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• Gigs, Mixes, Music

  First Light – Deep House Mix July 2011

  07.26.11 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  First off, apologies for the lack of activity here recently, but hopefully this will help put you all back in a good mood, just a mix with lots of my fav deep house, no messing about. Tracklist: 01 Kuniyuki – All These Things (Theo Parrish Vocal Interpretation) 02 Reggie Dokes & Delano Smith – Limuel [...]

• Gigs, Mixes, Music

  Sun Ra Promo Mix

  05.16.11 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Here’s a short Sun Ra mix I did as a promo for this weekend’s Sun Ra Birthday Celebrations with Mike Huckaby (see previous post). It focuses on the late 70s and early 80s period which was probably his grooviest period, should serve as a nice primer for those unfamiliar with his work. 1 Sleeping Beauty [...]

• 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 [...]

• General, Music, Records

  March-April 2011 Annotated Top 20

  05.02.11 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  There’s been so much great music coming out lately and I haven’t written about records in a long time so I decided to do a Top 20 chart for March and April with some commentary on each one. Listed in alphabetical order because I couldn’t really rank them and besides, I don’t want anybody to [...]

• Mixes, Music

  Givin’ You the Business

  04.25.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  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 [...]

• General, Music, Nonsense, Records

  Craig List

  04.12.11 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Wow, the last post I delivered certainly received a lot of feedback. Much appreciated to all those who replied and gave their two-cents worth. If I had the wherewitall and the time, I’d love to promote a Sunday afternoon gig that would be family-friendly – preferably outdoors in good weather, with a BBQ and a [...]

• 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?

• General, Music

  To remix or not to remix

  03.07.11 | Permalink | 69 Comments

  A few weeks ago – around the time of my last post mentioning all the remixers that Planet E had lined up for their 20th Anniversary releases – myself and Tom got in a fairly heated discussion over this element of dance music. It ended up with us agreeing to disagree on the subject so [...]

• General, Mixes, Music

  new mix – rest of the best of 2010 part 1

  02.23.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• Music, Records

  Pittsburgh Track Authority

  02.21.11 | Permalink | 18 Comments

  My homeboys Adam Ratana and Preslav Lefterov (you may remember my mentioning them here) and I have been working together on a musical project for the past few months that we call Pittsburgh Track Authority. The first joints from this project will be seeing the light of day very soon through Uzuri Recordings, who have [...]

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