Digging around for a Sun-Ra CD case last night (which I never fucking found!), I happened upon the book that got me thinking about the idea of zen and deejaying a few years back. Entitled “The Unfettered Mind, it was lent to me by my man Chris Schubert who is a big fan of the…
Monthly Archives: July 2008
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Guest Mix: Meschi – Dark Prospects
Summer is starting to get to me, I think. The heat and humidity are beginning to get unbearable, my allergies are giving me a constant sinus headache, and I get to do fun things like go to court tomorrow at 8:30 AM for the trial of the prick who burglarized my house last fall. Hopefully…
West African Heat
First off, apologies for being so quiet recently, but a recent move has kept me away from the decks and GTA4 has kept me from doing anything remotely constructive for the last month or so đŸ˜‰ Anyway, this is a belated audio companion to my earlier post on the recent series of excellent compilations on…
Guest Mix: Richard Carnage – Late Night Jams #2
Photo by Nick Gutterbreakz Mr. Carnage (that sounds like a good name for a super-villain!) from ye olde TAPE blog has blessed us here at ISM with yet another sweet guest mix. This one kicks off with a remix of a song that I love very much and continues through slow, hazy, melodic techno and…
When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What’s Still Around…
I’d buy that for a dollar…
So I’ve been a bit quiet of late, mainly because I’ve not had much work and consequently have been pretty poor, which has meant that I haven’t really bought any vinyl for a while. I’ve still been nosing round charity shops however, mostly coming away empty-handed, but today my luck changed… I was in one…
20 Years Later
In an interesting parallel to Theo’s comments, my wife sent me this link just now. I for one cannot believe it has been 20 years. The really depressing part is to think of how far black musical artists came in the 20 years preceding that album which surely has to be a pinnacle of political…
Some Jams I Am Feeling Right Now
Having not one but two dancey gigs in the same weekend was pretty nice, especially since the past bunch of sets I have played were more like bars where I was playing lots of other types of records. I got to trot out a bunch of different things that I had either never played before,…
Interesting “Interview” with Theo Parrish
Moodmat dropped what they are calling a “one question interview” with Theo Parrish, and of course he has some interesting things to say about the question of race and gender in dance music. It annoys me to no end that they are not allowing comments on such a piece of writing As per Theo’s request,…
Guest Mix: Scott Ferguson #2
Scott came through with one of the more eclectic and odd mixes we have had here at ISM for his first guest mix, so you know he had to come even crazier for the second one. And he did. What I find interesting about this one is that he manages to take a bunch of…