Our man in Belgium DJ Red D returns to ISM with another mix full of deep soulful burners. Just like the last mix from him, this one mixes up some of the best new jams with some older tunes, tossed together with some We Play House joints for maximum pleasure. I’ve been banging the next…

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This mix is a very special one for me, as it contains all original material by some old friends of mine from Pittsburgh who have been banging out drum and bass music as Sight Unseen. Because the tracks are almost all unreleased and they don’t own CDJs or Serato, this was done Ableton style. As…

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The Beat Aesthetic, a night devoted to deep house and related musics that we began earlier this year, is relaunching next Friday night at a new venue. After taking the summer off, we’re arming ourselves with the silly good Impact Audio soundsystem and taking over New Amsterdam one Saturday a month to bang it out….

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It may seem a bit silly to use a CD cover as the image for a record review post, and even sillier to lead off that post with a review of said CD. However, this is how it is going to be done. I am not against purchasing CDs, no matter how much some people…

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I’ve been sitting on this one as the excellent mixes Lerosa did for mnml ssgs and Bodytonic dropped over the last couple of months. Finally, it’s time to unleash this one on the world! Leo has blown up over the exact same period of time that ISM has been around; in fact, “Ruski” (his first…

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Kicking off what will be a month of regular guest mixes is the newest joint from our resident guest mixer, Scott Ferguson of Ferrispark Records. Since dropping his first one for us way back in April of ’08, Scott has seen something of a revival with the vinyl represses of the early Ferrispark 12″s blowing…

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I’ve bought an ungodly number of records this summer, hundreds just in the last 2 months alone. It’s really gonna be difficult to narrow it down to something palatable, but I’m just gonna try to hit some of the highest of the highlights in new and old music that has found its way into my…

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Big things are happening in the 412 next weekend! The legendary Danny Krivit will be making his Pittsburgh debut Sunday night at AVA Lounge in the East Liberty neighborhood. The show kicks off early at 7pm, and the opening deejays are Chill Cosby (aka my boy Paul Dang that I teamed up with for the…

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Taking it back to the old-school ISM style by Google image searching for the post title to find an inappropriate picture to slap on here….. So yeah, we’ve been a bit slower on our posting during the summer, but other blogs have not been letting up. I figure it’s a good time to let you…

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ISM is very pleased to present this hot new guest mix by Belgian DJ and label owner Red D. Despite only having been around for a year or so, We Play House Recordings has already dropped six ridiculously dope 12″s by artists like San Soda and Reggie Dokes. The label specializes in that slow electronic…

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It only took about two months since it debuted on white label at DEMF, but the full release of LWYF-001 is now available for purchase in the US, the UK, Europe, and Japan! It is available from various distributors and shops, notably Rush Hour, Gramaphone, Nuloop, Juno, Clone, and Underground Gallery. Thanks to the kind…

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A few weeks back I made a post about Jwan and I playing records on the local college station WRCT Pittsburgh. I thought the mix was pretty good at the time, and thankfully it was recorded so I was able to go back and check it out. It turns out that it is a damn…

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The past week and a half or so has really been an outstanding week for new music for me. From brand new joints, to reissues, to finds in the used shops, shit’s been firing on all cylinders. Let’s get down to brass tacks. The “Vertical Ascent” LP by Moritz Von Oswald Trio is everything I…

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Man. Just when I thought Scott couldn’t possibly touch the collection of mixes he had already done for us, he comes through with this. Celebrating the repressing of the early Ferrispark Records catalog, he went through some of his old joints and broke us off with a mix of mostly unreleased deep house bangers. These…

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Tonight Jwan Allen and I are taking over the Re-rewind radio show on WRCT 88.3 FM with our man Jake the Snake. We’re gonna be bringing all the illest new shit, plus classics and lesser known jams from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s. You can definitely expect to hear the Disco Nihilist record as…

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Got a couple more records since the last post…. First up is the “Music For A Saturday Evening” album by BSTC on All Natural Inc., usually a hip-hop label but this time delivering awesome live soulful house. I have to give the credit to this selection to Kai Alcé who dropped “Love It” on his…

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One of the reasons I started this here blog was my dissatisfaction with the existing dance music media. Possibly the most annoying music critic trend in general (and one that has really gotten on my nerves more and more from reading the critic-heavy I Love Music forum [warning, only go there if you want to…

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… since I did any record reviews. I mentioned the recent Dam-Funk 7″ back in May (and I got the most recent Stone’s Throw EP by him which is just as awesome as you would expect), but I never got around to talking about the things I got in Chicago in March, nor anything else…

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The lucky people who met up with me in Detroit already know this, but as my label’s first release is on Crosstalk’s distribution list this week (link is time sensitive, by Friday it will show next week’s releases!) it is finally time to let all the info out. The release is by an artist from…

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Detroit as seen from Belle Isle DEMF weekend is such a crazy time that writing about it is really becoming almost impossible. Every year it seems like more and more of my time is consumed to the point that I can’t even remember what the hell I spent the weekend doing. I’m not the kind…

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