If there’s one thing desperately missing from the dance music world – and goodness knows that there are a few – it’s unflinching honesty. This is not to say that everyone in the industry...
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As Juan Atkins fails to promote new Cybotron release, a reminder there’s STILL a $4000 bounty for anyone who gets footage of the man himself playing – and it’s unclaimed after over a year!
One might imagine that a self-called originator and innovator such as Juan Atkins would be very familiar with the internet. It can be safely stated an innovator would be aware of how the online...
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Did Carl Cox play those illegal raves in the 1980s for exposure? Pete Tong’s DJ Academy is pushing “visibility opportunities”, which Coxy duly promotes – but you’ve got to pay your $447 first!
Peter Michael Tong MBE is a man who has done very well indeed for himself. At the age of 15, he played his first ever public set at a friend’s wedding – and he’s...
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Is this REALLY the best they could do? DJ Pierre and Paul Van Dyk got together to make a track – and all they could conjure up was a mediocre new version of “Acid Trax”…
A few things make us despair of the state of dance music here at Ears To The House. Contrary to what some people seem to think, it is not cynical to ask questions of...
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As twin brothers Michael and Osher Vaknin are found dead at Supernova rave attacked by Hamas last weekend, the questions that war and conflict pose for dance music…
A comedy play from 1716 called The Cobbler of Preston is believed to contain the first known iteration of the words “Tis impossible to be sure of anything but death and taxes”. The phrase...
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What’s next, a jaunt on a submersible? Diplo wants YOU to join him on an expedition to Antartica – and is running a contest where the winner can go for free (if you don’t fancy that, prices start at $16,000!)
The continent of Antarctica is a place where many things are simply not allowed to happen. This is something enshrined in international law by the 1959 Antarctic Treaty – military activity, nuclear explosions, and...
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As human rights abusing Saudi Arabia gives death sentence to a teacher for posting on social media, Jeff Mills’s hopes of state reform after his $100k MDL Beast gig aren’t going very well…
It’s certainly a curious time in the world of politics. The never-ending conflict between Israel and Palestine flared up again over the weekend – resulting in the worst bout of literal blood-letting since the...
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Just why DID Epic Games buy it in the first place? As another Bandcamp Friday gets underway, sources tell us Songtradr is “undecided” on the now tradition’s ultimate fate…
When Epic Games took over Bandcamp back in March 2022 for an undisclosed sum, there were many questions from existing users of the music site. What changes would their new owners implement? Would Bandcamp’s...
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Is there ANYONE straight in this business? Now Detroit’s very own Carl Craig admits to having “borrowed” hardware over the years that he’s never returned…
Dance music’s history is one of those things that grinds our gears – mostly because our predecessors did an utterly appalling job of documenting it. Yes, we all know a lot of people were...
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Vintage synths galore! Danny Tenaglia is auctioning off his old gear – including Juno 106, EMU SP-1200 drum machine, and even a 909 – but why is he selling the equipment he built his career on?
There are some things which, on the face of it, make perfect sense. There are other things which, on the face of it, make little sense until you start to dig into what’s really...
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That’s one collab we didn’t expect to see! As Tony Touch’s “Apaga La Luz” does rather nicely in the charts, just how DID Louie Vega and David Guetta cross paths?
If you go back far enough in music history, one thing you’ll quickly notice is artist collaborations were few and far between. Most artists – being the egotistical types that they are – preferred...
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Strange what three years of silence does to a man! Derrick May has spoken to friends about starting a podcast – and no one can tell whether he’s being serious or not…
It appears that three years of being silent can do strange things to a man – especially when it’s not something that comes naturally to him. But such is the way it’s been for...
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Is this what you got that £750k for? Bastion of underground dance music Resident Advisor published a review for up and coming Aussie artist Kylie Minogue…
Believe it or not, but there was a time when the distinction between underground and mainstream was a thing. Admittedly, it was never as clear-cut as 90s dreamers portayed it – but for example,...
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Lucati surprises us all by declaring “you have to have a very high IQ to understand tech house” – but he might want to refrain from talking about “omnitempo maximalism”…
Dance music becomes a lot easier to understand once you realise one inalienable truth – most of the subgenres within dance were invented by either record shops or bored journalists. Take “tech-house,” for example...
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If you’re going to fail, do it spectacularly! The Guardian tried to do a top 20 of Detroit techno – and they’ve annoyed Juan Atkins, ignored Derrick May, and put a house track at number one…
The mainstream press are a weird lot when it comes to dance music. They’d have you believe that Beyoncé Knowles saved house music from an impending death last year – all by sticking a...
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After former Defected boss Simon Dunmore repeatedly points out his “values” on Lenny Fontana’s True House Stories, one question – just what ARE your values, Mr Saunders?
Just a few short days ago, the now deposed owner and founder of Defected gave a nearly two hour long interview. Speaking to Lenny Fontana’s intriguing True House Stories series, Simon Dunmore spoke about...
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