I thought I’d post this one up quickly here, as I don’t have time to go into detail right now. Someone asked me yesterday what it felt like the first time I sat down...
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Derrick May and who you won’t see talking about him
Dave Clarke has had something of a good pandemic. His views about plague raves and the importance of not spreading this awful virus have resonated with a lot of people. I happen to agree...
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2 Stepper At Play, anyone?
I could do with your thoughts on this one, reader. Because I’m not quite sure what to do. Recently, I’ve been making some new music under a slightly different genre to normal. This isn’t...
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Now dabbling in ghost production? Meh
Ghost production is one of those areas in dance music that leaves me feeling surprisingly indifferent. I get adverts offering to sign me up to these kinds of services all the time. To me,...
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Winning remix contests? Here’s how you might…
This series appeared earlier this month. If you want to know how to win a remix contest – you probably won’t find the magic bullet here. But you might learn something anyway. And it...
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The Six On Saturday (That Aren’t From Me!) – January 30th 2021
On the week that a library in Canada saw a book returned 82 years late, I go through the tracks that will leave your collection as well stacked as a box of books! Martin...
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The Saturday Recap – January 30th
Time for a new feature now. Life is busy, especially at the moment, so I thought I’d start doing a quick recap of the past week here on the Amateur At Play website. Let’s...
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Yabba dabba doo – Distrokid will make you famous!
Many years ago, as a child, I recall watching an old episode of a great cartoon called The Flintstones. In this particular episode, Wilma and Betty went to a bar for a drink and...
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May-be it’s time you handed yourself in, Derrick?
Fresh from recent laughable claims that Derrick May is a “private person” – his lawyer, Kyle J Dupuy’s real calling is clearly in comedy, not law – comes this. It appears that more women...
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Festivals and the 2021 damp squib
Journalists are notorious windbags. If they’ve got no story happening now to write about, it doesn’t take them long to write a speculative story – and Mixmag have just done precisely that. They’re keen...
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596 reasons why DJ Sneak is missing his target
A few weeks ago, DJ Sneak revealed that he was having his music taken offline and out of the digital stores. He’d decided he wanted to go back to 1998, to the good old...
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Signed, Amateur At Play!
Creating a sound that’s unmistakably “Amateur At Play” is an ongoing battle, but one I’ve started making some real progress on of late. A bit of background first. Back in the 1990s, when you...
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Kristen Knight and a shot in the foot?
This post might get a bit of a backlash, but I feel there are some things that need to be said here. Firstly, here’s what Kristen Knight posted on her Instagram page on Tuesday....
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Busy, busy, busy…
I’ve been very productive of late. I have been getting an average of one track per day finished for roughly the past fortnight. I’m pleased with this and hope it continues for a while...
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Dave on Facebook, expert on nothing
Yes, I’m back on the subject of plague raves. No, I don’t care in the least if you’re annoyed about it. It’s my own website, so I can write whatever the hell I want....
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Plague raves. Again.
Belfast based duo Bicep have said they think established DJs playing plague raves is disgusting. I agree wholeheartedly, and would happily extend that to include anyone who plays at plague raves. Even the people...
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