You just know there’s no way I was going to refuse to cover this one, don’t you? A rare piece of house music history that you can actually hold in your hands combined with...
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Right Said Fred and Danny Rampling 24 hours a day? The ghastly prospect facing Freedom Radio listeners as station bans anyone who “whips up hatred or division” against Covid denying moonbeams…
Over the weekend, music producer Posthuman disclosed that he’d been contacted by a radio station called Freedom Radio and asked if he’d like to do a guest mix for them. After quickly discovering they...
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Was this selection REALLY the best that Nervous Records could manage to celebrate their 30th birthday? Four vinyl release is a selection of rehashes and dubious remix selections…
Nervous is a label with a long history. 30 years of history, in fact. The label was founded in New York in 1991 and was an early home to Mood II Swing, Armand Van...
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Yarr, has there been a mutiny on the good ship Defected? Ye olde captain Simon Dunmore posts cryptic tweet about “not all the crew returning to the office in swashbuckling fashion”…
Ahoy there! I hear o’ curious goings on right now o’er at Defected. Led by the boss (or shall that be captain?) Simon Dunmore, I gather ye return to work in thar fancy offices...
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See which way the wind is blowing yet? Whilst England sticks vaccine passports on the backburner, Wales announces it’s following Scotland and introducing them from October 11th…
Well, this wasn’t a terribly surprising development, was it? Wales has announced that vaccine passports are about to become a thing in the country – just weeks after Scotland confirmed they were doing it...
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After DJ Mag plug their video of David Guetta re-editing one of his own tracks to make it even more crap, Dave Clarke gives a caustic take in the comments…
Sometimes, there’s no need for a big blurb before I get to the point of an article. This is one of those times. On Friday, DJ Mag published this on their Facebook page. It...
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He Sheltered in Detroit instead! As it turns out Derrick May did NOT play at the club’s 30th birthday party on Friday night, was a rebellion from some of the other very established DJs who were playing to blame?
As this Sunday morning begins, Club Shelter find themselves largely being spared from the bruising criticism that now inevitably comes with booking Derrick May. Largely because although it turns out he did not play...
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Now who’d have thought you couldn’t take a piddle on the Peelers? Idiot given 16-week suspended sentence after trying to urinate on a police officer at a plague rave…
This week, the dance music press have tried once again to downplay the effects of plague raves, with this article making an appearance in DJ Mag during the week. As I’ve explained before, the...
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The Six On Saturday (That Aren’t From Me!) – 18th September 2021
On the week that Nicki Minaj’s claim that the Covid vaccine gave her cousin a case of swollen testicles was proven to be b******s, I go through the latest record to find out which...
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The Saturday Recap – 18th September 2021
So that’s another week over and done with. Welcome to the weekend! Your Six On Saturday column is coming up later, but let’s quickly recap some of what’s been on Amateur’s House during the...
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“Meeting this duo changed the trajectory of my life” – Michelle Shellers leads tributes as Jason Brooks the second half of Soul Providers, dies just weeks after production partner Ian Carey
Soul Providers arrived on the house music scene back in 1999 with the release of “Tango” on Basement Boys Records. But it wasn’t until the following year when their song “Rise”, with the incredible...
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It’s not a good start to the weekend for Judge Jules as his Facebook page and group are hacked – so was the perpetrator the same person who took control of Todd Terry’s page a few months ago?
This blog occasionally makes fun of Judge Jules – who has now been DJing for around 700 years – but I feel a lot of sympathy for his current plight. Anyone who visits his...
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And people accuse me of publishing any old rubbish! Mixmag run an article on Nile Rodgers being a fan of a Liverpool canal – so what could they decide to print next?
So what was the most important news story of the week? Was it Nicki Minaj saying the Covid jab gave her cousin a bad case of swollen testicles? The authorities in Trinidad and Tobago...
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New York’s Electric Zoo is linked to a Covid cluster of at least 16 cases after eight people turned up at the three-day festival contagious with the virus – so just how many have been infected?
One thing I must say has surprised me over the past few months is how few cases of Covid-19 have emerged out of nightclubs and festivals. We’ve been told since the pandemic started that...
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The ADE Festival is going ahead – minus the conference – after Dutch Covid rule changes, but why does it feel like we haven’t heard the last word yet?
Sometimes, I will read or see something and it immediately feels a little bit off. Something somewhere isn’t quite making sense or stacking up in a way which seems logical. When I read about...
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Sacha Lord believes in looking after yourself at his events – so how much will he charge you for water to remain hydrated this weekend?
Say what you like about Sacha Lord – and this blog frequently comments on the self-declared man on a mission to save hospitality across Britain. But there’s one area that I won’t hear a...
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