A few weeks ago – around the time of my last post mentioning all the remixers that Planet E had lined up for their 20th Anniversary releases – myself and Tom got in a fairly heated discussion over this element of dance music. It ended up with us agreeing to disagree on the subject so…

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My bad luck with recording club sets continued in vein last weekend at the Lunar Disko party when we got the good ol Mac spinning wheel of death when I finished playing and we tried to cache the record before Automatic Tasty hit the stage. We had to scrap my recording to make sure we…

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OK, this one is gonna be a lil bit long, but instead of making a bunch of separate posts I’m just gonna throw a load of different stuff in together. January isn’t generally seen as that busy a month in music so apologies for the lack of posts. Looking at a bunch of my recent…

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May as well kick off a new year for me here at ISM with my latest mix, which has kindly been hosted by the Bleep43 crew in London. I’ve mentioned them on here before – as well as having Toby from the crew guest mix for us before – as they’ve thrown many an excellent…

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As with last year I’m gonna refrain from just doing straight up top 10 lists but will instead just highlight a few different bits and bobs that did it for me this year. The year started off a little sluggish for me, both in terms of gigs and releases, I felt like it took a…

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My last small run down of new records from the beginning of October contained a few things that Tom had mentioned in a post of his from around then and seeing as Jitter has just made a records post which includes some jams I’ve been loving recently I don’t see the point in some of…

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It’s been a couple of weeks now but with one thing and another I haven’t gotten around to sitting down properly to re-collect my thoughts on the Unsound festival which took place over the last weekend of October in Krakow, over in Poland. And before I go into that just gonna give a heads up…

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What with my holidays and going straight back into a nightshift in work I forgot to post about anything since returning. This is just a quickie to say I’ll be playing in The Bernard Shaw tomorrow night (Hallowe’en) at the 12 party. Will be keeping it on the chicago house/disco/synth pop tip for the most…

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Let’s start at the end first. While most regular internet users will be aware, the tragic news arrived yesterday that Aaron-Carl had passed on. A mere few days after being diagnosed with cancer he suddenly passed away yesterday. Everyone at ISM passes on their sympathies to his friends and family in Detroit. The guy made…

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Started a while back now, this is a continuation of the series of mixes from Irish djs I think are doing great things on the ones and twos at the moment. Unlike the last few I featured, Phil is also moving into the world of producing/releasing, under the name Slowburn with Dave Hargadon. Their first…

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Having moved away from Ireland’s southern capital, Cork, a few years ago, I’m making one of my most anticipated (for me that is) returns to the city since then. There be a-plenty going on down there this coming weekend, and I’m lucky enough to be stuck in the middle of it, playing some records –…

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I’m back on the internets radio waves this evening, joining Mike and Eoin who do the weekly Delicious Mix Sessions on Power Fm, here in Dublin. It was sometime around the beginning of the year that I last did the show with the guys, so I’m looking forward to doing it again. If you got…

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The headline says it all really. I recently came across this trailer for an upcoming documentary “To Have And To Hold” which beyond the odd naff bit in the preview looks like it could be a great film about our beloved black gold. There have been a couple of other films based around records, the…

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Up until recently we’ve been having a surprisingly nice and sunny summer here in Ireland and it’s brought with it a few good parties, with more to come, so it seemed like a good time to make a post about it all. I’ve been getting out of Dublin a little bit recently which included hitting…

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New mix from myself. Deep techno, house and a few other bits and pieces along the way. Tracklist E.R.P. – Gallup String Goldwill – Blush Maurizio – Domina (Maurizio Mix) Redshape – Blood Into Dust Aroy Dee – Life Of Raw Urban Culture – The Wonders of Wishing (For You) Hell – My Definition of…

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A heads up for Dublin peeps for some gig action this Thursday. Push, Move, Click are a Dublin collective who perform shows on analog modular synths, homemade noise boxes and drum machines and various other pieces of kit. I’ve yet to catch any of their shows but they certainly sound intriguing as they perform lots…

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In a fit of productivity that may take me some time to recover from (nevermind the order my records are now in) I recorded two mixes on a hungover Friday at the end of last month. First up is a guest mix for a new site MN To That which was set up by a…

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While Underground Resistance is viewed as one of the most important and seminal record labels to emerge from the Detroit techno scene, there are a couple of smaller Detroit labels from around that time that had close ties with UR that have gone a little under the radar since. Both Vibe Records and Shockwave Records…

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This is our 2nd mix from the Lunar Disko crew, a club night and label from here in Dublin. Andy has been co-running the night for nearly 4 years now and the guy’s label just had it’s fifth release, the rather excellent self titled debut ep from Submersible Machines (who’s name you may recognise if…

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A couple of weeks ago the makers of  “Speaking In Code” got in contact with me asking if ISM would like to have a look at their documentary. Myself and Tom decided that it would be interesting if we both watched the film and wrote about it from our own perspectives, seeing as one of…

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