The time has finally arrived. Anybody who wants a copy of QED-03 Degradation can hit me up directly to purchase. $15 shipped within the USA for black vinyl, $20 shipped within the USA for limited red transparent copies (out of 35 total). I take V*nmo and P*ypal. Shipping outside of the US is minimum of…
Some Recent Jazz Records
Yeah I know I promised one post a week this year. It’s been a weird year, but I’m gonna pick the pace back up to one a week or so moving forward. Today I’m gonna write about some of the recent jazz records from the last few years that have been doing it for me….
Saturday in Chicago: The Soirée
This Saturday nite February 4th 2023 in Chicago is a very special event. Noleian Reusse and I have been friends for about 14 years now, and in that time we have DJed together and made music together on a number of occasions. Now we are throwing our first party together. I hollered at the homeboy…
Plans and Soundtrack [313] – 2023 Post #1
Since I have been using the reborn ISM mostly for record reviews, the number of posts I make has dried up as the number of dance records I buy has plummeted. This blog is useless to me if I’m never using it, so I decided for 2023 that I would post at least once a…
New Mixx: 5Mag Podcast / All Out of Bubblegum #1
Happy Christmas / Holidays / etc to everyone out there. Gonna keep this post short n simple. I tried to talk myself into doing more mixes this year and while I wasn’t as productive as I’d hoped I did manage to squeeze one out before the year passed, for 5Mag out of Chicago. 5mag is…
2022 Wrap Up
I usually try to write this post while people are still at work and using the internet but it didn’t go down this way in 2022. Oh well. This year has been a weird one for me musically. My quest to find more music with some kind of attitude or edge but remaining funky has…
Theo Parrish – Detroit Forward
I’ve been a bit lax in reviewing my recent acquisitions, and I apologize for that. I’m just gonna cover a lot of my recent favs in my year end post which is coming up in a couple of weeks. But first I have to address this recent addition to the DJ Kicks series. When it…
Frank J Glazer and Thomas D Cox Live at The Eye, Pittsburgh, All Hallow’s Eve, 10/31/2000
click the image above to play this classic psychopathic halloween dj set. not so much DJing as “channeling the energy of the minds of many murderers via sound”.
New Music: Being – There
As Tom mentioned in a couple of posts back ISM hit 15 last month. As you do. Fuck knows where the time has gone. Especially this year as I’ve failed to make a single post since 2021. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve slacked off for long stretches but it’s still important to me that…
Summer 2022 New Music
Yeah, it’s been months. So I’ve acquired quite a bit of music in that time. I’m gonna keep the reviews a little shorter so it can all be read in a somewhat timely manner, but essentially if it appears here count it as a recommendation. ———— Mark Grusane – Bad Cavity EP – Heat Amsterdam…