Carl Craig’s social media feeds are a strange place. His Twitter page is locked, saying it’s for “members only”, though occasional rambling tweets do leak out. But his prime outlet is Instagram, where he...
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Well, that statement didn’t date too well! The curious response given to The Orb’s Alex Paterson when he tried to sign Larry Heard’s publishing in the mid-1980s…
As I might occasionally mention on this blog, I’m utterly intrigued by the history of house music. This is most particularly because there’s a lot of it, but very little of it has been...
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So when WILL your music be off Traxsource, Sneak? The Chicago DJ shows no intention of keeping to his promise as hundreds of tracks remain on the store…
It’s been a little while since I checked in on DJ Sneak’s mission to free his music from the evil clutches of Traxsource and their white cat stroking founders Marc Pomeroy and Brian Tappert....
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They’ve totally lost the plot! Dreadbox’s pathetic response to their claims their Nymphes polysynth “soothes the pain” of abused women away is… it’s only white men whinging about it!
Time for a quick follow-up to a story which I published yesterday morning – ahead of several of the dance music press, including Resident Advisor. As you might have noticed, I wasn’t terribly nice...
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Club Shelter release their DJ set times list for their 30th birthday party, but with no sign of Timmy Regisford – and the REAL question: will Derrick May have the audacity to show up?
So the 30th birthday party for Club Shelter is upon us. Taking place tomorrow night at the Brooklyn Monarch in New York, the event is meant to feature DJ Spinna, Louie Vega, Tony Humphries...
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Raising the calibre of music journalism by leaving details out of their reports – it’s Resident Advisor dealing with protests in the Netherlands…
Resident Advisor are a curious lot, aren’t they? Over their 20 years in existence, they’ve got to know the tactic of selective reporting very well. You see it all the time in their news...
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Wednesday Whisper #18 – the festival who say they cancelled because of Covid restrictions… but is that the truth or just a tall tale for the conspiracy theorists?
Which festival recently announced they were cancelling for this year and haven’t been entirely upfront on the reason why? The festival in question confirmed lately that they would not be holding an event in...
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Got nothing else to do all day? Traxsource’s most recent Weekend Weapons chart has 325 different tracks in it – and it would take almost 11 hours to preview the whole lot…
A while ago now, I was talking to a friend of mine recalling his experiences from the early days of house music. He said “I first got into house in 1986. I used to...
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Now who’d have thought Boris Johnson would lie, eh? England’s Plan B if Covid is rampant this winter, according to the government, includes the vaccine passports they said on Sunday were dead in the water…
Well, this story just keeps getting better and better, doesn’t it? After weeks of going cool on its own proposal for vaccine passports to enter England’s nightclubs, the Health Secretary announced on his media...
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Is April Fools Day coming around quicker these days? Dreadbox release Nymphes polysynth on which they say “each time you play a note, imagine that you soothe the pain of abused women away”…
When this arrived in my inbox yesterday, I was surprised – not something which happens frequently when checking my emails. Infact, on reading the email, I strongly suspected it to be some kind of...
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Is there anything you can ever commit to, Boris? Now the British PM and his ministers – who were defending them only last week – are doing the Hokey Cokey over vaccine passports…
Whenever the Johnson government tells you something, the lesson of this week is not to necessarily believe it. Vaccine passports are a perfect case in point of this. Back around January or February when...
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Pete Tong making lots of money out of other people’s music by travelling with an orchestra? It’s no different to what he’s done his whole career…
Who is making the money in dance music these days? Mostly the rich old white men at the top of the business playing the music is the short answer. Some of it trickles down...
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Rebecca Ferguson proposes that labels hire welfare officers to help their artists – but how would you ensure they weren’t a stooge doing the majors’ bidding?
Dare I say it, but I’m starting to like Rebecca Ferguson. Over the past year or two, she’s decided to take her position in the music industry and do something useful with it. In...
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London’s Soho gives locals more power over planning decisions – but who’s to assume they’ll always back the clubs in this notorious red light district?
If you were to say the word Soho to me, the first thing that comes to mind is prostitutes. There’s no other way for me to phrase it. I know there’s lots of shopping...
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: hip-house, a change of direction from Mike Dunn and the power of using less chords
This week, I go all the way back to 1993 and a track which came out on Chicago Style Records that year – “Let Yo Fro Gro” by Bush Man. I find there was...
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Will he do a remix for Derrick May next? Toolroom boss Mark Knight turns out a remix of “Believe” by Ministers De La Funk after getting a phone call from “my friend” Erick Morillo – who committed suicide with a rape charge hanging over him…
A truth rarely admitted to is that house music is largely a sausage-fest. The higher echelons consist of a large number of very dodgy characters, who defend each other and ensure the whole house...
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