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It's time for some Mambo Music to lift your mood, drown your sorrows or make you want to blow your ear dreams. Either way - enjoy our latest playlist below.   

The Mambo Dogs. The artist Richard Allan. Moose as he was known in the office. Where do you start? The pea shooter. The farting dog. The hounds of wit. Inspired according to one friend of Mambo, by Rene Magritte’s cat in a hat. Richard Allan had a complex relationship with Mambo’s owner Dare Jennings. Dare was a country boy and could get run over by a fashion trend and not notice it. Whereas Richard could smell it coming. Dare developed his cool and while initially he was a plagiarist stealing The Phantom and using it as his launch vehicle Phantom...

In a world dominated by disposable, cheap throwaway clothing, we want to share our vision of a sustainable, machine washable culture. Our program of 100% organic cotton and recycled polyester ensures that when we add our art to such glorious products we are creating masterpieces of clothing with fine art adorned. We will not be cowed by our accountants and financial advisers, who try to convince us that we can make it cheaper and sell it for more margin. All those who seek to buy inferior garments have to realise that we will never allow the dust and germs of...

Reg Mombassa: his work is surreal and familiar, eclectic and homogeneous, colourful and drab, crazy and calm, logical and incoherent. Reg's (Born Chris O' Doherty) work's been found on album covers, walls, billboards, buses, trams, posters, cards, calendars: you name it. Since the 80's, we've put it on just about everything too - becoming as synonymous with Mambo as art itself.  To that, we salute him. And that salute is a 41 gun (all blazing) collection - this one - put together using some of our favourite Reg graphics from the past 30 years for your delectation. Ye shall be...

Over the next few months, we'll be dropping a series of limited-edition collections inspired by Mambo's history. Numero uno celebrates perhaps our best-known graphic - Richard Allan's 1985 Farting (and other misbehavioural misdemeanours) Dog. That was a bit more than 30 years ago but we're rolling with "30th Anniversary Collection" as we were too fucked-up to remember to do one back in 2015. Expect tees, long sleeves, crews, hoods, and maybe one or two surprises over the next few weeks.  Shop here.