I have often had people refer to me as a “purist” when it comes to music. It’s funny, I guess in a way that is exactly true, but in most ways it is exactly not true. In Aidan’s post about house music, he referred to some artists that I consider to be at the forefront…

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Alex “Omar-S” Smith has been dropping bombs on his own label FXHE out of Detroit since 2001. We had a chat with him while he was driving around with his family on a Sunday afternoon. For those familiar with his fresh sound that mixes Chicago’s jacking house rhythms with Detroit’s sublime atmospheres, this will help…

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Here in Pittsburgh it’s been about 90 degrees Fahrenheit and humid as hell for the past week, and the forecast for this upcoming week is the same. I banged out this mix for the dog days of summer, some jazz, disco, soul, house, and electro-boogie for that ass. Link and tracklisting after the cut…

Welcome to infinitestatemachine. We want to do our part to give some props to the music and musicians who are so often overlooked in this day of trendy sub-subgenres (complete with their own haircut and drug of choice, of course) and hyper-mainstream corporate-sponsored “artists”. We still love vinyl, we’re not interested in fabricated lifestyle marketing,…

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