I first encountered Kirk Degiorgio‘s music a long time ago, when I was first getting into techno and house. It was obvious from his wildly differing production styles that he was a serious music head! Then more recently I encountered him online on the Little Detroit forum, where we had it out a bit in…

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One of the things that has really been getting me exited recently isn’t the dope records I’ve been buying (they are awesome though, look for a record review post from me later this week!). It’s not any specific deejay sets I’ve heard. What has been getting me pumped is the quality people doing this music….

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With Gav, Kenny, Jitterbug, and Jonny 5 all dropping seriously ill mixes over the last two weeks, I was feeling left out. Summertime is in serious effect here in the Burgh with temperatures in the 80s and 90s for the past few days and the same forecast for the next week. This kind of weather…

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My man Matt Cohen (whose dope photos can be found at the top of this post, as well as in my DEMF reviews from some of the past couple of years) made a slide show of some of his best photos from this year’s DEMF/Movement/Fuse-In/Whatever. To soundtrack the slide show, he enlisted the assistance of…

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Here at ISM, we like to stay ahead of the curve. This means sniffing out those cats that you might not have heard of yet but are on the cusp of doing bigger and better things! We’ve been supporters of Tr-One and BrokenAudioMovement since our inception, in fact Dean Feeney did our very first guest…

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This is LOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGGGG so it is going behind the cut. Click through to read more and to see more great pix from my man Matt Cohen!

Here’s a special treat that will hopefully tide over anyone making their way to DEMF this weekend on their journey. Our man Red D, the head honcho of We Play House (check their new one by the absolutely ON FIRE San Soda, a taster for an upcoming album!), has broken us off before with a…

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You know the Pittsburgh crew rolls DEEP for DEMF, so keep a lookout for anyone sporting Pirates hats or Penguins and Steelers gear, that’s probably someone in my crew! I think you can mostly guess which artists I will be checking out at the festival itself, barring of course the possibility of sound in the…

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With DEMF fast approaching, I have to chill out on the record buying tip a bit to save money for the crazy hauls I always get in the D. That said, this round-up will mostly be older records because shit has been going crazy here in the Burgh recently. I’ve just been pulling up gem…

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I’ve been a busy boy, what with the parties a couple weeks ago and prepping LWYF-002 (which got sent out for mastering!) as well as life doing its thing to tie up all my time and energy. This has meant I’ve been kind of getting out of the habit of writing, but I’m trying to…

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Nice things are definitely going down in Pittsburgh these days! The two gigs I posted about a few weeks back happened this weekend, and both were amazing! Rick Wade killed it at New Amsterdam, and the Altered States party rocked strong until 4:00am when the police came to shut things down in the middle of…

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Despite widespread complaints from last year regarding the sound and set-up at the “Underground” stage at DEMF (including some scathing comments from yours truly), Paxahau has gone ahead and stuck the “Made in Detroit” lineup (which includes most of the Detroit based artists performing at the festival, of course many of those being the black…

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It has been brought to my attention many times over the past year or so that people have had problems leaving comments on ISM posts. Generally, it seemed to be some kind of irritating nonsense with Firefox’s Javascript implementation screwing with the spam-blocking plug-in we had installed. This resulted in the inability for people to…

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As you most likely know by now, it was my label’s debut release that unleashed this maniac who calls himself “Disco Nihilist” on the record buying world. Since that 12″ dropped, he has put out two more records on the Construction Paper label, including one that is just dropping now worldwide called “From One Place…

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I’d say Friday April 30 and Saturday May 1 would be the weekend to do it! It’s of slightly more ISM related content (and it has a prettier poster to go at the top of this post!) so I’m first gonna talk about the excellent Rick Wade show which goes down Saturday May 1 at…

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I have been slacking on writing about records for almost two months. Currently, I’m trying to get back in the writing groove a bit so I’m just gonna run down a BUTTLOAD of ill shit that I have picked up recently.

I assume some people might remember the initial post I made almost exactly a year ago regarding the trailer for the film “Speaking In Code”. I will now pause to allow you to go back and rewatch the trailer, read the post and the comments, and then we can get to the heart of the…

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Does Red D ever sleep? I’m beginning to think he doesn’t. Aside from the ever-awesome We Play House label that he runs (Be very sure to check out the most recent WPH record by FCL which features in my most recent mix here at ISM, but really the label has attained “buy-on-sight” status already in…

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I’ve got a bunch gigs coming up in the next few weeks for those of you in and around the Pittsburgh area. First off, tonight I continue my little March Madness at a new night called Sweat at Club P on Polish Hill. Last time was really fun, and the spot is nice and cozy…

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Our main man Lerosa touches down in Tokyo tonight at Module for his debut Japanese deejay set. For all our readers in Japan, you can find more info on the gig here. If you have been paying attention to our mixes, you know you are in for a special treat! Thankfully Leo has been gracing…

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