Where on earth can you go these days to get an honest critique of dance music? The nineties had dance music magazines with reviews of the latest vinyl in each issue – some of...
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What the hell has gone wrong with techno? Marco Carola is now playing “I Feel For You” by Bob Sinclar in his sets – and other abominations…
Because some of us at Ears To The House have been around for a while, allow us to share an insight with you. Techno was originally meant to be a way of sticking two...
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Jumping on the bandwagon, Mike? Nervous announce return of techno label Sorted – which hasn’t released anything new since 1997…
There was a time when Nervous Records was ahead of the pack. The label had its own distinct sound when it launched in 1991 and wasn’t afraid to give new producers their first major...
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Don’t drink, kids! Solomun has a tipple at a show – and the “human diazepam” even makes it look painfully boring…
The consensus at Ears To The House over Solomun is, well, that there’s no real consensus. We have yet to work out whether he’s an undeclared genius, a troll or something else altogether. But...
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Is Mixmag going to try sending Annabel Ross to Movement Detroit again – and how will Carl Craig respond if they do?
Earlier this week, the Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit announced their full lineup. Thoughts at Ears To The House were the lineup has basically gone global – this is truly the year where...
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Movement Detroit breaks ALL the piggy banks to book Basement Jaxx, Charlotte De Witte and, er, Cybotron – but have they forgotten their roots?
So it’s official. The Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit has announced its full lineup. In a shiny poster which went out this week – going against the grain this year by having a...
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Kappa Futur Festival announce first batch of 2023 lineup, and it’s a full-on McDonald’s – but at least there’s no Derrick May…
Dear oh dear. It may be a brand new year for the world, but much remains the same as in the previous one. The economy is still on suspect ground, nobody quite knows when...
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Will 2023 be the year Jeff Mills finally goes fully business techno?
Well, it seems we’re back to the business of talking about Jeff Mills, possibly the hardest-working 59-year-old DJ in Detroit – as opposed to another one who Ears To The House sometimes reports on....
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Pioneer launch controller for beginners – so most of the top DJs, then!
Recently, Pioneer launched a brand new two-channel controller aimed at beginners. The DDJ-FLX4 has Rekordbox and Serato compatibility, works with services like Spotify and Beatport, connects to almost any device you can think of...
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Rebekah and Francesco Tristano only performed once – why?
Rebekah Teasdale is a woman who has done much in her life. She started out as a model in the 1990s, occasionally dabbling with DJing. Eventually in the 2000s, she went full-time into DJing...
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Get Defected on the line! New Beethoven sampling tech-house…
Cast your mind back to two years ago – we were just coming to the end of the summer of 2020. It was a strange time – the first Covid-19 wave of March and...
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Isn’t it time for a new Danny Tenaglia remix on Defected?
As the centerpiece Defected Croatia festival wraps up for another year today, Ears To The House has been taking a look at the label’s socials – a crucial tool in their artillery these days....
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