Questions continue to come in about my comments on this page regarding Erick Morillo, who died early last week. I seem to be getting it from all sides over this, suggesting to me that...
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Saying much about nothing
Last night, I reported on the fact that DJ Erick Morillo had died. He was 49 and was found dead by police at his Miami Beach home yesterday morning. The cause of death has...
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Groovejet wouldn’t be a club classic today. Discuss.
I’m not a fan of the very modern practice of playing a song once and then just leaving it on your hard drive for the rest of eternity. I think it’s a waste of...
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Stop calling Sterling Covid Sterling Covid!
Like most people with some kind of online presence, I get my fair share of correspondence from charlatans, degenerates and dingbats. Most ultimately vanish with a sense of disappointment at a lack of response...
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Guilty or not guilty – how the hell should I know?
Ever since news broke on Friday that Erick Morillo has been charged with sexual battery – that’s rape to those of us uninitiated in legal terminology – the reaction online has been depressingly predictable....
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Erick Morillo and why I’m saying nothing – yet…
For reasons I should think are blindingly obvious, I’m not going to make any comment on the legal trouble that Erick Morillo has found himself in. Regardless of anyone’s opinion on the man, he...
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Traxsource, Defected and a defective relationship?
This isn’t going to win me any friends at Traxsource, but am I the only one truly questioning their independence nowadays? The business was originally set up in 2004 by Marc Pomeroy and Brian...
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Defected, Simon Dunmore and an almighty colonial row
It was inevitable that the Defected Records cash cow was eventually going to start looking at afro house in the way Bernard Matthews used to look at turkeys. They’ve launched a brand new record...
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Want to do a remix that’ll never see the light of day?
And this is why I don’t enter remix contests. With one or two notable exceptions, most contain some utterly ridiculous clauses in the terms – this one says that the winning remix isn’t even...
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The Six On Saturday – 9th May 2020
On the week that a criminal blew his own cover by farting whilst hiding in a bush, I go through the tunes that’ll give you a second wind. Just hopefully not flatulent ones… In-Soul...
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Scammers beware
Just a quick message out there to all those who have scammed people in the past – that includes the likes of Derek Hazell, Derrick May, Sterling Void, Gatecrasher and so on. I’m still...
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Snobs slip up on their own snobbery – part 47,258
I love it when snobs end up tripping up on their own snobbery. This piece spends several minutes telling you that you need to mix your records perfectly- before telling you that you actually...
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I know you’re out there, Duane!
I’ve been pondering for some time now whether to disclose this, and I’ve come to the conclusion it is. So here goes. A little over 2 weeks ago, Sterling Void made contact with this...
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May-be Derrick doesn’t want you knowing this…
I go away for one day and this happens. I mentioned lately, after the business with Gatecrasher assaulting people who ask to be paid for their work, and Derek Hazell of Impeccable Agency doing...
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An interview with Sterling Void? Make it happen, Duane…
Scammers, robbers and cheats always make another appearance in the end. They can’t resist it. Their cocky nature gets the better of them, even though they know that revisiting old stomping grounds is extremely...
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New Year, same old scammers
Good grief. We’re literally days into a new year, and a scammer and fraud has already been exposed. Is this going to be one of those years when a much-needed cleanup happens in the...
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