As this Sunday morning begins, Club Shelter find themselves largely being spared from the bruising criticism that now inevitably comes with booking Derrick May. Largely because although it turns out he did not play...
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Now who’d have thought you couldn’t take a piddle on the Peelers? Idiot given 16-week suspended sentence after trying to urinate on a police officer at a plague rave…
This week, the dance music press have tried once again to downplay the effects of plague raves, with this article making an appearance in DJ Mag during the week. As I’ve explained before, the...
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The Six On Saturday (That Aren’t From Me!) – 18th September 2021
On the week that Nicki Minaj’s claim that the Covid vaccine gave her cousin a case of swollen testicles was proven to be b******s, I go through the latest record to find out which...
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The Saturday Recap – 18th September 2021
So that’s another week over and done with. Welcome to the weekend! Your Six On Saturday column is coming up later, but let’s quickly recap some of what’s been on Amateur’s House during the...
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“Meeting this duo changed the trajectory of my life” – Michelle Shellers leads tributes as Jason Brooks the second half of Soul Providers, dies just weeks after production partner Ian Carey
Soul Providers arrived on the house music scene back in 1999 with the release of “Tango” on Basement Boys Records. But it wasn’t until the following year when their song “Rise”, with the incredible...
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It’s not a good start to the weekend for Judge Jules as his Facebook page and group are hacked – so was the perpetrator the same person who took control of Todd Terry’s page a few months ago?
This blog occasionally makes fun of Judge Jules – who has now been DJing for around 700 years – but I feel a lot of sympathy for his current plight. Anyone who visits his...
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And people accuse me of publishing any old rubbish! Mixmag run an article on Nile Rodgers being a fan of a Liverpool canal – so what could they decide to print next?
So what was the most important news story of the week? Was it Nicki Minaj saying the Covid jab gave her cousin a bad case of swollen testicles? The authorities in Trinidad and Tobago...
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New York’s Electric Zoo is linked to a Covid cluster of at least 16 cases after eight people turned up at the three-day festival contagious with the virus – so just how many have been infected?
One thing I must say has surprised me over the past few months is how few cases of Covid-19 have emerged out of nightclubs and festivals. We’ve been told since the pandemic started that...
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The ADE Festival is going ahead – minus the conference – after Dutch Covid rule changes, but why does it feel like we haven’t heard the last word yet?
Sometimes, I will read or see something and it immediately feels a little bit off. Something somewhere isn’t quite making sense or stacking up in a way which seems logical. When I read about...
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Sacha Lord believes in looking after yourself at his events – so how much will he charge you for water to remain hydrated this weekend?
Say what you like about Sacha Lord – and this blog frequently comments on the self-declared man on a mission to save hospitality across Britain. But there’s one area that I won’t hear a...
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James Craig is running to be the Republican governor of Michigan in 2022 – but with polls being incredibly tight, will a certain Carl Craig get stuck in and help his cousin swoop the top job?
Carl Craig’s social media feeds are a strange place. His Twitter page is locked, saying it’s for “members only”, though occasional rambling tweets do leak out. But his prime outlet is Instagram, where he...
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Well, that statement didn’t date too well! The curious response given to The Orb’s Alex Paterson when he tried to sign Larry Heard’s publishing in the mid-1980s…
As I might occasionally mention on this blog, I’m utterly intrigued by the history of house music. This is most particularly because there’s a lot of it, but very little of it has been...
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So when WILL your music be off Traxsource, Sneak? The Chicago DJ shows no intention of keeping to his promise as hundreds of tracks remain on the store…
It’s been a little while since I checked in on DJ Sneak’s mission to free his music from the evil clutches of Traxsource and their white cat stroking founders Marc Pomeroy and Brian Tappert....
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They’ve totally lost the plot! Dreadbox’s pathetic response to their claims their Nymphes polysynth “soothes the pain” of abused women away is… it’s only white men whinging about it!
Time for a quick follow-up to a story which I published yesterday morning – ahead of several of the dance music press, including Resident Advisor. As you might have noticed, I wasn’t terribly nice...
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Club Shelter release their DJ set times list for their 30th birthday party, but with no sign of Timmy Regisford – and the REAL question: will Derrick May have the audacity to show up?
So the 30th birthday party for Club Shelter is upon us. Taking place tomorrow night at the Brooklyn Monarch in New York, the event is meant to feature DJ Spinna, Louie Vega, Tony Humphries...
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Raising the calibre of music journalism by leaving details out of their reports – it’s Resident Advisor dealing with protests in the Netherlands…
Resident Advisor are a curious lot, aren’t they? Over their 20 years in existence, they’ve got to know the tactic of selective reporting very well. You see it all the time in their news...
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