It’s about that time of year where every website, magazine, and blog out there starts churning out year end lists. Despite the presence of some more interesting “Top 5 of 2008” lists over at Little White Earbuds and other places, I find that my mind just doesn’t work like that. I did submit some choices…
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Stop The Presses!
So yeah, this will be an annoying self-promotional type post in the process of ISM selling out. Or not. đŸ˜‰ First up, my interview with the legendary Mr. Rick Wade is finally up over at Resident Advisor. It’s epic in length, but will hopefully get the word out about one of the most consistent (and…
Boatloads of Wax and Other Fun Stuff
I finally did some catching up on new releases and had a couple nice digging sessions over the past week. I have this big ol’ Stack O’ Records to show for it! Exciting. The Moodymann remix of Jose James’ “Desire” is an immediate classic. I knew this would be top 10 of the year material…
Some Random Things
I’ve got a bunch of really good records recently that I haven’t had much time to write about until now. This is covering from when I came back from vacation and on, I think! On the new tip, the only things I’ve picked up recently were the newest Omar-S and Luke Hess 12″s on Fxhe….
Reflections
The last month or so has been a real blur for me. After spending two straight weeks on the beach in (beautiful!) Corolla, NC, I had only one week before school started up for the semester yesterday. This meant that I was nearly completely isolated from music for a couple weeks, which means that I…
A Little More On “Action Without Thought”
Digging around for a Sun-Ra CD case last night (which I never fucking found!), I happened upon the book that got me thinking about the idea of zen and deejaying a few years back. Entitled “The Unfettered Mind, it was lent to me by my man Chris Schubert who is a big fan of the…
When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What’s Still Around…
Another Lazy Friday Round-Up Post
Honestly, I almost feel guilty writing these but sometimes this is what is called for. First up, next week is the debut of the new monthly event I am doing with my man Eric Justin, No Way Back: Brought to you by this here blog and Pittsburgh House Underground, No Way Back will be taking…
Planet E: The Downward Spiral
It truly pains me to say it, but Planet E has almost completely fallen off. I only realized just now how many releases I have skipped buying (all of the Saunderson rmxs, Attias, Sebastian San, Jona, the new Buttrich record, and even the underwhelming Kenny Larkin 12″) or regretted buying (Lazy Fat People, first Buttrich…
MythBusters: Mnml Ssgs Edition
You too can join in the fun of tearing down the only true myth present in any of the posts: the idea that Detroit is not the birthplace of techno. Read the mnml ssgs guys’ posts here and here, and then my part here. This is exactly the kind of weird revisionism that is perpetrated…