A while ago now, your favourite blog spoke about Beatport Link. There appears to be money to be made in streaming – certainly not for the artists, but plenty for the labels and plenty...
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$200 for Genoese focaccia, lamb tacos and panna cotta on a menu specially curated by DJ Tennis, but no set from the man himself due to “scheduling conflicts” – the VERY bizarre story of a New Year’s Eve in the Big Apple…
If ever a story showed just how absurd the DJ world sometimes gets, this one surely must be it. ReSolute in New York were holding an event on New Year’s Eve which promised a...
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So how many plague raves DID you hold at Downing Street, Mr Johnson? The question as it emerges “bring your own booze” parties took place as far back as May 2020…
Most people who know anything about the political past of Boris Johnson had extremely low expectations when he became Britain’s Prime Minister in 2019. But even they are becoming increasingly shocked at just how...
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It’s official: Electronic Beats are without a deputy as Caroline Whiteley announces she’s jumping ship – just as this blog said two weeks ago – so will her old friend Whitney Wei have a job lined up?
Time now for a follow-up to a story which this blog originally published on December 30th. It was about the impending resignation of Caroline Whiteley from Electronic Beats and her friend Whitney Wei failing...
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People really shouldn’t bereave everything they read online! Not the best start to the week for Carl Craig after a website post falsely claiming he’s died goes viral – and a few people fell for it…
It was the US President Franklin Roosevelt’s secretary of state Cordell Hull who said “A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on”. He was...
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And to think someone got paid to write this! Billboard publish a piece about pop singer Billie Eilish’s hair – so what inspiration could the dance music press take from this article?
As someone who runs a blog with an average of five posts per weekday – slightly less on weekends – I do understand the pressure that people are under to keep the fresh content...
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Who added the L in clock to this one? Clock Stock festival takes place in June – but you’d be hard pressed (if you can read it with that hideous font!) to find anyone who isn’t male and white on the bill…
If we’re now meant to be living in an age where we’re all inclusive and try our best to make everyone feel welcome, regardless of who or what they are, someone clearly forgot to...
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Another one who can’t see the wood for the trees! Jeff Mills complains about “silence” from “music fans” – in a sleep-inducing interview where the questions are longer than his answers…
A common theme this blog frequently comes back to is the fact many of the bigger DJs live on another planet. Whilst there are honourable exceptions who remain humble and untainted by fame, it...
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Here’s One They Made Earlier: the time underrated Charles Dockins bumped into mysterious remix duo London Connection…
I have a confession to make. Around 1997 and 1998, there was a lot of garage house kind of music that I simply didn’t appreciate. I’m not quite sure why – perhaps it just...
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So you wonder why I gave up making music? In a climate where 82% of all music streamed in the USA is now old music, new stuff has never found it so tough to break through…
Last summer, I published an article commenting on the fact 66% of all audio streaming in the USA consisted of so-called catalogue material. And just to be absolutely clear here, catalogue material is anything...
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If you have to ask, you definitely can’t afford it! So how much DID those Brian Eno – he who dismisses NFT users as “little capitalist arseholes” – multi-colour turntables sell for in the end?
Recently, I had a look at my readership statistics over the past few weeks. I was curious to know whether this blog suffered any kind of drop in the numbers over the Christmas and...
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Not the start Daniel Ek wanted to his week! Fresh from major labels probe, indy label body Impala now wants UK’s anti-competition body to take a closer look at Spotify’s much maligned Discovery Mode…
This blog welcomes the prospect of Daniel Ek not having a particularly good start to the week. And it looks like he’s about to get that. A few months ago, a parliamentary committee in...
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Told you this blog gets read in high places! Carl Craig gets juvenile with “haters gonna hate” claim after post on his new course – and still no reply on why he continues to back a loser like Derrick May…
The beauty of the internet is you never quite know who might be reading what you write. I learnt this many years ago in a previous blogging life when the subject of an article...
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Now what’s going on here, then? Defected promote Damon C Scott singing “Look Right Through” on their social media platforms – yet he claims he’s never earned a single penny from the track…
Early last summer, your favourite blog ran a story all about comments made on social media by Damon C Scott. He was the man who sung on Morgan Geist’s Storm Queen project – “Look...
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What a carnival! Departure postpone festival start by 24 hours AFTER everyone’s arrived – and cancel entirely the next day due to Mexico changing their Covid regulations…
As far as farces go, this one is quite the whopper. Last September, Departure announced they were holding an event in Mexico’s Playa Del Carmen in January – and a big event it would...
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A basic income pilot is due to start in Ireland later this year, and is likely to be set at €325 for cash-strapped artists – just don’t tell Danny Rampling about it…
It’s lucky that Danny Rampling was born in London rather than Dublin. Had he been, he would probably have burst a blood vessel after he’d read what I’m about to write. Allow me to...
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