We’re currently in the middle of that weird period between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. It only lasts a week, but during this time, nothing seems to be quite as it should be...
The music industry cares little about the environment, on the whole. For decades, this was partly because they had no choice. Vinyl purists might have argued the sound was better – but the idea...
One thing you’ll never find on Resident Advisor is any sense of fun. They take themselves very, very seriously indeed – when you’ve hyped yourselves up as some kind of guardians of dance music...
All this week, you’re getting special editions of this series. Partly because it’s a weird time of year and partly because I can stick them all up on the blog ahead of time –...
It might be hard for some people to believe, but Grant Nelson wasn’t always making house and garage. He started out his career in the early 90s making breakbeat and hardcore under the Wishdokta...
Time was that celebrities made the vast majority of their money in their main line of work. For instance, most of the movie stars in Hollywood years ago got their money out of starring...
Are we seeing a real life version of Cinderella being played out in Britain at the moment? If my suspicion is correct, the British public is playing the title role whilst wicked stepsisters Anastasia...
This blog prides itself on saying things the way they are, rather than regurgitating the press release fodder you find elsewhere. And whilst PR stuff is written by people who go out of their...
There are times in life when all you want to hear is an unrelentingly happy record. You just want to let yourself go for a few minutes and forget about everything – you just...
I can still remember the moment back in 2018 when I discovered that Tim Bergling, who produced music under the name Avicii, had died. He rose to fame in the mid-2000s and was mentored...
One thing this blog has had a lot of fun with this year is continuously pointing out the endless misfortune that the usually spot-on Defected are having with one of their products. The label...
Whenever you make a decision to criticise someone for something, you’re effectively pointing the finger at them. Maybe even more than one finger – and when you do this, you must accept there’s a...
Back we go on what is a Bank Holiday Monday here in the UK – and also my birthday, to top it off – to the subject of Alan Oldham. Now, regular readers might...
Because it’s Christmas time, here’s a special Boxing Day edition of the blog’s series looking back at highlights from days gone by. And I’m going to say something which some of you might find...
As bellies around the world struggle on in that thankless task of processing all that food on the dining table yesterday, we enter the bizarre period between Christmas and New Year. And in case...
Part one of this series on Christmas Eve covered what has been happening on Traxsource with garage music during 2021. In this concluding part today, I draw on my personal experiences of making music...