Big Strick, Teflon Dons, Jay Simon, Generation Next, Pipecock, James Duncan, and Jwan Allen at the end of The Summit Festival weekend in Detroit is always a good time, but for whatever reason over the last few years I wasn’t getting the same satisfaction from it that I had in the past. This was at…
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REPRESS PLEASE!!!!!
ALERT ALERT!!!!!!! Hey frustrated DJ…. Do you often find yourself in the discogs comment section for a recent release that came out only a few months ago saying things like “REPRESS PLEASE!!!!”, begging these ungrateful labels to just press a few more copies so you can get your greasy hands on one and be the…
Some Thoughts on Dance Music Journalism
I’m kind of combining some of my tweets from this morning into this post. If you don’t follow me on there I am @pipecock not surprisingly. I am more consistent in posting there than here even now so follow me if you don’t. Read this transcription of an interview with Chuck Klosterman. Klosterman is kind…
Some of My DJing Tendencies
Fall of 2017 marked twenty years since I first purchased turntables, and sometime earlier in the year, twenty years of buying dance records. This year will be two decades since my first gigs playing records in front of the general public. Thanks to starting a LONG overdue organization of my records (they have never been…
Record Store Memories: Hypervinyl Edition
This is the first of a new series on infinitestatemachine called “Record Store Memories”. It’s a highly subjective account of my relationship with various record stores over the years, and will appear appropriately infrequently until I’ve covered all the important ones. For the first one I had to choose the record store that changed my…
My Favorite Music From 2017
This was a weird year for me and music. It was the first year I didn’t release a record, either on a label of mine or as an artist, since 2009, and honestly I really needed the break. I also formally announced my separation from the old labels and PTA, which has given me time…
Ten Years Lost
The more things change, the more things stay the same. I could just as well leave this post at that. Ten years ago Tom started this site with the basic idea of highlighting music that is overlooked by other outlets. The same frustrations that brought about the blog still stand. It may seem like we…
Top Jams of 2016 According to Pipecock
2016 has been an interesting one. And by interesting, I mean shitty. And that’s just on the music tip, not even touching on all the rest of the nonsense. I needed long breaks from music, social media, and especially music journalism this year. The music journalism break will likely be permanent, judging by the little…
Where You Been (records round up)
Moving swiftly on from 23 year old Dinosaur Jr references, it has been quite some time since I’ve talked about new music on here, so I figured it was about time to throw together what will most likely be a fairly scattershot post on some select releases that have appeared over the last few months…
Guest Mix: Section Five
Our latest guest mix comes from the west coast of Ireland, and with it comes a really enjoyable accompanying piece of writing discussing the mix and the music selected. The stream/download is at the bottom of the post…enjoy! For most of the year dancing as we do it is confined to sweaty basements where the…