Herb Sundays

Season 2
We honed in and opened up the system, thus the universe     "I see the Herb Sundays series as a visual exercise to test new ideas, thoughts, and aesthetics. I try to limit each piece to around 30 minutes to an hour to create and explore multiple ideas. Inspiration comes from anything from the featured guest, to the music, or whatever my muse is for that week."
The first year started as a systematic design inspired by a typeface I was developing then and has become more robust as the years have progressed.” 

- Michael Cina


Michael Cina
Cina Associates / Cina Art / Public Type xxxxxx

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S.02 E.15Fred Thomas Each “color layer” was printed out as three separate black layers and then re-combined and re-colored to make the final piece. 

Ex. 1 shows one of the layers pasted into a sketchbook.

Ex. 2 shows all of the black layers put together before the color was assigned. My favorite combo. ;)

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S.02 E.16Yasi Salek

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Herb 17 was a breakthrough on how I thought and felt about these covers and what they could be. -Cina


S.02 E.17Trevor Jackson



S.02 E.18L'Rain “The music of L'Rain is like hurtling through time-traveled space. You watch history fly by you, your life, and the lives of others. It has a disorienting effect, but you come out awakened to bigger possibilities. Taja's HS18 playlist is no different. It rides a spiritual plane and often gives way to prismatic gasps of feeling. A weightless but serious mood. It's the NOW sound that seems to have always been here.”-SV4 on L’Rain



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S.02 E.19Jace Clayton

“Understanding music through the lens of technology, not just of its making, but of its transmission and its amplification (both sonically and culturally) has led him to some marvelous places. Another aspect of /rupture-ism is an intense interest in regionality and how that has changed with technology. What is “local” now is different than 20 years ago due to globalization but the local sound can’t, and shouldn’t, be washed out.” -SV4 on Jace Clayton (DJ Rupture)
S.02 E.20Toby Feltwell

“An abbreviated bio goes like this. The man behind your favorite brands, some of mine at least. CV includes: Mo'Wax (coming out of the same creative ooze as legends like Ben Drury and Will Bankhead, 1996 - 2003), signing Dizzee Rascal & Wiley to XL, Bathing Ape (including launching the NYC shop and Billionaire Boy's Club) (main 2003-2005 and also 2005-2011) and launching the Cav Empt brand with Sk8thing and Hishiyama (Hishi) Yutaka in 2011 where they "continue to be excited by the process of making whatever we feel like making." It's enough to blind you.” -SV4 on Toby Feltwell of Cav Empt


S.02 E.21KATOMAN“First off: there is no irony, no guilty pleasure involved when I talk about cheesy music. It stands for respect and simple fun.”
-Katoman“A syrupy and ecstatic push from the legendary Tokyo music man (label/booking/promoter/DJ) and bartender.”


S.02 E.22Andy Kellman "This mix combines recent favorites with a few older obsessions. It's a digital C90 of distinct halves. The first side might be most effective in the a.m., and the other is definitely p.m. material with a fully energized finish. There's a happenstance audiovisual (intimate) connection between the first and last songs. The playlist starts with one of the Girls trying to get ahold of her crush. We see at the end that the evasive party is Starchild so annoyed by the persistence that he has taken his phone off the hook, his mind on the subject of "Black Diamond.” -AK

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S.02 E.23Yale Evelev
There’s a quote by David Byrne on Luaka Bop’s site that perfectly encapsulates their M.O.: "Overall, we think of the music we work with as contemporary pop music, and we try to present it as such." The label has had a knack for making the once unheralded seem like an inevitable fact. - SV4 on Yale Evelev of Luaka Bop

S.02 E.24Eothen Alapatt
“At the moment, I look for records that just strike a chord in me, for whatever reason. I think that, after a certain point, an enthusiast starts looking less and less for words to describe what he’s feeling and more starts reflecting on that feeling. The connoisseur does the opposite. I firmly consider myself an enthusiast.” - EA

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Photo: Nathan BajarS.02 E.25Helado Negro
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S.02 E.26Leo Fitzpatrick

Leo’s Kids character, Telly, reminded me of a friend I had met at summer camp who lived uptown named Matt (who luckily lacked Telly’s sinister streak). When I’d go to NYC with my family in my teens, I loved to hang with Matt. It was the mid-late 90s so for a suburban hip-hop fan like me, it was heaven. It also gave a teen a feeling of extreme freedom to mill about NYC. We’d walk around Broadway and Lafayette and check out shops (Supreme, X-Large, Liquid Sky) for sneakers and mixtapes, and I recall everything smelled like incense. I don't know why he hung out with me, maybe he just humored me or liked that I looked up to him. I felt like an acne-ridden Nick Carraway (or a, um, herb) in an oversized tee watching him move through the city, synthesizing plans in the pre-cell phone era was hugely exciting. You'd buzz someone's apartment and never know what would be upstairs, or coming downstairs. -SV4 S.02 E.27Ash Lauryn


Photo by Braylen Dion.


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“The bigger story for Ash, apart from her clear talent, is the mission to reconnect dance music to its true origins. In a powerful interview with Billboard last year, Kevin Saunderson shared the unspoken but widely shared concern that dance music’s continued commercialization had failed to keep black artists front and center.” - SV4

S.02 E.28Liz Warner
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“This playlist honors those moments when artists look outside of their own body of work to create new, unexpected moments.” -LW
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