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Ethiopian Jazz & Grooves Mix
More African goodies for you all, this time we travel to East Africa, Ethiopia to be precise. Legendary Ethiopian musician and composer/arranger Mulatu Astatke studied music in England and the USA in...
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How Much Is Too Much To Pay For A New Record?
Apparently, Theo Parrish is pissing people off by charging more than the “standard” amount of money for some of his new “limited” records. This is something Moodymann has been criticized for in the...
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Dying breed
Carl Craig hit my home town of Dublin recently, the night before Paddy’s Day, as part of the tour celebrating 20 years of Planet E. A pal of mine was considering going – but, he asked, would he look...
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Mike Huckaby Weekender feat the Music of Sun Ra
The MN Collective have a very exciting weekend lined up for us with Detroit’s Mike Huckaby running tings on both Friday and Saturday night this weekend. Friday night will be a celebration of the music...
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Why I Am Not Attending DEMF This Year
Photo courtesy of Matt Cohen Photography If you look on the “Categories” sidebar, you’ll see “DEMF 08″, “DEMF 09″, and “DEMF 10″. Before those years when I covered DEMF for this blog, I attended every...
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A Chat With Rick Wilhite
We’ve been pretty slack on the interview front here at ISM for quite some time. Don’t think for a second that this post is a sign of us picking up the pace either as none of us had anything to do with...
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Words of Support for the “Techno Rebel”
As some of the subscribers to the 313 mailing list may already know, Dan Sicko, the author of the book “Techno rebels”–the seminal work about the beginnings of techno/dance scene in Detroit during the...
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Saturday Nite in Pittsburgh: infinitestatemachine Takes Over Belvedere’s
It’s going down in Pittsburgh tomorrow nite! This is gonna be a pretty awesome evening, with some of my favorite deejays playing on a killer four corner soundsystem at a venue with a nice sized...
View ArticleFrom Jack to Juke
Came across this hour long documentary on all things ghetto house last night. Cheers to Simon Conway for the heads up on it. It’s been going from private to public on vimeo over the last couple of days...
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The House That Jack Didn’t Build
Last year saw a huge influx of producer’s both new and old jumping on the house band wagon. They would label their work deep and it would follow a path, well, more of a rocky road, that we have been...
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Pipecock’s Picks for 2013
I’ve been doing some form of year-end lists for a while now. The approach I take is always the same, and it is based on nothing other than music I loved and loved to play during that year. I don’t...
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2014 Wrap Up by Pipecock
I know, I know. ISM is supposed to be dead now. Well, I didn’t know where else would be a good place to put this, so it’s going here. Tough titty if you don’t like it. When I look at the 2014 “Best...
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Guess Who’s Back
For most of the past year and a half since we announced the end of this blog, I assumed the next post I would make here would be a eulogy. The fact that I probably wasn’t gonna do as good a job as...
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Fatima Yamaha & D1 Recordings
Unless you have been living on Pluto for the last few years you can’t have missed the continued rise of a “lost” classic by Fatima Yamaha called “What’s A Girl To Do”, to the point where even...
View ArticleCOOL ANALYSIS, DAWG
About a year ago, I became a columnist for Attack Magazine. It has been fun writing opinion columns and providing analysis to a very wide audience that stretches beyond the confines of the genres I...
View ArticleTwisted Pepper closes…
I can’t say I was hugely surprised with the news that Bodytonic’s Twisted Pepper will be closing its doors this week. Even though it is Dublin’s most well known and highly regarded dance club of the...
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Who do you think you are kidding?
Disruption, abstraction, subversiveness, outsider, challenging preconceptions, fucking things up and just plain old weird. Terms, ideas and narratives that never stop being appealing. And why...
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A reason to be cheerful (?)
This post has been inspired by the RA Dj poll. Not something I expected to be doing when I woke up today but there you go. I apologise now if you are hoping that this will be a rant about how rubbish...
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Mix – Massive Carl’s M5 Mixtape / Bloc Mixxx
My latest mix is for the Bloc Weekend festival which is taking place this weekend over in Butlins in Minehead in the UK. Apartment and Lunar Disko will be taking over the Pub Venue on the Saturday of...
View ArticleMix – The End of Raving?
Last Friday I was recording this mix at around the same time one of the Bloc organisers wrote a rather foolish article decrying the state of “rave” and its populace and so forth, in the modern age....
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