A decade ago in Pittsburgh, Pipecock and I got really tired of the rave scene, which was, you know, like, a really big deal at the time, right? Tom had heard about this fellow named MJ Cole, and played me “Sincere” one night at our crib. I have to admit, I wasn’t immediately enamored, but…
This Saturday – ISM @ The Kitchen
No, I’m not advertising that peeps come around to my gaff and eat toasted cheese sandwhiches (my culinary skills don’t stretch much further), but myself and Gmos will be manning the controls at The Kitchen Nightclub in Temple Bar this Saturday, the 23rd. The Kitchen is a pretty famous Dublin nightclub from days of yore…
Time Marches On
The above photo taken from this series of photographs once again highlights the sad truth of what has happened to independent music stores over the last decade. While the photos are depressing – though not without their own, certain, stark beauty – let’s not focus purely on the negative as their appearance online comes on…
Craig List
Wow, the last post I delivered certainly received a lot of feedback. Much appreciated to all those who replied and gave their two-cents worth. If I had the wherewitall and the time, I’d love to promote a Sunday afternoon gig that would be family-friendly – preferably outdoors in good weather, with a BBQ and a…
Practice Makes Perfect?
This post stems from a few tweets that went between a couple of us last week, regards pre-planning of Dj sets. Maybe not the freshest topic but one I thought I’d throw out there to our readers. Tom touched on it before in this post where he talks about “action without thought” in terms of…
fifteen most criminally slept on records of 2010
instead of posting my entire top 50 records of 2010, I just want to call all you fools out on a bunch of records you – at your own peril – almost certainly did not pick up last year. i know i’ve mentioned most of these several times on here already but judging from the…
rest of the best of 2010 part 3
Annnnnd, almost finally, here’s part three of my end of 2010 wrapup that picks up quite literally where the last mix left off. I’ll post a full chart sometime in 2012 I imagine. In case you missed them, the other mixes in this series are here and here, as well as a few other places…
Dying breed
Carl Craig hit my home town of Dublin recently, the night before Paddy’s Day, as part of the tour celebrating 20 years of Planet E. A pal of mine was considering going – but, he asked, would he look out of place in the crowd at the venue, as he is a man in his mid-thirties?
Guest Mix: m50 – Area Megamix
As promised, our homeboy m50 broke us off with a special mix of all his own tunes and remixes! Producing under the alias Area, he has dropped EPs on Francois K’s Wave Music, Anton Zap’s Ethereal Sound, and more, as well as remixes for Mathematics, Echospace, and Matrix amongst many others. He has also recently…
rest of the best of 2010 part 2
A few weeks ago I finally got around to compiling and mixing the first of what is turning out to be three Best of 2010 mixes. Yeah, it’s mid March and all the big techno blogs got their charts done in December. So? I’m not making excuses but I was actually waiting until just a…