Which festival recently announced they were cancelling for this year and haven’t been entirely upfront on the reason why? The festival in question confirmed lately that they would not be holding an event in...
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Got nothing else to do all day? Traxsource’s most recent Weekend Weapons chart has 325 different tracks in it – and it would take almost 11 hours to preview the whole lot…
A while ago now, I was talking to a friend of mine recalling his experiences from the early days of house music. He said “I first got into house in 1986. I used to...
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Now who’d have thought Boris Johnson would lie, eh? England’s Plan B if Covid is rampant this winter, according to the government, includes the vaccine passports they said on Sunday were dead in the water…
Well, this story just keeps getting better and better, doesn’t it? After weeks of going cool on its own proposal for vaccine passports to enter England’s nightclubs, the Health Secretary announced on his media...
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Is April Fools Day coming around quicker these days? Dreadbox release Nymphes polysynth on which they say “each time you play a note, imagine that you soothe the pain of abused women away”…
When this arrived in my inbox yesterday, I was surprised – not something which happens frequently when checking my emails. Infact, on reading the email, I strongly suspected it to be some kind of...
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Is there anything you can ever commit to, Boris? Now the British PM and his ministers – who were defending them only last week – are doing the Hokey Cokey over vaccine passports…
Whenever the Johnson government tells you something, the lesson of this week is not to necessarily believe it. Vaccine passports are a perfect case in point of this. Back around January or February when...
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Pete Tong making lots of money out of other people’s music by travelling with an orchestra? It’s no different to what he’s done his whole career…
Who is making the money in dance music these days? Mostly the rich old white men at the top of the business playing the music is the short answer. Some of it trickles down...
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Rebecca Ferguson proposes that labels hire welfare officers to help their artists – but how would you ensure they weren’t a stooge doing the majors’ bidding?
Dare I say it, but I’m starting to like Rebecca Ferguson. Over the past year or two, she’s decided to take her position in the music industry and do something useful with it. In...
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London’s Soho gives locals more power over planning decisions – but who’s to assume they’ll always back the clubs in this notorious red light district?
If you were to say the word Soho to me, the first thing that comes to mind is prostitutes. There’s no other way for me to phrase it. I know there’s lots of shopping...
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: hip-house, a change of direction from Mike Dunn and the power of using less chords
This week, I go all the way back to 1993 and a track which came out on Chicago Style Records that year – “Let Yo Fro Gro” by Bush Man. I find there was...
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Will he do a remix for Derrick May next? Toolroom boss Mark Knight turns out a remix of “Believe” by Ministers De La Funk after getting a phone call from “my friend” Erick Morillo – who committed suicide with a rape charge hanging over him…
A truth rarely admitted to is that house music is largely a sausage-fest. The higher echelons consist of a large number of very dodgy characters, who defend each other and ensure the whole house...
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Was this the weekend that the anti-vaxxers finally turned against Sacha Lord – and just how much DID he charge people attending Parklife at the weekend for a bottle of water?
The problem with trying to speak out of both sides of your mouth is that eventually, you’re going to get called out on it. This is especially true when you’re in a prominent public...
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So how DID house music come to the UK? Jazzy M – who was there when it happened – is due to give his valuable insight into the subject later this month for Lenny Fontana’s True House Stories…
There are few things more likely to provoke disagreements, heated debates and fall-outs than dance music history. When you have a bunch of mostly men who have widely differing views over the past and...
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Boiler Room – where the DJs aren’t paid (except by the odd sponsor here and there) and their Chief Operating Officer has literally zero concept of irony…
Boiler Room don’t exactly get an easy time on this blog, do they? And they’d better get used to it, because that won’t change anytime soon. Recently, I queried some of the more amusing...
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Eric Prydz’s fear of flying means less time in the air, but no slacking on the luxury – so is there a lesson here for gas-guzzlers like Richy Ahmed and Louie Vega?
Last week, whilst everyone rowed over comments by Eric Prydz that techno was one thing until 2005 and then became something else, some people took a peek at the rest of his social media...
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Dancing at a wedding is fine, but dancing at a nightclub isn’t – the bizarre situation as Northern Ireland ease off on more Covid restrictions
Northern Ireland’s utterly bizarre approach to relaxing Covid-19 restrictions continues unabated. A few weeks ago, I blogged about the true oddity of how the province appeared to be lumping nightclubs in alongside ballroom dancing...
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What planet is this man on? Sacha Lord charges £2.50 for bottles of water and £11 for something boozy – but apparently it’s not a rip-off because Creamfields do it too!
Sacha Lord isn’t a name I’ve written much about of late – but rest assured this blog hasn’t forgotten about this self-declared man on a mission to save hospitality. A mission which has a...
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