The Israeli Palestine conflict is one that flares up sporadically, and inevitably brings up questions when it does. And some of those questions involve the human rights of the people who are caught up...
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The Six On Saturday (That Aren’t From Me!) – 29th May 2021
On the week a man refused to take his mask off for, ahem, relations with his wife – even though they’re both fully vaccinated against the coronavirus – I seperate the tunes that’ll have...
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The Saturday Recap – 29th May 2021
Welcome to the weekend! Your Six On Saturday column is coming up later, but let’s start with a recap of what’s been on this site during the week. There’s something to read every single...
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As Paxahau put on a Micro Movement event over the Memorial Day Weekend with only Detroit artists on the bill, take a guess which one is missing?
Normally around this time of year, the Movement festival would be taking place in Detroit. The festival has roots going all the way back to 2001 and obviously could not go ahead last year....
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Selling your music won’t make you money, but you buy more stuff to make music – inside the weird world of music producers!
I read an extremely interesting article on the 5 Magazine site earlier this week. They’re one of very few dance music outlets that I have any time for. The article goes into detail about...
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Did they stop compiling the list in 1999? Questions for house music’s future as Traxsource’s Best Of 2021 So Far is weighed down with decades old records – and how’d they make this list anyway?
UPDATE: Since the publication of this article, Traxsource have since responded to my request for comment, saying that the lists are based entirely on sales. It was Carl Cox who said many years ago...
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He might want to get the plumber in now! DJ Sneak’s Traxsource Freedom Day sneaks further away as he presumably tries to fix his sink…
This blog certainly likes to make fun of DJ Sneak – just like I did earlier this week – but believe it or not, I do hold a certain amount of respect for the...
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You read it here first! Bandcamp Fridays extended for the rest of 2021 – but no comment on rumours it’ll be a permanent fixture post-pandemic
If you want to find out news that you won’t read anywhere else, Amateur At Play’s House isn’t a bad place to look for it. So it turns out, even slightly to my surprise....
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Bailed out with £750k of British taxpayer cash, but is Resident Advisor in even deeper trouble than first thought? Now HSBC has taken out a debenture on the company…
Things are not good for Resident Advisor these days. Last year, they had to be bailed out by the British taxpayer to the tune of £750,000. Then they sheepishly admitted they’d been making money...
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Only 15 cases of Covid out of 58,000 in government test events? Sounds good – but where are the reports so we can see the data and make up our own minds?
Unless I’m very much mistaken, it was The Times newspaper which first reported the revelation that out of events attended by a total of 58,000 people, only 15 of them subsequently caught Covid-19. This...
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How DO you work out if a pandemic is over? Turns out you don’t ask a virologist – you ask millionaire DJ Deborah De Luca!
There was a time when if you wanted to find the answer to a question, you’d ask someone with expertise in their field. For example, if you wanted to install electricity into your house,...
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What did Derrick May do during lockdown? He got his house refurbished – and the cheapskate even got his friends to paint his decking for him (and all unpaid, naturally!)
I’ve recently been taking a look at what DJs have been doing during the pandemic to keep themselves busy. So far, the answers have been positively dull. Sasha spent it baking bread, John Digweed...
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Wednesday Whisper #2 – the love rat DJ who’s struggling to keep up with his mounting maintenance bills
Which DJ has been stressed out lately about his living costs? During his career, he hasn’t just been active playing records and making records, he’s been active in another department too. Indeed, over the...
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Don’t want to pay £28 for a Todd Edwards shirt courtesy of Defected? Here’s how you can get one that’s better… and cheaper!
Occasionally, I do more analytical pieces on this blog. Some things can’t be explained in a few sentences, after all. I wrote a few weeks ago about some things going on at Defected Records...
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Carl Bean is in a hospice and fundraising his money worries away – so what’s stopping you from helping him, Lady Gaga?
Traditional wisdom says that musicians years ago all made lots of money, and those in the Spotify generation are being ripped off. And like most things in the music world, there’s as many examples...
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If cartoon breasts were the answer, what the hell was the question? Eyebrows raised at the latest plugin from WX Audio…
Things really should have advanced further in the plugin world than the likes of Perky Percussion Percolator by now. Released in 2005, this was a VST that showed a picture of cartoon breasts –...
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