Apparently, Theo Parrish is pissing people off by charging more than the “standard” amount of money for some of his new “limited” records. This is something Moodymann has been criticized for in the past as well. In fact, I criticized DeepChord for similar practices in a post 3 years ago. I have to say that…
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Ethiopian Jazz & Grooves Mix
More African goodies for you all, this time we travel to East Africa, Ethiopia to be precise. Legendary Ethiopian musician and composer/arranger Mulatu Astatke studied music in England and the USA in the 60s and started fusing jazz, funk and latin music with traditional Ethiopian music. He then took what he learned back to his…
London – 02/10/2010 – Sud Electronic feat. Boo Williams
Sat 2nd October sees Sud Electronic’s 10th Birthday party play host to the mighty Boo Williams, with a little back up from the likes of Efdemin, Lakuti, Nick Craddock, and myself. If you’re into house music and you don’t know who Boo is… well, you’re just not that into house music. A legend, no less….
Weekend Supplements
Having moved away from Ireland’s southern capital, Cork, a few years ago, I’m making one of my most anticipated (for me that is) returns to the city since then. There be a-plenty going on down there this coming weekend, and I’m lucky enough to be stuck in the middle of it, playing some records –…
Who You Know
One of the things that has really been getting me exited recently isn’t the dope records I’ve been buying (they are awesome though, look for a record review post from me later this week!). It’s not any specific deejay sets I’ve heard. What has been getting me pumped is the quality people doing this music….
Beat that shit- DJ Rahaan in Dublin
Hey, just a heads up for the Irish readers out there, Fatty Fatty and Downtownsounds presents DJ Rahaan from Chicago on Friday June 11th at a newish venue in Dublin, Space 54. Myself, Nic Keane and the Don will be providing the support warming things up for one of the world’s best disco/house djs. Doors…
field report: the clubhouse
Anthony Parasole, apparently a fan of this blog, recently added me at random on Facebook. He seemed like an earnest and experienced cat so I friended him back. We chatted a bit and he invited me down to his residency at The Club House party at Greenwich Village’s Love. It had been way too long…
Sleeping in Code
I assume some people might remember the initial post I made almost exactly a year ago regarding the trailer for the film “Speaking In Code”. I will now pause to allow you to go back and rewatch the trailer, read the post and the comments, and then we can get to the heart of the…
KDJ speaks
Interviews with the one and only Kenny Dixon Jr are as rare as a sober person at BLOC so I’m really looking forward to watching this when I finish work today. The little write up on the post from the Red Bull Music Academy site makes it sound highly entertaining. I hope it delivers! Watch…
Guest Post and Mix: Scott Ferguson
Scott Ferguson has been a contributor on the mix front for almost two years here at ISM, and over Christmas he even debuted a digital album here for us. Today, he adds one more notch to his ISM belt: guest writer! Scott was obviously inspired by a recent night out at Fabric on January 23rd,…