This mix is a very special one for me, as it contains all original material by some old friends of mine from Pittsburgh who have been banging out drum and bass music as Sight Unseen. Because the tracks are almost all unreleased and they don’t own CDJs or Serato, this was done Ableton style. As…
Resuming The Beat Aesthetic
The Beat Aesthetic, a night devoted to deep house and related musics that we began earlier this year, is relaunching next Friday night at a new venue. After taking the summer off, we’re arming ourselves with the silly good Impact Audio soundsystem and taking over New Amsterdam one Saturday a month to bang it out….
Guest Mix – Toby Frith, Bleep43
Our latest guest mix comes from London where Toby, along with a few others, conduct all things Bleep43. This includes a website, an excellent podcast series that spans all sorts of things electronic, the original work of both Orphan and Plant43 along with the excellent parties that have hosted the likes of Convextion, I-f, Dj…
So Many Good Records I Don’t Know What To Do
It may seem a bit silly to use a CD cover as the image for a record review post, and even sillier to lead off that post with a review of said CD. However, this is how it is going to be done. I am not against purchasing CDs, no matter how much some people…
Guest Mix: Lerosa Vinyl Mix #1
I’ve been sitting on this one as the excellent mixes Lerosa did for mnml ssgs and Bodytonic dropped over the last couple of months. Finally, it’s time to unleash this one on the world! Leo has blown up over the exact same period of time that ISM has been around; in fact, “Ruski” (his first…
Needs dustin’ – Mix
I meant to record my set from a gig on Saturday night but the Mp3 player didn’t want to play ball so I re-recorded a version of it a couple of days ago.I’ve sort of come at it differently to a normal home mix, was on the early slot so it’s deep enough for the…
Guest Mix: Scott Ferguson #8 – More Unreleased FPR Tracks
Kicking off what will be a month of regular guest mixes is the newest joint from our resident guest mixer, Scott Ferguson of Ferrispark Records. Since dropping his first one for us way back in April of ’08, Scott has seen something of a revival with the vinyl represses of the early Ferrispark 12″s blowing…
Some more records…
Tom’s post has made me get my arse in gear to post about a few of my own summer record purchases. I most likely could have done this ages ago as I’m focusing on 2nd hand buys, many of which were got on my trip to Chicago and Detroit all the way back in May…
Some Records I’ve Purchased Recently
I’ve bought an ungodly number of records this summer, hundreds just in the last 2 months alone. It’s really gonna be difficult to narrow it down to something palatable, but I’m just gonna try to hit some of the highest of the highlights in new and old music that has found its way into my…
DEAF ’09 Preview and some other tings
The line up for this year’s Dublin Electronic Arts Festival is nearing completion with the usual mix and match of music, art and happenings. It had slackened off a little bit in recent times until last year when it really felt like there was a buzz around the city with countless amounts of excellent gigs…