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To remix or not to remix

A few weeks ago – around the time of my last post mentioning all the remixers that Planet E had lined up for their 20th Anniversary releases – myself and Tom got in a fairly heated discussion over this element of dance music. It ended up with us agreeing to disagree on the subject so…

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Get Deep – Berlin 12/02/2011

I’m in Berlin this Saturday playing records… any ISM readers from those parts who want to come along – just get in touch and we’ll work something out… fully party details available here on RA

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Kiss Me Again – London 04/02/2010

So… this Friday in London town… I will be joining the Kiss Me Again residents for a night of house, disco and drinking… By all accounts these guys throw a rocking party so it should be fun… Maybe catch some of you there Full party details available here on RA

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A look back at 2010

As with last year I’m gonna refrain from just doing straight up top 10 lists but will instead just highlight a few different bits and bobs that did it for me this year. The year started off a little sluggish for me, both in terms of gigs and releases, I felt like it took a…

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Culture, General, Mixes, Music

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…

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Some more new musaks…

My last small run down of new records from the beginning of October contained a few things that Tom had mentioned in a post of his from around then and seeing as Jitter has just made a records post which includes some jams I’ve been loving recently I don’t see the point in some of…

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Records rambling….

Mayday! Mayday! Ok, so it’s not new material but it’s as close as it gets from The Innovator… 4 tracks, previously only available on one of those 12 tracks-a-side LP’s that, while useful historically, are about as much use in a club environment as a Vestax turntable. It’s all here, the soaring strings, the alien…

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