Which DJ is keen to make sure that no one finds out about his homophobia? Acutely aware that a revelation he doesn’t like gay people will potentially destroy his career in a scene which...
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The old habits are the hardest to break, aren’t they? Nervous Records goes back to the 1970s getting a scantily clad woman to advertise their latest T-shirt – and she isn’t even wearing it!
It was bound to happen at some point, wasn’t it? After the pandemic started and then again early in 2021, the social media content of Nervous Records took a notable turn. With club nights...
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Growing a thicker skin might be a good start! A producer emails saying he doesn’t like this blog’s review of his single, and here’s my response…
Well, it had to happen at some point, didn’t it? Every weekend, this blog features a reviews column – it’s called the Six On Saturday. In it, I publish what I think of some...
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The perils of being in the plague rave business! Agency which tried to silence this blog has had to pay out a five-figure sum to someone who got Covid and spent three weeks in hospital – after catching it at their event…
A lot of people in dance music work in the shadows. And they prefer it that way – there are few things they hate more than sunlight, and I mean that in a few...
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As Ministry of Sound recover after their 30th birthday party last weekend, a reminder that some things have changed – and probably for the better…
It would be churlish of me not to start this post by acknowledging that the Ministry Of Sound nightclub getting to their 30th birthday is an incredible achievement. For them to survive in London...
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Music means money forever! As Armin Van Buuren sells out by collaborating with cake thrower Steve Aoki, hasn’t the world suffered enough over the past year already?
The world has suffered terribly over the past year and a half. Since coronavirus first appeared, over 200 million cases of the virus have been officially confirmed and over four and a half million...
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With only 12 days to go, promotion for Dance For Stevie goes into overdrive – but what were they thinking when they chose THAT picture of Simon Dunmore?
Tickets are here for anyone who wants to go. If you don’t or can’t, fundraiser’s here… With just under two weeks to go until Dance For Stevie takes place at the Ministry of Sound,...
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“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”: the Bible verse whom Terrence Parker quotes on social media – but what’s Christian about refusing to pay back money earned dishonestly?
If there’s one thing which drives me mad more than anything else, it’s hypocrisy. People who say one thing yet do something quite different themselves. And I particularly despise it when they use the...
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: just how DID Mike 303 make such an interesting track with so few elements to play with?
This Monday evening, let’s go back to the turn of the millennium. Weirdly, I still remember the first time I heard this song – Saturday, January 8th, 2000. French house was still a big...
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What took them so long? Mixmag FINALLY write something about Eric Prydz’s hopelessly vague comments on the techno genre – over two weeks after he said it!
As I said a few weeks ago, I’m very proud of what’s being created on this blog. I’m also particularly impressed with the fact that a one-man operation is basically able to outdo the...
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One more Shoom poster from 1988 is on eBay, with bidding into three figures with six days still to go – and all the proceeds are going to Dance For Stevie!
You just know there’s no way I was going to refuse to cover this one, don’t you? A rare piece of house music history that you can actually hold in your hands combined with...
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Right Said Fred and Danny Rampling 24 hours a day? The ghastly prospect facing Freedom Radio listeners as station bans anyone who “whips up hatred or division” against Covid denying moonbeams…
Over the weekend, music producer Posthuman disclosed that he’d been contacted by a radio station called Freedom Radio and asked if he’d like to do a guest mix for them. After quickly discovering they...
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Was this selection REALLY the best that Nervous Records could manage to celebrate their 30th birthday? Four vinyl release is a selection of rehashes and dubious remix selections…
Nervous is a label with a long history. 30 years of history, in fact. The label was founded in New York in 1991 and was an early home to Mood II Swing, Armand Van...
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Yarr, has there been a mutiny on the good ship Defected? Ye olde captain Simon Dunmore posts cryptic tweet about “not all the crew returning to the office in swashbuckling fashion”…
Ahoy there! I hear o’ curious goings on right now o’er at Defected. Led by the boss (or shall that be captain?) Simon Dunmore, I gather ye return to work in thar fancy offices...
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See which way the wind is blowing yet? Whilst England sticks vaccine passports on the backburner, Wales announces it’s following Scotland and introducing them from October 11th…
Well, this wasn’t a terribly surprising development, was it? Wales has announced that vaccine passports are about to become a thing in the country – just weeks after Scotland confirmed they were doing it...
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After DJ Mag plug their video of David Guetta re-editing one of his own tracks to make it even more crap, Dave Clarke gives a caustic take in the comments…
Sometimes, there’s no need for a big blurb before I get to the point of an article. This is one of those times. On Friday, DJ Mag published this on their Facebook page. It...
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