Those of you who use Facebook or Instagram this week might have been forgiven for having a startled moment upon seeing posts on Paul Johnson’s socials – they’ve been active again. The man himself...
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As the Night Time Industries Association launch a push to challenge Covid restrictions in Wales, their template email to politicians assert it’s England who have it right – seems convenient for them…
Devolution has been a thing in the UK since the 1990s. The Scottish and Welsh parliaments were launched in 1999 and the Northern Ireland Assembly the year before. These legislative bodies have control over...
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“Figure your own s*** out!”: the words of a DJ of 35 years and counting as poached turned gamekeeper Annabel Ross asks how you put a set together – but is it just a generational thing?
Things aren’t going very well in the world of Annabel Ross. That big exposé of Derrick May was meant to be her admission ticket into the big leagues – only to get beaten to...
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What, no discounts for the bus pass brigade? Danny Rampling’s (not very) busy schedule for 2022 includes a gig where the minimum age to gain entry is just 1…
There was a time, many years ago, when it was very profitable indeed to be Mr Daniel Rampling. He had a Saturday night show on BBC Radio 1 and a packed DJ schedule –...
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Wednesday Whisper #34 – the DJ who left a particularly unpleasant New Year’s present for a poor unsuspecting cleaner…
Which American DJ was responsible for clogging up a toilet and leaving a particularly malodorous stink at his New Year’s Eve gig? And yes, I’m aware there have been quite a few bathroom related...
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Thinking of using Beatport Link’s streaming service on your next DJ gig, are you? Er, you might have to rethink that plan – and not just because of rubbish wifi at the nightclub…
A while ago now, your favourite blog spoke about Beatport Link. There appears to be money to be made in streaming – certainly not for the artists, but plenty for the labels and plenty...
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$200 for Genoese focaccia, lamb tacos and panna cotta on a menu specially curated by DJ Tennis, but no set from the man himself due to “scheduling conflicts” – the VERY bizarre story of a New Year’s Eve in the Big Apple…
If ever a story showed just how absurd the DJ world sometimes gets, this one surely must be it. ReSolute in New York were holding an event on New Year’s Eve which promised a...
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So how many plague raves DID you hold at Downing Street, Mr Johnson? The question as it emerges “bring your own booze” parties took place as far back as May 2020…
Most people who know anything about the political past of Boris Johnson had extremely low expectations when he became Britain’s Prime Minister in 2019. But even they are becoming increasingly shocked at just how...
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It’s official: Electronic Beats are without a deputy as Caroline Whiteley announces she’s jumping ship – just as this blog said two weeks ago – so will her old friend Whitney Wei have a job lined up?
Time now for a follow-up to a story which this blog originally published on December 30th. It was about the impending resignation of Caroline Whiteley from Electronic Beats and her friend Whitney Wei failing...
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People really shouldn’t bereave everything they read online! Not the best start to the week for Carl Craig after a website post falsely claiming he’s died goes viral – and a few people fell for it…
It was the US President Franklin Roosevelt’s secretary of state Cordell Hull who said “A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on”. He was...
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And to think someone got paid to write this! Billboard publish a piece about pop singer Billie Eilish’s hair – so what inspiration could the dance music press take from this article?
As someone who runs a blog with an average of five posts per weekday – slightly less on weekends – I do understand the pressure that people are under to keep the fresh content...
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Who added the L in clock to this one? Clock Stock festival takes place in June – but you’d be hard pressed (if you can read it with that hideous font!) to find anyone who isn’t male and white on the bill…
If we’re now meant to be living in an age where we’re all inclusive and try our best to make everyone feel welcome, regardless of who or what they are, someone clearly forgot to...
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Another one who can’t see the wood for the trees! Jeff Mills complains about “silence” from “music fans” – in a sleep-inducing interview where the questions are longer than his answers…
A common theme this blog frequently comes back to is the fact many of the bigger DJs live on another planet. Whilst there are honourable exceptions who remain humble and untainted by fame, it...
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: the time underrated Charles Dockins bumped into mysterious remix duo London Connection…
I have a confession to make. Around 1997 and 1998, there was a lot of garage house kind of music that I simply didn’t appreciate. I’m not quite sure why – perhaps it just...
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So you wonder why I gave up making music? In a climate where 82% of all music streamed in the USA is now old music, new stuff has never found it so tough to break through…
Last summer, I published an article commenting on the fact 66% of all audio streaming in the USA consisted of so-called catalogue material. And just to be absolutely clear here, catalogue material is anything...
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If you have to ask, you definitely can’t afford it! So how much DID those Brian Eno – he who dismisses NFT users as “little capitalist arseholes” – multi-colour turntables sell for in the end?
Recently, I had a look at my readership statistics over the past few weeks. I was curious to know whether this blog suffered any kind of drop in the numbers over the Christmas and...
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