Quite some time ago now – 26th August last year, to be precise – Ears To The House published an article about how a big mythical vault full of unreleased Frankie Knuckles records basically...
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Derrick May is now plugging Andres’s music…
The Movement Electronic Music Festival is concluding today in Detroit. The curiously rising star that is Ash Lauryn have performed, alongside the likes of Jeff Mills, Carl Craig and names like Kaskade – whose...
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Did Phuture REALLY invent acid house? We investigate…
Those of you who have been loyal Ears To The House readers from the early days might remember that we’re basically a bunch of history buffs. As well as dissecting what’s going on in...
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Tomorrowland are launching a DJ school for eight year olds…
As Ears To The House has pointed out a few times lately, a number of festivals are in rather choppy waters right now. Two years of Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions have prevented several annual...
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As Movement begins in Detroit today, the one question nobody will ask…
The Movement Electronic Music Festival, as it’s officially known these days, begins in Detroit later today. This year’s lineup includes Carl Craig, rising star Ash Lauryn, Jeff Mills, Juan Atkins and er, an awful...
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The Saturday Recap – 28th May 2022
So that’s another week over and done with. Welcome to the weekend! The Saturday reviews column will resume in a few weeks, but there’s still plenty to keep you amused over the next two...
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The pay what you can festival – Outlook genius or just plain stupidity?
Anyone going out shopping recently might have noticed that some prices have gone up – and that’s before you factor in DJ schools whose prices have gone up by over 4000% in 26 years....
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Why it’s sometimes best for DJs just not to speak…
One of the harsh truths about dance music is that it occasionally attracts some utter oddballs. Now, allow us to explain ourselves here – we’re not talking here about people who see themselves as...
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DJ Sneak’s digital tracks detox – an update…
If you use Google to find out the meaning of the word “forlorn”, one of the definitions comes back as “(of an aim or endeavour) unlikely to succeed or be fulfilled”. Which is how...
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Carl Craig: Stay out of Detroit business… unless you’re paying!
Within each of the many strands of dance music, there are people who believe in spreading the word and making the scene – or should that be their part of it? – as big...
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Festival inequality and one take you won’t hear on the BBC…
Here at Ears To The House, we don’t know everything. So whenever we do come across a gap in our knowledge, we contact our industry insider. He’s a man with decades of experience in...
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Is the war in Palestine over? The changing attitudes of Peggy Gou…
Those of you reading this site in November and December last year might remember we published several articles about MDL Beast Soundstorm – a festival paid for by the government of Saudi Arabia to...
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Could an all-year round Ibiza season soon be on the cards?
Over the past few weeks, you weren’t alone if you kept spotting stories in the dance music press about nightclubs announcing their “longest seasons ever” in Ibiza this year. It’s become something of a...
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Derrick May’s latest excuse for having no gigs? The internet…
Believe it or not, but there was a time when Detroit based DJ and producer Derrick May was a truly unstoppable force of nature. His diary was filled with hundreds of gigs every single...
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So what’s Danny Rampling doing these days, then?
One person who probably breathed a sigh of relief when this site announced we were going for a break a few months ago was Danny Rampling, 60, from London. The occasional okay-ish DJ and...
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Wednesday Whisper: 25th May 2022
Which DJ has recently been doing a very special kind of spring cleaning? The only difference is instead of scrubbing his kitchen tiles clean and finally taking that rubbish to the dump, this guy...
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