Welcome to your special Boxing Day instalment of DJs Playing Badly – our column, which normally appears on Sundays, where we take a look at DJs who have committed some kind of fail. Perhaps...
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But we don’t want to pay out more money! Spotify throw a temper tantrum by pulling out of two French festivals – and all because France has put a streaming levy on the site…
The very pretty, Instagram friendly graphics from 2023’s edition of Spotify Wrapped might have given the impression that all is well at the streaming site – but anyone taking a quick look under the...
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The AI genie isn’t going back in its bottle! A thousand musicians were asked what tools they used the most in music-making – and the winner is… ChatGPT!
Technology has been instrumental in changing music, literally. Such a statement shouldn’t be remotely controversial, yet even uttering these words brings out all the Luddites engaged in a battle against reality. What else explains...
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What’s with the high paying jobs all of a sudden? Resident Advisor’s hiring spree hasn’t stopped over Christmas – and Whitney Wei’s replacement is to be announced soon…
It might be the day after Christmas – known to some as Boxing Day, known to some others as St Stephen’s Day and known otherwise simply as Tuesday – but the dance music world...
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Britain’s government announced a crackdown on drink spiking days before Christmas – then the Home Secretary joked about giving his own wife a date-rape drug…
Christmas is normally a time when not a great deal goes on. Infact, when our editor turned to us a few days ago and told us Ears To The House would be providing a...
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Merry Christmas from Ears To The House!
Well, the big day is finally here. By the time you read this, you’ll have found out whether the red-clothed bearded one put you on the nice or naughty list this year – and...
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DJs Playing Badly: where the DJs fail epically | December 24, 2023
Before everyone at Ears To The House gets off to our beds, soon to find out if we’re on the nice or naughty lists this year, it’s time for your Christmas Eve instalment of...
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Pay $200 less to be ignored than before, part two! Pete Tong’s DJ Academy, with its “visibility opportunities”, is offering places for $279 a time – but only until Christmas Day…
Just what on earth do you get the budding DJ in your life for Christmas nowadays? Sure, you could stick to more standard offerings at this time of year – things like boxes of...
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An early Christmas present for Omar S as he gets early discharge from probation order over drag racing – but he DID get stung for over $1400 in the process…
Detroit’s very own Alexander Omar Smith – usually styled simply as Omar S – hasn’t had exactly a great time of things of late. Barely weeks ago, Smith was involved in a scuffle with...
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They’re not rushing to make their final decision! Songtradr had to choose what to do with Bandcamp Friday – and they’ve confirmed it’s staying around (at least for now)…
If the founders of Bandcamp were hoping that 2023 was going to be their year of stability, their hopes were finally dashed altogether a few months ago – the company had new owners sizing...
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What was that you said about leaving the digital world behind again? DJ Sneak (quietly) embraces digital as six-track The Son Of Chicago EP from the man himself goes on sale in January…
As we begin another Christmas Eve here at Ears To The House, there might be slightly more sweets and alcohol involved than on a normal working day – but what ultimately underpins this site...
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DJs Playing Badly: when the DJ just fails epically | December 23, 2023
Welcome to a special instalment of DJs Playing Badly – our column where we we take a look at DJs who have committed some kind of fail. You’ll normally find this column on Sundays...
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Not even Santa can manage THAT Christmas miracle! Detroit’s Belleville Three are fed-up with questions over techno’s origins story – but things aren’t getting better anytime soon…
If there’s one thing that Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, and Derrick May would love to see under their Christmas trees this year, it would be a well-wrapped box with a pretty bow on it...
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So how DO you create a hit song these days? Oslo University scientists reckon you should play things in yourself, stop quantising everything, and actually put in some work…
Since the beginning of time, music producers have asked one particular question over all others – what does it take to create a song that’s going to be a hit? Let’s face facts –...
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Let’s not show this to our editor! Simon Dunmore looks back fondly at The Police remixes that he commissioned in 1995 – dismissed by a music magazine as a “steaming pile of s***e”…
So what has Simon Dunmore been doing with himself over the past year and a half? Since handing over the reigns of Defected to Wez Saunders during the summer of 2022, and leaving entirely...
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Is this goodbye from Danny Tenaglia to the music business? As DJ Tennis goes to collect an Oberheim DMX after recent auction, rumours grow about what he plans for the future…
For better or for worse, this has been a life transforming year for Danny Tenaglia. The Brooklyn based DJ, producer, and musician faced a cancer scare, then subsequently made the decision to auction off...
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