Every now and then, my lovely readers get in touch with ideas for stories, features and columns for the blog. And to be fair, many do make it onto these pages – for instance,...
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The developers want them out! London’s The Cause have been given their marching orders – and will soon announce how they’ll be saying goodbye to their Ashley Road home…
For Stuart Glen, one of the co-founders of Tottenham’s The Cause, this week is going to be one to forget. His nightclub has been told that the end is coming, and my sources in...
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On and on indeed, part two! After Jesse Saunders takes issue with claim Farley Jackmaster Funk was the first to play early house records, now Chosen Few DJs founder Wayne Williams has a few things to say…
Here in Britain, a political row developed last week after MPs voted to allow water companies to send more raw sewage out into rivers and oceans. But by the looks of it, the real...
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They don’t like it up them, do they? Alan Oldham – friend of Derrick May – blocks this blog on Instagram in pathetic attempt to stop me scrutinising him…
People in the dance music world are typically not used to being scrutinised. The dance press has never been particularly good at it, even in their well-resourced print heyday in the 1990s. So when...
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Wednesday Whisper #25 – the normally diligent music editor who’s losing it with staff, and everything else…
Which music publication’s editor has recently come under fire because of a perceived lack of commitment to the job? The person in question has been in their position for a while now and all...
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Mixmag said their magazine would be back in 2021 following April 2020 print suspension, but they STILL have no staff hired to run it – so have we seen the last paper edition already?
Cast your mind back to the first lockdown of last year. Mixmag made the decision to suspend publication of their print edition from April 2020. The claim they made at the time, amongst others,...
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The festival promoter who used a racial slur when questioned about nearly all white lineups – and threatened a libel case if this blog published his words…
This blog has referenced, time and time again, that there are people working in the shadows of dance music. This is how they like it, because they’re not fans of scrutiny – and because...
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As screen on Hard Rock Cafe runs an advert for Space Ibiza, is the nightclub which closed in 2016 on the way back – or is this just a PR stunt?
Clubs come and clubs go. Some are barely missed, others are missed hugely. So when a club has been around for 30 years and then it’s no more, its impact is going to be...
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Is THIS the price of being attached to Derrick May? Juan Atkins was interviewed by DJ Mag editor Carl Loben last week – but there’s no trace of the interview anywhere…
This blog believes people should choose their friends very carefully. Quite simply, if something seems off about a person, that’s because it usually is. And now, we’re starting to see the consequences for people...
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With Covid restrictions not being what they once were, Danny Rampling has found a new thing to get angry about – an upcoming trial of universal basic income in Wales…
It must be exhausting being Danny Rampling these days. I’m not quite sure how the okay-ish DJ, who has now been honing his craft for 700 years, finds the stamina to keep going. The...
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Congratulations to Sony Music on making $1billion out of streaming in three months – now is there any chance you can tell us how much of that is going to the artists who made your success possible?
This blog is occasionally accused of being curmudgeonly about the success of major music labels. And like most accusations, it’s one that isn’t based in fact. If record labels are releasing high quality music...
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Did your takedown requests get lost in the post? DJ Sneak – who promised to take his music off digital stores in January – still has hundreds on Traxsource…
On December 29th last year, DJ Sneak decided to make a few changes to the way he did business. And one of those was to declare his music would be coming down from digital...
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I don’t think they’ll want to point their cameras at him again! Company which took photos of Derrick May at Weetamix aren’t best pleased to discover allegations made against him…
Taking pictures in nightclubs has always been a subject which stirs up strong feelings. Many people seem to think what happens inside a club is sacrosanct, and that no visual reminders of the event...
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: the self-styled Baron of Techno Dave Clarke taking on a sample house record – and this was the result…
This column is occasionally accused of having a lack of variety – it’s all soulful or vocal tunes, they say. And to be fair, they have a point. I do aim to feature a...
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As Northern Ireland’s nightclubs FINALLY open their doors again after 19 months, no masks and no vaccine passports are required – but is that likely to change any time soon?
No matter where you are in Britain or Ireland, you can now legally go to a nightclub again. This is the situation after Northern Ireland finally allowed them to reopen yesterday – over three...
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Now why didn’t I think of that for an article? Fresh from Traxsource garage category success, Danny J Lewis posts on his blog about the mysterious question of how to pronounce “garage”…
Danny J Lewis is one name this blog has quite a lot of time for. Aside from his videos on music production on YouTube, his sizeable catalogue of music – and even his successful...
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