As I have noted here before, school has been killing me for the last month. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, I will be graduating in just under two weeks which means I will finally have time to getting around to all the ISM things I have had in the works. In the meantime, I have only…
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Blasts from the past – 1. The Mayday Mix
I wanted to post about this for a while, but seeing as I’m bone idle, I never got round to it. Then I read what someone on discogs had written about it, and that finally spurred me into action. Talk about missing the point! As soon as I started to read about ‘bland and predictable…
The Good, The Bad and The BLOC
Now that the dust has settled, the weird nightmares have subsided, apologies have been handed out and my eating habits are back to normal it’s time for a few words on what has become in just over a year and 2 parties, my favourite weekend of the year. The title was a dead give away,…
Local pride
Just a few words on my opinion of what’s going on in Ireland at the moment. I had intended on writing something like this for a while now, but I guess, given it was Paddy’s Day this week, that now is an appropriate time to post it. Things seem to be quite healthy regarding Irish…
Interview: David Vunk, Moustache Records
David Vunk’s Moustache Records has only been running since 2007 but in it’s short life has clocked up some stellar releases featuring the talents of producers such as Alden Tyrell and Sneak Thief with the influential collector Flemming Dalum and legendary Italo Disco singer Fred Ventura also appearing. David has been around for a little…
Just a little bit more Omar…
Bodytonic’s latest podcast is a little 30min mix from Mr Smith. There isn’t a whole lot of mixes on line from him, so it’s a nice little precursor to his upcoming Fabric mix. You can get it here
A Bunch of New Records
I’ve been a bit quiet around here recently due to school actually requiring me to WRITE this semester (is it insane to miss EE classes?!?!!) combined with the quick turnaround on the Omar-S interview that just got me kind of sick of writing for a bit. But that didn’t stop me from buying a ridiculous…
techno as composition-the antidote to the “soul-less” charge
Aside from the question of aesthetics and personal preference, few casual listeners realize that techno, unlike its more straightforward verse-chorus-verse-structured musical peers, does not rely on a recording of a performance, but on a recording of sound directly from the sheets of musical notation, as MIDI data performs the function of sheet music, in the…
it’s not over, or more favorites from ’08
Since many excellent records weren’t released until closer to the end of 2008, it took me a while to listen to them closely and really zero in on a few that hadn’t been reviewed here yet. Here are a few standouts (some are hidden in the links): The revisited X-102 album As the name suggests,…
A couple of things…
Just a couple of things that might be of some interest to ISM folk out there…first up Global Darkness are celebrating ten years with a party in Amsterdam on the 21st of March, featuring a mouthwatering line up of Dutch electro; Rude 66, TLR, Orgue Electronic, Legowelt and a host of others. Due to BLOC…