Jazz always reminds me of the city
To Our Readers in Buenos Aires
I know you’re out there, I see you in our traffic logs đŸ˜‰ My little sister is studying abroad in Buenos Aires this semester, but she’s having a hard time finding music in the vein of what is covered in this blog (mainly Detroit techno, deep house, funk, soul, jazz, etc). She also needs to…
In A Silent Way
Joe Zawinul, the great jazz keyboardist, died yesterday at his home in Austria. His work on Miles Davis’ albums in the late 60’s and early 70’s really set the standard for electric piano playing. He was also responsible for the awesome band Weather Report, in addition to his work with both Nat and Cannonball Adderly…
This Is A Takeover! infinitestatemachine On The Airwaves…
Our dear friend DJ Nosteel, a graduate student in communications at University of Pittsburgh and fellow music nerd) has invited ISM to appear on his Rustbelt Soul show on WPTS this evening from 9pm till 11pm EST to provide some tunes and talk about this here website you’re currently reading.
The Kings of Electro?!?!?!?!
The “Kings Of” series of compilations has been pretty solid thus far, especially the “Kings of Techno” with Carl Craig and Laurent Garnier providing very interesting listening that many who consider themselves “into techno” might not even recognise. Their upcoming “Kings of Electro”, though, is a straight-up joke.
A case of the old (guard) making the new exciting again
Few long term EDM (electronic dance music) fans can claim not to be familiar with A Guy Called Gerald (AGCG)–and for good reason. He’s been making funky and genre-defining dance music since the mid- to late 1980s. Before making dance music history with this release, Gerald Simpson made abstract and futuristic acid house as the creative lead behind 808 State.
You Can’t Download This From Beatport, Vol. 1
Yeah, I know we tend to go on and on about vinyl here at ISM. Deal with it. One of the reasons I love record shops is because you can find so much more than records there. Sometimes it might be a disco classic stamped with the info from a classic local deejay or disco,…
More on Dub Techno
Textura did a really nice interview with Rod Modell from Deepchord and Steve Hitchell aka Soultek. It’s good to see somebody talking to these kinds of faceless producers and getting into their philosophies and techniques, this is really what the internet is good for. You don’t have to worry about selling ad space for this,…
412 Techno Business
If you like the atmospheric end of techno, you should check out Pittsburgh’s Chris Schubert, who just posted a new jam “Mu” up on myspace. His debut full length “Pupil Is The Black Hole In Brilliant Space” dropped about a year ago on fwdthought, a label run by San Diego melodic/atmospheric techno cat Louis Haiman,…
Wow, Thanks, Beatport!
You know, sometimes I think people go out of their way to write things just to irritate the hell out of me. This has to be one of the most asinine things I’ve read in a long time. Obviously, Mr. Rico, the author of the post, is unaware of the original release of “Shades of…