Which DJ, based in the north of England, has been making increasingly desperate attempts to stop a former member of staff from speaking to the press about several incidents of bullying? The DJ in...
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“He’s changed, he’s a more humble guy now”: the bizarre words of a friend who’s been trying to line up an interview to welcome Derrick May back into the dance music fold…
The news coming from my sources in Detroit get more and more surreal with each passing day. And the latest one is possibly the strangest yet. Derrick May’s friends have been talking about how...
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As the first batch of the Ibiza Spirit in Cancun lineup is released, Amateur’s House crunches the numbers – so will Annabel Ross be any happier with this festival?
Whenever a festival announces its lineup these days, a few things are inevitable. A flurry of people are going to respond by saying “woo hoo, take my money!”. Other people check the line up...
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Defected’s Simon Dunmore reminds us how cool and underground it still is by, erm… pointing out they’ve got 20% publishing on the latest chart-bothering release by Elton John…
Simon Dunmore, the boss at Defected, gets some stick on this blog. His hypocrisy when condemning others for remixing their archive when his own labels engage in the same practice is but one example...
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They’d have been stuffed without DICE, wouldn’t they? Boiler Room made a whopping £11million loss up to October 2020 – and still no word on how much founder Blaise Bellville is making out of the deal…
Last week, I was looking on Companies House when I discovered a curious notice saying Boiler Room’s accounts were late. Surely some mistake? One email to the press office confirmed accounts had already been...
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As Nervous Records resort to yet another sleazy advert for their merchandise, the question of who’s REALLY behind their sales strategy? And it’s not who you might think…
Nervous are getting a lot of publicity at the moment. The various interviews – and given this is the dance music press we’re talking about, I use the term in the loosest possible sense...
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The garage house crew, led by Danny J Lewis, want their (rightful) place at the Traxsource table – but is there are any chance infighting within the scene could stop first?
The garage house movement is having another one of its “stand up and be counted” moments. Admittedly, most of these in the past have just resulted in shouts of “sit down”, but there are...
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Do you feel like Eric Cartman yet? Threatened probe by UK competition authorities into streaming and the majors has just moved one step further…
The very first episode of South Park, broadcast in 1997, featured Eric Cartman having an alien probe stuck up his backside. Cartman would spend the entire episode denying its existence, yet he would frequently...
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Are you sure you want to follow Danny Rampling? Not my question, but that of Instagram – who cite he has “repeatedly posted false information” and refuse to kick him off…
Time to start this Tuesday morning with a quick check-up on Danny Rampling. Believe it or not, but he used to make a good living out of being an okay-ish DJ years ago. Nowadays,...
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: back to one of Kerri Chandler’s first ever remixes – the horribly overplayed rave track “The Anthem” by N-Joi from 1990
For this week’s column, I start with a confession. There was a rave track called “The Anthem” by N-Joi which came out in 1990. I hated it at the time, and I still don’t...
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Opening and closing parties just 24 hours apart and a lineup as business techno as they come – an enticing offer from Amnesia Ibiza this weekend, it ain’t…
It’s safe to say the whole of the Ibiza season this year has been pretty much a write-off. That’s two years now of being unable to operate entirely for much of the time. Heaven...
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You were going to the Warehouse Project, not Nando’s! Blagger tries to get into Manchester club using “lifetime pass” at the weekend – read on to see how owner Sacha Lord responded to the trick…
The world of Sacha Lord is a curious one. It’s a world where he thinks people should stay hydrated on a night out, yet he charges them £2.50 a time for water. It’s a...
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Perhaps he reads this blog? Fatboy Slim now has a Belfast date in his diary following criticism – and is allegedly going to appear in Derry Girls…
The beauty of blogging is you never quite know who might be reading it. I know for a fact some of the people whom I’ve written about have been along to read it –...
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Is this why she wanted the clubs to reopen? Hannah Wants’s own company’s income nosedived during lockdown – but her holdings company has fared up well…
Over the next few months, the real impact that the pandemic has had on people and their companies is going to become very clear. Companies House – the UK’s official registrar of companies –...
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Just how bad DO you have to be for Judge Jules to call you out? Mild-mannered DJ has to cancel a number of appearances – and he isn’t holding back on the reasons why…
This blog absolutely loves it when someone finally comes along and decides to call something out for the nonsense it really is. And when you’re being called out by Judge Jules on social media...
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Everybody Loves A Cash In! Ahead of forthcoming tour of Britain, Fatboy Slim raids his back catalogue one more time – just don’t expect this blog to praise you…
These days, it seems to be law in dance music that if you’re an artist who had a few hits in the 90s, you basically must offer up your old tracks for remixes by...
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