We’ve been pretty slack on the interview front here at ISM for quite some time. Don’t think for a second that this post is a sign of us picking up the pace either as none of us had anything to do with it! My man in Tokyo, Andrew Hogan, recently caught up with Rick Wilhite…
Guest Mix – Mike Falvey
It’s time again for that most sporadic of series I’ve got going on where I’ve been asking some local Irish Djs to do up a mix for the site. We return again to County Kerry for this one, courtesy of the amiable Mike Falvey, who’s been plugging away at this djing malarky for some time,…
Why I Am Not Attending DEMF This Year
Photo courtesy of Matt Cohen Photography If you look on the “Categories” sidebar, you’ll see “DEMF 08”, “DEMF 09”, and “DEMF 10”. Before those years when I covered DEMF for this blog, I attended every year from 03 on. Barring a drastic change in how the festival operates, that will be it for me moving…
Spring ’11 New Records Pt. 2
So this is part two, just trying to keep the focus on a couple records per post! Here’s some ill Detroit, Chicago, and NYC records I’ve picked up recently…. Any time Reggie Dokes releases a new record, it’s a good thing! When he is starting a new label, you know it means he’s gonna bring…
Spring ’11 New Records Pt. 1
So yeah. I’ve been slacking yet again on new record posts, and it has really backed up enough that I’m not even gonna try to do them all in one go. I imagine this will take two or three posts, so bear with me. Pictured above is Chancho Via Circuito at his debut Pittsburgh appearance…
Sun Ra Promo Mix
Here’s a short Sun Ra mix I did as a promo for this weekend’s Sun Ra Birthday Celebrations with Mike Huckaby (see previous post). It focuses on the late 70s and early 80s period which was probably his grooviest period, should serve as a nice primer for those unfamiliar with his work. 1 Sleeping Beauty…
Mike Huckaby Weekender feat the Music of Sun Ra
The MN Collective have a very exciting weekend lined up for us with Detroit’s Mike Huckaby running tings on both Friday and Saturday night this weekend. Friday night will be a celebration of the music of Sun Ra in the Grand Social, one of the most forward thinking musicians of the 20th Century, he was…
Guest Mix: Scott Ferguson
It’s been some time since we last had a mix from Mr Ferguson and for this instalment he’s back rocking the Hip Hop for us after this killer mix he did for us back in early 2010. Again it’s on a mostly 90’s tip and contains a few personal favourites of mine in there, so…
March-April 2011 Annotated Top 20
There’s been so much great music coming out lately and I haven’t written about records in a long time so I decided to do a Top 20 chart for March and April with some commentary on each one. Listed in alphabetical order because I couldn’t really rank them and besides, I don’t want anybody to…
New Mix – Welcome To Earth, Alex
One thing I’ve never been when it comes to my music collection is a completist. I don’t think there is any label that I’ve made a concerted effort to collect all their work, just for the sake of it. Red Planet, an off shoot from Underground Resistance is the closest I’ve got to a label…