House Is A Feeling

Here’s my latest roundup for the MP3 store What People Play. Check it and check those tunes out, some great stuff this time around, lots of which I discussed in this recent post.

Month to Month October-”The Color Series”
This month I wrote about Donnacha Costello’s Color Series to coincide with its release on CD for the first time. It was a really interesting interview so perhaps in a week or two I might post up some of the stuff that didn’t make the cut due to not being […]

Just a quick post to point you to the latest What People Play roundup and also a chart I’ve done for the good guys over at French blog/zine Get The Curse. Check these out and I’ll be back properly on Monday.

Read it here. Really interesting stuff. It’s sort of odd that I had never seen what he looked like until that half picture. It’s a really worthwhile interview though, even if you’ve never heard an Underground Resistance record I highly recommend it. Galaxy 2 Galaxy play Rí-Rá in Dublin this weekend as part of […]

So there’s another one of these WhatPeoplePlay roundups I’m writing up at their site as of today, complete with slightly amusing descriptions of me! (This “Irish mod” thing may stick, but I hate mod music, for the record!) Anyway I’m just linking to this since someone Myspaced me and asked me where to find these […]

I’m surprised there hasn’t been more discussion of Alex McPherson’s piece on minimal in the Guardian newspaper. Though there has been some over at Test.
Anyone who posts on ILM will be familiar with Alex and his many quirks as a writer, so some of the curveballs in the piece (Estroe, the Kylie reference) will be […]

So posts have been a bit intermittent lately, I’ve been writing quite a bit and also keeping my other blog going as best I can.  So for now check out these two RA reviews, of a momentous release here and another worthwhile one here.
Oh and I suddenly feel the need to point out that almost […]

Some of you may know of the Hamburg based distributor Word and Sound, who carry a huge portion of the labels I discuss here or play on the radio show. And some of you may also have been familiar with their small digital store Playwas (now defunct, so I won’t link to it).
Well, after a […]

I found this recent article in the Guardian about the birth of rave in the UK really interesting. I guess now these names, Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling, Johnny Walker, etc have become synonymous with so many bloated dance brands that you don’t really think of them as people who played a role in popular culture […]

I went to see Prins Thomas play at Shock (see their blog) in the Pod on Sunday, and I enjoyed it quite a lot. He played a pretty strange mix of stuff but it was really interesting watching a DJ with so little connection to new music and enjoying it! I mean, I do consider […]