Category Archives: Writing

Detroit – Movement Weekend 2010

My first Detroit music festival weekend is in the books. It only took me 17 years to get myself in gear and now I feel more passionate about the music, people, and city than I ever did before. In five … Continue reading

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Music Institute 20th Anniversary 12″ Pt. 1 – NDATL

 There are those clubs that loom in the imagination of music devotees and depending on where your allegiances lie they may differ drastically. But for anyone claiming the slightest interest in techno’s history they should recognize the seminal Detroit club … Continue reading

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Black Secret Technology

“Alita’s Dream” comes from Guy Called Gerald’s Black Secret Technology album and is one of many songs from it that 14 years later finally speaks to me. Coming off a bit like a drum & bass version of his 808 … Continue reading

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IMPS – Remixed

Plucked from the IMPS ’08 album Bring Out The Imps on Mule Electronic, the recent spurt of remix EPs (titled bluntly enough as Remixed Volume  1, 2 and 3) work like a triptych honoring the capricious jazz informed original work and in … Continue reading

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Genre-fication

  I remember a time when genres meant almost nothing, back in ’92-’93 when I really started to mine the ‘dance’ page (yes, I do mean that in terms of singularity in most cases) of British music mags like NME, … Continue reading

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Hello world!

I just decided to enter the world of blogging. Looking forward to writing about music that may not be getting as much attention or just plain digging up old records that are still meaningful to me. Keep your eye out … Continue reading

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