Max Dräxler's Hospital Christmas comic strip

And the winner of the 2011 Hospital Xmas photoshop comp is this...

And the winner of the 2011 Hospital Xmas photoshop comp is this inspired piece by Jan Fabian. Jan describes it for us:

Hi Tony,

I’m sending my entry. The original stamp was illustrated by the famous czech artist Josef Lada.
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hospital photochop final entries!

today's xmas hospital photocops!

chops pt3!

today's photochops pt2

First Hospital Christmas photochop entries incoming!

Christmas Photoshop Competition

It’s nearly time for the Hospital Christmas podcast, so as has becomea Hospital Podcast tradition we are asking you photoshoppers to have ago at taking our artists and making them a little more seasonal. Wehave a Hospital goodie pack for the winning entry including the brandnew Hospital...

LTD Edition Hospital Album Specials

the Colman family are moving house soon and whilst sifting through old CDs in my lounge I came across some ‘specials’ - limited edition or promo only album versions. To honour our release of 15 Years of Hospital i thought i’d post em here:

The cassette single of...

Nile Rodgers Changed my Life

15 years is a while, so it’s time to reflect on the events that caused this label Hospital Records to happen.

Way back in 1978 when I was 17, I reluctantly went to my first disco. Reluctantly, because all I liked listening to was punk, new wave, prog rock and early metal. I simply...

The prototype for Just One Second was this remix i did in 2007...

The prototype for Just One Second was this remix i did in 2007 of a track called Niji (Rainbow) by the Japanese band Nirgilis. After this was released in Japan, Elsa Esmeralda hit me up on Myspace and on the spur of the moment I asked her to write an original vocal over the instrumental of the...

IZIT - ‘Stingray’ live at The George Robey, 1987. My...

IZIT - ‘Stingray’ live at The George Robey, 1987.

My second band was called IZIT and initially i was the front man. This recording of us covering the theme tune from Gerry Anderson’s Stingray animation is from one of the many ancient VHS recordings i recently had...

Hospital classics in polyphonic midi ringtone format!

At the dawn of time before phones could play mp3s the only way you could get your favourite tune on your nokia was to buy a polyphonic ringtone, usually from a ringtone shark who never paid any of the artists or writers involved (nothing changes huh). We got one of our work experience crew to do...

Pretty decent video of Mr Darrison and me giving it 110% in...

Pretty decent video of Mr Darrison and me giving it 110% in Moscow recently at the WODNB event. Always a good idea to play a bit of Paul McCartney and Wings at a rave. 

London Elek ‘Rewind’ Japanese 1996 version.  We had...

London Elek ‘Rewind’ Japanese 1996 version. 

We had this video made in 96 for the Sony Japan release of Rewind, which was a totally different mix of the tune we released in the UK. We lost touch with the company that made the video, and a VHS copy was the only archive we had,...

hospital medical kit memorabilia

14 years ago, one year after Hospital Records was born, we signed a deal with Sony Japan who had a d&b;sub division called Office 1. They released our first ever album ‘Ultrasound’ and to promote it they created a bespoke promotional medical kit to give to journalists and taste...

My grandpa used to cut dubplates.

I’m getting ready to move house and this always involves shedding some vinyl that i know i will never ever play. While going through my shelves I came across two acetates (aka dubplates) well they may be shellac or some early form of acetate but in essence these are custom pressed records...

Camel rider wearing a Hospital shirt

this is Add Senior who says he will be at the front row of Hospitality in Leeds on Friday. I hope you don’t forget your camel mate.

Danny Byrd’s voicebox. Danny premiered his live show in...

Danny Byrd’s voicebox. Danny premiered his live show in London last week’s Hospitality. I was onstage preparing for my set and caught Danny’s voicebox solo with my phone. I love the voicebox and I used to play one rigged up to my guitar amp. What is it? it’s a tube, like...

a little tour around my ‘traditional’ Bavarian hotel...

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a little tour around my ‘traditional’ Bavarian hotel I stayed in when I played Wurzburg last weekend with MC Wrec

Every piece of London Elektricity music was made on a mac.

Therefore i have to thank Steve Jobs who dreamed up the instruments I have used over the years to get the ideas from my brain into your ears.

The first Lonelek album Pull the Plug was recorded on a beige 7200

i used the headphone output (a mini jack) for all the audio. It...

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old skool cakes

today the lady colminator was lent an early 1980s birthday cake book. I took a particular shine to these:

walkman cake

disco cake

concorde cake

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the last Friday in September is a very busy day at hospital records

sackfuls of signed Camo and Krooked albums ready for dispatch today. 

stack of new Teeshirts and merch that’s just come in - this pile is destined for the Hospital Shop at Brixton Academy tonight. 

I’m ready for the carnage tonight. are you?

conker with glasses

something to get us all in the mood for Brixton tonight. Took this while waiting in the park yesterday for the fam. we are having an Indian Summer - bloody hot this week and it’s gonna be October tomorrow - love it :)

WODNB MOSCOW

Some pics from my set at World of Drum and Bass in Moscow with Mr Darrison on the mic - as you can see we had a great time.  

my helmet is your helmet

love seeing customised Hospital gear. check this email from Ed Gatland:Hello to all the Big H Team,Just thought you may want to take a look at my Helmet.. Haha.. As always here it is repping Hospitality but this time looking over a stunning lake near Chatel - in the french Alps.  I would have...

panda style!

i played at YK in Helsinki on Friday night and it was a brilliant night. It was my first time in the club and as I walked in local boys LAOS (Large Amount of Soul) were on stage with their live band. They were really good too. Also playing that night was Helsinki’s own Muffler, a Hospital...

my rider in Moscow last weekend

when i asked for grapefruit juice i didn’t bargain for this! :)

my top 5 clubs in the world i've played at

1) Matter, London (RIP) - capacity 3500: This was only open for just over a year and in that time it became hands down the best club in the world. It was designed as the perfect clubbing environment and it truly was. It closed partly because it was too perfect - that meant it was too costly to...

Plum Butter

Or, ‘what went on and what went wrong on holiday in Sardinia’ 

Firstly, let’s get the good (but boring if you weren’t there) bits out the way:

it looked like this every day for 2 weeks. It was hot and most importantly

we had an over...

droneboy: Peace in London DroneBoy Laundry

droneboy:

Peace in London

DroneBoy Laundry

tracklist for Hospital Podcast 150 freestyle mix

Had a few requests for this, so here it is! and if you missed the podcast get it here:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/hospital-records-podcast/id153880765

I did this mix after clearing out...

golf in the rain with MC Wrec. Photo my Andrew Attah taken at...

golf in the rain with MC Wrec. Photo my Andrew Attah taken at Lovebox 2011

Krooked out of Camo and Krooked playing a grass solo

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Krooked out of Camo and Krooked playing a grass solo

just got this lovely Tee from http://minus61.com/ :) Love it. 

just got this lovely Tee from http://minus61.com/ :) Love it. 

competition winner :)

Well done to Scott Gubbins - look out for the signed TPs in the post soon!

Top man, medic, ambulance driver and loyal junglist Matt Farrell...

Top man, medic, ambulance driver and loyal junglist Matt Farrell sent this in today and he said: I got the tattoo for a number of reasons. It’s become my daily reminder to do what I love, and forget the rest. 

I’ve never had a tattoo but if i did, i don’t think i could...

finished CD for Yikes! Remixes!! came in today as well! props to...

finished CD for Yikes! Remixes!! came in today as well! props to Stray, Mutated Forms, Unquote, Enei, B Complex, Royalston, Danny Byrd, Lung, Logistics and SPY for their amazing remixes. 

big! just got finished product on Yikes! Remixes!! massive...

big! just got finished product on Yikes! Remixes!! massive thanks to Enei, SPY, Logistics and Lung for their hard work

I want this numberplate!!!! this was spotted by Graham Densham

I want this numberplate!!!! this was spotted by Graham Densham

Hospitality at Lovebox was lovely! here’s a vid by Nez aka...

Hospitality at Lovebox was lovely! here’s a vid by Nez aka Redhavoc. big love to MC Wrec and the Hospitality crew and all our guests on the night. 

We Want YOU to be on Hospital Podcast 150

Our next show is Hospital Podcast 150 so it’s time to get you lot involved again! We want you to record yourself requesting a track of your choice and send us the recording to podcast@hospitalrecords.com. The best requests will not only be...

a day at lounge on the farm

last weekend we put on Hospitality at a festival in Kent called Lounge on the Farm.

Our venue was to be the Cow Shed:

and here’s a cow

the Prototypes kicked off proceedings

then Cyantific played what he later described as his favourite...

Win a test pressing of 'Yikes! Remixes!!'

Hot on the heels of the “Yikes!” LP, London Elektricity is back with a superb set of remixes from the crème de la crème of contemporary, worldwide D+B talent.

As we near the release of the London Elektricity - “Yikes! Remixes!!” album, we...