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….
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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
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…
Our First Guest Mix: Dean Feeney of TR One
Stepping up to the plate for our first guest mix is 1/3 of the up and coming Irish techno/house group TR One, Mr. Dean Feeney. With their first vinyl release just out recently, the TR One guys are doing it up oldschool style with the hardware live jam sessions for their tracks. Their influences are…
Dub Devil
A roots and dub mix with a few self made discomix edits thrown in…
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…
This Is A Takeover! infinitestatemachine On The Airwaves…
Our dear friend DJ Nosteel, a graduate student in communications at University of Pittsburgh and fellow music nerd) has invited ISM to appear on his Rustbelt Soul show on WPTS this evening from 9pm till 11pm EST to provide some tunes and talk about this here website you’re currently reading.
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.
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.
You Can’t Download This From Beatport, Vol. 1
Yeah, I know we tend to go on and on about vinyl here at ISM. Deal with it. One of the reasons I love record shops is because you can find so much more than records there. Sometimes it might be a disco classic stamped with the info from a classic local deejay or disco,…