Nice site hardformat.org set up to celebrate our love of brilliant music-related design.

Hard Format isn’t intended to become a dusty museum devoted exclusively to past glories, though there’ll certainly be some of that, we also want to highlight the brilliant new design work being produced right now. In fact, we’re not setting ourselves up to supply a canon of classic design – this is a place where we record stuff we like, if you want yet another reproduction of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band there are enough ‘Greatest album covers of all time’ books out there already.

As more and more there seems to be a shift of focus onto the digital format, this is a great place to browse vinyl, CDs etc as objects.

Here’s the tracklist for the first 24 Hour Party People mixtape (CD actually). I’ll have a few to give away on Saturday night, so if you want one, just come up & ask.

Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing!
Franz Ferdinand – All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem cover)
Arctic Monkeys – Teddy Picker
Pigeon Detectives – I Found Out
Dirty Pretty Things – Doctors And Dealers
Pull Tiger Tail – Let’s Lightning
The Rakes – Binary Love
The Research – I Love You But…
The Rapture – Whoo! Alright-Yeah…Uh Huh
The Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control (Soulwax Nite Version)
Klaxons – Golden Skans
Little Man Tate – House Party At Boothy’s
The Fratelli’s – Chelsea Dagger
Maxïmo Park – Our Velocity
The View – Wasted Little DJ’s
We Are Scientists – It’s A Hit
Interpol – The Heinrich Maneuver (forthcoming single from new album)
Art Brut – Nag Nag Nag Nag
LCD Soundsystem – No Love Lost (live Joy Division cover)
Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out of This Country

Cheers, Bill