I’ve been slack on posting about records this year for the very simple reason that I haven’t been buying much. It’s not because there isn’t much good shit out there (I still don’t have either Versalife 12s arrgghhh), I’ve just been channeling my funds into other things, some that are relevant to music, some less…
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Guest Mix: Scott Ferguson
It’s been some time since we last had a mix from Mr Ferguson and for this instalment he’s back rocking the Hip Hop for us after this killer mix he did for us back in early 2010. Again it’s on a mostly 90’s tip and contains a few personal favourites of mine in there, so…
March-April 2011 Annotated Top 20
There’s been so much great music coming out lately and I haven’t written about records in a long time so I decided to do a Top 20 chart for March and April with some commentary on each one. Listed in alphabetical order because I couldn’t really rank them and besides, I don’t want anybody to…
This Saturday – ISM @ The Kitchen
No, I’m not advertising that peeps come around to my gaff and eat toasted cheese sandwhiches (my culinary skills don’t stretch much further), but myself and Gmos will be manning the controls at The Kitchen Nightclub in Temple Bar this Saturday, the 23rd. The Kitchen is a pretty famous Dublin nightclub from days of yore…
Time Marches On
The above photo taken from this series of photographs once again highlights the sad truth of what has happened to independent music stores over the last decade. While the photos are depressing – though not without their own, certain, stark beauty – let’s not focus purely on the negative as their appearance online comes on…
Craig List
Wow, the last post I delivered certainly received a lot of feedback. Much appreciated to all those who replied and gave their two-cents worth. If I had the wherewitall and the time, I’d love to promote a Sunday afternoon gig that would be family-friendly – preferably outdoors in good weather, with a BBQ and a…
Practice Makes Perfect?
This post stems from a few tweets that went between a couple of us last week, regards pre-planning of Dj sets. Maybe not the freshest topic but one I thought I’d throw out there to our readers. Tom touched on it before in this post where he talks about “action without thought” in terms of…
fifteen most criminally slept on records of 2010
instead of posting my entire top 50 records of 2010, I just want to call all you fools out on a bunch of records you – at your own peril – almost certainly did not pick up last year. i know i’ve mentioned most of these several times on here already but judging from the…
Dying breed
Carl Craig hit my home town of Dublin recently, the night before Paddy’s Day, as part of the tour celebrating 20 years of Planet E. A pal of mine was considering going – but, he asked, would he look out of place in the crowd at the venue, as he is a man in his mid-thirties?
rest of the best of 2010 part 2
A few weeks ago I finally got around to compiling and mixing the first of what is turning out to be three Best of 2010 mixes. Yeah, it’s mid March and all the big techno blogs got their charts done in December. So? I’m not making excuses but I was actually waiting until just a…