T-Shirts will be showcased at the BANANAMANIA! SHOW x NY FASHION WEEK, at ROUGE58, 555 Metropolitan Ave. Brooklyn NY, opening today from 19h. The show will feature the limited hand-silkscreened t-shirt, the Capablanca nailpolish for Uslu Airlines, the premiere of “Peel Slowly and See” – a video installation featuring Tanja Siren, and site specific installations. Oh, and DISCO.

Afterparty is happening from 22ish on at Submercer, 147 1/2 Mercer Street New York, NY. We would love to see you there.

Special mention goes to the El Radioactivo banana t-shirt by Joan Bernat, which we dare to keep top secret, and surely deserves a prize of its own. We are working on that. Thanks to all participants, it has been a lovely process to go through all your designs and a hard choice to decide on just one. We love you.

Bananamania (in association with 20 Jazz Funk Greats and DONUTS!) is very proud to present TEENGIRL FANTASY this Sunday at Raum 20 in Neukölln. Teengirl Fantasy make the kind of original and off-kilter house styles that we love so dearly, and they are totally slammin’ live. They caused a storm with their debut album 7AM last year, and if you missed out so far, then check the awesome video for ‘Cheaters’ below. Of course it wouldn’t be a fully fledged Bananamaniac event without support from our very own LOS MASSIERAS and PRESTON G. PARALLAX, and we are very pleased to also have LA/Berlin artist XORZYZT on the bill. See you there!

Christian d’Or – 7 INCHES OF PLEASURE MIX by Christian d’Or

7 Inches of Pleasure is the new mixtape from Danish DJ Christian d’Or, the Disco Prince. The mix is made from the dogma that it was to comprise 7″ singles only. It’s an hour of disco, dust and… another word with d, let’s see… DREAMS!

Christian d’Or will be headlining tomorrow friday the Fourth Installment of Illusion Institute in Berlin, together with NY amigo Chupacabras, Preston G. Parallax, and our very own T.Keeler & Capablanca, topping it with live visuals from most spectacular Alison Childs (Donuts, DFA). Bananuts!

Have a listen to this Bananamania exclusive.

Tracklist:

CCS – Hurricane Coming
Johnny Wakelin – In Zaire
Stretch – Why Did You Do It?
Fancy – Wild Thing
Yazoo – State Farm
Hall & Oates – I Can’t Go For That
Sailor – Down By The Docks
Jackie Robinson – Pussyfooter
Banbara – Shack Up
Pino d’Angio – Ma Quale Idea
People,s Choice – Jam Jam Jam (All Night Long)
Mandy B. Jones – 1-2-3-4 (We Ain’t Got Much Time)
Barrabas – On The Road Again
Baby’s Gang – Happy Song
Yoko Ono – Walking On Thin Ice
Crunch – Cruise
Shalamar – Right In The Socket
Blonde On Blonde – Whole Lotta Love
Andy Forray – Drac’s Back
Mick Rowley – I’m A Man

Bananamania is very excited to announce its first ever competition – to design the new limited edition Bananamania T-shirt! The winning T-shirt will be hand-silkscreened, and presented at the Bananamania show taking place at ROUGE 58 Brooklyn during NY Fashion Week 2011.

The winning designer will also get one of the 10 first numbered vinyls of ALL Bananamania releases, past and future!!

RULES OF THE CONTEST:

1. Create a new Bananamania logo, design a new font or icon for it, use the Warholian banana, draw something, cut and paste, photocopy, or simply arrange something tastefully. You can certainly use a banana.

2. One ink! Black or white. Keep it simple.

3. Deadline is 31-01-11.

Please send your finished designs in PDF or TIFF (min 600 dpi) format to info@discos-capablanca.com, with the title BANANAMANIA DESIGN CONTEST! We cannot wait to see what you come up with!