The VIA festival was a really good time last year in its initial incarnation. Pittsburgh was clearly ready for something big, and people responded to many different types of music and visual art combined over the course of the festival. The monthly events the VIA folks have done since then (including Omar-S and many more)…
Monthly Archives: September 2011
All posts from September 2011
Classic Mix Archive
I’ve put some of the classic mixes I’ve accumulated over the years in an archive on my site. There’s some classic US disco, Italian afro/cosmic disco & some Belgian new beat so far. There’s plenty more on various hard drives so it will grow a bit over the coming months. Discomix
New Mix – We All Fall Down
The brilliant new Regis single I mentioned in my last records post got me in a techno mood of late so I went digging through the shelves to come up with this latest mix. There are a few new tracks in there but in general I don’t find a lot of new techno of the…
Apartment [Zero] NCW – Panther Veil…in shops now
Just a quick update to say the debut release on my label is now available world wide. Juno, Hardwax, Decks.de are a few of the online retailers I’ve seen carrying it and it’s appearing in shops in Italy, Russia and what not. Crosstalk have taken on some copies for distro in the States and Jetset,…
Shawn Rudiman and Claude Young Live In Pittsburgh 9-10-11
Pittsburgh has been off the hook this year! With cats like Omar-S, Ron Trent, Beautiful Swimmers, Protect-U, Donato Dozzy and many more having already played and the largeness of VIA Festival coming up next month, featuring Underground Resistance’s Interstellar Fugitives LIVE, Blondes, Pittsburgh Track Authority, Dam-Funk, East Liberty Quarters, and many many more (more on…
Record Review: Andrés III
I’ve long been a fan of the work of Andrés; in fact, he was one of those “holy grail” type producers when I first started buying lots of house and techno a decade ago. His tracks have always been heavily sample based, but originally they were much more tracked out and minimal compared to what…
Guest Mix: DJ Red D – September 2011 Mix
In my long summer absence, I never got to talk about DEMF this year. One of the highlights was the Music Institute afterparty, at which I finally was able to meet Red D live in the flesh. We only got a second to chat in a loud room, but it was awesome to make that…
Record Review: Steve Moore on L.I.E.S.
This is chopped out of a new records post I never finished back in the beginning of summer… Some of my favorite music recently has been coming from people of a distinctly non-dance music background. The two members of Pittsburgh prog band Zombi have both had some nice electronic releases on a bunch of labels,…
Record Review: Area – “Youth EP” – Kimochi
Hey everybody! This is my first time posting in almost three months, and in an effort to get things moving in a more efficient manner for me, I am debuting the new record review posts I will be doing. Really not much is changing, the style will be the same but instead of the round-up…
summer 2011 friends and friends of friends mix
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, chances are you have already managed to hear this mix. I posted it back in July as a “secret” link shared directly only with Twitter followers, and then opened it up on my Facebook page later on. The idea behind this mix was to play mostly records…