Most techno producers seem to want to gravitate towards Berlin, the Mecca of all things technoid, but not native German Arne Weinberg, a man who has built up an impressive musical CV for himself in the last decade. He has set up shop in Scotland, Glasgow to be precise, for the last couple of years, [...]
Vince Watson, the veteran Scottish producer, is not a name that you will see regularly hyped, but he has been making his music, his way, for well over a decade and is set to unleash a whole host of releases with his recently relaunched Bio label (unfortunately, digitally only at present) and with another new [...]
(Pointing out the obvious: I just wanted to post this picture) Anyone who has been in a club with me knows that I occasionally slip into the unpleasant habit of bellowing at whoever is lucky enough to be on stage. So it should come as no surprise that the recent Magic Waves Festival saw me [...]
Simon and Guillaume have been working with the Lucky Cloud soundsystem for some time, putting on some great parties including hosting David Mancuso’s London Loft sessions. More recently the guys have also been running Deepfrequency.com – an internet radio station par excellence. ISM caught up with them to talk about some of the history and [...]
Interview by Lina Goldberg, photo by Paul Langlade TLR’s mountain-man beard and baggy hoodies hint at his past life as a squatter, but they don’t give away quite how ambitious this Dutch DJ-cum-record-promoter-cum-radio-personality really is. TLR, known to his schoolteachers as Jeroen van der Star, now 38, went from organizing grimy squat parties in the [...]
I just posted an article about the Egyptian Lover over at Intergalactic FM: Nile Style: The Resurgence of the Egyptian Lover’s Empire. Because I know how you guys at ISM love the nitty-gritty details, I’m posting the full text of the interviews I did by phone and email with the Lover here.
Interview by Lina Goldberg, Photo by Paul Langlade William Burnett is a man of many names in the electronic music world. Speculator, for his eclectic weekly show “Short Bus Radio” on New York’s East Village radio. And there’s Smackulator for his ghetto house-inspired creations with Legowelt, who he also makes short films with. He’s released solo [...]
It was about a year and a half ago when we kicked this blog off with an exclusive interview with Omar-S. At that time, he was blowing up the underground left and right. Our interview with him was the first one out there, and I think any readership that we got initially can be traced [...]
Leopoldo Rosa, more commonly known as Lerosa, is an ISM favourite for some time, releasing quirky, original house on labels such as D1 Recordings and Millions of Moments since 2005. A while back I had a chat with Leo talking about everything from his musical beginnings in Italy, nearly packing it all in to been [...]
Here at ISM, we like to give coverage to artists we respect and admire. It’s been a while since we last had an interview up, so here is the next installment. I caught up via email with DJ and producer Reggie Dokes, owner of Psychostasia Recordings, to talk music, the “D”, and being in a [...]