I’m hearing some very interesting whispers coming from two of the big operators in dance music. They’re getting increasingly worried about the prospect of England delaying further lockdown rule changes. Resident Advisor are said,...
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Sacha Lord won’t urge his followers to end lockdown by getting the jab – but it turns out he WILL get one himself!
Here’s a quick update on a story that I covered last Tuesday – it was all about Sacha John Edward Lord-Marchionne, as Companies House call him. In it, I had the temerity to ask...
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Revealed: the REAL reason why Nervous Records clings to its sexist, outdated 1970s advertising
There was a time, long ago, that Nervous Records was a byword for quality. You knew that you had a high quality production in your hands whenever you had one of their records. Legendary...
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EXCLUSIVE: I dared the plague rave DJs to come forward and explain themselves – and one, on condition of anonymity, showed some courage and agreed. Right or wrong? You decide
A few weeks ago, I put out a challenge to the plague rave DJs to defend their practices. The way the likes of Dubfire, Sven Väth, Peggy Gou and the rest have been accepting...
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EXCLUSIVE: Wondered why the plague rave DJs do what they do? One of them agreed to speak to me – and you’ll get to read it tomorrow…
Do you remember a few weeks ago that I threw the gauntlet down to the plague rave DJs to explain themselves? Well, much to my surprise, one such DJ agreed to do so. And...
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Carl Craig’s birthday party is in Detroit tonight – but there’s only one question on everyone’s lips: will Derrick May show up?
It’s Carl Craig’s birthday today. Happy 52nd birthday to you, Mr Craig. At least you can tell the difference between a keyboard and a cucumber. A few weeks ago, I wrote that he was...
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The Six On Saturday (That Aren’t From Me!) – 22nd May 2021
On the week that someone claimed the Loch Ness monster sightings were actually sightings of, ahem, something very different, I go through the tunes that could never be mistaken for whale penis. And yes,...
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The Saturday Recap – 22nd May 2021
Welcome to the weekend! Your Six On Saturday column is coming up later, but let’s start with a recap of what’s been on this site during the week. There’s something to read every single...
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Is there anyone in the dance music trade who ISN’T a crook? Now A Guy Called Gerald reveals he’s never made a penny out of “Voodoo Ray”
The more I read about the early days of house music, the more utterly depressing it gets. Paris Brightledge was conned out of the rightful credit for “It’s Alright”. Marshall Jefferson’s “Move Your Body”...
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Is England’s June 21st relaxation still happening? Your clickbait free (and also free of delusion) update is below…
Much is being made at the moment by the dance music world of a headline from The Times newspaper, of all places. “Big events without masks are no riskier than shopping, Covid trials show”...
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Where did it all go wrong for you, Derrick? May had ambitions to be an “ambassador for change” just 20 years ago – how hollow those words sound now!
Much has been written about Derrick May over the years, and a surprising amount of it remains online, surviving various upgrades since the early years of the internet. Take this article from 2001, written...
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NFTs? My phone’s auto translate changes that into “nuts” – and it turns out for good reason…
I’m going to do something unusual here. I’m going to send you all somewhere else to read something. Unusual, perhaps. But I’ve come to the conclusion over the years that it’s sometimes best to...
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Can you open a nightclub without taking the financial risk? BIT in the Netherlands think you can…
Time was that if someone wanted to start their own nightclub, they’d have to take a fair number of risks to do so. They’d have to find a suitable building. They’d have to design...
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So, was Derrick May just playing gibberish at his orchestral shows? No, he was doing sound design with the pitch wheel, says Dzijan Emin – whilst presumably trying not to laugh…
Well, I wasn’t planning on doing another post about Derrick May today. But there have been a few developments, so I thought it best to write about them now. A few weeks ago, I...
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Crack & Rock Solicitors haven’t been in touch yet, Duane! Why Sterling Void doesn’t like this blog – and is not the only one…
All the way back in October last year, Duane Pelt – better known to most as Sterling Void – sent me what constituted in his mind as a legal threat. Since June 2019, I’d...
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How are they still even in business? Mixmag’s owners own accounts show a loss of almost £5million – and that was BEFORE the pandemic hit
Here’s another story that you won’t read on Mixmag, or on any of their competitors. For some reason, there’s some kind of code in place which means they don’t say anything negative about each...
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