Ears To The House

If there’s one thing certain DJs dislike even more than the public, club promoters, managers, their agents or indeed, anyone who make their own careers possible, it’s other DJs. They’d have you believe they...

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As Traxsource release their 2021 In Review graphics to artists to tell them how they did on the site this year, are they relevant in the dance music scene today – or just a pointless vanity badge?

It’s that time of year once more. The dance music scene is mostly winding down now for the winter. Clubs may well remain open – at least where Covid restrictions permit it – but...

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Isn’t it nice to know Comical Ali found a new job after the Iraq war? Music producer who’s clearly never read this blog has come up with a novel way to end the UK garage schism – let’s just stop reporting on it…

Back in 2003 during the Iraq war, a figure whom the public quickly came to know was Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf. He was the Iraqi government’s Information Minister and was known in the press as...

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Criticising Jeff Mills for going to MDL Beast Soundstorm is racist – and other equally dubious feedback from last week’s articles on this blog…

Last week. this blog ran a five-part series of posts all about the MDL Beast Soundstorm festival being held in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh in a few weeks time. As anyone who...

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Why ARE the dance music press so slow at reporting the news? Resident Advisor finally tell readers about Spotify’s Daniel Ek investing €100million in defence company – two weeks after a one-man blog did!

Traditionally, new editors are appointed to publications when the old one decides they’re leaving or the management think new energy or a different direction is needed. And having studied some sociology a very long...

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Here’s One They Made Earlier: the best remix of “Big Love” by Pete Heller’s Big Love… and bizarrely, it never received an official release!

Back around 2011, I was completely in love with the music of Richard Dinsdale. He appeared to have abandoned the increasingly stale electro house sound of the time and gone instead to make these...

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Has Jeff Mills completely lost the plot? Now he posts ANOTHER defence of his choice to play high-earning MDL Beast Soundstorm gig – and claims his brand of techno provides “mental escape”!

So far, all of the DJs who are on the bill for the MDL Beast Soundstorm festival in Saudi Arabia next month are remaining quiet as the controversy over their appearances rumbles on. The...

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Turns out even he has his limits! King of the anti-vaxxers Piers Corbyn has released a song comparing mask wearing to farting in trousers – and it’s so incredibly bad even Danny Rampling won’t share it…

Mr Danny Rampling – known as The Runny Dumpling in certain quarters these days, I’m told – is known for sharing literally anything which supports his narrative on the Covid situation. Which seems to...

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Traxsource might have boosted the garage genre by putting it in its own category, but the schism within remains as wide as ever – and why CAN’T the old and new school get along?

Another day, another row in the world of garage music in the UK. This blog had a horrible feeling that the excellent news of Traxsource awarding garage its own category was only going to...

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Bit lacking in self-awareness there, Sofia! Derrick May’s “passport” girlfriend posts about eliminating violence against women – whilst failing to mention allegations facing her own 58-year old boyfriend…

Ever since I started Amateur’s House, one thing I’ve noticed is that a seemingly disproportionate number of people in the dance music world have a complete inability to see how they’re perceived. They’ve swallowed...

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Are the Irish government trying to destroy the nightclub sector entirely? That’s the effect the midnight curfew is likely to have after Covid rules previously closed them for 586 days…

When I’m writing headlines for this blog, I always try to follow a few rules. I try to make sure that the banner actually reflects the content of the post underneath it. There are...

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And they say it’s all bad news in the economy! Now Resident Advisor’s hiring spree creates yet another job as they look for an intern – but could a love of coffee be the REAL secret to getting a foot in the door?

Someone at Resident Advisor is trolling me. This sounds an outlandish claim, so please allow me to explain. Last Monday, this blog published an article talking about the job creation spree taking place at...

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Is there something they’re not telling us here? They don’t want to pay Four Tet more in royalties – but Domino Recordings DO want to pay someone to assist the staff who pay out the royalties…

Over the past week, I have noticed that the long-running legal dispute between electronic musician Four Tet and Domino Recordings. The spat is over the way Domino appear to have interpreted how much to...

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Want to know why Amateur’s House backs the #BrennanBill? These four men are worth over £3½ BILLION between them, yet they preside over an industry where a third of musicians made nothing this year – things cannot go on like this…

If you read this blog regularly, you’ll have no doubt seen the above photo a few times. It features Daniel Ek, Rob Stringer, Stephen Cooper and Lucian Grainge. They are the CEOs of Spotify,...

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Well, that didn’t take long! Days after Booker T’s remix of Soul II Soul’s “Back To Life” gets a Grammy nomination, the very fact starts appearing on flyers – so could he soon capitalise by pushing up his prices?