So yeah, the plan to post this during the relevant year was a failure. But it doesn’t detract from the greatness of the music!

It’s about that time of year where every website, magazine, and blog out there starts churning out year end lists. Despite the presence of some more interesting “Top 5 of 2008” lists over at Little White Earbuds and other places, I find that my mind just doesn’t work like that. I did submit some choices…

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Now available to download – 5 hours of recordings from our November Dream Machine party. Look out for details of the next party coming 31st January 2009. Rick Hopkins @ Dream Machine 081108 Jonny5 @ Dream Machine 081108 Intergalactic Gary @ Dream Machine 081108

There’s more and more new stuff stacking up as the year winds down, hopefully things will be a little more evenly distributed next year! Before I move on to talking about these records, I want to give a shout out to my man Carleton and his Mass Communications class. I sat on a panel of…

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  On the record buying front it’s been a hectic couple of weeks for me, overspending to the point of stupidity – and no Christmas presents bought for anyone yet either, oops. Most of these were picked up on a recent trip to London, where it was nice for a change to have so many…

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Leopoldo Rosa, more commonly known as Lerosa, is an ISM favourite for some time, releasing quirky, original house on labels such as D1 Recordings and Millions of Moments since 2005. A while back I had a chat with Leo talking about everything from his musical beginnings in Italy, nearly packing it all in to been…

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Was kindly passed this great quality live footage of J&J playing live in Amsterdam by Jordash. Looks like a great party and the music sounds really nice. Enjoy. Juju & Jordash LIVE @ Studio 80, Amsterdam from Gno Pants on Vimeo.

Thanksgiving is a good time to sit back and reflect on the good things in life with your family and friends. Music being our specialty, we want to reflect with our friends and family on the most influential man in techno, Juan Atkins. His health problems have been subject of rampant rumors over the years,…

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2.5 hours of Intergalactic Gary’s set recorded at Dream Machine on 8th November can now be downloaded. Thanks a lot to Toby Bleep for recording the night for us. Mine and Rick’s sets should be available soon. Check it out over at Bleep43

In the comments section on the previous post by pipecock, one person recommended Ragtyme’s “I Can’t Stay Away”. It’s another much desired reissue on the excellent Clone Classic Cuts series, which officially licences hard to get Chicago/italo/etc classics. However, as many of us are aware, there’s a lot of “reissues” out there which are not…

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