Happy Christmas / Holidays / etc to everyone out there. Gonna keep this post short n simple. I tried to talk myself into doing more mixes this year and while I wasn’t as productive as I’d hoped I did manage to squeeze one out before the year passed, for 5Mag out of Chicago. 5mag is…
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New Music: Being – There
As Tom mentioned in a couple of posts back ISM hit 15 last month. As you do. Fuck knows where the time has gone. Especially this year as I’ve failed to make a single post since 2021. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve slacked off for long stretches but it’s still important to me that…
2021
Groundhog Day turned into Groundhog year. Music I presumed I’d owned since 2020, I only purchased in May? And so forth. Could things get weirder? Well yes, actually. Apartment had its busiest year since 2014. An EP, an album and merch? Sure have a look over on the Bandcamp. Huge thanks to everyone who has…
TENEMENTS Album / 10 Years of Apartment
In February 2019 my label Apartment was all but dead. I won’t expand on the reasons for this but some music was returned to people and I felt like I’d finally stopped jumping back and forth doing a will I / won’t I on what sometimes felt like an especially long-winded experiment in money gouging….
New Mixx: Don’t Ever Play That Fucking Song Ever Again
2021 marks 20 years of me collecting records and owning turntables. Technically that means it’s 20 years of me djing, though I sure didn’t know what I was doing for a while at the beginning there. I’ve decided to mark this by, y’know, actually recording new mixes, not something I’ve been doing a whole lot…
Recent Musaks
The last few months have seen me slow down on the new records front, more for lack of trying than lack of good music (I think). Tom’s last couple of posts also covered some of my recent favs so I’ll not bother repeating ourselves and instead look at some other bizness. Various – Madre Lingua…
Infinite Stream Machine, Mates Rates Records & Radio Shows
Last month, myself, Tom and Vincent + a crew of others did a live twitch stream, it was my first time doing one, and a good time was had by all involved. Sure, people (in most countries, but not here in Ireland) of younger age groups are starting to get their vaxxes but we are…
Early-ish 2021 heaterz + February Feathers show
And so 2021 continues to carry on indefinitely. Unlike some countries, Ireland’s vaccination roll out has been at a, lets say, leisurely pace so far so our Longest Lockdown in the World record continues to hold up and it has become quite testing now – is this reflected in the music I’m buying and listening…
Bandcamp: Gimme All Your Lovin’
Posted by Kenny on 02.05.21 | 3 Comments
I take a look at Bandcamp’s new crowd-sourced record pressing operation, and the implications of it and their business model on independent music. In a 12 months behest with relentless negativity, one of the few shining stars to emerge from the malaise that is Covid-19 is Bandcamp. Prior to 2020 the platform had already become…
January Feathers on DDR + The last of 2020
Straight out the gap 2021 has had less than a stellar start, plague rave djs making arses out of themselves, washed up old house producers going “all vinyl” and being a tit about it, Djs lawyering up against each other (MAYBE) and thats before we even acknowledge the shit show that has been the actual…
Music 2020
Shackleton / Zimpel – Primal Forms [Cosmo Rhythmatic] Best 15 minute+ pagan jazz workouts. Mario Acquaviva – Notturno Italiano (Ron Trent dub) [Mother Tongue] Best little-known Italian boogie record re-worked by a deep house maestro. Mario Acquaviva – Notturno Italiano Reworks (Daniel Maunick & Alex Malheiros/Ron Trent Mixes) by Mother Tongue records First Touch –…
Get Your Booty On… + Latest DDR show
Get your booty on the floor tonight? Not likely you’re gonna be making anyone’s day any time soon, unfortunately. But that don’t stop the booty and below is a few of my favourite ghetto / booty flavoured releases of the last x amount of months (time is immaterial at this stage, after all). Also a…
Samhain Special mixxx / DDR – Show Recordings
For the last couple of years I have been co-hosting, alongside Shane O’Meara, Feathers Glued To Your Face, Bringing Firepower, a 2hr, monthly radio show on Dublin Digital Radio (DDR). In a Dublin that has seen better times, DDR has grown to become an essential community within the city, and further afield. Many people feel…
Dance Like Nobody’s Watching
Posted by Kenny on 10.19.20 | 3 Comments
I recently found myself watching an old Boiler Room stream – artist irrelevant – and was struck, more than ever, by how awkward the whole situation was. It was one of the more enthusiastic and less self-conscious crowds, the rare recording where you didn’t feel like cringing too much yet in the space of a…
Forza! Sorta. Some new and new(ish) records
This week here in Ireland a winter ahead with covid has really started to kick in. Cases have doubled in the last week and restrictions are tightening, with a full lockdown looking all but imminent. In ye olde “dance music” world things have also been especially fraught with tension with the news of both Resident…
New Mix: RLSD Dark Stream
I’m also currently trying to pick up the pace on mixes too (from zero to…something) and last week I provided the latest episode of Dublin’s RLSD Records Dark Stream series that they’ve been putting out throughout lockdown, featuring local heroes such as Barry Greaves, Tr One, & Rustal. It’s a video mix that is currently…
A Whole Lot (of nothing) Going On + New Music
I guess this post serves as some sort of coming out of retirement with regards to my writing here on ISM. It has been over 2.5 years since I wrote about new releases on here or anything else for that matter – bar a couple of posts on mixes / recordings. I’m not going to…
Mix: Live from Banger Cliff
Mixes from me are even rarer in the last few years than my posting on yon blog here. I had been planning on recording a mix recently but my home set up is a little bit scrappy and lockdown means that a new one is currently not possible, but in the mean time a recording…
Music 2019
In no order Steely Dan @ 3 Arena Best thing ever David Donohoe – A Thousand Lies (D1 Recordings) Best techno Madonna Áine O’Dwyer – Accompaniment for Captives Best wtf was that; is the island possessed now? (photo: Maeve O’Neill)Mac-Talla Nan Creag – The Sorrow of Derdriu (Firecracker Recordings) Best ooooOOOooooOOOoooohhHHHh put the bucket bong…
Mix: D1 Recordings: Box Set
It has been a few years since I last mentioned D1 Recordings on here, around the time Fatima Yamaha’s Whats a Girl To Do was getting the re-issue treatment. I wondered if there would be any more music released from the publicity-shy imprint and though it took a while there is now a new release…
