The Belleville Three was meant to be an inspiring story about how three men from Detroit defied the odds to become the legends of techno. A traditional rags to riches sort of tale beloved...
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Girls I Rate – a movement aimed at disrupting the norm, yet feeding the norm with judges at the heart of music establishment for their latest contest
I’ve recently become aware of the Girls I Rate movement. They want to bring more women into the music industry – citing that less than 19% of all PRS members are female. I’d like...
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Periods of reflection don’t last as long as they used to! US country singer Morgan Wallen back in the fold just three months after using racial slur
Some of the earlier followers on this blog might remember what I wrote on February 8th about Morgan Wallen, a huge country music singer from the USA. The full post is here, but here’s...
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The REAL story behind Daft Punk and why Eddie Johns was never paid for the “One More Time” sample – not the clickbait version the press would have you believe
Over the past few days, you might have noticed a story going around about Daft Punk’s 2000 release “One More Time”. The song is built heavily around a few chopped up samples of a...
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What do PR companies actually do? Reading what’s written about their clients obviously isn’t one of them for Additive Music, it seems!
A few weeks ago, you might recall that Masters At Work released a new single – their first in a very long time indeed. I listened to all the mixes and wrote up a...
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Half dressed is better than not dressed, I suppose! Nervous Records unrepentant about 1970s advertising across social media
The advertising department at Nervous Records must be an incredibly strange place for those who don’t still live in 1975. Whilst most labels have moved on from sexist adverts, Nervous continue to cling to...
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Sasha spent his lockdown baking bread – so could DJ partner in crime John Digweed provide an even more boring answer? Take a guess…
It turns out that it’s not just Sasha who’s been busy making an album over the past year. His DJing partner in crime John Digweed has been doing it too. I suspect, at this...
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As the already long charge sheet against Bassnectar gets even longer, shock as his solicitors threaten to sue his alleged victoms for defamation
A few people have recently asked me why I’m not talking about Bassnectar on this blog. After all, I’m “gunning for Derrick May”, according to one of them. So what’s the difference? It’s a...
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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day! Why, for a nice change, Mixmag have actually asked a good question about hugging and clubbing
It only takes a few days for Mixmag to catch up with what the rest of the world already knows. Today, they ran an article about the latest imminent changes to England’s lockdown rules...
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And this is why documenting events matters! Ron Hardy remembered with fond tributes – but scant evidence of his life and work is out there
The house music world has been filled recently with tributes and warm words for Ron Hardy. In case you’re unfamiliar with the name, Hardy was one of the DJs who championed house music in...
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Mixmag, George Jung and why the dance music press can’t say too much about drugs…
Mixmag’s highly peculiar attitude to drugs continues. They live in this strange space between wanting to write all about illegal drugs and knowing that promoting these posts too much could result in Facebook’s algorithms...
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What would the Sasha of 1992 make of it? DJ reveals that he spent lockdown making an album and, er, baking bread…
Sasha – the superstar DJ before the superstar DJs concept was invented in some over-imaginative journalist’s head – has given an interview to Beatport explaining what he’s been doing over the past 12 months....
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Is that another night off for you, Derrick? The Poland orchestral gig seems to be off following an online backlash – so does ANYONE want to book desperate May for a show?
Not one, but two helpings of the dismal life of Derrick May in one day! Never let it be said I don’t look after my readers well. Fresh from his recent cancellation by the...
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More songwriters will start driving for Uber if they’re not paid more for their work, warns Abba’s Bjorn Ulvaeus
If you’ve ever wondered why so much music in the mainstream charts sounds similar, the fact that most of it was written by one of two men might have something to do with it....
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Derrick May described women as “the conduit of life” last year – so why did he tell a 15 year old girl in 1989 that he’d kick her arse for five dollars?
A quick note before I begin – I thought it was time for a little change to the graphic that accompanies Derrick May posts on this blog. There’s just something about this one that...
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Wales hasn’t announced plans for the return of festivals yet. So isn’t it just a little bit risky organising one there?
A few days ago, I wrote about the approaches of the UK’s four different nations to easing up on lockdown. This can occasionally create a very confusing situation if you’re unaware of the differences...
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