I will be honest and say the pairing of UK techno producer Tom Dicicco and Jordan Czamanski’s Off Minor Recordings was not one I expected but then I like when a label throws up something unexpected like this. It certainly makes me more curious than just churning out the same old same old – though…
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Paxton Fettel – Everything Stays The Same
My posts on new music have been a bit slack since we restarted, so there may be some posts over the next while that will see some back tracking on releases from earlier in the year, and I can’t let this album from Danish producer Paxton Fettel (coming out through the ace Greta Cottage Workshop…
Jorge Velez – MMT8 Archives 2
Jorge Velez has quietly been posting up both new music and (in the case of the MMT8 releases) archival music through a label he runs called TEMPLO over on bandcamp. With so much reissuing going on these days, reissues that are often quite expensive, it’s a refreshing change of pace to see someone tapping the past…
Siren – A/Way
Metro Area’s popularity peaked with the release of their album all the way back in 2002, but both members have continued on making excellent music together and separately ever since. Darshan Jesrani‘s output has not received the accolades that Morgan Geist’s has, but that has never been due to lack of quality. Using disco as…
Beard In Dust – BAH025
Some unusual edits from Russia on this mysterious German label. Who are they? Where do they come from? Who am I? Can you tanz? Buy it here, or request it at your local store..
This Other Space: The Tom EP
When I first agreed to clear some time in my busy social calendar to write for ISM I had just two caveats. The first being that I was not going to let it all go to my head now that I had hit the big time and would be raking in the money, getting on…
SEAGRAVE Records: Various – Savage Re (SR011)
SEAGRAVE Records out of the UK is a label that came to my attention after they released an excellent Best Available Technology/Ovis Aurum split cassette EP entitled Mar Reflection in the fall of last year. As time has passed they’ve continued to put out really great experimental electronic music, often not getting the attention I…
Guest Mix: Dean Feeney (Tr One) & Shane O’Meara (Gary’s Gang)
As much by coincidence as anything one half of our latest guest mix comes from the Dj behind the very first and last (in our old incarnation) mixes we hosted on the site, Dean Feeney. This time around he goes B2B with another former guest, Shane O’Meara who has played regularly in and around Dublin for…
Linkwood – Expressions
One of my favorite tracks of the year so far is the title track from Linkwood’s album Expressions. I’ve actually had the album since late last year, and had it come out in 2014 it would have been near the top of my list for that year. Now that I’ve had time to really digest…
divisive states 2: Carlos Santana
“If Santana works then the real shit is going to kill ’em!” -Francis Grasso, DJ at the Sanctuary NY, 1970, from Love Saves the Day. Did Carlos Santana get a bad rap? At the end of the 60s his band was obscure, then they played Woodstock and many said they were the highlight. But as…