Under the covers: Zeke Clough
Electronic music's march towards an all-digital world has made for many casualties. One of the saddest in our opinion is that of sleeve design. Whereas once labels would budget for a silk-screened cover, now you have a friend knocking something up on Photoshop in less than 20 minutes for a digital release. There are plenty, though, who still honor the craft and that's exactly the type of person that Under The Covers is meant to celebrate.Look at Zeke Clough 's work. Now try to imagine the kindest Northern English accent that you can, talking about how to depict Satan holding a noose, getting ready to hang himself. These are the contradictions you face when you talk to Clough on the phone. You almost forget that he's responsible for some of electronic music's most shockingly morbid and detailed sleeve art over the past few years through his work for Shackleton and Appleblim's Skull Disco imprint and others.
Unsurprisingly, Clough is inspired by the works of comics in much the same way that R. Crumb took the format and turned it on its head in the '60s and '70s. (He counts Crumb and Zap Comix as influences as well.) He's not necessarily a dark person, however. It's just these dreams he keeps having, he says. In talking to him via e-mail and phone over the past month, we can confidently say that his nightmare is our gain: One such night yielded the poster for our RA X party in New York.
Designing sleeves was something that arose later for me. I didn't do it until Sam (Shackleton) started up the Skull Disco label. My earlier work went between two extremes, cartoon-style paintings with flat colours on one hand and more detailed black and white linework on the other. I really like doing cartoon-styles when I was a teenager, and I still do things like that. I got into having to do black and white work because there was more opportunity to get things printed. I wasn't confident enough with a brush at that time to use the same technique as I did with the color stuff, so I got into the cross-hatching thing. A few years ago I got really into Gary Panter , and I noticed he was doing a lot of cross-hatching, and I got into this psychedelic thing of just jamming as much detail into the page and seeing what happens.
Gary Panter, Zap Comix, even things like The Simpsons or old Disney cartoons are inspirations. I'm not really a dark person. That's kind of the irony of it.
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The man behind Skull Disco's iconic artwork and our RA X New York poster talks comics and death by orgasm. Electronic music's march towards an all-digital world has made for many casualties. One of the saddest in our opinion is that of sleeve design.
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