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• General, Nonsense, Records

  Records – Optic Nerve & Floorplan

  10.05.11 | Permalink | 6 Comments

    Following on from Tom, I’m gonna try and break off smaller, more frequent reviews instead of compiling lengthy posts that take forever to do. While in theory this will mean I’ll be a little bit fresher with the material, not so in this case. Ah well. Optic Nerve – 3 Dimensional Ep (Diametric) I [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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?

• Music, Nonsense

  listen without prejudice

  02.15.11 | Permalink | 16 Comments

    EDIT: As has been mentioned in the comments, I referenced the wrong publication – it was Jockey Slut, not Muzik, which used the blindfold gimmick. It’s all just a haze . . . . Back in the late 1990s, there existed a British dance music magazine called Muzik, which was supposed to be more ‘high [...]

• General, Gigs, Interviews, Mixes, Nonsense, Records

  Gigs, Records, Mixes, a lil Trax bizness and some Hip Hop

  02.02.11 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  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 [...]

• Nonsense

  ISM Crew on Twitter

  01.28.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  While we may not be the most regular posters in the realm of dance blogging, a bunch of us are now on Twitter talking shit on each other and everyone/everything else 24/7. It really is a pretty entertaining thing to do on your phone when stuck in traffic, waiting on the bus, etc. Anyway, if [...]

• 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 [...]

• DEMF 10, Nonsense

  Dear Paxahau: This is NOT Okay. No More “Underground” Stage!!!

  04.30.10 | Permalink | 86 Comments

  Despite widespread complaints from last year regarding the sound and set-up at the “Underground” stage at DEMF (including some scathing comments from yours truly), Paxahau has gone ahead and stuck the “Made in Detroit” lineup (which includes most of the Detroit based artists performing at the festival, of course many of those being the black [...]

• Nonsense

  Have You Had Trouble Commenting Here?

  04.25.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  It has been brought to my attention many times over the past year or so that people have had problems leaving comments on ISM posts. Generally, it seemed to be some kind of irritating nonsense with Firefox’s Javascript implementation screwing with the spam-blocking plug-in we had installed. This resulted in the inability for people to [...]

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