Oliver Cartwright is a graphic artist out of Cambridge, England I met via the internet a little while back and kept in close touch with as he has kept me up to speed on current projects he has been working on. He has a super unique style boasting robotic and machine like images with great detail and a rapid fire approach to everything he does. I found myself revisiting his work more and more and wondered how he was so productive with completely refined finished products in these short periods of time between his updates to me. No explanation aside from the man is truly on his grind, extremely talented, and contageously inspiring to say the least.

After creating a timeline for some upcoming micro-projects I had been working on, I asked Ollie if he wanted to get down with an upcoming Yak Ballz leak. He obliged and actually opted to go one step further. So after a good while of emails and perfecting details we have what we need and next Tuesday, April 6th, I will be leaking a track called The Compass produced by the incredible Chapter 7 with accompanying art design AND video by the big homie from the UK, Oliver Cartwright. Here are a few images I pulled from his site to show you what the fuck I’m talkin’ ’bout. Please do yourself a favor and visit his website. It’s completely worth every minute you spend there clicking around.

http://www.olivercartwright.com/

STAY PEALED!!

The dawn of the TUMBLR age is upon us! We’ve created a tumblr blog to work in sync with the yakballz.net mothership.

http://yakballz.tumblr.com/

As you can see it already has previous posts from .net as we have been testing it’s functionality for a week prior. I really like the follower/following and re-blog capabilities; very much in the same vein as the Tweeter. So If you have a tumblr, feel free to follow to get the follow back, and re-blog the posts you’re into.

CHYEAHH

After posting the stream for this track a few days ago in the Julian Gilbert post I thought it would be cool to give this song away. So I spoke to House of Blow today and we decided to give this away for free to pop off St. Patty’s for the Sprang weather. We always felt like this was the party jam. When the weather is nice and you start to get the feeling it’s here to stay, partying is in order. And partying is always the jump off x10 when you feel that nice weather vibe being tossed around. Halogen Glow was never available for FREE download before and this is a perfect opp to snach it up, add it to your iPods, blogs, playlists, DJ sets, and jam it at your Houseparties and BBQ buggaloo’s.

download Halogen Glow (produced by House of Blow) here
http://fairtilizer.com/track/halogenglow

or click the little arrow pointing down on right hand side of the player below…

HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY!!!

***********************UPDATE: we (myself and my team of extremely talented individuals) have more free downloads, merchandise, news and other cool shit in the pipeline to be released in the near future. It’s all very exciting.

coming up:

Yak Ballz x Weathermen x The Pressure T-Shirt coming very soon!!!!

also a new track The Compass produced by Chapter 7 to be released in EARLY April!!!!!!

DONT SLEEP

Photo by Julian Gilbert

Julian Gilbert is my Cardboard Connect and a brilliant photographer. He does not use digital anything and he will shit on your digital camera bc the viewfinder is in his mind. I’m a huge fan of his and If you don’t see his hustle…you do now. This photo was taken during the recording session at EL-P‘s for the song Halogen Glow.

visit http://juliangilbert.blogspot.com

be sure and tell’em Yak Ballz sent’chaa

I guess everyone saw this coming. I really liked Lost Boys a lot, License to Drive, and Lucas when I was a kid. I also got hooked on The Two Corey’s reality TV show for the two seasons it was on. After his hay-day Corey Haim was always a trainwreck and an inevitable accident waiting to happen. Unfortunately it happened at 38.

what ever happened to the Glory Days when I pretended to be a goonie and Corey Haim had a license to drive but it went to an addiction – Glory Days Gone

peep the track here http://www.last.fm/music/Yak+Ballz/_/Glory+Days+Gone

13 years today.
I had Ready To Die on cassette that I bought with money I saved. I loved it.

probably my favorite shit he ever did…