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Wax Poetics is reshaping and relaunching its journals together with a brand new digital members-only hub. Support this project by going to their website here and pledging with your desired amount in return for a reward. Wax Poetics was the original music journal focussing on quality long-form journa

Big Fun in the Big Town is a Dutch music documentary from 1986 directed by Bram van Splunteren which follows Marcel Vanthilt on his journey to discover more about this emerging subculture in New York City called Hip-Hop. The crew managed to interview several important pioneers of early Hip-Hop, incl

As a small, independent brand, almost all our business is based on personal relationships. As true fans of sneaker culture, we are deeply invested in this retail game. We have strong connections to everyone we work with, and to introduce the people behind the tight circle of global Patta stockists,

With an average of over a million visitors, London’s Notting Hill Carnival is second only to Brazil's Rio Carnival in size, and is now one of the globe's largest annual arts events. NHC is considered to be the largest street event in Europe. Whilst Notting Hill Carnival is rooted in Caribbean cultur

As a small, independent brand, almost all our business is based on personal relationships. As true fans of sneaker culture, we are deeply invested in this retail game. We have strong connections to everyone we work with, and to introduce the people behind the tight circle of global Patta stockists,

Antifa, Chasseurs de Skins (=Antifa, Skinhead Hunters) is an enlightening documentary by Marc-Aurèle Vecchione from 2008, on gangs that fought racism in the streets of Paris in the mid-1980s. These anti-fascist groups -the Red Warriors, the Ducky Boys and the Ruddy Fox- came up in reaction to the at

In the context of the G/D THYSELF program, we had the honor of interviewing Johny Pitts , the UK writer, photographer and journalist. John is the curator of the online journal Afropean.com , a platform dedicated to the Afro-European diaspora. In his book, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, he shares

Originally produced for PBS in 1992, music video director Diane Martel’s film Reckin ’ Shop: Live From Brooklyn focuses on the abstract form of freestyle dancing that arose in New York in the wake of break dancing, beautifully shot in black and white. The Patta x Summer Dance Forever Long Sleeve Shi

Summer Dance Forever is an international urban dance and theatre festival with battles, workshops, performances, parties and a seminar, where dancers from around the world gather in the city of Amsterdam, each year in August. Due to COVID-19, SDF will be presented as an online festival this year, fr

In anticipation of this years' edition of the important international hiphop dance festival Summer Dance Forever, taking place online August 18-26, Patta presents a trio of interviews with key figures in the world of dance. We're kicking off with Kelly B , who forms part of the XGENCREW. Get Familia

After the great success of the last running challenge, Patta Running Team is starting of next week with the very first day of the Nike Club Running Challenge. With a duration of 4 weeks, each member of the team will be posting a tip of the week every Monday. Next to that, every Friday, the team will

All Junglists: ‘A London Someting Dis’ is a documentary tracing the origins of Drum and Bass through Jungle Music that was first shown as part of Channel 4's Black Christmas season in 1994.

We had a chat with London-based, online comedian - Munya Chawaw a about his influences, creative process as well as his daily routine/motivation. Find the full interview below: How did your relationship with comedy begin? I grew up in Zimbabwe and my grandparents still lived in England. They’d alway

Patta is proud to present an exclusive mix by Kees "KC The Funkaholic" Heus, a proper local legend if ever there was one. Kees has the most impressive of resumés: he has been DJ-ing for nearly 40 years, works as the booker for pop venue, club and cultural center Paradiso, was the creator of Holland'

In 1979, the British televised arts programme The South Bank Show, followed Talking Heads during the recording of their third album Fear of Music . Watch the short documentary, an excellent impressionistic cut-up of live recordings, studio interview footage and images of '70s New York, below.