This week, our three choices are on the harder side of house music history. We’re starting with this one from Untidy Dubs, an alias of British producer Paul Janes. This was his rework of...
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Here’s Three They Made Earlier: 13th March 2023
To begin this week’s installment of Here’s Three They Made Earlier, we thought we’d go back to 2022. Yes, the year just gone by, remembered mostly for the start of a recession we’re still...
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Solardo and Idris Elba release collab called “Big Talk” – and it’s as awful and cringey as we expected it to be…
Where on earth can you go these days to get an honest critique of dance music? The nineties had dance music magazines with reviews of the latest vinyl in each issue – some of...
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Coming out of retirement already, Simon? Former Defected boss said he was leaving the DJing world – but he’s back for a Garage City special…
It was at the beginning of January 2022 that Simon Dunmore made an interesting post on Instagram – which turned out to be even more significant than Ears To The House believed at the...
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Is Mixmag EVER bringing back its print edition? Publication was “paused” in April 2020 and still hasn’t resumed 1069 days later…
At what point does a pause becoming something more than that? We only pose the question because in April 2020, Mixmag announced they were temporarily pausing the publication of their print magazine. This was...
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So how’s Danny Rampling keeping up with the cool kids? Er, by doing a festival stuffed full of names from the 90s…
The dance music press would have you believe there was a time when Danny Rampling was cool. They’d have you believe he was a legend and a pioneer – when little of this is...
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It’s International Women’s Day – but you wouldn’t know it from the silence of much of the scene…
The dance music scene is a terribly disjointed place, isn’t it? On the one hand, you have a media which goes out of its way to follow every left-wing trend imaginable – the idea...
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Wednesday Whisper: 8th March 2023
Which DJ recently had to be persuaded to abandon a particularly toe-curling idea he’d had at a photoshoot? The DJ in question told friends towards the end of last year that his press pictures...
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What the hell has gone wrong with techno? Marco Carola is now playing “I Feel For You” by Bob Sinclar in his sets – and other abominations…
Because some of us at Ears To The House have been around for a while, allow us to share an insight with you. Techno was originally meant to be a way of sticking two...
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Resident Advisor continues their hiring spree of “city managers” – but what on earth do they do all day?
Say what you like about Resident Advisor – and goodness knows we like to – but they certainly know how to survive. Yes, they might well have required cash from British taxpayers and German...
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Elliot Eastwick expects YOU to pay for his “World Famous Hot Shots” dream – but he wasn’t always so keen on fundraisers…
Elliot Eastwick is, if nothing else, a man who can continually reinvent himself with the times. Back in the day, he sometimes filled in as a DJ at Manchester’s legendary Haçienda nightclub if someone...
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As Danny Tenaglia turns 62 today, Ears To The House celebrates the man – and let’s not forget his massive trunk!
Contrary to what some people might think, we’re mostly fans of Danny Tenaglia at Ears To The House. Yes, he might well have a reputation as being something of a diva – though he’s...
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Derrick May’s Croatia gig at Future Scope? It’s just the start of his “European Coming Back Tour” – the delusion is off the scale with this one!
As Ears To The House reported last week, Derrick May is due to appear at Croatia’s Future Scope festival on May 12th alongside Jeff Mills. We’re hoping to have a more detailed report on...
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Here’s Three They Made Earlier: 6th March 2023
This week’s first track is the perfect example of the Wild Pitch sound in the 1990s, which DJ Pierre played a crucial role in developing. The template was usually straightforward enough – layer lots...
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Louie Vega’s carbon footprint revealed as he completes 3 MILLION miles in the air with United Airlines – and that’s not all…
Here’s a story you aren’t going to see getting any coverage from the likes of Mixmag today – or any day. Because despite the fact it goes against many of their deeply held right-on...
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Brooklyn’s Teksupport had Peggy Gou play at the weekend – but even a $75k pay cheque couldn’t make for a decent atmosphere…
Peggy Gou is one of those people in dance music that Ears To The House can’t fully work out. On the one hand, we just don’t think she lives up to the hype that...
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