I got an interesting email in the inbox yesterday. It’s from a friend of mine who’s been catching up on the contents of this fine blog. He had one thing to say that particularly...
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Is Derrick May appearing at 51st State Festival? The mystery is solved!
A few weeks ago, I posed a question. Was Derrick May going to appear at 51st State Festival this year? I asked the question because the replies coming from the festival themselves were vague...
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EXCLUSIVE: Daft Punk in rumoured collab with Amateur At Play?
The above, of course, is complete bollocks. I just made it up. Right now. But it’ll get me lots of readers wondering who the hell I am, why they’d be collaborating with a relative...
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Parklife – rewarding plague rave DJs one step at a time
Here is the lineup for the Parklife festival, due to take place in Manchester later this year. As you can see in the flyer, they’ve obviously focused on having a smaller number of artists...
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Amateur At Play & Morris Revy – Perfect Vacation (OUT NOW!)
133bpm UK garage style! But of course, if that isn’t your thing, nice soulful house! Out now on Traxsource. Never let it be said Amateur At Play doesn’t give you variety…...
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When Less is More
I’ve seen this graphic doing the rounds on social media. The caption, when translated into English, reads “They are still the best, music is eternal”. Just one suggestion, though. That’s better!...
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Sterling Void and remix version 4258 of “It’s Alright”
It’s been a while since we had a post about Sterling Void, hasn’t it? They practically write themselves! So let’s see what he’s been up to. As I’ve commented before, Sterling Covid, whose depressing...
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Is there profit in copyright infringement for the stores?
Mr Simon Dunmore of Defected Records is getting a fairly equal combination of praise and opprobrium at the moment – I’ve expressed my thoughts on this here and here. I’m not going to add...
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It’s chest not cricket
I’m glad I’m a man sometimes. I don’t have to put up with half the stick that women get. No one ever makes comments about my appearance whenever I post about my latest release....
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Derrick May does a Consignia!
For the sake of my own sanity, I’ve decided I’m going to be a little bit more selective with my posts on everyone’s favourite Detroit fake. Be in no doubt that there will be...
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Is Simon’s logic on old tunes defected?
On Saturday night, I wrote about Mr Simon Dunmore of Defected Records. He was complaining that the Top 3 on Traxsource all being remixes of decades old records was symptomatic of a problem within...
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Should Resident Advisor hand back their £750k bailout?
This is the question that I ask of Resident Advisor, the British taxpayer funded and plague rave profiteering outfit. I do not ask such a question lightly, so allow me to explain. Last October,...
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OnlyFans can help your career AND you can keep your clothes on!
It appears that OnlyFans isn’t just for people who want to post pictures of themselves in the nude and be paid by people who want to view aforementioned photos. It turns out there are...
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Shouldn’t someone else write about this?
I find myself asking sometimes just why I’ve started writing about Derrick May. This is not a question I ask out of some pitiful “why me” position. I ask it because I’m not exactly...
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Nostalgia isn’t all it’s cracked up to be (again)
The name Simon Dunmore comes up quite a few times when you search this blog. He’s mentioned a few times both in a critical and favourable manner – hardly surprising for a man with...
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The Six On Saturday (That Aren’t From Me!) – 20th March 2021
On the week that it was revealed people were changing their names to that of fish to get free sushi, I go through the tunes that have positively less fishiness going on! Cafe 432...
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