It was a hard sight to avoid if you were browsing on social media last night. Images of lengthy queues to get into nightclubs, which are now open in England again for the first...
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Want to learn how to make music? The Detroit Electronic Music Conference takes place next week FREE and online – and I know a local man who could benefit…
Starting from next Tuesday 27th July and running all the way until Friday 30th July is the Detroit Electronic Music Conference online event. Amongst other things being held are tutorials for those who want...
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Are festival goers more sensible than they’re given credit for? London’s Gala Festival demands negative test or vaccine proof to get in – and the reaction is surprisingly positive!
Anti-vaxxers would have you believe that they’re great in number and even greater in power. Which largely shows you in itself how utterly incapable they are of handling facts – if their numbers are...
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Paul Johnson posts distressing video from his hospital bed after he’s admitted to hospital with a serious case of Covid-19
I’m sorry to have to report the news that Paul Johnson – he of “She Got Me On”, “Get Get Down, “I’m Alone Until You Show Me” and heaps of others fame – has...
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When people complain DJ polls are full of white guys patting each other’s backs, what’s the answer? If you’re Bembe DJ Awards, you create a list full of non-white guys patting each other’s backs instead!
Over the years, the DJ Mag Top 100 poll has become dance music’s favourite piñata, and the accusations against it have varied over time. The current favourite is that the poll is colonialist and...
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So, what WILL the promoter who told Scott Diaz he was too fat make of him now – and the even bigger question: will they have the barefaced cheek to approach him again?
When this blog said it would deal with the weighty issues of the day, this is certainly not what I had in mind. A photograph of UK house and garage don Scott Diaz has...
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Do as I say, not as I do! Now Derrick May believes “black men should share their wealth with their brothers”… but have a guess who isn’t dishing out any of his own money?
Apologies for the slowdown in Derrick May posts of late. Some of the things being sent to me now are so utterly ridiculous that I have to do some extra homework to verify them...
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As Carl Cox comes back to a less than rapturous welcome to the UK, do the critics have a point – or are they just being See You Next Tuesdays?
The Mornington Peninsula is an area to the south of Melbourne in Australia. It’s well known for its natural attractions such as its many beaches. There are also many fine wineries to be explored....
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“Simon hasn’t been this cheerful in years!”: things are looking up for Defected – but what on earth is a new era music company?
I’m receiving word this weekend that things are on the up at Defected right now. My source tells me “there’s real optimism in the air for the first time in a while. Croatia looks...
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Normal okay-ish duties resume for Danny Rampling as gigs are in the diary once more – but is he ditching his Covid posts from next Monday too?
This blog never features anything particularly serious on a Saturday night – save it for Sundays. So let’s go back to a question that I asked all the way back on Monday. What will...
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Thank goodness we’re not in the 90s anymore! Unearthed interview from 1999 has Claire and Mike of Manumission asked a very, ahem, personal question…
These days, interviews held by the press with DJs, artists and so forth are a very complicated affair. Agents ensure that only favourable questions are asked, and often place restrictions on what journalists are...
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The Saturday Recap – 17th July 2021
Welcome to the weekend! Your Six On Saturday is having the week off, but there’s plenty of content coming up later to keep you amused. Let’s start with a recap of what’s been on...
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Has anyone checked in on Carl Cox’s tour manager lately? A reminder of Tour Managers Not Touring, the movement Cox, Dubfire, Joseph Capriati et al would rather forget…
This blog is always happy to remind rich DJs and the like of things they’d rather forget. It’s with this in mind that I mention the defunct, short-lived Tour Managers Not Touring movement. Born...
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Make music all your life and earn a pittance through Spotify, or sign a $25million deal for 35 minutes work? With rules like that, artists should designate their tracks as podcasts!
Daniel Ek infamously said last summer that if artists and labels wanted to be paid more money by Spotify, they should make more music. He particularly took aim at artists who only release an...
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As it’s revealed 66% of US music streaming is old material rather than new – does that mean my brand of “cheap house” has a bright future ahead for it?
Fresh from the revelation yesterday that I currently have a troll whose decided it wants to bore me to death, I noticed with interest the revelation that 66% of all audio streaming in the...
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EXIT Festival took place last weekend with a reported 180k turnout – but was it an event to be “united as one”, or simply a risk too far?
So last weekend, a huge festival went ahead. Some 180,000 people, it’s been reported, were at the EXIT Festival in Serbia. The dance music press are reporting on the event in much the same...
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