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Music, Records

Friday Goodies

Lots of nice stuff for everybody this Friday: some words on Chymera’s upcoming releases, info about Convextion appearing on the radio this evening, and a nice disco/house/electro/techno mix by gmos….

General, Mixes, Music

Norm Talley mixes

Since I haven’t been around to contribute much (or at all) on here yet, I though I’d start with a couple of mixes Norm sent a little while back. One Disco classics, one House. Disco Classics Deep House

Music, Records

New Vinyl-Only Label: DS:93

The guys over at Dust Science are starting a new vinyl-only label DS:93 with the premise of releasing 9 records each by a different artist and only pressing 93 copies of each one (with no digital downloads or CD compilations of the tracks…. EVER!). Add to that their own in-house design team’s custom label and…

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Music, Nonsense, Records

The Roots of Jungle

I have a gig tonight deejaying at the local jungle party, opening for Fanu (who is the bomb, if any of you like that mid 90’s mashed up breakbeats flavor, Fanu has drawn comparisons to old Photek and Source Direct). For my set, I decided to do what I call “the roots of jungle”, which…

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Culture, Music, Nonsense

The Kings of Electro?!?!?!?!

The “Kings Of” series of compilations has been pretty solid thus far, especially the “Kings of Techno” with Carl Craig and Laurent Garnier providing very interesting listening that many who consider themselves “into techno” might not even recognise. Their upcoming “Kings of Electro”, though, is a straight-up joke.

General, Music, Records

A case of the old (guard) making the new exciting again

Few long term EDM (electronic dance music) fans can claim not to be familiar with A Guy Called Gerald (AGCG)–and for good reason. He’s been making funky and genre-defining dance music since the mid- to late 1980s. Before making dance music history with this release, Gerald Simpson made abstract and futuristic acid house as the creative lead behind 808 State.