I first encountered this particular one a few days ago, but I held off publishing. Frankly, I couldn’t quite work out what I made of it all – but last night, I had one...
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As Ash Lauryn’s latest EP gets a glowing review from Resident Advisor, a question – isn’t it a conflict of interest for them to write about music from their own contributors?
I made emphatically clear in the past few days that I will continue to cover things that go on inside the dance music press. Whilst I accepted a recent post on Resident Advisor’s editor...
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So what’s Derrick May been up to lately? Not a lot is the answer – and confusion reigns over whether he’s appearing at Shelter’s 30th birthday bash next week…
Things have gone pretty quiet in the Derrick May camp over the past few weeks. This is the main reason there haven’t been any posts here about the man himself recently – my sources...
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Wednesday Whisper #17 – the journalist being blackmailed by their own friend… because a DJ doesn’t want a corruption scandal being made public
Which dance music journalist – yes, you read that correctly – is currently stuck in a quandary caused by being too close to their subject? The journalist in question was recently sent an email...
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What do clubbers think of vaccine passports? Amidst debates over whether to introduce them for nightclub entry, the question no one’s curiously bothered to ask…
Amidst the vaccine passports debates currently happening in England and Scotland, there are two questions which remain unanswered. The first one was – if clubbers have to be double vaccinated against Covid-19, will the...
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Carl Bean – the man behind “I Was Born This Way” and a trailblazer of the LGBTQ movement – has died at the age of 77
The thing about trailblazers is they often don’t know that’s what they are. They’re either too busy doing it to spend any time pondering about how significant what they’re doing actually is – or...
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It’s not just Louie Vega and Derrick Carter who need to think of the polar bears! Massive Attack publish report into live music and climate change – and the industry won’t like its contents…
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the perspective of an insider on the music industry’s attitude towards climate change. Which is basically nothing. And before that, I wrote in April about a report...
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A rare piece of early house history! Shoom flyer from March 1988 hits eBay with the price already in three figures – and it’s all for a very good cause…
Regular readers will no doubt know by now that this blog loves a bit of history. Not a lot of the stuff from the early days of the dance music scene has survived, and...
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As ABBA announce a new single after a 39-year hiatus, shameless producers who want clicks on socials waste no time creating remixes the world didn’t ask for…
Every single time a singer dies these days, the likes of Soundcloud are filled within days – and sometimes even hours – with “tributes” to the deceased. Now, allow me to explain. By “tribute”,...
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Think slagging off the dance music press is a new thing? Nope – the tradition has been going strong for at least 20 years now…
There are people out there – and if you don’t know one, you probably are one yourself – who think everything was better in the past. You know the sort. They’d have you believe...
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It’s a miracle they didn’t crack under such pressure! London nightclub The Egg’s MD Hans-Christian Hess reveals they lost £100k per WEEK during lockdown – meaning a potential loss of £7million…
Big numbers have been a thing during this pandemic. Big numbers of people have fallen sick. Big numbers have died. Big numbers have been spent on furlough schemes around the world. And big numbers...
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As Michael K Williams is tragically found dead at the age of 54, did you know about his roots in the world of 1990s house music?
I was saddened to hear last night of the death of Michael Kenneth Williams, who has passed away at the age of 54. No one knows why – all we know is that his...
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: from neo-soul to peak-time house, how Natalie Williams got the Laidback Luke treatment…
For this week’s edition of Here’s One They Made Earlier. it’s Natalie Williams. In 2006, she released a song which at the time was in the neo-soul genre. It included a flute solo by...
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Double jabbed to get into clubs or no entry, paying festivals £75k to plug the vaccine rollout – why are governments so determined to treat younger people like fools?
Over the weekend, I read in the Belfast Telegraph about a forthcoming event called Emerge. It’s taking place at Ormeau Park in south Belfast on September 17th and has the likes of Mella Dee...
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Texas promises $10k to anyone who shops a woman seeking an abortion attacks – isn’t it time DJs from the dance music world made their disapproval clear to see, or do they care more about their bank balances?
Anyone who cares about women’s rights should be extremely concerned about what’s happening in Texas right now. With the support of the US Supreme Court, the southern state has made abortion illegal in all...
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As Anita Baker joins De La Soul, Taylor Swift and Stevie Wonder in owning her masters, why does this continue to be the exception than the norm for music artists?
Earlier this year, Anita Baker did something extremely unusual for a musician. She told everyone to basically stop listening to her music. Yes, someone in a group of people who normally wants us to...
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