Resident Advisor – they who claimed to be a “cultural institution” in order to get a £750k bailout from Arts Council England – are complaining that Boris Johnson has no plan for British artists...
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Derrick May can’t play, and conductor Dzijan Emin knows it – so why are they STILL doing an orchestral show in Poland next month?
I wasn’t planning on writing about Derrick May again quite so soon, but my hand has been forced by the latest developments in this depressing saga. I do have other things to do, you...
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What disease – and it’s not coronavirus! – threatens to bring the dance music world crashing down? Why the idolising needs to go
I remember the first time that I read a dance music magazine. It was all the way back in October 2001. I was at college at the time studying for my A Levels and...
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Should the festivals advertise all their acts equally? And why it might be important than you first thought
So, the festivals are on their way back. The world is taking some steps forward following Covid-19 – not that this is over, mind you – and people are trying to look forward to...
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Carl Craig is having a birthday party in Detroit, but the million dollar question is – will he invite his friend Derrick May along?
Since I started digging into Derrick May, I’ve learnt a lot of things about the man that I’d rather I didn’t. But there’s one area in which my knowledge is still quite lacking –...
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Glowing words towards the “brother that he never had”, yet he doesn’t follow him on social media: more rumours that all is not well with Masters At Work
A few weeks ago, I ran an article that asked whether all was well with Masters At Work. Despite the release of their first single as a duo for over 20 years, there seemed...
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Can Yousef defend the indefensible? Silence from Circus on why they’ve booked plague rave DJ Sven Väth for Liverpool Covid test event
This Friday night, an important event is taking place in Liverpool. It’s happening at Circus, who are hosting the First Dance Event. No social distancing will be required, but a negative Covid result no...
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Boar off! Nervous Records troll the internet with most ridiculous merch advert yet – but have they made a pig’s ear of it?
This blog’s opinion of the advertising team at Nervous Records is well known. To say I consider them to be stuck in the 1970s is an understatement. Their latest advert, however, takes the absolute...
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Here’s something you won’t see often on this blog – a defence of Spotify raising their prices!
I note that Spotify has finally decided to do something that nearly every other company on the planet does – and that is actually raise its prices by a little bit. Shocker! Last year,...
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The fall and fall of Danny Rampling: his journey from okay-ish DJ to full-on Covid denying conspiracist
Those of you of a certain age will probably know Danny Rampling as that DJ who used to have a show on Radio 1 called “The Love Groove Dance Party” – a name that...
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You’ve seen the ads for his MIDI packs. But is Niko Kotoulas a musical genius or just a marketing man selling music down the river?
Take a look at this photograph. If you’re on Facebook and you produce music, there’s a good chance you’ll have seen that face sometime in the past few months. If you haven’t, his name...
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Paying two sets of distribution deals – one mystery DJ and some VERY shady business practices indeed that are heading for the courts
I have been sent the details of a very interesting story. Having done some checks, I’ve verified that it’s true and I’m going to tell you about it now. The names in it have...
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What was the REAL relationship between Derrick May and Patricia Altisent? Recently unearthed blog offers potentially disturbing explanation
I’ve previously written about Patricia Altisent on this blog. So far, we know that she doesn’t like it when people publish her email address, and she also seems to think that she has no...
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That’s set the cat amongst the pigeons! Burning Man considering mandatory Covid jab to get in – as CEO claims they have a “civic responsibility”
The Covid deniers were right, for once. Which brings the number of things they’ve been right about during the pandemic to, let me check… one. When even a stopped clock is right twice a...
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Won’t Louie Vega and Derrick Carter think of the polar bears? Report into DJ carbon emissions released to accusations of hysteria
I never thought it would fall down to me, of all people, to defend the so-called superstar DJs in dance music. Yet I strangely feel the need to, given how the dance music press...
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Is this what it is? Derrick May FAILS to complete this blog’s music theory challenge – and now it seems he couldn’t play from the beginning
Eleven days ago, I wrote a post about a video of Derrick May showing how he played live. The video was notable for the fact it showed no footage of him playing live. You...
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