I’m delighted to let you know about the airing of my first show, Heart2Heart, tomorrow at 2100 CET. For my international audience: that’s 8pm in London/Dublin, 3pm in New York and 12 noon in California. The official announcement below: Intergalactic FM is pleased to announce the dawn of a new age on CBS radio. Heart2Heart,…
Deep In The Mix – house and techno
Well, finally I got my arse in gear and did a new mix. I have a bunch of different piles of records strewn about my room from abandoned ideas for mixes from the last few months. But one thing I’ve wanted to try and do is a mix of exclusively new(ish) house and techno which…
Love Don’t Pay the Rent
Sometimes it can be easy for us to forget that the musicians and DJs that we see in clubs are real humanoids with normal, everyday lives. All we see are the parts of their lives that revolve around music. And it’s always interesting to find out that these musicians, who can seem like celebrities when…
Promotion and Distribution
Last Thursday, the test presses of my label’s first release came in the mail. A listen through the whole record on my studio monitors revealed no pressing flaws or any other problems, so I tried it out at my Saturday night gig playing records with Jwan Allen and Noleian Reusse. Everything sounded good, and it…
A couple of things
What with the imminent arrival of Tom’s new label it’s also good to hear that he’s not the only one out there applying a DIY aesthetic to putting out new wax. Featured recently on this here site; William Burnett aka Speculator has also recently launched a new label which he is selling directly to the…
The Pressing Plant
My label’s first release is finishing its own tour of house and techno’s birthplaces (mastering just outside Chicago at Prairie Cat, plating just outside NYC at Mastercraft) at Archer Record Pressing in Detroit. The plates were shipped to Archer, who then attatch them to the press. These plates act as stampers. A chunk of vinyl…
DEEP SEA FM
I’ve been invited to do a Drexciya special on my man Nik’s weekly radio show Box Deluxe here in Dublin this Saturday evening. If you’re in the locale you can tune in at 99.5 on your FM dial or go to the website and stream from 6.30-8.00pm Irish time. For those who know…… Update: thanks…
Dream Machine on Saturday..
For the next Dream Machine we have Casionova DJ of Magic Waves internet radio and also of Cyber Dance records fame. Casionova is also organizing the Magic Waves two day festival which looks set to be the party of the summer! Joining him will be the Dream Machine residents playing deep disco, tearjerk italo, raw…
DEMF 09 Preview: DRMF – Detroit’s Rave Music Festival?!?!
Movement 2009 – Electronic Music Festivals | Detroit May 23rd-25 Well that is enough to make me want to blow chunks all over my keyboard. If you want to listen to music that sounds suspiciously like trance being played by all sorts of white guys from all over the world (with DJ Minx as the…
Dam-Funky
I know we’ve talked about him more than enough considering how few records he has released, but this new 7″ by Dam-Funk under his Wavelength alias is his best release so far. Dropping on a sublabel of Peoples Potential Unlimited (a great boogie reissue label whose catalog includes the fantastic “Danger Zone” by Midnight Express…