Over the years, the DJ Mag Top 100 poll has become dance music’s favourite piñata, and the accusations against it have varied over time. The current favourite is that the poll is colonialist and...
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So, what WILL the promoter who told Scott Diaz he was too fat make of him now – and the even bigger question: will they have the barefaced cheek to approach him again?
When this blog said it would deal with the weighty issues of the day, this is certainly not what I had in mind. A photograph of UK house and garage don Scott Diaz has...
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Do as I say, not as I do! Now Derrick May believes “black men should share their wealth with their brothers”… but have a guess who isn’t dishing out any of his own money?
Apologies for the slowdown in Derrick May posts of late. Some of the things being sent to me now are so utterly ridiculous that I have to do some extra homework to verify them...
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As Carl Cox comes back to a less than rapturous welcome to the UK, do the critics have a point – or are they just being See You Next Tuesdays?
The Mornington Peninsula is an area to the south of Melbourne in Australia. It’s well known for its natural attractions such as its many beaches. There are also many fine wineries to be explored....
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“Simon hasn’t been this cheerful in years!”: things are looking up for Defected – but what on earth is a new era music company?
I’m receiving word this weekend that things are on the up at Defected right now. My source tells me “there’s real optimism in the air for the first time in a while. Croatia looks...
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Normal okay-ish duties resume for Danny Rampling as gigs are in the diary once more – but is he ditching his Covid posts from next Monday too?
This blog never features anything particularly serious on a Saturday night – save it for Sundays. So let’s go back to a question that I asked all the way back on Monday. What will...
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Thank goodness we’re not in the 90s anymore! Unearthed interview from 1999 has Claire and Mike of Manumission asked a very, ahem, personal question…
These days, interviews held by the press with DJs, artists and so forth are a very complicated affair. Agents ensure that only favourable questions are asked, and often place restrictions on what journalists are...
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The Saturday Recap – 17th July 2021
Welcome to the weekend! Your Six On Saturday is having the week off, but there’s plenty of content coming up later to keep you amused. Let’s start with a recap of what’s been on...
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Has anyone checked in on Carl Cox’s tour manager lately? A reminder of Tour Managers Not Touring, the movement Cox, Dubfire, Joseph Capriati et al would rather forget…
This blog is always happy to remind rich DJs and the like of things they’d rather forget. It’s with this in mind that I mention the defunct, short-lived Tour Managers Not Touring movement. Born...
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Make music all your life and earn a pittance through Spotify, or sign a $25million deal for 35 minutes work? With rules like that, artists should designate their tracks as podcasts!
Daniel Ek infamously said last summer that if artists and labels wanted to be paid more money by Spotify, they should make more music. He particularly took aim at artists who only release an...
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As it’s revealed 66% of US music streaming is old material rather than new – does that mean my brand of “cheap house” has a bright future ahead for it?
Fresh from the revelation yesterday that I currently have a troll whose decided it wants to bore me to death, I noticed with interest the revelation that 66% of all audio streaming in the...
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EXIT Festival took place last weekend with a reported 180k turnout – but was it an event to be “united as one”, or simply a risk too far?
So last weekend, a huge festival went ahead. Some 180,000 people, it’s been reported, were at the EXIT Festival in Serbia. The dance music press are reporting on the event in much the same...
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The links between Dominick Fernow of Vatican Shadow and the far-right the dance music press aren’t telling you about – but what will Resident Advisor’s new editor Whitney Wei do?
Update – this article was amended on 17th July to remove an erroneous claim saying Fernow appeared at a benefit concert in 2016. It was actually a collaborator who attended, not Fernow himself. This...
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Ocio de Ibiza suggest that DJs who play illegal parties should be banned from licenced ones – but why can’t the industry do the same against plague rave DJs?
Illegal parties appear to be quite the problem this year in Ibiza. I suspect a lot of this is down to restrictions currently in place on the island – face masks must be worn...
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Is this what’s in store for England in August – part two? Dutch nightclubs are taking legal action against the government after they closed clubs just two WEEKS after reopening
All the way back on Sunday, I wrote about how the Netherlands had to reinstate numerous restrictions at the weekend. One of those was the closure of nightclubs, which had only been allowed to...
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Are Universal, Warner and Sony facing an anti-competition probe? If a UK parliament’s streaming enquiry has its way, major label bosses won’t be sleeping easy!
The Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee have filed their report on streaming, and my goodness – initial impressions are that it doesn’t hold back. 50/50 pay for artists and labels, equitable renumeration, issues...
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