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You can’t just keep rinsing the 80s and 90s forever! As streaming’s tentacles continue to influence the way people listen to music, where ARE the classics of tomorrow going to come from?

ETTH Team 7 January 2024

You know things are getting desperate when the establishment media start asking the big questions. And no, we’re not talking about the dance music press – if the questions aren’t about drugs or about...

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It WAS a nice little earner for you, though! Mr C says selling his plush LA house “broke him” in his resolutions for 2024 and vows to “be kinder to myself” – but will the ratty musician extend that to others?

ETTH Team 7 January 2024

It doesn’t take much to upset Richard West, the man who calls himself Mr C. The man himself has managed to sustain a career in dance music since its early days – an impressive...

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“Neither something sought nor encouraged!”: Lucozade’s less than charming response in unearthed letter to British raver who suggested they embrace Britain’s acid house scene in the 1980s…

ETTH Team 7 January 2024

Anyone who spends some time exploring history will soon encounter the phenomenon of people discovering a new use for something that’s been around for quite a while. Often, the original company or persons involved...

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Did Defected REALLY try to find a venue in Antarctica? As label mysteriously goes silent on Instagram, Wez Saunders makes suspect claim in end of year address – so we looked at whether it could actually be done…

ETTH Team 5 January 2024

Since the beginning of the year, Defected has done something rather unusual – it’s gone quiet. Regular Ears To The House readers might have noticed that the label appears to have deleted everything on...

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Movement tickets won’t sell themselves, you know! Paxahau fire up Detroit propaganda machine with reference to “originator” Juan Atkins – ready for their flagship event later this year…

ETTH Team 4 January 2024

If there’s one thing that dance music has continued to cling onto like a bad smell over the years, it’s mythology. Because there’s nothing quite like historical stories that you suspect are mostly untrue...

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Jesse Saunders proudly proclaims house music will be 40 years old this month with the anniversary of his “On And On” release – but do his grandiose claims stand up to scrutiny?

ETTH Team 3 January 2024

Many don’t like to face up to this fact, but dance music has been around now for a long time – with the first house tracks being released almost four decades ago. Infact, one...

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Turns out even being an EDM superstar can still get you rejected! David Guetta reveals that Katy Perry turned down the chance to appear on 2011 hit “Titanium”…

ETTH Team 2 January 2024

It’s safe to say that David Guetta is one of those names that has a Marmite effect on people. They typically either think he’s the best thing to come out of dance music in...

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The Defected backed Faith fanzine doesn’t confront the big issues facing dance music, nor ask any difficult questions in its puff piece interviews – so what IS the point of it?

ETTH Team 2 January 2024

Today is the first regular day of 2024 for most of the UK – with the exception of Scotland, who get another bank holiday to enjoy. It’s the day when many in the dance...

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Just don’t stick one of her voicemails on your track! As Honey Dijon continues cosying up to Madonna, a cautionary tale from an era when Junior Vasquez used to do the same thing…

ETTH Team 31 December 2023

And there was us thinking that we might be able to get through the rest of 2023 without writing another article about Honey Dijon – but our editor obviously has other ideas. Fresh from...

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Not exactly the renaissance of underground dance music, then! Britain’s vinyl sales continued to rise in 2023 – with Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran the best sellers…

ETTH Team 30 December 2023

Back until the late 1990s, people were apparently buying vinyl like it was going out of fashion – until the forces of progress made them turn their backs on their beloved wax, demanding that...

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So where IS Derrick May’s New Year’s Eve gig for 2023? Er, at the Hanah Steakhouse in Detroit alongside Kevin Saunderson – but not Juan Atkins, for some reason…

ETTH Team 29 December 2023

Historically speaking, one of the most lucrative nights in the DJ calendar was New Year’s Eve. That great clamour amongst many to celebrate the inevitable passage of one year into the next has to...

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Will Donald Trump be releasing one as well? Barack Obama put out a list of his favourite tracks of the year – and John Summit’s “Where You Are” is apparently on it…

ETTH Team 29 December 2023

Most of what calls itself dance music journalism in the month of December consists of lists. Things like the best DJs of the year, best songs of the year, best clubs, best festivals, and...

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How many more of these stories will there be? Wes Green accuses Steve Poindexter of cheating him out of credits for 1989 release “Computer Madness” – and the story just gets murkier…

ETTH Team 28 December 2023

We are living in an era where the history of dance music is being questioned like never before – and Ears To The House is proud to be playing its part in the process....

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Nice to see the important topics being discussed! Lithuania’s Somniac One asks her fans for their opinions on DJs’ horizontal activities – and a lot of her industry colleagues are VERY quiet…

ETTH Team 28 December 2023

There are certain celebrities out there who attract as much attention for their, shall we say, private activities as they do for public ones. Frankly, there wouldn’t be a tabloid press without it –...

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You DJs realise you’d be nothing without singers, right? Defected proudly showcase Jazzy singing “Giving Me” – whilst Belters Only are reduced to background bit players…

ETTH Team 28 December 2023

If there’s one thing that Ears To The House believes in more than anything else, it’s a sense of fair play. We don’t really care if one person or twenty were involved in the...