Index EN 中文 INCODER Observation Archive The Phantom Speaksby Handing Over the Microphone On August 17, Dazed ran a feature whose headline led with the words "a rare interview." The subject was Tricky — one of the architects of the Bristol sound, and for thirty years the artist most skilled at vanishing from his own success. His new album, Different When It's Silent, is his first under his own name in six years, and it circles his most private wound: the death of his daughter in 2019. Yet across the record his own voice recedes to near-inaudibility; the lead singer is Mitch Sanders, a young man from the same streets. A man who spent three decades practicing absence chose to...
Index EN 中文 INCODER Observation Archive The Machine Died First.Then It Became Jewelry. On August 17, Dazed profiled Amsterdam brand Roy Is A Mess: an iPod shuffle enlarged into a bangle, a Bluetooth speaker built into a wedge heel. Designer Roy Adriaens started making things two years ago; the era he pays homage to ended before he could live it. Meanwhile, eBay searches for the iPod Classic climbed 25% year on year, American students barred from bringing phones to school slipped iPods through the gap in the rules, and The Cut gave the whole behavior a name — friction-maxxing. A machine officially discontinued in 2022 appears to be starting a second life, and this time the function field is blank....
Index EN 中文 INCODER Observation Archive This market can be photographedIt cannot be found On 14 August, photographer Maxwell Vice's series PUNKETOS went live on Dazed: a Mexico City market where the capital's Indigenous Gen-Z punks gather. Thirty-five photographs, nine interviews — brand names, favorite garments, songs on repeat, all laid out. One thing stays off the record: where it is. "I will not disclose where this market is, at the request of the vendors. The kids will get mad!" The same day, in a separate Dazed feature, the same photographer described using "ghost-posting" to control how much of themselves gets seen. This record wants to sit with that coincidence: for some scenes, staying unfindable seems to be turning into...