AKA “The Pen Is Truly Mightier Than The Sword.” Whichever Batman quote you prefer. One of the reasons behind the inception of ISM was the lack of coverage this music received in the dance press. XLR8R went hipster, Straight No Chaser went out of business, blogs were overwhelmingly about mnml and electrohouse, and the big…

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I mentioned Trevor Combee as one of the inspirations for my recent “Now THAT’S What I Call Techno” mix, but really he is as responsible for the music i listen to now as anyone else. Trevor owned and operated HyperVinyl Records in Pittsburgh starting back in 1997 and later started the label of the same…

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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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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” 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.

You know, sometimes I think people go out of their way to write things just to irritate the hell out of me. This has to be one of the most asinine things I’ve read in a long time. Obviously, Mr. Rico, the author of the post, is unaware of the original release of “Shades of…

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In these strange days now that the vinyl market appears to be in the middle of a collapse, we’re seeing a bunch of new practices for moving records. One that is particularly irritating to me is this current rash of ridiculous dub-techno doublepacks that seem aimed far more at collectors than anything else.

Welcome to infinitestatemachine. We want to do our part to give some props to the music and musicians who are so often overlooked in this day of trendy sub-subgenres (complete with their own haircut and drug of choice, of course) and hyper-mainstream corporate-sponsored “artists”. We still love vinyl, we’re not interested in fabricated lifestyle marketing,…

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