We’ve just realised something after another busy Sunday here at Ears To The House – we forgot to update you on a story we first ran in August and came back to on Friday....
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Mark Broom sampling Paul Johnson sampling George Benson…
House music was built on a sampling culture. This isn’t an especially controversial statement – even in house music’s early days, sample packs were a thing, albeit on far more dodgy legal ground than...
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So how much did Juan Atkins contribute to techno?
Here at Ears To The House, we were very pleased to discover that Juan Atkins reads our site. He joins an increasing array of DJs, producers, promoters and journalists who decry this site, yet...
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Sympathising with predators? Not just a dance music thing…
Absolutely no one who reads Ears To The House with any kind of regularity will be surprised to discover we don’t think the dance music world does anywhere near enough to address problems such...
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Someone pretended to be Derrick Carter’s tour manager…
Isn’t that just typical? We at Ears To The House take our traditional Saturday off – although that’s one tradition we’ll be disposing of once we’re good and ready – and something like this...
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The Saturday Recap: 3rd September 2022
So that’s another week over and done with. Welcome to the weekend! Normal service resumes tomorrow. Right now, let’s quickly recap some of what’s been on Ears To The House during the week… Our new Friday...
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So who is Carl Craig’s “surprise guest” tonight at Teksupport NYC?
Brooklyn’s Teksupport slogan is “provides a solution within house and techno” – and tonight, they’ll also be providing a solution in the form of a hefty pay cheque for Carl Craig, Ricardo Villalobos and...
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DJs Playing Badly: 2nd September 2022
Welcome to another installment of our usual weekly column, DJs Playing Badly. Every single Friday, we showcase an example of a DJ set going horribly wrong. Whether it be a crowd simply not responding...
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Get Defected on the line! New Beethoven sampling tech-house…
Cast your mind back to two years ago – we were just coming to the end of the summer of 2020. It was a strange time – the first Covid-19 wave of March and...
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Facebook won’t let A Guy Called Gerald play his own music…
Social media throws up some very strange things. Misinformation about vaccines is permitted to remain online, yet someone who uses an obscenity to describe a politician faces a temporary ban from posting anything. People...
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Even Vice’s own readers don’t agree with the Beatport exposé…
Last week, Annabel Ross – she who was allegedly banned by Carl Craig from reviewing the Movement Detroit festival – came out with another of her desperately long pieces about someone or something doing...
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Juan Atkins is doing another Cybotron show in London…
Since discovering the joyful news that the self-described “originator of techno” Juan Atkins is an Ears To The House reader, our small but loyal team have been trying to work out how to best...
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Two years on, will DJs apologise for gushing Morillo eulogies?
Two years ago, it was the day of Erick Morillo’s death. Under ordinary circumstances, his death would have been seen as a tragic event – an admittedly incredibly talented DJ, producer and businessman taken...
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Revealed: Why Todd Edwards didn’t have 90s Strictly Rhythm release
Back in the 1990s, the world generally knew a lot less about music producers than we do now. There were few ways of getting more information about most – unless you had direct contacts...
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Is DJs looking miserable still a thing? For Nervous Records, yes!
For reasons that Ears To The House has never fully understood, most DJs look utterly miserable in their press shoots. This isn’t a new trend either – even when we look at archive material...
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Wednesday Whisper: 31st August 2022
Which DJ has been walking around with a limp lately? This all started some two weeks ago after a rather unfortunate incident involving the DJ, a promoter, and a female who made her position...
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