Ears To The House

For this week’s edition of Here’s One They Made Earlier, we’re going back to 1996 for a slice of house music from the deeper side of the spectrum. This one is by Graham Knox...

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Free DJ mix with your cannabis? It’s a thing in California

The USA is one of very few countries in the world where individual states can decide on their own drug policies. For example, anyone caught using marijuana in the state of Texas is breaking...

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Derrick May can’t play – and nor can Juan Atkins!

Last year, Ears To The House posed a simple question – can Derrick May play? Whilst his skills as an occasional DJ were not in doubt, no one knew whether the man himself could...

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Did Beatport order press to delete Party Mode articles?

Last week brought about a curious incident in the dance music press. A number of outlets published stories about Beatport Party Mode – a soon to be introduced feature on their DJing app. We...

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The Saturday Recap – 20th August 2022

ETTH Team 20 August 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… Has the world...

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Ireland’s HSE to test drugs at Electric Picnic next month

Let’s get one thing clear here. Ears To The House has no specific opinion on the legalisation of drugs – we believe it should be done on a case by case basis on the...

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Has the scene forgotten already about Derrick May?

Is there anyone amongst the mostly spineless men in dance music’s higher echelons who are capable of taking a stance on anything other than making lots of money? Ears To The House has noticed...

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DJs Playing Badly – 19th August 2022

Last week, we started a brand new column for Fridays here at Ears To The House. It’s called DJs Playing Badly and is dedicated to showcasing the worst of the worst in DJ performances....

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34 years in prison for using Twitter on MDL Beast territory…

Could you possibly imagine a scenario where people could be imprisoned for having a Twitter account? The editor of Ears To The House would be doing porridge alongside his colleagues and huge swathes of...

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Peggy Gou can’t stay out of politics, even if she wants to…

Many of the DJs in the higher echelons of this industry are walking, talking contradictions. On the one hand, they retain many of the ideals that clubbers during the second summer of love in...

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Two-track Villalobos set to mark Fabric’s 23rd birthday!

Fabric London have survived quite a bit to get to where they are today. They’ve had to navigate a pandemic. They’ve had to deal with losing their licence after two drug-related deaths on the...

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Masters At Work are milking the Nuyorican Soul cow again…

There are few people in the dance music world who have been around longer than Louie Vega and Kenny Gonzalez. The two are primarily known as Masters At Work when they DJ together on...

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Acapellas4u return – but why did they vanish to begin with?

DJs looking for acapellas is nothing new – they’ve been around for some four decades now, if not longer. For years, record labels tightly controlled who would be able to obtain these prestigious vocals...

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United Dance Company’s Brian Bout arrested over rape claim