In a break from his previous mixes for us that spanned genres in the name of mood, this time Scott brings a Detroit-style booty/bass mixup. I’ll let him do the talking on this one…. “First off a note to the listeners: I apologize for the dreadful distortion during some of the filtering I perform in…
DEAF 2008
It’s October and for Irish electronic music fans that means that DEAF is coming. DEAF (the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival) has been going since 2002 and takes place every year during the Irish October bank holiday weekend, this year it runs from Thursday 23rd until Sunday 26th. It’s independently run by D1 Recordings. Over the…
Boatloads of Wax and Other Fun Stuff
I finally did some catching up on new releases and had a couple nice digging sessions over the past week. I have this big ol’ Stack O’ Records to show for it! Exciting. The Moodymann remix of Jose James’ “Desire” is an immediate classic. I knew this would be top 10 of the year material…
“I’d like to thank the following…”
Ah, the awards ceremony. Do we all secretly fantasize of being at some slavish award ceremony, the spotlight hits us, the crowd errupting as we stroll through the crowd to thrust some sort of golden statue into the air? Wooohhooo!! And going on the pic above, posted originally in this news feed on Resident Advisor,…
Machine, Maschine, Maszynowy
The couple of times Kraftwerk have performed in Ireland in the last 5yrs or so I had the misfortune of either not having a spare penny to go see them, or being out of the country. These days I do have a few spare pennies so when The Robots announced a while back that they…
Norman Whitfield
Sad, my last 2 posts have been to give my respects to 2 giants of soul/funk music who have passed on recently. (I should also take this chance to mention another important figure who passed on recently, Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records) Read the news the other day, that Motown writer/arranger/producer Norman Whitfield died last…
Meschi – Destination Dementia
The other night I fell asleep on the train until the end of the line. I got woken up and jumped on another train that turned out to be non stop straight back to where I started an hour and a half previously. I ended up stranded at Victoria station at 2am, freezing cold and 4 hours before…
Louis Haiman – Life After People
Louis Haiman’s productions debuted on Transmat’s Time:Space comps, and he has since gone on to start his own label fwdthought to release similarly minded atmospheric melodic techno (including Pittsburgh’s own Chris Schubert’s excellent debut long player). He also had a track on Arne Weinberg’s AW-Recordings compilation “Viewpoints Chapter 1” earlier this year. Louis released two…
Some Random Things
I’ve got a bunch of really good records recently that I haven’t had much time to write about until now. This is covering from when I came back from vacation and on, I think! On the new tip, the only things I’ve picked up recently were the newest Omar-S and Luke Hess 12″s on Fxhe….
Guest Mix: Scott Ferguson #3
It really is getting harder and harder to talk about these mixes of Scott’s. I am a huge fan of mixing things up by feeling, and he manages to do a very good job across many genres every single time. This one is a heavily atmospheric mix, beginning with swirling ambience and scratchy textures before…