Queen Elizabeth II has now been the ruling monstch since 1952 in the United Kingdom and numerous other countries around the world – yet over 70 years, we have learnt almost nothing about her...
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Plague rave favourite Sven Väth is appearing at Hyte in New York tomorrow – but at a time scientists suspect Omicron is a vaccine dodger, is the one jab requirement REALLY the most sensible choice?
We’re currently in the middle of that weird period between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. It only lasts a week, but during this time, nothing seems to be quite as it should be...
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As Ed Sheeran reveals he offsets carbon emissions from his tours by planting lots and lots of trees, when will dance music’s biggest polluters step up to fix the damage they’re doing to the planet?
The music industry cares little about the environment, on the whole. For decades, this was partly because they had no choice. Vinyl purists might have argued the sound was better – but the idea...
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Wearing your fart on your sleeve? Resident Advisor get wind of a toot of a mix by a DJ with a very whiffy name – and fail to let rip with even a single pun!
One thing you’ll never find on Resident Advisor is any sense of fun. They take themselves very, very seriously indeed – when you’ve hyped yourselves up as some kind of guardians of dance music...
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: possibly the funkiest Kid Crème moment there ever was – shaking it down at night!
All this week, you’re getting special editions of this series. Partly because it’s a weird time of year and partly because I can stick them all up on the blog ahead of time –...
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Is there any artist Grant Nelson DIDN’T remix during the 1990s? According to the man himself, Janet Jackson isn’t on the lengthy list – now read the story of how this myth came about…
It might be hard for some people to believe, but Grant Nelson wasn’t always making house and garage. He started out his career in the early 90s making breakbeat and hardcore under the Wishdokta...
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€87 for Judge Jules, €237 for deadmau5 and €66 for Paul Oakenfold to wish your best friend a happy birthday – inside the latest money-spinner for DJs who despite Covid still have big bills to pay…
Time was that celebrities made the vast majority of their money in their main line of work. For instance, most of the movie stars in Hollywood years ago got their money out of starring...
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Boris Johnson become the Fairy Godmother as he leaves English nightclubs open for New Year’s Eve – but how did Anastasia and Drizella come to such a different verdict?
Are we seeing a real life version of Cinderella being played out in Britain at the moment? If my suspicion is correct, the British public is playing the title role whilst wicked stepsisters Anastasia...
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I’m just surprised it didn’t happen earlier! Danny Rampling blocks this blog’s Instagram page, but was it a post about putting down the knife and fork which caused him to press the button?
This blog prides itself on saying things the way they are, rather than regurgitating the press release fodder you find elsewhere. And whilst PR stuff is written by people who go out of their...
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: shake shake, just shake shake! Add on an insatiable piano and it’s an invitation you’d struggle to turn down…
There are times in life when all you want to hear is an unrelentingly happy record. You just want to let yourself go for a few minutes and forget about everything – you just...
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Avicii’s father calls for artists to receive more mental health support – but in an industry where funds are set up to help them pay their winter bills, will the heartless majors take any notice?
I can still remember the moment back in 2018 when I discovered that Tim Bergling, who produced music under the name Avicii, had died. He rose to fame in the mid-2000s and was mentored...
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Are they cursed? The intriguing theory by an Amateur’s House reader on why Defected STILL can’t get rid of their limited edition Todd Edwards “Jesus Loves UK Garage” shirts…
One thing this blog has had a lot of fun with this year is continuously pointing out the endless misfortune that the usually spot-on Defected are having with one of their products. The label...
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Does it take one to know one? Brian Eno dismisses artists who use NFTs as “little capitalist arseholes” whilst flogging a fancy LED turntable – and if you have to ask for the price, you probably can’t afford it!
Whenever you make a decision to criticise someone for something, you’re effectively pointing the finger at them. Maybe even more than one finger – and when you do this, you must accept there’s a...
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“It’s about the work, it’s about the new tracks, it’s about the new stuff” says Alan Oldham in a podcast for Finish More Music – so could he have a word with fellow Detroit DJs such as Derrick May who continue to trade on decade old glories?
Back we go on what is a Bank Holiday Monday here in the UK – and also my birthday, to top it off – to the subject of Alan Oldham. Now, regular readers might...
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: a Deep Dish track from 1994 which was bettered by a remix ten years later? This one could be controversial…
Because it’s Christmas time, here’s a special Boxing Day edition of the blog’s series looking back at highlights from days gone by. And I’m going to say something which some of you might find...
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Takeaway and a few drinks at home: the limited options facing increasing numbers of people in Europe on New Year’s Eve as nightclubs shut up shop – but won’t this just lead to more house parties?
As bellies around the world struggle on in that thankless task of processing all that food on the dining table yesterday, we enter the bizarre period between Christmas and New Year. And in case...
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