May Chart

So it’s been ages since I did a proper chart. There is a wealth of good music around and I’ve been steadily buying stuff even while I wasn’t blogging. This is a chart of mostly new stuff with a few old tracks thrown in.
1. Losoul-Raw Beauty (Playhouse)

Losoul can almost always be relied upon to make […]

May the farce be with you

From Beatportal:
After a 10-week hiatus celebrating 10 years of Minus, the collective has unveiled a new concept in community.
Beginning with a date in Detroit during Movement 08, fans of Minus will have the chance to interact with the The Cube — a method of registering their live presence within the Minus environment — […]

A favourite

For me this may be the best Chicago track. Still sounds like it has unchartered depths to it. (NB: I probably blogged about this at some point in this blog’s history as it’s an obsession of mine, but it bears repeating!)

3 Day Weekend

So this weekend I went to just one club, and it was the End/AKA on Saturday.
Some Irish friends knew Fish Go Deep (an institution in parts of Ireland) so I went along to see them, with Efdemin a good lure on the bill too. Unfortunately the sound in the sideroom for Efdemin was pretty crap […]

HIAF Guest Mix 7: Chaton (Plak:Switzerland)-The Lost Library

So straight out of Switzerland comes Chaton of Plak Records, with a 90 minute mix of old and new house music. I’ve been sitting on this one for a while as I got my net connection in London sorted, but I’ve also been listening to it on the way in and out of work. Chaton […]

 
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This Weekend in London

Friday: I can’t see anything in the listings that I want to go to on Friday, but then I’ve been in Birmingham all this week training, and missing work due to having food poisoning or something. Being stuck in a Holiday Inn in Birmingham while you can only consume bread and water is a rung […]

Okay, okay, okay.

If you haven’t checked it out already, then go and read this interview with Theo Parrish. It doesn’t really matter if you love his music or have never heard it, it’s one of those interviews that has enough ideas to bounce off. In these times of house and techno holy war (with a small d) […]