Over the years, our interviews have been some of the most revisited posts on infinitestatemachine. As much as I loved doing those extensive phone chats, the transcription and editing of them was truly one of my least favorite things I have ever done in my life. After doing a little ten questions email interview with…
Some Recent New Records
These jams are where my mind is residing in early 2018…. Marcellus Pittman “Revenge For Nothing” Unirhythm 12” Marcellus Pittman “Can’t Forget About You” Unirhythm 12” It’s been a hot minute since Marcellus dropped a new record, and here come two within a month of each other. The “Revenge For Nothing” jam fits into 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…
Quare Groove – Volume 1
As I was reading through the liner notes for the wonderfully titled Quare Groove – A Collection of Irish Groove, Punk Funk and Electro, released last week on All City Records I was reminded of the hours and hours I spent going through the Irishrock.org website over the years. An exhaustive archive on Irish bands,…
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…
Theo Parrish Bent My Mind
And it never really got straightened back out again. I was just reminiscing on how I really got into house music thanks to the homie Rick Wade posting about his first release on Harmonie Park over on Instagram. I’ve been kind of in this mindset for a little over a year and combined with my…
From San Diego to Sherkin to Serbia to back to my Apartment…?
This first of the post of the year (and it’s still January!), crosses over a few time zones, touching on a few parties and most surprisingly, a new mix from the allegedly enigmatic NCW. San Diego, USA – Rhythm Nation feat. Santiago Salazar & Ricardo Miranda – This Saturday, 27th Jan Our man in San…
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…
Mix: One Night In Chicarlow
It’s been a sporadic year on the mix front. Sporadic = this is only the second one I’ve recorded. Its a b2b mix recorded back in August in the Tr One studio for former ISM guest mixer Jamie Thomson’s radio show, Saturday Manatee. It contains the efforts of myself and Eddie from Tr One and…