House Is A Feeling

What do you think of “new disco”, or whatever people call this music now?
I have to say since moving to London I’ve really started to dislike it. I mean, sure, I hear a few records in this style I like, for example John Daly’s remix of Toby Tobias on Rekids but it seems to be […]

The older you get, the more there is to look back on, and the more there is to forget.
And of course, the older you get, the more cynical you become. A friend’s older brother once quipped every “night out” makes a dance music fan more cynical, their field of vision narrower, until eventually they just […]

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So I checked out T-Bar last Friday for Ralph Sliwinski (though can’t be sure if he actually played) and then the Scala on Saturday for Secretsundaze featuring Cassy, Ame, and various others.
Friday was a strange night, the first time I’d been in T for ages but I can’t say I really got into it after […]

The latest “Month In Techno” column by Phil Sherburne makes for gloomy reading. I’ve felt a bit this way lately but I held off writing a blog post about it because I figured it was a personal mood, not the wider mood in techno. As regards writing I’ve wondered about what’s the point for ages, […]

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I can’t resist posting about this one question interview with Theo Parrish because it’s just so contentious.
From the piece: “The curtain that supposedly hides all this is the bullshit illusion that dance music has no race, no gender, that its about the celebration of some sort of utopian concept. This mere notion wasn’t even circulated […]

Thanks to those who came down to Phone last Saturday at Jam Bar on Shoreditch High St. It was a really good night, full of people and we were all dead happy with how it went. It’s so different doing nights in London to Dublin, in that there’s a huge passing trade and people are […]

Here’s a short shock from Berlin, with a 30 minute mix by Hauke Freer. If you’ve been following this blog obsessively, every day, reading for hours until your eyes hurt and most of the rest of your life has crumbled around you, as I strongly recommend, then you’ll know I’m a big fan of Mr […]

 

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If you’re out in East London tonight come down to Phone@Jam Bar on 123 Shoreditch High St, starts about 9 upstairs in the bar then club downstairs opens around 11 or 12, going till 5am. I’ll be on sometime around 3.  And it’s free in!