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After a week of blocking and stonewalling, Ian Urbina apologises over allegations aimed at Outlaw Ocean Music Project – but why the sudden change of tone?
A few people have asked me recently why I haven’t published any posts on the subject of Ian Urbina. In case anyone isn’t aware of this, a YouTuber called Benn Jordan uploaded a video...
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There’s always time for sleaze, especially at Christmas! Nervous Records unveil their latest advert to sell things for the festive season – and it’s just as sordid and grotty as you’d expect…
Well, it might be Christmas time – the season for goodwill to all men, the season for buying ridiculous quantities of chocolate and the season for eating unfathomable amounts of turkey – but some...
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Making new music is too much like hard work! Traxsource’s Top 200 tracks of 2021 chart is filled with a worrying number of remakes and remixes of tracks from days gone by – and hasn’t Michael Gray done well out of it?
It’s the time of year when everyone thinks “nope, had enough now”, and starts churning out lists of what was supposedly good this year. Rest assured that your favourite dance music blog is swerving...
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A place where vaccine passports are in force but not in law and a parliamentary debate gets abandoned at 9pm after five hours following elusive “legal advice” – where else but Northern Ireland?
What politicians decree and what the law says often don’t match. This is something that’s become increasingly clear over the past nearly two years now. In England, for example, vaccine passports are due to...
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: the one record in the world this hard-nosed blogger STILL can’t listen to today without crying…
This week’s selection is a particularly personal one for me. It brings back a mixture of pleasant memories and very dark ones too. This came out in 2004 – an extremely difficult year for...
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Host a talk on sexual harassment in music and make sure no sod can see it: the bizarre strategy being used by Rebekah Teasdale to promote her #ForTheMusic campaign…
This blog sympathises somewhat with Rebekah Teasdale, founder of the #ForTheMusic movement against sexual harassment of women in music. She comes across as someone proud of her campaign – as she should be –...
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Sacha Lord unveils the rabbit in his hat – a campaign to get the Tories to ditch a VAT increase in April… but with one already having taken place last month, isn’t this crusade far too modest?
Sacha Lord is a man who can be accused of many things. Hypocrisy, for example. This is a man who speaks out against plague raves yet books Solardo – who have done mote than...
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As Danny Rampling unveils his next glorious appearance – upstairs above a pub in a sleepy English town – the REAL reason why he adamantly opposes vaccine passports becomes ever clearer to see…
Vaccine passports look set to become a thing in England this week. Scotland and Wales introduced them in October, and Northern Ireland are enforcing them from today. And unless the House of Commons vote...
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Mousse T calls out Glasgow Underground boss Kevin McKay for doing a “proper ripoff” of his 1999 remix of Moloko’s “Sing It Back” – and just like the Danny Tenaglia controversy, it’s getting very messy…
Update – (14/12/2021) Kevin McKay points out that T Markakis was in fact paid shortly after he went public with the allegation. More than happy to correct the record. So it looks like I’m...
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Well, this blog’s faith has been well and truly lost! Faithless rinse yet another song from their back catalogue – by giving David Guetta the chance (and money) to remix their 1998 hit “God Is A DJ”…
Let’s talk about Faithless. They created the since massively overplayed “Insomnia” back in 1994. Island Records were originally meant to release it, but they admitted several months after signing the contracts that they had...
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And how many of your lawyers were sitting just out of shot? Travis Scott sits down in cosy interview with Charlamagne Tha God to deny blame for stampede at Astroworld which saw 10 people die…
We live in a painfully stage-managed world these days. So much so that it’s often becoming hard to distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t. For example, whenever politicians sit down to do interviews,...
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Was this email typed up by the work experience kid? The Night Time Industries Association want people to lobby their MPs against England’s move to Plan B rules – and grammar is the least of their problems…
One thing about email which particularly bugs me is spelling mistakes. I can forgive them to an extent on messaging services – the communication is more instant and mistakes more likely. But email? When...
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No, he’s still a mug! Maceo Plex insists it was a PLASTIC cup he threw into Waring Beach audience, injuring a woman – and mentions (as if it isn’t plain weird) he likes to throw headphones into the crowd too…
This blog frequently talks about the fact that many of the big name DJs live on a different planet to the rest of us. They’re like this because they spend all their time on...
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DJ Sneak gets into the Christmas spirit by flogging some T-shirts from his online shop – and there isn’t an overpriced baseball cap to be seen anywhere near it!
If there’s one thing we know about DJ Sneak – other than the fact he loves a good row with his fellow DJs, or the fact he still hasn’t delivered his vow to remove...
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The Six On Saturday (That Aren’t From Me!) – 11th December 2021
On the week that some poor sod in Australia was given the job of getting two women pregnant at exactly the same time, I go through the final batch of records for 2021. See,...
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