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Participating contributors and artists include Ari Robey-Lawrence, Anthony Nicholson, Ash Lauryn, Barbie Bertisch, DJ Swisha, Gavilán Rayna Russom, Hiromi Kiba, Jitwam, June Canedo, Justin Strauss, Ladin Awad, Lars Probert, Maddy Salvage, Michael Holman, Nathaniel Jay, Nick Boyd, Nina Posner, Robert Hood, Paul Raffaele, Salvatore Carlino, Sanna Almajedi, Selwa Abd, Sienna Fekete, Tottie, Turtle Bugg, Wyatt D. Stevens. Designed by Paul Raffaele. This issue is dedicated in loving memory to Francis Mirai Nishida.

For the 11th in the KFAX series Luca Lozano dusts off his old Variflex and scuffed elbow pads and ollies his way into the world of early skateboard logos. The birth and golden age of skateboarding and skateboarding competition saw a slew of newly formed companies jumping on the bandwagon in the early 60s and beyond. KFAX11 seeks to represent some of the those companies, some of which were short lived and some of which are still operating. As always with the KFAX series, the selection is in keeping with the overall style and represents the crudest and simplest of logos as well as the more established and professional looking ones.

Mechanical Reproductions stay true to their original mission statement of being ‘an outlet for editions of print and vinyl’ and, for their third release, serve up a 48 page archive of some of the posters created by Young Echo’s Amos Childs & Sam Barrett for the long running nights the collective have been running since 2010.‘Heavyweight Champion is the result of six years’ collaborative collage works for Bristol’s Young Echo collective.The collective’s 12 members have been running club nights, radio shows and releasing music since 2010. Two of them, Amos Childs & Sam Barrett (who also make music together as O$VMV$M), have been responsible for creating the posters to promote the club nights since the start.These posters are a regular fixture in the visual landscape of the city, on walls, bins, bus stops and pretty much any other available surface in the lead up to each event. Their informal visual language immediately sets them apart from the other flyers vying for attention. They’re intriguing: through not having the artist names featured as prominently as possible they encourage the viewer to take a deeper look. There’s dense layers of images and cut-and- pasted phrases to be deciphered – ultimately a far more engaging experience than being shouted at by a generic and large-fonted neon specimen.Thanks to the local council (and keen fans who would rather see them on their walls at home), more often than not these works are gone soon after they’re tacked up, meaning the only archive of them is as low resolution images on various social media channels. ‘Heavyweight Champion’, then, aims to provide a lasting document of this unique and vital part of Bristol’s musical culture…’A448 pagesFull Colour300gsm cover100gsm evolution uncoated inner pages