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…
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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…
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…
2021
Groundhog Day turned into Groundhog year. Music I presumed I’d owned since 2020, I only purchased in May? And so forth. Could things get weirder? Well yes, actually. Apartment had its busiest year since 2014. An EP, an album and merch? Sure have a look over on the Bandcamp. Huge thanks to everyone who has…
TENEMENTS Album / 10 Years of Apartment
In February 2019 my label Apartment was all but dead. I won’t expand on the reasons for this but some music was returned to people and I felt like I’d finally stopped jumping back and forth doing a will I / won’t I on what sometimes felt like an especially long-winded experiment in money gouging….
Utopia Los Angeles Provides A Space Where We Can All Be Free
The Covid-19 pandemic over the past year and a half has brought about change that will be lasting. From people’s outlook on careers to the way we interact with one another. For certain my perspective of what is important to me has altered immensely in this time. Recently as of late, I attended the Los…
Three Of San Diego’s Dance Crews Curate Summer Madness , July 24th
There is a fresh new vybe that has broken loose within San Diego’s dance music community. It is young, it is free, and it’s is infectious. What makes it so is a group of dancers from the next generation are working meticulously to offer the city their vision for Soulful Underground Dance Music here. First…
Recent Musaks
The last few months have seen me slow down on the new records front, more for lack of trying than lack of good music (I think). Tom’s last couple of posts also covered some of my recent favs so I’ll not bother repeating ourselves and instead look at some other bizness. Various – Madre Lingua…
Paul Johnson and Juliet Mendoza Play Bang Bang Friday May 14th
Nightlife is gradually coming back to San Diego. So far from what I have observed the majority of it is not very good. You have boat parties with the same old lineups of just outright garbage. I am hoping as we come back full strength promoters put thought and meticulous detail into their events here…