Last week, I wrote about how Sef Kombo had decided to leave his job at Transport for London to run Sondela Recordings full time. Since then, a curious thing has happened. Defected appears to...
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As Derrick May’s plan for a quickie Greek wedding runs into a most fur-midable problem, the tale of how he planned to retire in Tokyo – and why the plan went awry
With Derrick May currently having second thoughts about his plan to go to Greece to marry his “passport” girlfriend Sofia Tsagaraki – not least because of the risk complaints about his conduct could have...
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Is the course not selling that well for you, Gary? Take That crooner and tax dodger Barlow has cut price for his songwriting course by 25%…
Is this dance music related? Well, Mark Picchiotti once remixed one of his songs back in 1999… so no, it isn’t. But this blog exists partly for my own personal enjoyment, so I’m writing...
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As Laurent Garnier quote from 1995 edition of Mixmag about Aphex Twin gets dug up, is there a lesson for the boring DJs who rule the roost today?
DJs these days are a much more boring breed than they’re given credit for. To be fair, however, it’s not their fault. The relentless amount of work that DJs have to do these days...
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Mind the wet paint! Amateur’s House has a new name, new look – but the same sense of purpose that followers will love and detractors will dread
You might notice that I’ve got the painters in. They’ll be around for a few more days in the background, but some of the bigger changes took place last night. Not least the sign...
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It wouldn’t be the first plague rave they’ve done, would it? Solardo now want to flout the law with illegal event on London’s streets next Monday as government delays lockdown changes
Yesterday, the Night Time Industries Association were working overtime to parrot their message, and many frustrated musicians shared it willingly. One of those who did so was Solardo, the Mancunian DJ duo of Mark...
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Could Kerri Chandler REALLY be responsible for the end of humanity? No, he probably couldn’t – but a leading physicist says METI might want to think again about talking to aliens…
Yesterday, you might recall that I published a story about Kerri Chandler being on the Advisory Council of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or METI for short. Judging by the reaction that I’ve seen, this came...
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Has he been on the sauce or something? As Boris Johnson finally confirms England isn’t coming out of lockdown next week, he stumbles over basic details in a pre-prepared speech
He hasn’t had exactly long to learn his lines. The newspapers found out last Tuesday that the government was planning on delaying England’s so-called Freedom Day until July 19th. It’s been in the news...
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“Music melds the classes”, said Ricardo Villalobos – so why did he do a plague rave in Covid-denying Zanzibar for the ultra-rich?
There was a time when Ricardo Villalobos was something of an idealist. Apparently. Speaking to the Guardian back in 2017, he said “The music manages to meld the classes together, as long as the...
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A love story akin to Romeo and Juliet, it certainly isn’t: the story of the ups and downs of a VERY long relationship between Pete Tong and Pacha
These days, Pete Tong is very much at the top of the Pacha tree. Just before Christmas last year, it was revealed that he’d just joined the board of directors at the club –...
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As video is unearthed of Derrick May referencing a sex act whilst speaking to a journalist about the Movement Festival, just one question – what WOULD his deeply religious mother have to say?
This evening, I thought I’d have a look at Derrick May’s background. Now, you might be expecting to find that he came from a really poor family and that he had to lie and...
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Ever wondered why the British government couldn’t care less about nightclubs? And no, it isn’t (just) about the lack of names donating to the Tory Party’s coffers…
The tedious obsession with June 21st shows no signs whatsoever of abating. Clubbers are hearing marginally less about the plan for England because it’s the weekend, but it’s still ever present. The government is...
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Up and away! Kerri Chandler is a member of a not-for-profit organisation that sends messages into space – so does the producer and DJ believe in aliens?
Let’s be blunt here. Kerri Chandler is the sort of person who creates records that have kicks and basslines so heavy that they could be heard in space. Astronauts in space could hear the...
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As Sony Music wipes the debts of its legacy artists, is there any chance the likes of Trax Records and other early house labels could do the same?
When you stream music from the likes of Spotify, you expect that abysmal $0.0038 royalty rate to go to your favourite artist, right? Well, you’d be wrong. In a lot of cases, that money...
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Was it something I said? Terrence Parker blocks this blog’s Twitter page – instead of responding to persistent allegations he owes money for gigs he didn’t do
A lesson that a journalist friend of mine gave me lately was that silence does count as a response. On the face of it, this sounds bizarre. How is saying nothing a reply? It’s...
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A cat-astrophe on the cards? Derrick May’s plan for a clean break in Greece and marrying “passport to freedom” Sofia has met a fur-midable problem – one of her cats thinks he’s claw-ful!
Derrick May is a man who thinks he can get practically anyone on his side. And worryingly over the past few months, I’ve discovered that his disturbed belief is not entirely without foundation. For...
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