One thing I’ve never been when it comes to my music collection is a completist. I don’t think there is any label that I’ve made a concerted effort to collect all their work, just for the sake of it. Red Planet, an off shoot from Underground Resistance is the closest I’ve got to a label [...]
A decade ago in Pittsburgh, Pipecock and I got really tired of the rave scene, which was, you know, like, a really big deal at the time, right? Tom had heard about this fellow named MJ Cole, and played me “Sincere” one night at our crib. I have to admit, I wasn’t immediately enamored, but [...]
Annnnnd, almost finally, here’s part three of my end of 2010 wrapup that picks up quite literally where the last mix left off. I’ll post a full chart sometime in 2012 I imagine. In case you missed them, the other mixes in this series are here and here, as well as a few other places [...]
As promised, our homeboy m50 broke us off with a special mix of all his own tunes and remixes! Producing under the alias Area, he has dropped EPs on Francois K’s Wave Music, Anton Zap’s Ethereal Sound, and more, as well as remixes for Mathematics, Echospace, and Matrix amongst many others. He has also recently [...]
A few weeks ago I finally got around to compiling and mixing the first of what is turning out to be three Best of 2010 mixes. Yeah, it’s mid March and all the big techno blogs got their charts done in December. So? I’m not making excuses but I was actually waiting until just a [...]
People have been rightfully hassling me to sum up the best tunes of 2010, which admittedly is part of my job as a member of the ISM community. So, by way of a very late year end chart I put together a quick mix (with a second forthcoming) of my remaining favorite records of last [...]
My bad luck with recording club sets continued in vein last weekend at the Lunar Disko party when we got the good ol Mac spinning wheel of death when I finished playing and we tried to cache the record before Automatic Tasty hit the stage. We had to scrap my recording to make sure we [...]
OK, this one is gonna be a lil bit long, but instead of making a bunch of separate posts I’m just gonna throw a load of different stuff in together. January isn’t generally seen as that busy a month in music so apologies for the lack of posts. Looking at a bunch of my recent [...]
Greetings to all at ISM. Been a while since I posted. I moved all my mixes from the last 5 years or so into one spot over the weekend: here There’s 70 mixes in total, which adds up to about 85 hours of music. There’s bound to be a few y’all didn’t check yet. Hopefully [...]
Sometimes I think our never-ending series of mixes here at ISM get less hype than other sites’ simply because we don’t concentrate on “name” deejays, and we don’t have a clever name followed by the word “podcast” because I think that word is stupid. You can’t get our shit on iTunes or whatever, you have [...]