Update – this article was amended on 17th July to remove an erroneous claim saying Fernow appeared at a benefit concert in 2016. It was actually a collaborator who attended, not Fernow himself. This...
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Ocio de Ibiza suggest that DJs who play illegal parties should be banned from licenced ones – but why can’t the industry do the same against plague rave DJs?
Illegal parties appear to be quite the problem this year in Ibiza. I suspect a lot of this is down to restrictions currently in place on the island – face masks must be worn...
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Is this what’s in store for England in August – part two? Dutch nightclubs are taking legal action against the government after they closed clubs just two WEEKS after reopening
All the way back on Sunday, I wrote about how the Netherlands had to reinstate numerous restrictions at the weekend. One of those was the closure of nightclubs, which had only been allowed to...
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Are Universal, Warner and Sony facing an anti-competition probe? If a UK parliament’s streaming enquiry has its way, major label bosses won’t be sleeping easy!
The Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee have filed their report on streaming, and my goodness – initial impressions are that it doesn’t hold back. 50/50 pay for artists and labels, equitable renumeration, issues...
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Evidence – as if any were required – that this blog is growing in popularity: I have a troll, and it thinks I make “cheap house”!
I must be going up in the world. Earlier this week, I wrote about how I’d just found out one of Derrick May’s pals had started following me on Twitter to try and spook...
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And there I was about to say something nice! Yousef makes a plea to “support those who’ve been left without support” – whilst he’s happy to support plague rave favourite Sven Väth…
Yousef – now there’s a name that has this blog divided. On the one hand, he comes across as a pretty reasonable guy. I first came across him in the early 2000s and thought...
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As Swedish House Mafia posters start sprouting up all over major cities around the world – this isn’t the first time they’ve resorted to this trick…
If you’ve been on social media at all this week and follow dance music, it’s entirely possible that you’ve seen pictures like this on your feed. This particular one comes from New York and...
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Wednesday Whisper #9 – the DJ blacklisted by promoters because he pocketed money for a gig that never happened…
Which DJ is unlikely to be welcomed back by promoters for some time? This person was due to do a gig, on the provision they received their entire payment in advance. It was due...
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Did Save Our Scene remember the UK bit in their title? A reference to Scotland’s midnight curfew appears on their social media in a desperate attempt to still look relevant
A few weeks ago, Save Our Scene UK held an event in London. It wasn’t exactly a protest, nor was it intended to specifically raise awareness of anything. It was more of a giant...
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As Toto sampling “Another Chance” by Roger Sanchez turns 20 years old, just one request from this blog – let’s not have any new remixes, please!
Cast your mind back to the summer of 2001. Tunes being played heavily in clubs that year included “Happy People” by Static Revenger, “Babarabatiri” by Todd Terry under his Gypsymen alias, Danny Tenaglia’s remix...
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Underground dance music is growing once again, says Spotify – so will Daniel Ek use that as his latest excuse not to pay out more money?
Believe it or not, but Spotify publishes some extremely interesting articles occasionally. You might already know that a few weeks ago, International Music Summit published a report saying that dance music shrank by over...
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And how’s mentoring Derrick May going for you? Artist mentor and plank lover Mike Weston resorts to following this blog on Twitter – intimidating, it is not…
You might recall a post from April 12th where I talked about one of the odious creatures that has been helping out Derrick May for a very long time – indeed, someone once asked...
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Get the entire Traxsource Top 100 for $20 and all you can listen to for $25 – but silence on this question: how is House Music Record Pool legal?
The tagline of Amateur’s House clearly states that I write about the stuff in dance music that others won’t. And here’s another one of those subjects that affects music producers all over the place,...
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Now who’d have thought Boris Johnson would tell a lie? Lockdown IS reversible for England, according to documents issued by his own government
First he told us that herd immunity was the plan – then he told us it wasn’t. Then he told us the virus could be brought under control in 12 weeks – and it...
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Keep on playing, Father Billy O’Dwyer! Father Ted favourite won’t be affected by South Korea’s latest peculiar Covid restriction…
In a classic 1996 episode of Father Ted, Ted discovers a leak in the parochial house roof. He comes up with the idea of holding a raffle, and obtains a car as a prize....
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Nightclubs ARE being lined up to take the blame for future English Covid spikes – what else explains Johnson’s refusal to demand they do checks at the front door?
If there’s one person you can always trust to bring even more confusion to a confused situation, Boris Johnson is your man. Rest assured that if a situation exists which has you scratching your...
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