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• Culture, General, Music

  The House That Jack Didn’t Build

  03.05.13 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Last year saw a huge influx of producer’s both new and old jumping on the house band wagon. They would label their work deep and it would follow a path, well, more of a rocky road, that we have been down many times before. This road took us back to the 90′s but it left [...]

• Culture, General

  From Jack to Juke

  02.09.12 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Came across this hour long documentary on all things ghetto house last night. Cheers to Simon Conway for the heads up on it. It’s been going from private to public on vimeo over the last couple of days so apologies if it’s disappeared again when you’ve hit the link…   From Jack to Juke: 25 [...]

• Culture, Gigs

  Saturday Nite in Pittsburgh: infinitestatemachine Takes Over Belvedere’s

  01.13.12 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  It’s going down in Pittsburgh tomorrow nite! This is gonna be a pretty awesome evening, with some of my favorite deejays playing on a killer four corner soundsystem at a venue with a nice sized dancefloor. ISM contributors Frank Glazer aka Count Zer0, Jwan Allen, and myself are joined by special guest and good friend [...]

• Culture, General

  Words of Support for the “Techno Rebel”

  08.26.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  As some of the subscribers to the 313 mailing list may already know, Dan Sicko, the author of the book “Techno rebels”–the seminal work about the beginnings of techno/dance scene in Detroit during the late ’70s/early ’80′s, and the creative force behind the Moodmat blog–is very ill.  Details regarding Dan Sicko’s current condition are on [...]

• Culture, Interviews

  A Chat With Rick Wilhite

  05.26.11 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  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 [...]

• Culture, DEMF 08, DEMF 09, DEMF 10, Nonsense

  Why I Am Not Attending DEMF This Year

  05.23.11 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  Photo courtesy of Matt Cohen Photography If you look on the “Categories” sidebar, you’ll see “DEMF 08″, “DEMF 09″, and “DEMF 10″. Before those years when I covered DEMF for this blog, I attended every year from 03 on. Barring a drastic change in how the festival operates, that will be it for me moving [...]

• Culture, Gigs, Music

  Mike Huckaby Weekender feat the Music of Sun Ra

  05.16.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  The MN Collective have a very exciting weekend lined up for us with Detroit’s Mike Huckaby running tings on both Friday and Saturday night this weekend. Friday night will be a celebration of the music of Sun Ra in the Grand Social, one of the most forward thinking musicians of the 20th Century, he was [...]

• Culture, General, Gigs, Music, Nonsense

  Dying breed

  03.24.11 | Permalink | 90 Comments

  Carl Craig hit my home town of Dublin recently, the night before Paddy’s Day, as part of the tour celebrating 20 years of Planet E. A pal of mine was considering going – but, he asked, would he look out of place in the crowd at the venue, as he is a man in his mid-thirties?

• Culture, Nonsense, Records

  How Much Is Too Much To Pay For A New Record?

  12.02.10 | Permalink | 80 Comments

  Apparently, Theo Parrish is pissing people off by charging more than the “standard” amount of money for some of his new “limited” records. This is something Moodymann has been criticized for in the past as well. In fact, I criticized DeepChord for similar practices in a post 3 years ago. I have to say that [...]

• Culture, General, Mixes, Music

  Ethiopian Jazz & Grooves Mix

  11.26.10 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  More African goodies for you all, this time we travel to East Africa, Ethiopia to be precise. Legendary Ethiopian musician and composer/arranger Mulatu Astatke studied music in England and the USA in the 60s and started fusing jazz, funk and latin music with traditional Ethiopian music. He then took what he learned back to his [...]

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