Welcome to Ears To The House – still writing the stuff about dance music others won’t!
It’s time to announce a few more things in relation to your favourite dance music website. We’re on the way back, and things will be ready to relaunch properly very soon - but now it’s time to reveal some more. As mentioned a few weeks ago, the decorators have been in recently. The website has been completely revamped with a new look. It’s now going to be easier to find…
So what’s happening with the blog? An update for you…
Today is the 59th birthday of disgraced techno DJ Derrick May. He’s a name you’ll no doubt know about if you’ve read this site in the past - this has been one of very few outlets online who have been keeping an eye on him. But things have gone silent lately, and I’ve had quite a few people wondering what’s been going on. So I thought today was a particularly…
Here’s One They Made Earlier: first encountered in 2000, but I never did find out what was going on for Mekon…
I first came across this song sometime in the summer of 2000. It was a Saturday night, and my 15-year old self was at home, bored and with very little to do. Desperate to find something to take my mind off this, I switched on the radio and heard a show called The Beat was on. The first song I heard was something quite nondescript, a rather unspectacular remix of…
Spotify FINALLY addresses Joe Rogan controversy – what kept them?
Spotify boss Daniel Ek is a man who's apparently got used to the good times. For many years now, Spotify's share price has kept going up, the major labels have been happy with what they're getting and subscriber numbers have continued to rise. For a while, it seemed like he could do no wrong - except to the artists whose music is on the site, of course. How different things…
Are the Belleville Three (minus one) actually happy to see the back of Derrick May?
Over the past few days, I've written a bit about the end of the Belleville Three. The myth, which was created by journalist Neil Rushton in the 1980s, speaks a fabled tale of three black men from the poorest areas of Detroit coming together and changing the world with their new brand of music from the future. It would be an incredible story of rags to riches if it were…
After a footballer’s arrest, questions of culture in music too
Yesterday, a rather disturbing video emerged on social media. The roughly one minute long clip contained a picture of a woman who appeared to have been assaulted, and included audio of what I will simply term a disturbing conversation between a man and a woman. The video has since been removed by the account which uploaded it. A man - who is understood to be the 20-year old Manchester United…
How long until one MILLION can live off Spotify money? Er, prepare for a shock…
Nearly four years ago now, Daniel Ek had more idealist ambitions than he does today. Whereas the Spotify boss nowadays seems to care more about investing his money in defence tech startups and trying to buy football clubs, there was a time when he did appear to have some interesting ideas for his streaming site. In March 2018, Ek gave a speech where he confirmed he wanted Spotify to pay…
FAC51 The Haçienda have an exclusive at their Good Friday party in London – and they don’t even know it!
The myth of the Belleville Three had a good life, but now it’s time for the final nail in its coffin to be well and truly hammered down. With Derrick May now having effectively been disgraced, it has brought about the revelation in Detroit that they will now never see the three men who perform under this fictional name together again. Nearly a fortnight ago, I published a not terribly…
Reasons to cancel your Spotify subscription? This blog can cite just a few – and a stupid controversy over $100million shock jock Joe Rogan is not one of them…
This blog makes no pretence of objectivity. I have opinions and I use this blog to express them. I don’t run a news wire service - anyone who comes onto the blog and encounters a story they weren’t aware of will know my opinion will be inside it somewhere. And one company I absolutely do not claim to be objective on is Spotify. Quite simply, I loathe the company. I…
You’re just trolling us now, Mike! Nervous post THAT photo on Facebook from his Tulum trip with the two label models – and the reaction is just as savage as expected…
For a while there, I was beginning to come to the conclusion that having a go at Nervous Records and their boss Michael Weiss is a little bit like spanking a man in a gimp suit. You’re ultimately using your own time and energy to carry out the act and you suspect that the gimp secretly likes the punishment being doled out. Such was the near total indifference to the…