Photographic cut ups by Lucas Simoes. Leif

In 1955, a Russian émigré died alone, unknown and in poverty at the hôpital de Lagny to the north of Paris. After leading a hermit's existence in his small room...

Sculpture & installation by Henrique Oliveira. Leif

A selection of beautiful Brutalist architecture. Props to FYB Pap•il•lon

'No Ordinary Monkey is Phil South (Golf Channel Recordings boss) and Anton Esteban (Ghost Note)... Carlos from Whatever We Want Records is also a founding member...

Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the 'Golden Age' of British book illustration. Leif

This is a documentary about the largest and the most famous torrent website in the world – The Pirate Bay – and the story behind it. It’s the day before the...

The new Knife album is pretty dark and delicious. Definitely some interesting lyrics and ideas being explored about the somewhat troubled times we live in....

Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Leif

A snapshot of the current New York City record industry. Via - Pitchfork TV

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During the 70's world renowned illustration artist Frank Frazetta called Jones "the greatest living painter" Nick◊

Legendary, obscure disco mix by DJ Harvey. DJ Harvey - Sarcastic Disco, Vol 2 by Leifpodhajsky on Mixcloud

Lori Hepner creates twitter-portraits of people using text from social media sites that she translates into ASCII binary code, then into aesthetic information...

Early covers from Heavy Metal Magazine. An adult illustrated fantasy title. Leif ~ Nick◊

A lovely mix by the Gaslamp Killer. Leif

Glitch Textiles by Phillip Stearns. "Glitches in the cold, hard logic of digital circuits transformed into soft, warm textiles." Tom

This 63 minute ode to weed is about as epic and drenched in stoner haze and mist as it gets. 'The song chronicles the pilgrimage of “Weedian” kinsfolk to the...

Andrew Jones, a.k.a. Android Jones, is a U.S. visual artist working in the fields of film concept art, video-games, fashion design, body painting, illustration and...

Paintings by Japanese artist Yuji Moriguchi. Leif

Illustrations by American artist Virginia Frances Sterrett. 'Sterrett received her first commission at the age of 19 (shortly after she was diagnosed with...

Beautiful split cassette album of lush glitchy textural beats and experimental sounds from Tropes & Lomaji. Perfect way to bring in my morning. Released on the...

Weird but beautiful and highly detailed mixed media paintings by Dasha Shishkin. Tom

Another tasty afrocubist, beats, jazzy, hip hop fuled mix to space out with ~ by Ras G Live From SpaceBase Vol.1 A really beautiful friend of mine...

Escher-like magic realism by Canadian painter Rob Gonsalves. Pap•il•lon

Dark gothic drawings by Russian born Vania Zouravliov. Leif

Flying Lotus and his 3 layer, 3D projections. Wild.

Some striking paintings and light installations by my good friends Reg Davis and Heath Newman

Sculptures and paintings from Vasa Mihich showing colour and light at its best. Tom

Publisher & Artist, Apartment, Amsterdam Centrum. I Wonder if she needs a flatmate. Via freundevonfreunden Leif

Album and book illustrations by Don Brautigam. ↓ Leif

King Britt - 'I was asked a few months ago to curate a show on Afrofuturism and its influences on me and my compositional work. Afrofuturism is a term originated by...

Playful light and long exposure photography by Brice Bischoff. Tom

Celebration at Big Sur (also known simply as Celebration) is a film of the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival in Big Sur, California. featuring - Crosby, Stills,...

'This is the Clockwork Orange meets the Wicker Man of Folk Music. A british folk band that wanted to take the mysterious tales of rape, lunacy, gorefests, and...

BBC 'Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war. Between 1968 and...

Spatial object sculptures by Michael Johansson Leif

Seemingly based around “The temptation of Christ” 40 Days in the Desert is Jean Giraud's psychedelic masterpiece in monochrome. Nick◊

Henri Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. The colour palette is what hooks me in. Mesmerising. Leif

A little spikey jazz prog album to fill your soul. Sweet Smoke formed in Brooklyn in 67 and then moved to Germany to live in a commune. These are the fruits of that...

Infrared photos of the Congo by Richard Mosse. } Leif

Book sculptures by Guy Laramee. Leif

Updates from the wondrous Killian Eng. Blows me away. Previous post - HERE Leif

This self titled album by 'Voice of the Seven Woods' is probably one of the most under appreciated pieces of music in recent years. The guitar work is outstanding,...

Amazing experimental mixed media videos by filmmaker Andrew Thomas Huang.

Pablo Amaringo was an acclaimed Peruvian artist, renowned for his intricate, colourful depictions of his visions from drinking the entheogenic plant brew...

Tribal, muggy, outer space psych dub, drawn to infinity. Get a hold. Sun Araw BUY IT Leif

Natural sculptures by Andy Goldsworthy. "Andy Goldsworthy is an extraordinary, innovative British artist whose collaborations with nature produce uniquely...

Omni was a science and science fiction magazine containing articles on space exploration, the future and other science based topics. It also contained fantasy short...

Graham Hancock speaks on consciousness, Ayahuasca and the implications for the human future of a society that wages total war on true cognitive...

Mystic jewellery by the Sydney duo Maniamania. Leif

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Warwick Goble was an illustrator of children's books. He specialized in Japanese and Indian themes. Goble was born in Dalston, north London, the son of a...

"Warm, sizzling dub mix coming from LA-based husband and wife duo Peaking Lights." This ones a pure gem. Via DUMMY MAG Leif

New paintings and glitch by my good friend Coco Monier. Leif

Strange world mix from the vaults of Quai Branly museum, Paris. "Back in february, i was asked to create a dj set for an event called Les Siestes Electroniques....

The The Holydrug Couple from Santiago, Chile have created a wonderfully spaced out psych record which drifts and floats away into eternity. A good one for Tame...

Brilliant scientific, mythical, weird and wonderful illustrations from Katie Scott. Tom

Andy Gilmore is an artist, designer and musician based in Rochester, New York whose work I came across on Gold Panda's 7" Mountain / Financial District. His...

RGB by Carnovsky combines three worlds of natural illustrations into one, then when you look through red, green and blue transparent filters they reveal each...

Zdzisław Beksiński was a renowned Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor. Nick◊

Beautiful handmade collages from Bryan Olson aka Glass Planet. Tom

An oldish one but a GEM of a mix from the girls at PAP•IL•LON 01 | Lothar and The Hand People - Space Hymn (edit) 02 | Connan Mockasin - Forever...

Josef Albers was a German born painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, writer and teacher that mainly looked at communicating a subject in the simplest...

Fantastic lecture on end times, culture and the cosmic drama. "Since the rise of western monotheism the human experience has been marginalized. We have been...

A Russian born artist, designer, typographer, photographer and architect who designed many exhibitions and propaganda for the Soviet Union in the early 20th...

Phoreyz Funk / Soul, Latin, Rock mixtape

I recently went to Brussels and saw some of Bruegel's painting in the flesh. 'Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for...

On my last visit to Paris I was blown away by the 'Architectures de l'étrange' room at The Musée d'Orsay. It displays the work of architecture students...

Leonora Carrington as a British-born Mexican artist, a surrealist painter and a novelist

Yoshitaka Amano 天野 喜孝 is a Japanese artist, character designer, illustrator and a theatre and film scenic designer and costume designer. Nick◊

Great rare collection of psych gems by Doc Delay. If you like it buy is HERE

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs...

Some stunningly vibrant compositions by Anai Greog

"I love geometry. Lines, curves, rectangles, circles, triangles are a simplification of our real world but also their building blocks. Geometry, like physics or...

Edmund Dulac was a French book illustrator.

Om is one of my favorite bands to listen to while working, the slow sludge and soft cyclic songs bring me space and clarity. These guys are two former members of...

Ernst Haeckel was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new...

Bruce Holwerda "People are always wondering where I get my ideas, or what do you call these? If I were to be honest, one painting session years ago I veered off...

The timeless otherworldy vistas of Tim White

MERRYMIXTAPE by James Lake on Mixcloud JAMES LAKE

Terence Mckenna was an 'American ethnobotanist, philosopher, psychonaut, researcher, teacher, lecturer and writer on many subjects, such as human consciousness,...

This album takes you on an epic soul searching jouney from start to finish. Probably my all time favorite female vocalist (plus she is a gorgeous). If you have a...

Photography by Henrik Purienne. Purienne has shot a lot of beautiful women and love them or hate them those American Apparel ads certainly made an impact. I love...

Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the twentieth century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and...

Series 'The Hyena & Other Men' photographed by Pieter Hugo

Photography by Kanoa Zimmerman

I would like to welcome my friends Pap•il•lon to the MELT team! They will be regularly posting wonderful mixes and rad arts from their universe. When I...

Jean Delville was a Belgian symbolist painter, writer, and occultist. In 1896, he founded the Salon d’Art Idealiste, which is considered the Belgian equivalent to...

The Baroques were a band from Milwaukee and made strange fuzzed out garage acid jams, they signed to Chess records who i think got more than they bargained...

A James Tom mixxx. Drift.

Weird and wonderful drawings by James Unsworth I was in Donlon Books and spotted this (what looked to be a rizo printed) little number called 'Ninja Turtle Sex...

Oskar Kokoschka 'was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.' 'Consciousness is a sea ringed...

Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader was last seen in 1975 when he took off in what would have been the smallest sailboat ever to cross the Atlantic. He left...

Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can...

Luisa Via Roma presents Tales of a Primatic Labyrinth.

Rudolf Hausner was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. Hausner has been described as a "psychic realist" and "the first psychoanalytical...

Bass solos, funk, custom made guitars and a hell of a story to go along with it. This LP is a ridiculously good Turkish psych, pop dream. Re-released on the amazing...

A cracking good mixtape from my friend Théo De Gueltzl. This guy knows his shit. I've seen his music library and danced many nights away in his lounge drinking...

Jacek Yerka is a Polish painter of fantasy world and landscapes.

Produced by Richard Anderson & Pete Keen // aka PEACE PIPE

'Hieronymus Bosch, was a Dutch painter. His work is known for its use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives.'

This is one of my favorite Kraut rock albums and thats saying a lot. It was recorded in an air raid shelter so you know its good. Of the 213 records first pressed...

Sheats / Goldstein Residence, is a house designed and built between 1961 and 1963 by American architect John Lautner in L.A 'The House, designed in 1963 for...

Exactly what it says it is. Cabin Porn is a site dedicated to the sexiest cabins in the world. The first time i visited this site i was stuck on it for 2 hours...

Goat - World Music. A crazy blend of tribal, psych, world, jazz, blah blah. Just listen its good. You can stream the whole album over at Spin

Analog photography by Ellen Rogers

Painting by Samantha Keely Smith "Smith's artwork represents a striving to reconcile the inner world of instinct and the tidal sweep of our emotional life, with...

Photographs by Eric Valli

Stunning Art Direction and Cinematography by Tarsem Singh for 2006's "The Fall"

Photography by Daniel Sannwald.

“Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.” ― Albert Camus, The Rebel: An...

“I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.” ― Richard Brautigan

Surreal oil paintings by Fulvio Di Piazza “Di Piazza’s paintings are a perfect example of horror vacui, finding an ideal setting for expression in the forest...

AZUL Volume One. Experimental Sound. Psych / Kraut / Prog A1 Third Transition.Voice Of The Seven Thunders. The Burning Mountain.Voice Of The...

Harry Partch was an American composer and creator of weird and wacky instruments. He worked extensively and systematically with microtonal scales and most of his...

Remedios Varo was a Spanish-Mexican, surrealist painter. She was influenced by a wide range of mystic and hermetic traditions and was as fascinated with sacred...

"Suburban Cinema" Mix by Mike Kay This is how Jazz is done.

Syd Mead is a visual futurist and concept artist. He is best known for his designs for science-fiction films such as Blade Runner, Aliens and Tron. Of his work,...

"These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place, or...

Futuristic illustrations by Hajime Sorayama

Wonderfully perverse and twisted traditional woodcut artworks by Toshio Saeki.

Paintings by Colin Prahl. Tapping into the zeitgeist of higher reality.

Sculpture and street installations by Mark Jenkins.

A beautiful and extensive collection of design and illustration from Japan in the 70s and 80s. Takashi Koizumi Shigeo Okamoto Shigeo...

"Susan Seddon Boulet's figures are out of our dreams, those which flee from us upon awakening, those which are dispersed like dew at dawn, those which fall apart...

As well as an author, poet, professor and linguist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an accomplished artist. Crafting detailed maps, book jackets, typefaces and...

This is one of my favorite mixes ever. It starts out with some eastern grooves, moves into some funk and slips out to some rasta. It will make you smile the whole...

Paintings by Wolfgang Harms Thanks Lucy Hardie

Illustration and paintings by Arik Roper

Sculptures by Korean artist Jae-Hyo Lee

Nick Ervinck 'explores the borders between various media. He tries to find an interaction between virtual constructions and hand-made...

Tadanori Yokoo 横尾 忠則 is a Japanese graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter.

I have admired Ali Scarpulla's photography for a long time. Her occultist look at nature and mysticism is both beautiful and...

'Open Space Office' Photos by Tito Mouraz "The series presented here was shot in Portugal over a 2-year period and represents a transformed landscape that...

Tomás Sánchez, one of the most important and celebrated living Cuban artists. His work is meticulous in its breathtaking detail, but the objective of the artist...

'Sponsored by National Geographic, Malcolm Kirk’s first expedition to Papua New Guinea in 1967 entailed a 6-month traverse of the island’s tropical rainforest...

Sabrina Ratté's "video work mixes digital and analog techniques and often deals with the diverse manifestations of light."

Yet another stellar mixtape from the Peaking Lights duo. Their new album 'Lucifer' is out. Check

New York. Berlin. London. 2011 - 2012 A YOUNG MAGIC + LEIF PODHAJSKY COLLABORATION Showcasing a collection of sounds far and wide, we present The Solstice Mix...

Silverman Gallery

"The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste." -Diego...

"Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful." - Sidney Nolan

A look back at Jean Giraud. No introduction is needed.

My friend Australian Surrealist painter Ronnie Flotsam makes extraordinary compositions of magical woven beauty. Both musically and visually. Here's the log of a...

“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.” - Oscar Wilde...

"The MAPS mix is a collection of Young Magic rarities, remixes, demos, field recordings, flips, beats, b-sides from Melt and whatever else we made over the last...

Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked up to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love...

"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."...

"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music."- Joan Miró

“The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.” - Milan Kundera

“Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were...

Compiled by: Young Magic & Leif Podhajsky. Artwork by: Leif Podhajsky.

“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.” - Charles Bukowski

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his...

“Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this” ― Richard Brautigan

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and...

Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger is a Swiss surrealists painter, sculpture, and set designer. Giger is often referred to in pop culture, especially in science fiction and...

Klaus Voormann is a grammy award winning artists, noted musician, and record producer. Voormanns affiliation with the Beatles dates back to their time in Hamburg in...

Art is not so much talent as character.. it's what you are, the qualities of the person. - John Olsen

Stills from The Color Of Pomegranates (Սայաթ-Նովաg) Sayat Nova ~ a 1968 Armenian film by director Sergei Parajanov. It's a visually stunning and deeply...

Pandit Pran Nath (Devanagari:पंडित प्राणनाथ)(1918-1996) was a Hindustani classical singer and teacher of the Kirana Gharana (Kirana...

Rudolf Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist. A true thinker, exploring facets of the soul and the spirit. This post...

Hello and welcome to MELT Mixtapes. In the coming months we will be releasing a stack of sounds compiled by our favorite artists and musicians for your ears,...

The Spaniard Gervasio Gallardo is known for his prolific surrealist paintings and book covers. Gallardo was commissioned by Ballantine Books in 1969 to create the...

Artist, designer, typographer, creative director Michael Cina creates stunning cross pollinated, mixed media artwork. His body of work for Ghostly Records is...

Roger Hane (1939-1974) was an illustrator of books and record albums, known for his surreal fanciful art. Hane produced over three hundred illustrations, many of...

Born in 1935 in the Bronx Ira attended Cornell University and Columbia University. In the early 1960s, he lived in Tangier and published GNAOUA magazine, an early...

Paul Outerbridge was an American photographer born in 1896, known for his experiments in colour photography, still life and erotic nudes. "Art is life seen...

Drawing by David Chaim Smith

Drawings by Paul Noble He has an upcoming show at Gagosian London titled 'Nobson', November 10 - December 17, 2011

The Mysterious Cities of Gold ("Taiyô no ko Esteban" ~ original title) was a French/Japanese animated series released in the 1982. Co produced by DiC Entertainment...

Paintings by Lesley Vance

Alex & Maxine Sanders, Winter Ritual, 1969. "Maxine Morris, high priestess of a Manchester coven sets the alter for a dawn ritual on one of the high and private...

Spectacular futuristic illustration by Kilian Eng Represented by Début Art {

John Whitney was an animator, composer and inventor, considered to be the father of computer animation. “To get emotionally involved creatively at the...

Picoby Band D'Abomey - Mi Ma Kpe Dji Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - Ahouli Vou Yelli Napo de Mi Amor Et Ses Black Devil´s - Leki...

Artwork by Dan McPharlin

Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of...

Painting by Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) The Captain & his Magic Band Seated At The Table In The...

Balam Acab - Motion by TriAngleRecords Kona Triangle "Airlock" by Porter Records SAMIYAM - Cushion by BRAINFEEDER 11 - Jah by...

Paintings and Performance by artist Yves Klein.

Spontaneous surreal biomorphic shapes and landscpapes by James McCarthy

01 Sacrificial by SHIGETO Hype Williams - Rescue Dawn by aimlowmusic Clams Casino - Motivation by Drugs and Mirrors Shabazz...

Paintings by Kawase Hasui from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

002. A selection of record covers.

001. A selection of record covers.

Paintings & Works on paper by Phillip Taaffee

Paintings by one of my favourite artists René Magritte + adapted or plagiarized works for album covers. Record Covers

Album covers by Wandrey Studio in Hamburg. After some research i have made the assumption that Wandrey's Studio is the work of Petrus Wandrey whos work looks at...

Exquisite paintings and album covers by Mati Klarwein "Some visual artworks are made to be talked about more than to be seen, others are made to be seen more than...