Back until the late 1990s, people were apparently buying vinyl like it was going out of fashion – until the forces of progress made them turn their backs on their beloved wax, demanding that...
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Saturday Recap: because the week is busy| December 30, 2023
That’s another weekend reached at Ears To The House – just like everywhere else. Normally, we’d be taking Saturday off to recharge our batteries, but not today – to compensate for the lack of...
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So where IS Derrick May’s New Year’s Eve gig for 2023? Er, at the Hanah Steakhouse in Detroit alongside Kevin Saunderson – but not Juan Atkins, for some reason…
Historically speaking, one of the most lucrative nights in the DJ calendar was New Year’s Eve. That great clamour amongst many to celebrate the inevitable passage of one year into the next has to...
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Will Donald Trump be releasing one as well? Barack Obama put out a list of his favourite tracks of the year – and John Summit’s “Where You Are” is apparently on it…
Most of what calls itself dance music journalism in the month of December consists of lists. Things like the best DJs of the year, best songs of the year, best clubs, best festivals, and...
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Why DO they continue to praise this man? Back In The House posts yet again about Erick Morillo doing a $300 Paris gig in 1995 – but make no mention of THOSE rape allegations…
Many lofty minded types in the music industry would have you believe that you should separate the artist’s output from everything else they did. A perfect example of this is Chris Brown – a...
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How many more of these stories will there be? Wes Green accuses Steve Poindexter of cheating him out of credits for 1989 release “Computer Madness” – and the story just gets murkier…
We are living in an era where the history of dance music is being questioned like never before – and Ears To The House is proud to be playing its part in the process....
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Nice to see the important topics being discussed! Lithuania’s Somniac One asks her fans for their opinions on DJs’ horizontal activities – and a lot of her industry colleagues are VERY quiet…
There are certain celebrities out there who attract as much attention for their, shall we say, private activities as they do for public ones. Frankly, there wouldn’t be a tabloid press without it –...
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You DJs realise you’d be nothing without singers, right? Defected proudly showcase Jazzy singing “Giving Me” – whilst Belters Only are reduced to background bit players…
If there’s one thing that Ears To The House believes in more than anything else, it’s a sense of fair play. We don’t really care if one person or twenty were involved in the...
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So what’s Tim Westwood doing with himself these days? Er, welcoming in the New Year in Birmingham – and even letting people come to the club for free until 12.30am…
Over the past few years, some DJs have had to grapple with a very different kind of question to the ones they had in mind when starting out in their careers – namely, how...
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Maybe bigger is better in this case! Mitxela creates a USB-C MIDI synth that’s about the size of a raspberry – but even its creator admits the “pointless” device only has one function…
The DJ world is a weird place filled with some even weirder people. And before everyone gets upset with us, we mean some people – even this industry has a couple of vaguely normal...
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Have we had too much to drink this Christmas? Defected are selling earplugs on their site – but one of our colleagues thinks there’s something they’ve missed…
One of the most crucial aspects of the modern business world is presentation. No matter what the product being supplied is, if it’s being showcased to the world in the wrong way, you’re going...
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Have you finished your Christmas turkeys yet? Peggy Gou, Honey Dijon, and Kaytranada are welcoming in the New Year together – courtesy of Apple Music…
Now that we’re in that slightly surreal period of the year between Christmas and New Year’s Day, two things are for certain – those people who are off work probably can’t remember what day...
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Is Bandcamp heading into a spot of bother next year? The United Union claims so – saying effects of 50% of workforce being laid off by Songtradr will soon be felt far and wide…
Back on Christmas Eve, you might recall that Ears To The House published an article about the future of Bandcamp Friday. In short, it’s staying around for a little while longer, with the next...
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And some STILL think it was a hoax! Steve Laviniere spent his fourth Christmas away from home after catching Covid-19 in March 2020 – but a fundraiser this weekend hopes to help…
One of those issues that Ears To The House used to talk about in some detail in our early days was the pandemic. Yes, it was undoubtedly very frustrating to see DJs unable to...
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DJs Playing Badly: where the DJs fail epically | December 26, 2023
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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