Scott Ferguson has been a contributor on the mix front for almost two years here at ISM, and over Christmas he even debuted a digital album here for us. Today, he adds one more notch to his ISM belt: guest writer! Scott was obviously inspired by a recent night out at Fabric on January 23rd,…

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My computer being down over the holidays led to a massive backlog in new records that I haven’t had a chance to mention here. Since I finally got the PC up and running again, I’ve been hit with another deluge of new things. And I have at least 15 more new records on their way…

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This guest mix is a really interesting one. Longtime ISM homeboy Lerosa decided to do a tribute mix to one of house music’s all time legends, Todd Terry. In all the hoopla over house music’s “revival”, Mr. Terry has been relatively overlooked. Why? It could be the dated sounds of his early sample-based house tunes,…

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Generally, we don’t devote entire posts to single releases here at ISM, but I think this one is exceptional and deserves mention all by itself (even with the crazy backlog of records I need to get to!). As you most likely know, we have been big supporters of Lerosa since the beginning of this blog….

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The end of ’09 also brought the end of the irritatingly unnamed decade of the ’00s. In the two previous years writing on this blog I have not had any sort of rhyme or reason to my year end wrap-up posts, and since I’m already almost a month late I’m not about to start now….

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Waaaaayyyyyyyy back on December 22nd I think it was, my computer at home decided to shit the bed. Being busy over the holidays, and since then with a skiing trip and a bunch of potential job stuff, I only got the chance to get everything back up and running this afternoon. Finally, the guest mixes…

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I know it ain’t the second half of the ISM interview with Shake from 2.5 years ago (which is still on a cassette tape somewhere in my house!), but it is a brand new interview with the man over at Resident Advisor. I actually did the interview a little while back, but it’s still all…

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Teddy Pendergrass is one of those artists whose work I have seemingly always been aware of. From the Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes classic “If You Don’t Know My By Now” to his solo work, Teddy was one of the most iconic soul singers whose identity was wrapped up in one word: LOVE. But…

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Our main man Scott Ferguson (he of the eight guest mixes so far, with another one ready to go soon!) has blessed us all this year with a free album as a gift exclusively to ISM readers. Scott is, of course, a bad ass producer along with his deejaying skill, and the two mixes he…

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With Christmas rapidly approaching, everyone is gonna be taking off work and chilling out with the family for a bit. Our man in Belgium, Red D of We Play House Recordings, has gifted all of us with a special treat to help warm up for the holidays. Earlier this month, Red D opened up for…

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Now this is a really special treat! For those of you who don’t know Steven Tang, he is the owner of deep techno label Emphasis Recordings. Emphasis has been a platform for much of Mr. Tang’s own productions under his name and the Obsolete Music Technology alias, as well as a few releases by other…

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Someone was giving me shit in the comments section the other day about the fact that I haven’t put up a mix in a while. I looked to see how long it has been, and it was over a year and a half. Even worse was that it had actually been over TWO years since…

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Our man Leo is reaching for Scott Ferguson levels of guest mix contributions! This newest one is the third (and I believe final) in his “House Classics” series; the first one was for Real Soon’s website, and the second was for Mnml Ssgs. This one features many Chicago classics, as well as some deep NYC…

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A few interesting things have popped up on teh web in the last week or so…. The man Kuri over at Energy Flash got the Oliverwho Factory to sit down for an interview. I have almost all the Madd Chaise records, but had never seen anything with these guys anywhere before. It’s cool to see…

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Ha, I’m reusing this WRCT picture because I’m a lazy bastard 😉 I’ve posted here before when I’ve been a guest deejay on the Friday night Re-rewind show on 88.3 FM WRCT here in Pittsburgh. Tonight is their 50th show (I must be confused about that, since I played last year in December when my…

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It’s been a damn good year for records so far; the fact that I keep posting up these epic reviews columns every couple of weeks is testimony to that. Insanity. Let’s get this one started! Back when I visited Chicago in the spring, the best discovery I made was Beautiful Granville Records. Specifically, I picked…

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I’m probably late to this party, but I just saw this post by Donnacha Costello over at the Bodytonic site. It’s good to get a producer’s viewpoint, and interesting to see him talk about switching back to vinyl. I can definitely see a wave of people doing just that in the near future, for various…

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Some more of our associates and compadres have hit me with some fun stuff that needs to be shared here. First off, a site straight outta Istanbul called Half Stereo has beaten me to the punch in getting an interview with Jason Fine. They do a good job covering his background and philosophies, getting at…

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We’ve got yet another all-vinyl mix from our man in Dublin, Lerosa. He initially gave us this one and the first one we posted, and said we could have whichever one we liked. I said, “Can we get both?!?!” and it was done. Leo is another cat that we have been following since the beginning…

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The ill new records flow continues…. Some of these records will be familiar to you if you read ISM-writer Kenny’s reviews column over at the Bodytonic site. It’s good to see him becoming more of a house head, but at the same time he may need to quit biting my style 😉 Anyway, this edition…

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