Reel by Real – Surkit Chamber – The Melding Having re-issued the classic Surkit last year, I initially thought this double pack on Don Williams’ a.r.t.less imprint was some old unearthed work from Marty Bonds but instead we have his first new material under the Reel By Real monikor since that original 12inch 20 years…

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It’s been a while since Mr Rosa has graced our site with one of his deejay mixes and since that offering last Autumn he has, of course, released his 2nd album, Amanatto, to much (deserved) acclaim and fawning. Leo is not one to continue to mine the same path over and over be it with…

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Following on from Tom, I’m gonna try and break off smaller, more frequent reviews instead of compiling lengthy posts that take forever to do. While in theory this will mean I’ll be a little bit fresher with the material, not so in this case. Ah well. Optic Nerve – 3 Dimensional Ep (Diametric) I got…

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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…

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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,…

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Now that we’ve resumed some sort of regularity again on here, it’s time for another record round up covering some of my summer purchases. While I have stopped, for the most part, buying records on line this year, it’s nice that I can still rely on a local store, namely the combined forces of Earwiggle…

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After a few mixes from ourselves it’s time for another guest mix, this time our 3rd guest from Kerry. Paudi is a resident at the Test night here in Dublin and is widely regarded as one of the finest djs in Ireland. His pacy mixing and constant genre hopping which takes in everything from hip…

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My latest mix is for our boy Meschi’s This is Our House site. If you ain’t checked it out yet, its full of reviews and mixes by the likes of Rick Hopkins and Mark Du Mosch. The boys now their shit. Mix is a mish mash of techno, electro, house and the odd bit of…

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While it’s been a slack summer for updates it is because we have actually been a bit busy with some other bizness, in my case it’s been getting the latest ISM label off the ground. After much fretting, headaches and general stress, today, fully functioning tests of the debut release on my Apartment Records imprint…

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For a blog not exactly known for constant upkeep we’ve been especially slack of late. I can only blame simple procrastination on my behalf really, it’s not like I’ve been outside soaking up the sunshine as there’s been fuck all worth talking about here. But anyways, following on from Gmos’ latest mix I’m gonna give…

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This latest mix is being hosted by the Lunar Disko cronies, who’s new website you can find here. Mostly on a synth pop / Italo tip, with the odd new appropriation thrown in, and even a bit of shoegazing. Fatima Yamaha – What’s a Girl To Do Casionova – Glades Cyber People – Void Vision…

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It’s time for something a lil different from Dean for our latest guest mix. A few words from him about it… Basically this is inspired by a radio show recorded in 1997 which features Terence McKenna being interviewed by Art Bell on Coast to Coast am. They discuss Terence’s views on time, psychedelia and volcanoes….

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I’ve been slack on posting about records this year for the very simple reason that I haven’t been buying much. It’s not because there isn’t much good shit out there (I still don’t have either Versalife 12s arrgghhh), I’ve just been channeling my funds into other things, some that are relevant to music, some less…

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We’ve been pretty slack on the interview front here at ISM for quite some time. Don’t think for a second that this post is a sign of us picking up the pace either as none of us had anything to do with it! My man in Tokyo, Andrew Hogan, recently caught up with Rick Wilhite…

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It’s time again for that most sporadic of series I’ve got going on where I’ve been asking some local Irish Djs to do up a mix for the site. We return again to County Kerry for this one, courtesy of the amiable Mike Falvey, who’s been plugging away at this djing malarky for some time,…

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It’s been some time since we last had a mix from Mr Ferguson and for this instalment he’s back rocking the Hip Hop for us after this killer mix he did for us back in early 2010. Again it’s on a mostly 90’s tip and contains a few personal favourites of mine in there, so…

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One thing I’ve never been when it comes to my music collection is a completist. I don’t think there is any label that I’ve made a concerted effort to collect all their work, just for the sake of it. Red Planet, an off shoot from Underground Resistance is the closest I’ve got to a label…

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No, I’m not advertising that peeps come around to my gaff and eat toasted cheese sandwhiches (my culinary skills don’t stretch much further), but myself and Gmos will be manning the controls at The Kitchen Nightclub in Temple Bar this Saturday, the 23rd. The Kitchen is a pretty famous Dublin nightclub from days of yore…

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The above photo taken from this series of photographs once again highlights the sad truth of what has happened to independent music stores over the last decade. While the photos are depressing – though not without their own, certain, stark beauty – let’s not focus purely on the negative as their appearance online comes on…

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This post stems from a few tweets that went between a couple of us last week, regards pre-planning of Dj sets. Maybe not the freshest topic but one I thought I’d throw out there to our readers. Tom touched on it before in this post where he talks about “action without thought” in terms of…

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