So it’s been a busy summer. Both of these items technically happened already, but I didn’t have a chance to write about them. I also owe everybody a ton of record reviews from the last few months, that will probably drop later this week. But let’s dive into the label and ISM’s birthday… I finally…
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new mix – The Zerold & the New
i have returned, i guess? did this mix back in May, it was originally a playlist called “medium to hard bangs” but it ended up going some different directions in the end. i think you’ll enjoy. here’s the tracklist ya filthy commies
Bandcamp: Gimme All Your Lovin’
I take a look at Bandcamp’s new crowd-sourced record pressing operation, and the implications of it and their business model on independent music. In a 12 months behest with relentless negativity, one of the few shining stars to emerge from the malaise that is Covid-19 is Bandcamp. Prior to 2020 the platform had already become…
Music 2020
Shackleton / Zimpel – Primal Forms [Cosmo Rhythmatic] Best 15 minute+ pagan jazz workouts. Mario Acquaviva – Notturno Italiano (Ron Trent dub) [Mother Tongue] Best little-known Italian boogie record re-worked by a deep house maestro. Mario Acquaviva – Notturno Italiano Reworks (Daniel Maunick & Alex Malheiros/Ron Trent Mixes) by Mother Tongue records First Touch –…
PLEASE STOP THROWING RAVES IN THE SEWER
2020 I have seen the worst of lots of people in San Diego regarding the dance music scene. Promoters specifically are willing to risk their following’s health for the sake of a few dollars. I get it people have spent years here extorting people for ticket sales and ensuring that their liquor licenses are used…
Samhain Special mixxx / DDR – Show Recordings
For the last couple of years I have been co-hosting, alongside Shane O’Meara, Feathers Glued To Your Face, Bringing Firepower, a 2hr, monthly radio show on Dublin Digital Radio (DDR). In a Dublin that has seen better times, DDR has grown to become an essential community within the city, and further afield. Many people feel…
Dance Like Nobody’s Watching
I recently found myself watching an old Boiler Room stream – artist irrelevant – and was struck, more than ever, by how awkward the whole situation was. It was one of the more enthusiastic and less self-conscious crowds, the rare recording where you didn’t feel like cringing too much yet in the space of a…
A Whole Lot (of nothing) Going On + New Music
I guess this post serves as some sort of coming out of retirement with regards to my writing here on ISM. It has been over 2.5 years since I wrote about new releases on here or anything else for that matter – bar a couple of posts on mixes / recordings. I’m not going to…
Even more mixes
Yes, my mix series keeps coming, I am posting a few mixes at a time so I don’t flood the other contributors posts out! Sending some big love out to all the ISM readers out there in these crazy times. Session 011 – a 70s German ambient synthesiser journey from Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Cluster…
Mix: Live from Banger Cliff
Mixes from me are even rarer in the last few years than my posting on yon blog here. I had been planning on recording a mix recently but my home set up is a little bit scrappy and lockdown means that a new one is currently not possible, but in the mean time a recording…