A while ago, I had a few complaints from regular readers that this blog had been placed in an adult category by a few web shields – and it took a while to contact...
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So much for talk of DJs reducing their gargantuan fees! Time Warp USA returns in November, but you’ll have to pay $201 just for your ticket – and is seeing Richie Hawtin really worth THAT much?
Cast your mind back to the early days of the pandemic. The scene started having discussions which aren’t normally had – mostly because there was nothing else to do. Talk soon turned to the...
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The UK nightclub linked to a coronavirus cluster by the health authorities – and they’re threatening legal action on anyone who reports the details…
The British government might well be pretending that the pandemic is over. But here in the real world, most of us know otherwise. Over 43,000 new cases were confirmed across the UK yesterday. And...
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Wednesday Whisper #23 – the DJ threatening a libel suit over anyone printing bullying allegations (which he isn’t denying!)
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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