It’s not often that we end up choosing three tracks from the same year for our regular Monday night column, but such is how it turned out this week. All of what you’re about...
Derrick May isn’t a man with much to say these days. Well, not in public, anyway – although he remains as vocal as ever in private. Several Detroit sources have told Ears To The...
Which DJ agency has recently started demanding its clients only give interviews to pre-selected publications? A few weeks ago, a publication – and no, it wasn’t Ears To The House, before you ask –...
Do you remember Frankie Knuckles? We imagine most of you reading this do – if you aren’t, he’s basically the reason we’re writing this right now. He started his career as a DJ in...
Since Ears To The House made its return to the airwaves a few weeks ago, I’ve been thinking carefully about our output. Whilst we were away over the Christmas and New Year period, I...
Which DJ got so drunk and out of it that he was spotted on the streets of London shouting recently? The DJ in question had flown in from the States to appear at a...
Time now for a special treat on this Tuesday evening – a Valentine’s Day edition of Here’s Three They Made Earlier. We’re starting this rather loved-up edition with a 2007 release from the notorious...
Monday can be a bit of a depressing bump back to reality sometimes. So to help you either unwind at the end or to just get through it – depending on your time of...
Defected might well like to talk about itself as the New Era Music Company – a phrase which mysteriously died on its backside the moment Simon Dunmore was evicted from his CEO post. But...
One thing which Ears To The House hasn’t covered in quite as much detail as we probably should have done was the question over how much music did Derrick May actually produce back in...
Regular readers of Ears To The House might have noticed us commenting a few times lately on how the dance music festival world’s strategy for 2023 seems to be to go big or go...
Sometimes at Ears To The House, we wonder if there really are dark clouds on the horizon in the economy. Because it seems no matter how dire any economic forecast is, or how bad...
As regular readers of Ears To The House will have gathered, a fair number of higher echelon DJs are privately supporting Derrick May. Not because they think he’s the victim of a racist conspiracy...
It may only be the first days of February with winter not even out of the way, but Ears To The House is already getting a sense of the way 2023 is going to...
Last week, Ears To The House covered a rumour circulating within the scene of a label which has reportedly been getting up to no good on the remix front. Well, the inbox has had...
Before you start reading this article, it’s strongly advised you go and get a coffee ready. Make it a really strong one. Blow your head off strong, ideally. And if a Wednesday morning caffeine...