new york is killing me

Not really – but if you go to the DJ sets page, you’ll see my latest series.  It’s been a tough year, with not enough…

2015: sets of the year

Objekt – Live at Freerotation, 2014 So last year.  Whatever – this is as joyous and heavy and welcoming and brilliant a DJ set as…

2014: sets of the year

Jam City – EARTHLY III Because it has such a sense of itself, of chromed-out Ballardian futures. Daniele Baldelli – Beats in Space, August 2014….

For Various Artists

So I was super-duper broke for most of the year, which precluded me buying much music, which precluded me recording very many DJ sets. So,…

week 75

Welcome back to Montreal – it is catch up time here. – Mixes from legendary NYC nightspots. – 60 Minutes on Studio 54. – Art…

2013: sets of the year

  DJ HENNESSY YOUNGMAN – NSA BANGERS Clearly the mix of the year.  Fuck the NSA, long live Hennessey James Holden – RA 367 A…

romancing the throne

I finished a mixtape about love, for a friend’s wedding.  It is in fact the Mixtape About Love, the canonical, best one, for all time… at…

Not Your Parent’s Disco: The DJ Set as Opera.

It is one of the great cliches of DJing that the best of the best “take you on a journey”, and “tell you a story”,…

week 56

Nothing happened this week.  But I’ve been reading, listening, and working: – What We Talk About When We Talk About Beethoven can now do basic chord…

week 51

– I am delighted to say that the most prosaic paper I will ever write (‘A Quantitative Review of Mappings in Musical iOS Applications’) has…