of my favourite albums last year. Here he lays his deft touch to a little mixtape. Full of sweet loving sounds. Enjoy.

Vladimir Kush is a Russian born surrealist painter and sculptor. Nick◊

All African. All good. Via Beats In Space Thanks Léo

Chiharu Shiota Is a Japanese installation artist who creates interwoven structures that engulf objects in a tangle of yarn. Time-lapse installation...

Don Dixon has been capturing the awe-inspiring nature of our solar system through the medium of illustration since the early '70s. His back catalogue is rich with...

Surreal futuristic island paradise painting by Tristram Lansdowne. Leif

French artist Philippe Caza creates some truly amazing surreal, futurist, psych artworks. Leif

Roger Dean is an English artist, designer, architect, and publisher. He is best known for his work on posters and album covers for musicians, which he began...

The Dial records signing Philip ‘Efdemin’ Sollmann shares almost 2 hours of his abstract and otherworldly take on deep house. Via Iso50 Via...

"I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but...

Jeff Ogiba, a record collector and co owner of Black Gold Record Shop in Brooklyn. Via Dust & Grooves

Waldemar Borowski is a Polish surrealist whose depictions of sculpted stone faces and rich oases hold an aura of magic. The vivid blues and greens of his paintings...

Breathtaking Long-Exposure Wave Photography by David Orias Nick◊

Cuban OSPAAAL posters from the archives of Michael Tyler, a collector from Bath, England. Via 50Watts Leif

Eyvind Earle led an insightful and inspiring life using his art to explore realms of the mystic and spiritual. He was an American artist, author and illustrator,...

'You really would struggle to find some better Sunday afternoon entertainment. 2 hours of african gems, courtesy of Brian Shimkovitz.' Awesome Tapes From...

Such Hawks Such Hounds explores the music and musicians of the American hard rock underground circa 1970-2007, focusing on the psychedelic and '70s...

Cenotaphs by Étienne-Louis Boullée. Via ButDoesItFloat Leif

Marijke Koger designed clothing for The Beatles and Cream, created custom-painted instruments for John Lennon, Eric Clapton and George Harrison, printed posters...

"A collection of surreal analog photographs that push our sense of wonder." Tom

Another Jazz, reggae and world fuelled mix by Théo De Gueltzl. Enjoy.

African, jazz, soul, blues, reggae this one has it all.

"Over twenty years ago, a group of scientists, entrepreneurs, philosophers, and free-thinkers put their minds and resources together to create a singular and...

The german DJ new album is lush, tranquil and perfectly fits the spring of 2013.

Vintage covers from Weird Magazine - Leif

We all probably know Ron Mueck's hyper realist sculptures but here we get a glimpse inside his studio and the setup of his new show at Fondation Cartier pour l'Art...

Photographic cut ups by Lucas Simoes. Leif

In 1955, a Russian émigré died alone, unknown and in poverty at the hôpital de Lagny to the north of Paris. After leading a hermit's existence in his small room...

Sculpture & installation by Henrique Oliveira. Leif

A selection of beautiful Brutalist architecture. Props to FYB Pap•il•lon

'No Ordinary Monkey is Phil South (Golf Channel Recordings boss) and Anton Esteban (Ghost Note)... Carlos from Whatever We Want Records is also a founding member...

Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the 'Golden Age' of British book illustration. Leif

This is a documentary about the largest and the most famous torrent website in the world – The Pirate Bay – and the story behind it. It’s the day before the...

The new Knife album is pretty dark and delicious. Definitely some interesting lyrics and ideas being explored about the somewhat troubled times we live in....

Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Leif

A snapshot of the current New York City record industry. Via - Pitchfork TV

1944-2013 Nick◊

During the 70's world renowned illustration artist Frank Frazetta called Jones "the greatest living painter" Nick◊

Legendary, obscure disco mix. HJ-Darvey Sincere Discotheque by Leifpodhajsky on Mixcloud

Lori Hepner creates twitter-portraits of people using text from social media sites that she translates into ASCII binary code, then into aesthetic information...

Early covers from Heavy Metal Magazine. An adult illustrated fantasy title. Leif ~ Nick◊

A lovely mix by the Gaslamp Killer. Leif

Glitch Textiles by Phillip Stearns. "Glitches in the cold, hard logic of digital circuits transformed into soft, warm textiles." Tom

This 63 minute ode to weed is about as epic and drenched in stoner haze and mist as it gets. 'The song chronicles the pilgrimage of “Weedian” kinsfolk to the...

Andrew Jones, a.k.a. Android Jones, is a U.S. visual artist working in the fields of film concept art, video-games, fashion design, body painting, illustration and...

Paintings by Japanese artist Yuji Moriguchi. Leif

Illustrations by American artist Virginia Frances Sterrett. 'Sterrett received her first commission at the age of 19 (shortly after she was diagnosed with...

Beautiful split cassette album of lush glitchy textural beats and experimental sounds from Tropes & Lomaji. Perfect way to bring in my morning. Released on the...

Weird but beautiful and highly detailed mixed media paintings by Dasha Shishkin. Tom

Another tasty afrocubist, beats, jazzy, hip hop fuled mix to space out with ~ by Ras G Live From SpaceBase Vol.1 A really beautiful friend of mine...

Escher-like magic realism by Canadian painter Rob Gonsalves. Pap•il•lon

Dark gothic drawings by Russian born Vania Zouravliov. Leif

Flying Lotus and his 3 layer, 3D projections. Wild.

Some striking paintings and light installations by my good friends Reg Davis and Heath Newman

Sculptures and paintings from Vasa Mihich showing colour and light at its best. Tom

Publisher & Artist, Apartment, Amsterdam Centrum. I Wonder if she needs a flatmate. Via freundevonfreunden Leif

Album and book illustrations by Don Brautigam. ↓ Leif

King Britt - 'I was asked a few months ago to curate a show on Afrofuturism and its influences on me and my compositional work. Afrofuturism is a term originated by...

Playful light and long exposure photography by Brice Bischoff. Tom

Celebration at Big Sur (also known simply as Celebration) is a film of the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival in Big Sur, California. featuring - Crosby, Stills,...

'This is the Clockwork Orange meets the Wicker Man of Folk Music. A british folk band that wanted to take the mysterious tales of rape, lunacy, gorefests, and...

BBC 'Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war. Between 1968 and...

Spatial object sculptures by Michael Johansson Leif

Seemingly based around “The temptation of Christ” 40 Days in the Desert is Jean Giraud's psychedelic masterpiece in monochrome. Nick◊

Henri Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. The colour palette is what hooks me in. Mesmerising. Leif

A little spikey jazz prog album to fill your soul. Sweet Smoke formed in Brooklyn in 67 and then moved to Germany to live in a commune. These are the fruits of that...

Infrared photos of the Congo by Richard Mosse. } Leif

Book sculptures by Guy Laramee. Leif

Updates from the wondrous Killian Eng. Blows me away. Previous post - HERE Leif

This self titled album by 'Voice of the Seven Woods' is probably one of the most under appreciated pieces of music in recent years. The guitar work is outstanding,...

Amazing experimental mixed media videos by filmmaker Andrew Thomas Huang.

Pablo Amaringo was an acclaimed Peruvian artist, renowned for his intricate, colourful depictions of his visions from drinking the entheogenic plant brew...

Tribal, muggy, outer space psych dub, drawn to infinity. Get a hold. Sun Araw Leif

Natural sculptures by Andy Goldsworthy. "Andy Goldsworthy is an extraordinary, innovative British artist whose collaborations with nature produce uniquely...

Omni was a science and science fiction magazine containing articles on space exploration, the future and other science based topics. It also contained fantasy short...

Graham Hancock speaks on consciousness, Ayahuasca and the implications for the human future of a society that wages total war on true cognitive...

Mystic jewellery by the Sydney duo Maniamania. Leif

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Warwick Goble was an illustrator of children's books. He specialized in Japanese and Indian themes. Goble was born in Dalston, north London, the son of a...

New paintings and glitch by my good friend Coco Monier. Leif

"Warm, sizzling dub mix coming from LA-based husband and wife duo Peaking Lights." This ones a pure gem. Via DUMMY MAG Leif

Strange world mix from the vaults of Quai Branly museum, Paris. "Back in february, i was asked to create a dj set for an event called Les Siestes Electroniques....

The The Holydrug Couple from Santiago, Chile have created a wonderfully spaced out psych record which drifts and floats away into eternity. A good one for Tame...

Brilliant scientific, mythical, weird and wonderful illustrations from Katie Scott. Tom

Andy Gilmore is an artist, designer and musician based in Rochester, New York whose work I came across on Gold Panda's 7" Mountain / Financial District. His...

RGB by Carnovsky combines three worlds of natural illustrations into one, then when you look through red, green and blue transparent filters they reveal each...

Zdzisław Beksiński was a renowned Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor. Nick◊

Beautiful handmade collages from Bryan Olson aka Glass Planet. Tom

An oldish one but a GEM of a mix from the girls at PAP•IL•LON 01 | Lothar and The Hand People - Space Hymn (edit) 02 | Connan Mockasin - Forever...

Josef Albers was a German born painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, writer and teacher that mainly looked at communicating a subject in the simplest...

Fantastic lecture on end times, culture and the cosmic drama. "Since the rise of western monotheism the human experience has been marginalized. We have been...

A Russian born artist, designer, typographer, photographer and architect who designed many exhibitions and propaganda for the Soviet Union in the early 20th...

Phoreyz Funk / Soul, Latin, Rock mixtape.

I recently went to Brussels and saw some of Bruegel's painting in the flesh. 'Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for...

On my last visit to Paris I was blown away by the 'Architectures de l'étrange' room at The Musée d'Orsay. It displays the work of architecture students...

Leonora Carrington as a British-born Mexican artist, a surrealist painter and a novelist

Yoshitaka Amano 天野 喜孝 is a Japanese artist, character designer, illustrator and a theatre and film scenic designer and costume designer. Nick◊

Great rare collection of psych gems by Doc Delay. If you like it buy is HERE.

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs...

Some stunningly vibrant compositions by Anai Greog

"I love geometry. Lines, curves, rectangles, circles, triangles are a simplification of our real world but also their building blocks. Geometry, like physics or...

Edmund Dulac was a French book illustrator.

Om is one of my favorite bands to listen to while working, the slow sludge and soft cyclic songs bring me space and clarity. These guys are two former members of...

Ernst Haeckel was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new...

Bruce Holwerda "People are always wondering where I get my ideas, or what do you call these? If I were to be honest, one painting session years ago I veered off...

The timeless otherworldy vistas of Tim White

Terence Mckenna was an 'American ethnobotanist, philosopher, psychonaut, researcher, teacher, lecturer and writer on many subjects, such as human consciousness,...

This album takes you on an epic soul searching jouney from start to finish. Probably my all time favorite female vocalist (plus she is a gorgeous). If you have a...

Photography by Henrik Purienne. Purienne has shot a lot of beautiful women and love them or hate them those American Apparel ads certainly made an impact. I love...

Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the twentieth century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and...

Series 'The Hyena & Other Men' photographed by Pieter Hugo

Photography by Kanoa Zimmerman

I would like to welcome my friends Pap•il•lon to the MELT team! They will be regularly posting wonderful mixes and rad arts from their universe. When I...

Jean Delville was a Belgian symbolist painter, writer, and occultist. In 1896, he founded the Salon d’Art Idealiste, which is considered the Belgian equivalent to...

The Baroques were a band from Milwaukee and made strange fuzzed out garage acid jams, they signed to Chess records who i think got more than they bargained...

A James Tom mixxx. Drift.

Weird and wonderful drawings by James Unsworth I was in Donlon Books and spotted this (what looked to be a rizo printed) little number called 'Ninja Turtle Sex...

Oskar Kokoschka 'was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.' 'Consciousness is a sea ringed...

Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader was last seen in 1975 when he took off in what would have been the smallest sailboat ever to cross the Atlantic. He left...

Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can...

Luisa Via Roma presents Tales of a Primatic Labyrinth.

Rudolf Hausner was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. Hausner has been described as a "psychic realist" and "the first psychoanalytical...

Bass solos, funk, custom made guitars and a hell of a story to go along with it. This LP is a ridiculously good Turkish psych, pop dream. Re-released on the amazing...

A cracking good mixtape from my friend Théo De Gueltzl. This guy knows his shit. I've seen his music library and danced many nights away in his lounge drinking...

Jacek Yerka is a Polish painter of fantasy world and landscapes.

'Hieronymus Bosch, was a Dutch painter. His work is known for its use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives.'

This is one of my favorite Kraut rock albums and thats saying a lot. It was recorded in an air raid shelter so you know its good. Of the 213 records first pressed...

Sheats / Goldstein Residence, is a house designed and built between 1961 and 1963 by American architect John Lautner in L.A 'The House, designed in 1963 for...

Exactly what it says it is. Cabin Porn is a site dedicated to the sexiest cabins in the world. The first time i visited this site i was stuck on it for 2 hours...

Goat - A crazy blend of tribal, psych, world, jazz, blah blah. Just listen its good. World Music by Goat Leif

Analog photography by Ellen Rogers

Painting by Samantha Keely Smith "Smith's artwork represents a striving to reconcile the inner world of instinct and the tidal sweep of our emotional life, with...

Photographs by Eric Valli

Stunning Art Direction and Cinematography by Tarsem Singh for 2006's "The Fall"

Photography by Daniel Sannwald.

“Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.” ― Albert Camus, The Rebel: An...

“I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.” ― Richard Brautigan

Surreal oil paintings by Fulvio Di Piazza “Di Piazza’s paintings are a perfect example of horror vacui, finding an ideal setting for expression in the forest...

AZUL Volume One. Experimental Sound. Psych / Kraut / Prog A1 Third Transition.Voice Of The Seven Thunders. The Burning Mountain.Voice Of The Seven...

Harry Partch was an American composer and creator of weird and wacky instruments. He worked extensively and systematically with microtonal scales and most of his...

Remedios Varo was a Spanish-Mexican, surrealist painter. She was influenced by a wide range of mystic and hermetic traditions and was as fascinated with sacred...

"Suburban Cinema" Mix by Mike Kay This is how Jazz is done.

Syd Mead is a visual futurist and concept artist. He is best known for his designs for science-fiction films such as Blade Runner, Aliens and Tron. Of his work,...

"These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place, or...

Futuristic illustrations by Hajime Sorayama

Wonderfully perverse and twisted traditional woodcut artworks by Toshio Saeki.

Paintings by Colin Prahl. Tapping into the zeitgeist of higher reality.

Sculpture and street installations by Mark Jenkins.

A beautiful and extensive collection of design and illustration from Japan in the 70s and 80s. Takashi Koizumi Shigeo Okamoto Shigeo...

"Susan Seddon Boulet's figures are out of our dreams, those which flee from us upon awakening, those which are dispersed like dew at dawn, those which fall apart...

As well as an author, poet, professor and linguist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an accomplished artist. Crafting detailed maps, book jackets, typefaces and...

This is one of my favorite mixes ever. It starts out with some eastern grooves, moves into some funk and slips out to some rasta. It will make you smile the whole...

Paintings by Wolfgang Harms Thanks Lucy Hardie

Illustration and paintings by Arik Roper

Sculptures by Korean artist Jae-Hyo Lee

Nick Ervinck 'explores the borders between various media. He tries to find an interaction between virtual constructions and hand-made...

Tadanori Yokoo 横尾 忠則 is a Japanese graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter.

I have admired Ali Scarpulla's photography for a long time. Her occultist look at nature and mysticism is both beautiful and...

'Open Space Office' Photos by Tito Mouraz "The series presented here was shot in Portugal over a 2-year period and represents a transformed landscape that...

Tomás Sánchez, one of the most important and celebrated living Cuban artists. His work is meticulous in its breathtaking detail, but the objective of the artist...

'Sponsored by National Geographic, Malcolm Kirk’s first expedition to Papua New Guinea in 1967 entailed a 6-month traverse of the island’s tropical rainforest...

Sabrina Ratté's "video work mixes digital and analog techniques and often deals with the diverse manifestations of light."

Yet another stellar mixtape from the Peaking Lights duo. Their new album 'Lucifer' is out.

New York. Berlin. London. 2011 - 2012 A YOUNG MAGIC + LEIF PODHAJSKY COLLABORATION Showcasing a collection of sounds far and wide, we present The Solstice Mix...

Silverman Gallery

"The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste." -Diego...

"Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful." - Sidney Nolan

A look back at Jean Giraud. No introduction is needed.

My friend Australian Surrealist painter Ronnie Flotsam makes extraordinary compositions of magical woven beauty. Both musically and visually. Here's the log of a...

“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.” - Oscar Wilde...

"The MAPS mix is a collection of Young Magic rarities, remixes, demos, field recordings, flips, beats, b-sides from Melt and whatever else we made over the last...

Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked up to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love...

"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."...

"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music."- Joan Miró

“The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.” - Milan Kundera

“Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were...

Compiled by: Young Magic & Leif Podhajsky. Artwork by: Leif Podhajsky.

“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.” - Charles Bukowski

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his...

“Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this” ― Richard Brautigan

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and...

Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger is a Swiss surrealists painter, sculpture, and set designer. Giger is often referred to in pop culture, especially in science fiction and...

Klaus Voormann is a grammy award winning artists, noted musician, and record producer. Voormanns affiliation with the Beatles dates back to their time in Hamburg in...

Art is not so much talent as character.. it's what you are, the qualities of the person. - John Olsen

Stills from The Color Of Pomegranates (Սայաթ-Նովաg) Sayat Nova ~ a 1968 Armenian film by director Sergei Parajanov. It's a visually stunning and deeply...

Rudolf Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist. A true thinker, exploring facets of the soul and the spirit. This post...

Hello and welcome to MELT Mixtapes. In the coming months we will be releasing a stack of sounds compiled by our favorite artists and musicians for your ears,...

The Spaniard Gervasio Gallardo is known for his prolific surrealist paintings and book covers. Gallardo was commissioned by Ballantine Books in 1969 to create the...

Artist, designer, typographer, creative director Michael Cina creates stunning cross pollinated, mixed media artwork. His body of work for Ghostly Records is...

Roger Hane (1939-1974) was an illustrator of books and record albums, known for his surreal fanciful art. Hane produced over three hundred illustrations, many of...

Born in 1935 in the Bronx Ira attended Cornell University and Columbia University. In the early 1960s, he lived in Tangier and published GNAOUA magazine, an early...

Paul Outerbridge was an American photographer born in 1896, known for his experiments in colour photography, still life and erotic nudes. "Art is life seen...

Drawing by David Chaim Smith

Drawings by Paul Noble He has an upcoming show at Gagosian London titled 'Nobson', November 10 - December 17, 2011

The Mysterious Cities of Gold ("Taiyô no ko Esteban" ~ original title) was a French/Japanese animated series released in the 1982. Co produced by DiC Entertainment...

Paintings by Lesley Vance

Alex & Maxine Sanders, Winter Ritual, 1969. "Maxine Morris, high priestess of a Manchester coven sets the alter for a dawn ritual on one of the high and private...

Spectacular futuristic illustration by Kilian Eng Represented by Début Art {

John Whitney was an animator, composer and inventor, considered to be the father of computer animation. “To get emotionally involved creatively at the...

Picoby Band D'Abomey - Mi Ma Kpe Dji Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - Ahouli Vou Yelli Napo de Mi Amor Et Ses Black Devil´s - Leki...

Artwork by Dan McPharlin

Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of...

Painting by Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) The Captain & his Magic Band Seated At The Table In The...

Balam Acab - Motion by TriAngleRecords Kona Triangle "Airlock" by Porter Records SAMIYAM - Cushion by BRAINFEEDER 11 - Jah by...

Paintings and Performance by artist Yves Klein.

Spontaneous surreal biomorphic shapes and landscpapes by James McCarthy

01 Sacrificial by SHIGETO Hype Williams - Rescue Dawn by aimlowmusic Clams Casino - Motivation by Drugs and Mirrors Shabazz...

Paintings by Kawase Hasui from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

002. A selection of record covers.

001. A selection of record covers.

Paintings & Works on paper by Phillip Taaffee

Paintings by one of my favourite artists René Magritte + adapted or plagiarized works for album covers. Record Covers

Album covers by Wandrey Studio in Hamburg. After some research i have made the assumption that Wandrey's Studio is the work of Petrus Wandrey whos work looks at...

Exquisite paintings and album covers by Mati Klarwein "Some visual artworks are made to be talked about more than to be seen, others are made to be seen more than...