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Is Wez Saunders a fan of recycling? Defected have been getting into the garage house scene – by getting Crackazat and Sean McCabe remix stuff from the old Sub-Urban catalogue they own…

There are a truly endless number of dance music sub-genres in existence. So many, in fact, that Ears To The House can’t help but wonder if some of them are just made up –...
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Consistency isn’t a strong point here! DJ Pierre criticises those who didn’t learn their craft on a set of Technics SL-1200s – but also points out he doesn’t miss carrying around big boxes full of vinyl…

Every generation seems to be convinced that the way they learned to do things was the best one – and that most methods that followed afterwards were inevitably inferior. Cue the truly wearisome debate...
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Just how many founding fathers DOES Detroit techno have? Ahead of their next party on Friday night, Detroit Beatdown add Eddie Fowlkes’s name to the already crowded list of originators…

How many founding fathers is too many? It depends on who you ask and how widely you define “founding fathers”. For example, historian Richard Morris says that there are seven founding fathers to what’s...
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They’ve got you right over a barrel! Threaten Spotify with having to pay artists more money, and they’ll just leave your country – as Uruguay are about to find out…

History is littered with examples of people and institutions being corrupted by power. Quite simply, if you hand over all the power to someone, they’re probably going to be tempted to abuse it –...
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Isn’t that one reason why you get paid the big money? David Morales complains of being tired just before starting a 10-houe set at Stereo Montreal at the weekend…

Back in the early days of Ears To The House, we used to run an occasional column called Things That Dance People Think About. Long-winded name aside, these articles were mostly about the complaints...
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“The strongest person we’ve ever known”: Annabel Ross pays tribute as her mother Heather dies “with her three daughters by her side” at the age of 72

The whole team at Ears To The House would like to share our deepest sympathies with Annabel Ross on this Tuesday afternoon after she revealed that her mother had lost her eight-year long battle...
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So what’s the nightlife like in Israel at the moment? Quiet, to no one’s surprise – and apart from Tiësto at Tel Aviv this Friday, there’s little else for the foreseeable future…

Anyone taking even the most cursory glance at the news in recent weeks couldn’t fail to have spotted that things are pretty bad in Gaza at the moment. Israel has been engaged in retaliatory...
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Stuffing his face, puffing on cigars, and don’t even think of asking about THOSE allegations! Former chatterbox Derrick May does his second interview of 2023 – and no prizes for guessing how it went…

If you were a journalist of any kind and wanted to interview Derrick May in the past, you were in luck – as one dance music press source puts it, “Derrick was always willing...
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