It is sometimes easy to forget that London’s adopted home for the Games, the vibrant, working class melting pot of the East End, has its own heritage and pre-Olympic history worth taking note of.

Performance art pioneers CREATE, who’s roster of collaborators includes Gavin Turk, You Me Bum Bum Train and Richard Wentworth, have commissioned design luminary Thorsten Van Elten to join forces with the area’s most notable creatives to produce personal and intimate pieces reflecting on the East’s richer traditional heritage.

One of these collaborators is installation artist Dominic Wilcox, who has created a 10” vinyl LP – which has itself been cut in Hackney – capturing snippets and sound bites of the area’s many craftsmen in the act of making. These sounds range from the preparation of dishes in old school restaurant gaffs, to the cutting of Lady Gaga’s outfits by designer Alex Noble. Along with more recognisable audio snapshots, such as the noise of Brick Lane’s infamous Beigel Bake, the accompanying photography, also by Wilcox, creates a lasting memento of the area that will no doubt outlive the pomp of the 2012 Olympics.

Check it out here.