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44-529: Its readers tended to refer to the magazine as just The Slut . According to co-founder John Burgess , he and Paul Benney (the other founder of the magazine) intended Jockey Slut to just be a slogan for a T-shirt. The expression was coined while both were studying at Manchester Polytechnic University (currently Manchester Metropolitan University ) and frequenting the city's clubbing scene, notably at The Haçienda . The two main inspirations for it were Manic Street Preachers ' recurrent slogan "culture slut" and

88-503: A decision they have maintained since. In 1997, Jockey Slut carried an in-depth feature on German label International DeeJay Gigolo , prior to the short-lived electroclash craze which happened four to five years later. In 1999, Jockey Slut was sold to Swinstead Publishing, to expand its distribution and take the magazine to a monthly format. With this change the magazine set up in London and Burgess stepped down as editor to become

132-617: A faded modernism arising from mid-twentieth-century television, science, public education, childhood and spirituality." Interviews with the Sandison brothers have variously provided insight into their creative process: they have cited several acts that have influenced their work including Joni Mitchell , the Incredible String Band (saying "we have all the String Band records […] our rural sensibilities are similar"),

176-657: A quarterly while increasing its Internet presence, creating a webzine with daily updated content such as news, features and reviews. The print magazine featured more in-depth material and selected highlights from the quarter past and anticipating some from the next, with its publication dates chosen to coincide with key periods in the music industry like the Spring, the Summer festivals, the Autumn and Christmas /Year-end. Paul Benney Paul Benney (born London, 30 May 1959)

220-563: A remix of "Sometimes" by The Sexual Objects. In 2019, Warp Records kicked off the celebrations for their 30th anniversary, entitled WXAXRXP, with a 100-hour takeover of online radio station NTS Radio , featuring mixes, radio shows and unreleased music from a number of artists on their roster. This included a 2-hour mixtape from Boards of Canada titled Societas x Tape , aired on 23 June 2019 at 9:00 PM BST, and featured music from other artists such as Grace Jones , Devo and Yellow Magic Orchestra , spliced with spoken word samples and music that

264-566: A resident artist at Somerset House in 2010. During his five year residency he held the show ‘Night Paintings’ in 2012 which explored themes that deal more with the subconscious and metaphysical world and drew over 15,000 visitors. In 2017 Paul Benney exhibited his multimedia installation 'Speaking in Tongues' in the Church of San Gallo during the 57th Venice Art Biennale. For the event of the coronation of Charles III and Camilla in 2023, Benney

308-614: A shift in mood within Geogaddi ; Mark Richardson of Pitchfork commented that "the atmosphere on this album is a shade darker than on previous releases, and comparatively tense with a noticeable thread of paranoia." It was later noted by the duo that the album was a response to the September 11 attacks . As early as 2002, the duo began working on sketches for their next studio album, The Campfire Headphase , however studio work didn't begin until 2004. After releasing two singles from

352-518: A vinyl record containing a short clip of music and a distorted voice speaking a six digit code, which was believed to be the work of Boards of Canada , surfaced at the New York record store Other Music . Shortly after the release, Warp Records vouched for the record's authenticity. Other codes were hidden through various websites and online communities, as well as being broadcast over BBC Radio One , NPR , and Adult Swim . After much speculation,

396-399: A writing tone that aimed to strike a balance between witty, opinionated fanzine -style writing and an irreverent sense of humour inspired by the success of pop magazine Smash Hits . Jockey Slut also aimed to be more risky in its choices. In 1993, the magazine gave The Chemical Brothers (while they were still called Dust Brothers) their first interview. Two years later, around the time of

440-475: Is a British artist who rose to international prominence as a contemporary artist whilst living and working in New York in the 1980s and 1990s in the UK as an portraitist. Benney's work is held in the 20th century collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art , The Brooklyn Museum , The National Portrait Gallery , London, The National Gallery of Australia, and many prominent corporate and private collections around

484-407: Is also a silversmith and goldsmith. Boards of Canada Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of the brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, formed initially as a trio in 1986 before becoming a duo in the 1990s. Signing first to Skam followed by Warp Records in the 1990s, the duo received recognition following the release of their debut album Music Has

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528-647: Is rumoured to be unreleased work from the group itself. On July 3, 2021, Boards of Canada released a remix of a second Nevermen song, "Treat Em Right". The music of Boards of Canada has been described as "evocative, mournful, sample -laden downtempo music often sounding as though produced on malfunctioning equipment excavated from the ruins of an early-'70s computer lab ." Critic Simon Reynolds described their style as "a hazy sound of smeared synth-tones and analog-decayed production, carried by patient, sleepwalking beats, and aching with nostalgia" while crediting them with "reinvent[ing]" elements of psychedelia through

572-534: The Beatles (saying "[they] really became enthralling to us through their psychedelism") and My Bloody Valentine (saying "even if we don't sound like them, there's a connection in terms of the approach to music"). They have also named Meat Beat Manifesto as a chief influence, citing their synth sounds. Brief interludes or vignettes feature prominently in the duo's music, often lasting less than two minutes; Sandison has said that "we write far more of [these] than

616-517: The Saddledome . The brothers attended the University of Edinburgh , where Michael studied music and Marcus studied artificial intelligence. Marcus dropped out before completing his degree. The duo did not reveal that they are brothers until a 2005 interview with Pitchfork , as they wanted to avoid comparisons with another electronic sibling duo, Orbital . Growing up in a musical family,

660-545: The 1990s" list. The duo began recording their next studio album, Geogaddi , between 1999 and 2001. It was described by Sandison as "a record for some sort of trial-by-fire, a claustrophobic, twisting journey that takes you into some pretty dark experiences before you reach the open air again." Geogaddi was officially released by Vivid on 8 January 2002 in Japan, and by Warp Records on 18 February 2002 in Europe. Critics noted

704-628: The Right to Children on Warp in 1998. They followed with the critically acclaimed albums Geogaddi (2002), The Campfire Headphase (2005) and Tomorrow's Harvest (2013). The duo's work, largely influenced by media and electronic music from the 1970s, incorporates vintage synthesiser tones, samples , analog equipment, and hip hop -inspired beats. It has been described by critics as exploring themes related to nostalgia, as well as childhood memory, science, environmental concerns and esoteric subjects. In 2012, Fact described them as "one of

748-584: The Right to Children , which was finally released in April 1998. The album was joint-released by both Skam Records and Warp Records . The cover of the album is a family photo that was taken at Banff Springs , with each person's face digitally removed. The album consists of longer tracks mixed with song vignettes. It also includes one of the duo's most popular songs, "Roygbiv". Music Has the Right to Children received widespread acclaim upon release, with it being featured at No. 35 on Pitchfork 's "Top 100 Albums of

792-661: The United Kingdom in 1988 where his portrait practice grew rapidly by word of mouth. He has since exhibited in eight BP Portrait Award Exhibitions and twice won the BP Visitors’ Choice Award in 1996 and 1997 and received a commendation for the portrait ‘My Daughters' in 1999. In 2003 Benney was commissioned by the Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery to paint Jack Dellal in recognition of his support of

836-467: The United States to widespread critical acclaim. In 2016, Boards of Canada released two remixes. The first, a remix of Nevermen 's "Mr Mistake", was released on 12 January 2016, and was followed shortly after by a remix of "Sisters" by Odd Nosdam on 22 February 2016. On 17 February 2017, an instrumental version of the "Mr Mistake" remix was released. On 29 July 2017, Boards of Canada released

880-454: The album exclusively onto Bleep , and a music video for the track "Dayvan Cowboy", The Campfire Headphase was released on 17 October 2005. When writing about the album for The Observer , Simon Reynolds noted that "blurring the boundaries between rock and techno is a smart move, because BoC have always made music that deserved to appeal beyond the electronic audience", and praised "the stereophonic delirium of their production." After

924-518: The best-known and best-loved electronic acts of the last two decades." Brothers Michael Sandison (born Michael Peter Sandison, 14 July 1971) and Marcus Eoin (born Marcus Eoin Sandison, 27 May 1973) were brought up in Cullen, Moray , on the northeast coast of Scotland. From 1979 to 1980, they lived in Calgary , Canada, while their father, who worked in construction, took part in the project to build

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968-458: The brothers first played instruments at a young age. They experimented with recording techniques from around the age of 10, using tape machines to layer cut-up samples of found sounds over compositions of their own. In their teens they participated in a number of amateur bands. However, it was not until 1986 when Marcus was invited to join Mike's band that Boards of Canada was born. The band's name

1012-460: The cover. Burgess started Jockey Slut' s 10-year anniversary dissertation, "Blowing Our Own Trumpet", with the following line: "Paul liked the Pixies , I liked Prince , but - like most 22 year olds in 1992 - we had a shared love of 'dance' music, which meant anything from the poppy KLF to heavy Belgian techno ". In January 2004, with Paul Mardles as editor since 2002, Jockey Slut changed to

1056-586: The creation of 400 song fragments and 64 complete songs, of which 22 were selected (possibly 23, if the final track of complete silence is included). Eoin has said about the duo's discography that "the idea of the perfect album is this amorphous thing that we're always aiming at […] the whole point of making music is at least to aim at your own idea of perfection." The duo have expressed interest in themes of subliminal messaging , and subsequently their work has incorporated cryptic messages, including references to numerology and cult figures such as David Koresh of

1100-497: The deliberate misuse of technology. Their distinctive style is a product of their use of analogue equipment, mix of electronic and conventional instrumentation, use of distorted samples, and their layering and blending of these elements. To achieve their evocative and "worn down" sound, the duo have made use of outdated brands of recording equipment, such as tape machines manufactured by Grundig . They also make use of samples from 1970s television shows and other media prevalent in

1144-706: The digital artworks that Benney has recently released with online digital gallery Sedition. The works are a digital hybrid. Paul Benney is a self-taught painter. He moved to New York in 1982 and was a member of the N.Y. downtown Neo-Expressionist group in the 1980s. He was first taken by the P.P.O.W. Gallery in 1984 where he created immense monochromatic painting depicting mysterious dream imagery with surfaces built up of layers feather twigs, dirt and gel. Benney's East village contemporaries while living in New York included Kiki Smith , David Wojnarowicz , Jean-Michel Basquiat , Ross Bleckner , Richard Hambleton , Adam Fuss and Craig Coleman. Paul Benney moved back to

1188-533: The era of the brothers' shared childhood, especially the nature-inspired documentaries produced by the National Film Board of Canada . The duo's preoccupation with memory, past aesthetics, and public broadcasting presaged the 2000s electronic movement known as hauntology . Theorist and music critic Adam Harper described their work as "a simultaneously Arcadian and sinister musical hauntology based on cut-up samples, vintage synthesiser technology and

1232-792: The gallery. He exhibited at the Birch & Conran in 1988, the Nigel Greenwood Gallery in 1991, the Long & Ryle Gallery in 1995. In 2013 he was asked to judge of the Threadneedle Prize at the Mall Galleries, UK. Benney's portrait subjects have included HM Queen Elizabeth II , Sir Mick Jagger , John Paul Getty III , Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath , Lord Weidenfeld , Baroness Amos , The State Portrait for Israel, Lord Rothschild , Ben Barnes (for

1276-463: The increasing attention DJs were getting from fans at the time. Burgess said: "Disc jockeys were attracting as many groupies as pop stars. Except, unluckily for the DJs, their groupies were usually after one thing; the name of the label that wicked tune was on". Starting out as a bi-monthly fanzine, Jockey Slut increased its readership. With dance music and club culture steadily growing in popularity and

1320-592: The magazine's editorial director. Rob Wood essentially maintained the same tone and music coverage policy, but with aesthetic changes to both writing and visual contents. Superclub culture was hitting its peak at the time. Boards of Canada got their first magazine cover ever in 2000, and The Avalanches also had theirs a year later, almost four months ahead of the release of their debut album, Since I Left You . Throughout these years, artists including The Streets , Erol Alkan , Junior Boys , Kasabian , Audio Bullys , Headman or Danger Mouse got early support through

1364-473: The magazine. By 2002, some longtime readers started to complain that the magazine was giving cover space to acts like The Rapture , 2 Many DJs or The Neptunes and increasing the rock coverage, with features on acts like Mogwai and The Polyphonic Spree , retro pieces on My Bloody Valentine or Talking Heads , and giving critical praise to acts like The White Stripes . The January 2004 issue had Luke Steele of alternative rockers The Sleepy Jackson on

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1408-476: The official website for the band redirected users to another website which prompted the user to enter a password. Once all six unique codes were entered, a video was shown announcing Tomorrow's Harvest , their fourth studio album . The website showed the cover art, the month and year of release and a short snippet of music. The album was released on 5 June 2013 in Japan , 10 June 2013 in Europe, and 11 June 2013 in

1452-531: The portrait in the feature film Dorian Gray in 2009) Fergus Henderson , Adam Fuss , Justice Stephen Breyer , Sarah Lucas , The Duchess of Bedford, Jerry Hall , Nitin Sawhney , The Viscountess of Weymouth, Sir Paul Hamlyn , and Lord Sainsbury . In 2015 Benney was commissioned by HRH Prince Charles to paint WWII veteran Brian Stewart for the Royal Collection . Benney was invited to be

1496-550: The release of their debut album, Exit Planet Dust , Jockey Slut gave them their first magazine cover. In 1994, Detroit techno musician and Underground Resistance ’s leader “Mad” Mike Banks granted a rare exclusive interview, and was also given his first magazine cover. Daft Punk also had their first interview in the magazine in 1993. Jockey Slut also gave space to some rock and indie , giving prominent space to bands like Nirvana , Blur or Beck as much as they would any dance or electronic act. Jockey Slut ’s tagline

1540-616: The release of their previous studio album and an EP named Trans Canada Highway , Eoin and Sandison "took some time out, and spent some time travelling". The two also expanded their recording studio at Hexagon Sun , which is near the Pentland Hills in Scotland. In February 2012, a BBC Radio personality noted that a new album from Boards of Canada was "on the way". A fan asked the duo on Facebook about this comment, to which they responded with "yes". On Record Store Day 2013,

1584-483: The releases of albums Play By Numbers and Hooper Bay , both in 1994, which, similarly to Acid Memories, were only released to friends and family and had sub-1 minute excerpts of two songs ("Wouldn't You Like To Be Free" from Play By Numbers and "Circle" from Hooper Bay ) released from both albums on the EHX website. Between 1995 and 1997, the duo started recording what would become their debut studio album, Music Has

1628-458: The same year. Both albums have only been heard by the band's friends and family, except for a 24-second excerpt of "Duffy", released on the EHX website in the late 1990s. Acid Memories is the only early album the brothers have mentioned in interviews. Later, in the early 1990s, the band had a number of collaborations and the band put on small shows among the Hexagon Sun collective, along with

1672-442: The so-called 'full-on' tracks, and, in a way, they are our own favourites". Boards of Canada have written an enormous number of such fragments as well as full-length tracks, most of which have been held back from release, and it does not appear that their music is made exclusively for commercial release; rather, albums seem to be the result of selecting complementary songs from current work. For instance, Geogaddi allegedly involved

1716-422: The subsequent advent of superclubs with superstar DJs, bigger and better distributed magazines like Mixmag , Muzik and DJMag started to focus more on the rock and roll -like aspects of clubbing (namely the recurrent drugs features), while devoting less space to the music itself, rather than covering newer sounds and artists. Jockey Slut responded to this by adopting a more music-centered coverage, with

1760-432: The word “jockey” from its merchandising. In 1996, Jockey Slut was redesigned to incorporate full colour. Daft Punk had their first magazine cover in that issue, and also their last unmasked photographs since. The band thought the printing made the magazine look like a low-rent pornographic magazine , prompting Daft Punk not to pose for any future photographs unless they were wearing masks or disguised themselves as robots,

1804-451: The world. Paul Benney's portraiture and contemporary work have been featured in news, radio and documentaries on the BBC and Channel 4. Paul Benney exhibited his multimedia installation, 'Speaking in Tongues' during the 57th Venice Art Biennale in 2017. As of 2019 Benney had been collaborating with the multi-instrumentalist Nitin Sawhney to compose and produce individual soundscapes for

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1848-463: Was inspired by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), the government agency whose award-winning documentary films and animation they had watched as children. Their first known release was Catalog 3 , in 1987 on cassette tape , on the brothers' own label, Music70, while Boards of Canada was still a band (it was later re-pressed in 1997 on CD on the same label). By 1989, the band had been reduced to Mike and Marcus, and they released Acid Memories in

1892-658: Was selected by Queen Camilla to paint her state portrait. Benney was born in Chelsea but spent the majority of his childhood in Beenham in West Berkshire. His father, Gerald Benney [1930 – 2008], was a notable silversmith who created gold and silver flatware and jewelry for private and public collections around the world including for the British Royal family. His younger brother, Simon Benney (born 1966),

1936-471: Was “Disco Pogo For Punks In Pumps”, a line stolen from an old Smash Hits review, according to Burgess. Its coverage of Urban styles such as hip-hop and R&B was also more frequent than the average dance magazine of the time. In 1995, American underwear company Jockey threatened a lawsuit, claiming the magazine's name could be hurtful to their image. The suit was settled out of court, with Jockey Slut authorized to keep its name, but forced to remove

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