I’d like to introduce everybody to my friend Eric Justin. He’s been DJing house, techno, disco, and more in Pittsburgh for over 25 years and has quite a record collection. His specialty is New Jersey garage but he loves all the dope shit. He and I have done parties together for over a decade in…
New Year’s Eve Streaming Party
I teamed up with ISM contributor Vincent to put together a NYE streaming party to help see 2020 head off into the rear-view mirror. We hollered at some of our favorite DJs, including some whose music was a big part of this year for ISM, and thankfully we were able to convince them to spend…
Records of 2020 According to Pipecock
So yeah, this year was pretty stupid. Everybody is probably aware of this by now, I’d like to think. So I’m not gonna spend time summing that up. Thankfully music was still here to get us through. Obviously my experience with hearing these jams was mostly in my house, but a few outdoor parties in…
Get Your Booty On… + Latest DDR show
Get your booty on the floor tonight? Not likely you’re gonna be making anyone’s day any time soon, unfortunately. But that don’t stop the booty and below is a few of my favourite ghetto / booty flavoured releases of the last x amount of months (time is immaterial at this stage, after all). Also a…
PLEASE STOP THROWING RAVES IN THE SEWER
2020 I have seen the worst of lots of people in San Diego regarding the dance music scene. Promoters specifically are willing to risk their following’s health for the sake of a few dollars. I get it people have spent years here extorting people for ticket sales and ensuring that their liquor licenses are used…
Samhain Special mixxx / DDR – Show Recordings
For the last couple of years I have been co-hosting, alongside Shane O’Meara, Feathers Glued To Your Face, Bringing Firepower, a 2hr, monthly radio show on Dublin Digital Radio (DDR). In a Dublin that has seen better times, DDR has grown to become an essential community within the city, and further afield. Many people feel…
Dance Like Nobody’s Watching
I recently found myself watching an old Boiler Room stream – artist irrelevant – and was struck, more than ever, by how awkward the whole situation was. It was one of the more enthusiastic and less self-conscious crowds, the rare recording where you didn’t feel like cringing too much yet in the space of a…
Forza! Sorta. Some new and new(ish) records
This week here in Ireland a winter ahead with covid has really started to kick in. Cases have doubled in the last week and restrictions are tightening, with a full lockdown looking all but imminent. In ye olde “dance music” world things have also been especially fraught with tension with the news of both Resident…
New Mix: RLSD Dark Stream
I’m also currently trying to pick up the pace on mixes too (from zero to…something) and last week I provided the latest episode of Dublin’s RLSD Records Dark Stream series that they’ve been putting out throughout lockdown, featuring local heroes such as Barry Greaves, Tr One, & Rustal. It’s a video mix that is currently…
A Whole Lot (of nothing) Going On + New Music
I guess this post serves as some sort of coming out of retirement with regards to my writing here on ISM. It has been over 2.5 years since I wrote about new releases on here or anything else for that matter – bar a couple of posts on mixes / recordings. I’m not going to…