I picked up New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War),the new album by Erykah Badu, the other day and I am really feeling it. I’ve had the 12″ for “Honey” for a while now, and while I love it (especially the video, it’s like she made it just for vinyl heads!) it was definitely more…
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Guest Mix: Richard Carnage of TAPE
The ISM Mix Machine has been in high gear all year, and today we hit you with yet another dope selection. This one is by our man Richard Carnage over at the TAPE blog, whose coverage of techno, house and nu-disco (check their detailed “Top 100(!) of 2007” post!) make them a favorite of mine…
Deep Soulful Mix
The idea for this mix has been floating around inside my head for a good long while now. I wanted to have something more akin to a mixtape than a deejay mix for bedroom purposes, both sleeping and otherwise. Don’t expect much in the way of mixing, I mostly just segued between jams in the…
platinum gold
Pauly Martin (anagram), Platinumray is one of Dublin’s most underrated DJs. His party style DJing is one of playfulness, mixing different flavours of dance and electronic sounds. Although never afraid to get abstract and wonky (and he is definitely wonky – but in a good way, wonkiness is closer to goodliness) with his selections, it…
Am I Coming, or Going?
Man, life has been crazy the past month or so. School has been killing me, Pittsburgh has had some fantastically awesome bad weather (which I would actually like if I could miss school ever and have that be alright), and the record store I work at just moved locations which meant much heavy lifting and…
Guest Mix: Noleian Reusse – Black Tekno Vol. 2
Here we go with the ISM exclusive second installment of Noleian Reusse’s Black Tekno mix. This mix was recorded live in January, and it features more of the same kind of stuff that made Vol. 1 so popular. Noleian has politely declined the requests for a tracklist (he kicks it old school like that), but…
Guest Mix: Noleian Reusse – Black Tekno Vol. 1
Mathematics Recordings has been busy the last few years issuing new material from some of the old school Chicago house originators, remixing and reissuing classic jams, and banging out some new jacking tunes by current Chicago cats. One of those new producers is Noleian Reusse, who releases tunes on Mathematics and Crème Organization with Jamal…
Mo’ Records and Other Shit, Too
It’s been a while since I talked about new records on here, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been getting plenty of them! In actuality, I’ve been getting a bunch of nice things and just haven’t been writing about them due to my temporary craziness (which has been eradicated by my decision not to write…
Into the Mind of Nubian Mindz
Colin Lindo, aka Alpha Omega and Nubian Mindz, is an electronic music veteran who can turn his hand to many genres and makes music that didn’t easily fit into specific genre definitions (we like that here). He has recorded for legendary jungle label Reinforced and his New World Chaos album on Archive is an underrated…
Another One Bites the Dust
Word on the street is that Syntax Music, a longtime dance distributor in the US, is going under. This is of course in addition to the closing of Watts and Nemesis over the past few years. Anyone who spent lots of time in dance record shops in the 90’s and 00’s should know these names,…