My man [mark] does a little occasional podcast type joint over at his site radiohypno.com that features himself and other friends (some of whom are deejays, some of whom are not) selecting and/or mixing up tunes; yours truly is the guest mixer for the current installment. This mix was also inspired by The Instigator (aka…

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Lots of nice stuff for everybody this Friday: some words on Chymera’s upcoming releases, info about Convextion appearing on the radio this evening, and a nice disco/house/electro/techno mix by gmos….

Something rather unique is happening right now: there are enough awesome new releases coming out that I can’t even keep up with them all! I honestly can’t remember the last time this happened to me. This comes at a very annoying time as I have been having really good luck at the local used shops…

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The guys over at Dust Science are starting a new vinyl-only label DS:93 with the premise of releasing 9 records each by a different artist and only pressing 93 copies of each one (with no digital downloads or CD compilations of the tracks…. EVER!). Add to that their own in-house design team’s custom label and…

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Lerosa “Design EP” A Touch of Class 12″ Lerosa “Seeker EP” Enclave 12″ Lerosa is taking 2007 by storm. The man has been dropping bombs all over the place, starting with the “Ruski” 12″ for Real Soon earlier this summer, demonstrating his personal take on slow organic house music. As good as the Real Soon…

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Stepping up to the plate for our first guest mix is 1/3 of the up and coming Irish techno/house group TR One, Mr. Dean Feeney. With their first vinyl release just out recently, the TR One guys are doing it up oldschool style with the hardware live jam sessions for their tracks. Their influences are…

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Last night, while the family and I were upstairs sleeping, some crackheads burglarized our house. We woke up in the morning to discover they had taken my wife’s work laptop and 2 crates of DVD’s. Thankfully that was all they took, and everyone was alright. So I decided to go hit the record shop for…

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I have a gig tonight deejaying at the local jungle party, opening for Fanu (who is the bomb, if any of you like that mid 90’s mashed up breakbeats flavor, Fanu has drawn comparisons to old Photek and Source Direct). For my set, I decided to do what I call “the roots of jungle”, which…

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I know you’re out there, I see you in our traffic logs 😉 My little sister is studying abroad in Buenos Aires this semester, but she’s having a hard time finding music in the vein of what is covered in this blog (mainly Detroit techno, deep house, funk, soul, jazz, etc). She also needs to…

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Joe Zawinul, the great jazz keyboardist, died yesterday at his home in Austria. His work on Miles Davis’ albums in the late 60’s and early 70’s really set the standard for electric piano playing. He was also responsible for the awesome band Weather Report, in addition to his work with both Nat and Cannonball Adderly…

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Our dear friend DJ Nosteel, a graduate student in communications at University of Pittsburgh and fellow music nerd) has invited ISM to appear on his Rustbelt Soul show on WPTS this evening from 9pm till 11pm EST to provide some tunes and talk about this here website you’re currently reading.

The “Kings Of” series of compilations has been pretty solid thus far, especially the “Kings of Techno” with Carl Craig and Laurent Garnier providing very interesting listening that many who consider themselves “into techno” might not even recognise. Their upcoming “Kings of Electro”, though, is a straight-up joke.

Yeah, I know we tend to go on and on about vinyl here at ISM. Deal with it. One of the reasons I love record shops is because you can find so much more than records there. Sometimes it might be a disco classic stamped with the info from a classic local deejay or disco,…

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Textura did a really nice interview with Rod Modell from Deepchord and Steve Hitchell aka Soultek. It’s good to see somebody talking to these kinds of faceless producers and getting into their philosophies and techniques, this is really what the internet is good for. You don’t have to worry about selling ad space for this,…

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If you like the atmospheric end of techno, you should check out Pittsburgh’s Chris Schubert, who just posted a new jam “Mu” up on myspace. His debut full length “Pupil Is The Black Hole In Brilliant Space” dropped about a year ago on fwdthought, a label run by San Diego melodic/atmospheric techno cat Louis Haiman,…

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You know, sometimes I think people go out of their way to write things just to irritate the hell out of me. This has to be one of the most asinine things I’ve read in a long time. Obviously, Mr. Rico, the author of the post, is unaware of the original release of “Shades of…

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Anthony “Shake” Shakir is one of techno’s true innovators. Despite having tracks out since the initial “Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit” compilation, he is consistantly one of if not the most underrated techno producer out of the D. infinitestatemachine had a long talk with him, trying to see what makes him tick. Also…

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Family of Eve was a Pittsburgh soul/funk/disco group that laid down a classic 45 in the late 70’s that now goes for crazy money on Ebay. “I Want To Be Loved By You” has since been comped, edited, and/or reissued by Keb Darge, Kenny Dope, and Dimitri from Paris. The second label to press the…

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In these strange days now that the vinyl market appears to be in the middle of a collapse, we’re seeing a bunch of new practices for moving records. One that is particularly irritating to me is this current rash of ridiculous dub-techno doublepacks that seem aimed far more at collectors than anything else.

Check out the new podcast from the boys over at To The Bone, promoters and deejays out of the UK who share our love for the eclectic dance mix-up. Pay particular attention to the next to last track, it’s by Mathes and is going to be coming out on To The Bone’s new label “TTB…

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