This evening, I thought I’d have a look at Derrick May’s background. Now, you might be expecting to find that he came from a really poor family and that he had to lie and...
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Ever wondered why the British government couldn’t care less about nightclubs? And no, it isn’t (just) about the lack of names donating to the Tory Party’s coffers…
The tedious obsession with June 21st shows no signs whatsoever of abating. Clubbers are hearing marginally less about the plan for England because it’s the weekend, but it’s still ever present. The government is...
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Up and away! Kerri Chandler is a member of a not-for-profit organisation that sends messages into space – so does the producer and DJ believe in aliens?
Let’s be blunt here. Kerri Chandler is the sort of person who creates records that have kicks and basslines so heavy that they could be heard in space. Astronauts in space could hear the...
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As Sony Music wipes the debts of its legacy artists, is there any chance the likes of Trax Records and other early house labels could do the same?
When you stream music from the likes of Spotify, you expect that abysmal $0.0038 royalty rate to go to your favourite artist, right? Well, you’d be wrong. In a lot of cases, that money...
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Was it something I said? Terrence Parker blocks this blog’s Twitter page – instead of responding to persistent allegations he owes money for gigs he didn’t do
A lesson that a journalist friend of mine gave me lately was that silence does count as a response. On the face of it, this sounds bizarre. How is saying nothing a reply? It’s...
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