So far in 2015 Resident Advisor has reviewed 570 releases they categorize as “Singles.” As a part of their review system for music, RA employs a rating scale of 0.0 to 5.0 in increments of 0.1. This degree of increment is much higher from their previous rating system. This was something they announced to a…
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Twisted Pepper closes…
I can’t say I was hugely surprised with the news that Bodytonic’s Twisted Pepper will be closing its doors this week. Even though it is Dublin’s most well known and highly regarded dance club of the last ten years it also felt like its time, in its current incarnation, was up. Clubbing – and Dublin…
Kan You Kick It?
I first heard KanKick on the classic DJ Babu (Beat Junkies, Dilated Peoples) “Comprehension” mixtape (dubbed Maxell cassette, photocopied j-card and handwritten labels.) After laying down one of the hardest sessions of beatjuggling and cutting ever documented, the turntablist Babu graciously opened up the full B-side for his LA underground friends to get on with…
what’s hot as-in-on-fire right now – Tevo, Kate, and Fred
We been on some Tevo Howard shit at ISM for a hot minute. In 2009 Kenny deemed his records “buy on sight”. His tracks have been played in several ISM mixes over the years. After a while, though, some of us started to lament his overuse of the Roland TR-707 drum machine. Fortunately he’s back…
Golden Donna – I Still See You
When Tom asked me awhile back if I’d be interested in writing for Infinite State Machine I immediately said yes. I have always wanted to be involved in a rebirth and ISM has been, over the years, one of my top sources for music and producers other people weren’t hyping or playing. So, obviously, if…
Fatima Yamaha & D1 Recordings
Unless you have been living on Pluto for the last few years you can’t have missed the continued rise of a “lost” classic by Fatima Yamaha called “What’s A Girl To Do”, to the point where even perennial dullards such as John Digweed and Dixon are now playing it in their sets and Matrixxman is…
Timothy Blake
Now that we’ve made our acquaintances again its time to get stuck in. Timothy Blake is a Berlin based (where else you may ask) Dubliner who hasn’t let his location get in the way of making some wonderfully loose-limbed funk of the electronic kind. He’s been on the radar of some of us in Ireland…
Guess Who’s Back
For most of the past year and a half since we announced the end of this blog, I assumed the next post I would make here would be a eulogy. The fact that I probably wasn’t gonna do as good a job as Bernhard did might have added to the ass dragging. So after the…
Guest Mix – Tr One / Dean Feeney
Wow, we made it to the end!? This is our final guest mix. This is my last post. Dunno if that means the very last post altogether or not. Hopefully the stealth-like GMOS will deliver one more of his gems. Either way, Dean Feeney (of Tr One) was the first person to do a guest…
Live – Magic Mountain High @ Tape @ Trouw, Amsterdam, February 2014
And so we near ever closer to the end. For any long time readers of the site you’ll knew we’ve got mad love for Juju & Jordash. In a world of copycats, hasbeens and never-will-bes these guys are the real deal. We asked them to help close out the site and they’ve obliged with a…