Isaac Hayes passed away on Sunday the 10th of August 2008 at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, aged 65. The man is a legend of soul and funk music. He started off as a session musician playing organ and keyboards in the Stax house band on Otis Redding cuts such as the Otis Blue album…
Guest Mix: Drrtyhaze – Chicago1
This one is not a new mix, but one that I have been enjoying so much for two years that I felt it needed to be out there again. Even though they hail from New York City and not Chicago, Drrtyhaze nail the 80’s classic jacking vibe perfectly. From the more obvious classics to some…
Sleeping Alone – Mix
Haven’t posted in a while, so thought may as well use this post to throw up my first mix for the site. Not gonna say much about it, its culled from old and new italo, a few edits and some other random bits n’ bobs from the early 80’s. Runs at just over an hour….
A Little More On “Action Without Thought”
Digging around for a Sun-Ra CD case last night (which I never fucking found!), I happened upon the book that got me thinking about the idea of zen and deejaying a few years back. Entitled “The Unfettered Mind, it was lent to me by my man Chris Schubert who is a big fan of the…
Guest Mix: Meschi – Dark Prospects
Summer is starting to get to me, I think. The heat and humidity are beginning to get unbearable, my allergies are giving me a constant sinus headache, and I get to do fun things like go to court tomorrow at 8:30 AM for the trial of the prick who burglarized my house last fall. Hopefully…
West African Heat
First off, apologies for being so quiet recently, but a recent move has kept me away from the decks and GTA4 has kept me from doing anything remotely constructive for the last month or so đŸ˜‰ Anyway, this is a belated audio companion to my earlier post on the recent series of excellent compilations on…
Guest Mix: Richard Carnage – Late Night Jams #2
Photo by Nick Gutterbreakz Mr. Carnage (that sounds like a good name for a super-villain!) from ye olde TAPE blog has blessed us here at ISM with yet another sweet guest mix. This one kicks off with a remix of a song that I love very much and continues through slow, hazy, melodic techno and…
When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What’s Still Around…
I’d buy that for a dollar…
So I’ve been a bit quiet of late, mainly because I’ve not had much work and consequently have been pretty poor, which has meant that I haven’t really bought any vinyl for a while. I’ve still been nosing round charity shops however, mostly coming away empty-handed, but today my luck changed… I was in one…
20 Years Later
In an interesting parallel to Theo’s comments, my wife sent me this link just now. I for one cannot believe it has been 20 years. The really depressing part is to think of how far black musical artists came in the 20 years preceding that album which surely has to be a pinnacle of political…