Few long term EDM (electronic dance music) fans can claim not to be familiar with A Guy Called Gerald (AGCG)–and for good reason. He’s been making funky and genre-defining dance music since the mid- to late 1980s. Before making dance music history with this release, Gerald Simpson made abstract and futuristic acid house as the creative lead behind 808 State.

Yeah, I know we tend to go on and on about vinyl here at ISM. Deal with it. One of the reasons I love record shops is because you can find so much more than records there. Sometimes it might be a disco classic stamped with the info from a classic local deejay or disco,…

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Textura did a really nice interview with Rod Modell from Deepchord and Steve Hitchell aka Soultek. It’s good to see somebody talking to these kinds of faceless producers and getting into their philosophies and techniques, this is really what the internet is good for. You don’t have to worry about selling ad space for this,…

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