Ashley Beedle needs no introduction to the readers of this blog. This champion of the UK’s dance floor has been a supporter of ISM records from day one so when asked to get involved with the Odyssey Project not only did he offer his expertise in giving us a tremendous … Continue reading
Late in 1985, Prince broke his self-imposed silence and spoke to the public for the first time in almost four years. First came an interview for Rolling Stone magazine. Later came an interview for MTV. Prince’s agreement to be interviewed took MTV so suddenly that the staff at the … Continue reading
South Bank Show 1984 – Malcolm McLaren Cash From Chaos Malcolm McLaren, a bizarre, intriguing, impresario, self publicist, artist, fashion designer and rock n roll manager to some, whilst contrastingly others saw him as a moneymaking opportunist with no musical gift who stole from others and jumped on bandwagons of … Continue reading
Buddhist Downtown Disco Poet Arthur Russell, Hold On To Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992. In some ways, New York in the 1970s is starting to be very well charted territory, but the complicated web of connections between different scenes which is described in this book … Continue reading
New York city in the late 70’s and early 80’s was a clash of punk, disco, salsa, avant-garde, jazz ,early hip hop, street art, Iconic cinema and urban fashion. This fusion enabled underground clubs like CBGB to create famous bands like Blondie, The Ramones and Talking Heads. Amongst the onslaught … Continue reading
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Subscribe to our blog for free and head over to the memebers area for this very special free mix of the latest Yam Who? track ‘I’m in love’ featuring the super fierce vocal talents of Natasha Watts with remix love from Brothers Young This is … Continue reading
“Every culture and subculture gets the drugs that it deserves,” writes Douglas Rushkoff in his forward to Tim Pilcher’s e: The Incredibly Strange History of Ecstasy, “In fact, almost every major cultural movement in history can be traced back to the chemicals it did or did not have.” This is a … Continue reading
Fuzz Against Junk ‘Born Against Junk’ (Harvey’s Punch Drunk Mix) nuphonic135 1999 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Recently pulled out of the closet of obscurity by Horse Meat Disco for their third compilation. one of those ‘way ahead of their time’ bands Fuzz Against Junk were prototype in … Continue reading
Acid House On May 4, 1979, the daughter of a grocer from Grantham, Lincolnshire, became the first female Prime Minister. Her right-wing administration was to retain power for eleven years, bring about poll-tax, crush union activity, privatise vast swathes of the public sector and lay the building blocks for the … Continue reading
To coincide with the Darkstarr and ISM Electric Boogie party in 2010 Ashley and Cosmo gave us some insight in to their love of collecting and Playing eclectic music. piese auto piese auto online
In 2009 ISM released a Remix of Chaz Jankel’s ‘Questionnaire’ by DJ D. Chaz was gracious enough to give us this exclusive in depth interview that talks us through his life in music so far. Its not a short video so get a cup of the sit down relax and … Continue reading
Introduction by Yam Who? Arthur Russell left us a sudden haze passing away sadly in 1992 and when the dust settled in the mid 90?s alot people including myself started to discover an immense body of wonderful and genre defying music. For years his songs have been sampled, covered and … Continue reading