I was clicking around the internet, wasting time, and I came across Kirk Degiorgio's blog, Planetary Folklore.  I've always been vaguely aware of him as a producer.  I've picked up a couple of his releases, more or less inadvertently, over the years--stuff on Far Out remix projects and Ubiquity compilations, a 10" from a band called The Beauty Room that he is involved with, that sort of thing.  In other words, he was someone I knew about but didn't actively follow.

His blog, however, struck me as pretty much the best on house and techno I've ever read.  Unlike most--such as the one you're now reading--he posts regularly, and he obviously puts a great deal of time into his entries, which cover a wide variety of subject matter and are not totally dominated, like most music/DJ blogs, by self-promotion and new-release plugging and/or piracy. 

Anyone who can write well-crafted posts on subjects ranging from "My Disco Top 150" (in eight installments) to "Book Choice 18: Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice" is someone I respect.  At a time when one-line reviews of mostly uninspired releases are the norm for blogs about house music, it's nice to know that this man is out there, thinking things through, taking his time, and doing it right.  Big up to Mr. Kirk Degiorgio.