The first installment of the Beat Aesthetic was quite a success! We brought in a huge soundsystem that almost looked out of place for the room we played in, but it helped provide a nice intimate feeling for the dancers and people chilling out on the couches. I got to drop a nice selection of…

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Our first guest mix of ’09 is by the man who did our first ever guest mix, Mr. Dean Feeney. This mix was originally done for Bodytonic radio a little while back, but we’ve got our grubby little hands on it now. This one takes you on a journey through some of the best records…

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A couple items of note for those who live close by or for those who like to live vicariously….. We’ve got a new monthly house music night starting up in the 412, a collaborative effort amongst most of the deejays playing the deep shit. The very first one will feature a soundsystem upgrade from the…

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Just got back last night from a little trip to Rehoboth Beach with some of our B-more crew which was as enjoyable as ever. This time we brought a little portable record player with us and rocked some jazz, soul, dub, and rock LPs while we chilled out and played video games. I read a…

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So yeah, the plan to post this during the relevant year was a failure. But it doesn’t detract from the greatness of the music!

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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There’s more and more new stuff stacking up as the year winds down, hopefully things will be a little more evenly distributed next year! Before I move on to talking about these records, I want to give a shout out to my man Carleton and his Mass Communications class. I sat on a panel of…

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You can guess somebody’s records are going to be good when they’ve released tracks on Mahogani, Track Mode, Real Soon, and Prescription as Kai Alcé has. Editing classic disco cuts for labels like Stilove4music and Editions Disco certainly isn’t going to hurt anybody’s perceptions, either. As people seem to finally be learning, they are all…

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Thanksgiving is a good time to sit back and reflect on the good things in life with your family and friends. Music being our specialty, we want to reflect with our friends and family on the most influential man in techno, Juan Atkins. His health problems have been subject of rampant rumors over the years,…

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Our man m50 is heavily involved in the Chicago techno/house scenes as you can tell from the impressive collection of flyers featuring his name on them on his site. He also does a radio show on Chicago’s WNUR which you can find archives of here. His production and remix talents have seen light on labels…

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Things have been a bit slow here on my part due to my finger being operated on almost two weeks ago. This has resulted in many doctor visits as well as regular physical therapy that in addition to the slowing down of most things I do in life due to only really being able to…

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There’s been a silly amount of good new house records out recently. I’ve talked about a bunch of them, but I’ve got a bunch more even since then. Really this has to be one of the best runs of new records in years, it seems like every week there’s enough stuff out to make an…

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I’m sure this is one all the fans of Scott Ferguson have been waiting for, a mix of the deep house he is most widely known for. There’s one of his solo jams on here, as well as two of his remixes with Koomba Project homeboy Reggie Dokes. Unbeknownst to Scott, he also included two…

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So yeah, this will be an annoying self-promotional type post in the process of ISM selling out. Or not. 😉 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…

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It was strange, doing another order of brand new records so close behind the last one, but there were just too many dope things that dropped at the same time that it was a necessity. Theo Parrish dropped two 12″s on the same day, one for each of my favorite tracks from the CD version…

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In a break from his previous mixes for us that spanned genres in the name of mood, this time Scott brings a Detroit-style booty/bass mixup. I’ll let him do the talking on this one…. “First off a note to the listeners: I apologize for the dreadful distortion during some of the filtering I perform in…

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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…

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Louis Haiman’s productions debuted on Transmat’s Time:Space comps, and he has since gone on to start his own label fwdthought to release similarly minded atmospheric melodic techno (including Pittsburgh’s own Chris Schubert’s excellent debut long player). He also had a track on Arne Weinberg’s AW-Recordings compilation “Viewpoints Chapter 1” earlier this year. Louis released two…

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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….

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It really is getting harder and harder to talk about these mixes of Scott’s. I am a huge fan of mixing things up by feeling, and he manages to do a very good job across many genres every single time. This one is a heavily atmospheric mix, beginning with swirling ambience and scratchy textures before…

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