As it’s been a bit of a heavy week of content so far at Ears To The House – we can only report what’s happening, you know – we thought we’d have a look...
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Is this just the start of a slippery slope? Spotify confirms that anyone getting less than 1000 streams for a track from next year won’t be getting paid for it…
Ever since Spotify was founded back in 2006, it has become the most curious of beasts. Despite becoming the website which, in many ways, saved the majors from a very bleak future as everything...
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Dance music’s habit of creating odd bedfellows continues – as Peggy Gou announces her new single “I Believe In Love Again”, featuring none other than Lenny Kraviz…
Historically speaking, most artists haven’t been able to work with one another – and it’s not even their massive egos that are to blame. Often, it was factors like being signed to opposing record...
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“A lot of Detroit OGs are suspect!”: Ash Lauryn sees the light and admits she’s “given up idolising” her peers after Omar S assault claim – but wasn’t she happy to ride on their coat tails for years?
Even by the normally malleable standards of the dance music world, this week is proving to be one of the weirdest in a while – and it’s only Wednesday. Because whilst Detroit’s latest bout...
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Do they STILL have to plug music in this way? There’s a hard techno playlist on Spotify – and we still don’t know how the hell this cover photo got approved…
So how do you promote music in this day and age? No one seems to know the right answers to this question anymore – and Ears To The House certainly can’t profess any specific...
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Do we really have to be the ones to point this out? Kenny Carpenter posts an old photo with Don Welch from the mid-90s at Sound Factory NYC – and says “we were still playing vinyl”…
Back when house music was starting to become a thing, there was no such thing as a career in it. You did what you did, and you might have some successes – or you...
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Lots do it, yet no one confesses it shocker! 52% of musicians would refuse to admit they used AI in music making, according to a study – just like with sample packs…
Dance music producers are a curious bunch, aren’t they? Many would have you believe that they make their records in the finest of studios using the best equipment money can buy, and that everything...
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London’s Ministry of Sound take Omar S off their lineup for Saturday’s It’s All Gone South – and a well-placed source confirms it’s all because of what happened last weekend..
Yesterday, Ears To The House took a little time to try and figure out what happened in Detroit between producers Omar S and Supercoolwicked at the Paramita Sound record shop and bar over the...
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It’s one way to make sure you get read! Nina Kraviz received a letter from an audience member at her Halloween show at Italy’s Monsterland – and its contents are quite touching…
In the year 2023, what’s the best way to make sure someone actually reads what you send them? Certainly not social media – whether they see it or not depends entirely on a mysterious,...
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Detroit’s Omar S accused of smashing a glass over singer Supercoolwicked’s head in alleged $10k royalties dispute – but he claims that SHE threw the first punch…
Yesterday afternoon, a story started circulating on social media concerning two producers from Detroit – Omar S and Supercoolwicked. Inevitably, Ears To The House found out about it – although it wasn’t from any...
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So is this why Sondela was shown the door? Defected launches a new afro-house label called Mahaba, just months after waving goodbye to its last one…
Defected is a company that devotes its existence to becoming larger, not smaller. This was one thing that stayed constant throughout the Simon Dunmore years, and Wez Saunders shows no sign of changing that...
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“Everything he touches turns to s*** right now!”: no sign of Detroit techno being represented at the city’s Thanksgiving parade – after last year’s debacle with Derrick May put off several sponsors…
There was a time, for an all too long time, that Derrick May could apparently do no wrong. He was loved and adored by his fans, respected by the dance music press, and practically...
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After PBS takes down a programme about Detroit techno featuring Derrick May, hardly anyone in the city has a good word to say – and the other two members of the Belleville Three aren’t happy either!
It was supposed to be Derrick May’s latest opportunity at redeeming himself. Following the Derrick May European Coming Back Tour earlier in the year, the next plan was to appear on the TV –...
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House music’s roots within the gay community are hardly a secret – but unearthed footage from the 1950s suggests the link goes back further than first thought…
A lot of parts of dance music’s history are being contested right now – things like literal whitewashing of the past and the Belleville Three being exposed as a marketing myth come to mind...
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Can’t he just go outside and tape the weather? David Morales wanted the sound of rain on his next track and recorded it in his studio – whilst proudly holding his massive rain stick…
Back on Friday, David Morales retreated to one of his favourite places in the world. A place of solitude where the 61-year-old DJ and producer can express himself freely. We are, of course, talking...
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It’s like the McDonald’s budget menu! Defected unveil their offering for shorter four dates in Croatia in 2024 – and the names are as stale as a three-day old Big Mac…
When Wez Saunders made the decision to raise the capital to buy the Defected empire of companies in 2022, questions inevitably arose as to what he wanted to do with it. No one spends...
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