House Is A Feeling

 
Here we go.

Please can all reviewers and everybody else consider the way they are using the word “hype” in their reviews and reactions to music? If you do I will too.
When anyone writes a blog post praising a record, that’s hype. When anyone writes a comment on a message board praising a record, that’s hype. When you […]

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(In case you didn’t know WhatPeoplePlay is an MP3 store run by German distributor Word and Sound, well worth checking out)

What’s your standard approach?
Do you plan it out? Do you decide what type of mix it’s going to be beforehand? Do you do more than one take? Are your mixes like how you would play in a club?
I’ve been trying to record a mix this week for the first time in a couple of months, […]

Confession time:
1. I shamefully never really download the Resident Advisor podcast unless it’s something that I’m sure I’ll like. I don’t know why, just overload of things to listen to as it is I guess.
2. I once pretended to be a 9/11 survivor “to get chicks”.
Okay so only one of the above is a true.
This […]

Click here. Warning: if you had any respect for Cut Chemist to begin with this will kill that stone dead. (I didn’t)
Seriously does anyone besides major corporations and ad agencies actually think scratching the fuck out of a record is cool or has anything to do with underground culture anymore?
So okay, there are obviously turntablists […]

Anyone do anything worthwhile? I went to Innervisions at Fabric but I don’t remember much apart from “Orbitallife” circa 4.30am. It seemed a very good vibe in there but I’d “a lot of drink taken” so I left around 5.30am. Was anyone sentient enough to give a good account of the night? My evening ended […]

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In the spirit of the cultural necrophilia that has become so popular in house and techno circles of late, I’ve wanted to start posting some older music that I liked on release which I’ve started to hear out again. And also some I haven’t started to hear out again.
I’ve noticed in the last year that […]

So Jacob Burns put me onto this compilation of Basic Channel’s house offshoot from the 90s. He’s a “cat” who enjoys a good “jam”. (This is how we say a person likes a record in the current US house friendly climate) So for a young “cat” Jacob sure likes him some old “jams”, as you […]