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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Resident Advisor continues their hiring spree of “city managers” – but what on earth do they do all day?
Say what you like about Resident Advisor – and goodness knows we like to – but they certainly know how to survive. Yes, they might well have required cash from British taxpayers and German...
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Elliot Eastwick expects YOU to pay for his “World Famous Hot Shots” dream – but he wasn’t always so keen on fundraisers…
Elliot Eastwick is, if nothing else, a man who can continually reinvent himself with the times. Back in the day, he sometimes filled in as a DJ at Manchester’s legendary Haçienda nightclub if someone...
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Derrick May’s Croatia gig at Future Scope? It’s just the start of his “European Coming Back Tour” – the delusion is off the scale with this one!
As Ears To The House reported last week, Derrick May is due to appear at Croatia’s Future Scope festival on May 12th alongside Jeff Mills. We’re hoping to have a more detailed report on...
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Louie Vega’s carbon footprint revealed as he completes 3 MILLION miles in the air with United Airlines – and that’s not all…
Here’s a story you aren’t going to see getting any coverage from the likes of Mixmag today – or any day. Because despite the fact it goes against many of their deeply held right-on...
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Brooklyn’s Teksupport had Peggy Gou play at the weekend – but even a $75k pay cheque couldn’t make for a decent atmosphere…
Peggy Gou is one of those people in dance music that Ears To The House can’t fully work out. On the one hand, we just don’t think she lives up to the hype that...
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EXCLUSIVE: Nastia was due to appear at Berlin’s Zenner on May 20th – but why has the gig vanished with no explanation?
Here at Ears To The House, we’re big fans of values like principles and integrity. These are values which are sadly desperately lacking in the scene that we cover, so when we see it,...
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Is this a new record? The Ears To The House editor receives a threat to sue BEFORE we even commit to publishing a story – here he is to explain…
During my now nearly two years of editing your favourite dance music website, I have heard from a fair number of opportunists, shysters and crooks. Usually, they’ve hit the inbox – or sometimes even...
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What is it with DJs and food these days? Now Kenny Carpenter is the latest to attach a “brunch buffet” to his set…
It seems that nowadays, nothing is allowed to actually stand out for itself. You see it all the time – the “journalism” in the dance music press is usually attached to paid for, sponsored...
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What, no cardboard cutout? Derrick May reduced to selling Transmat merchandise to make money – and it’s not even good stuff…
There was a time when a higher echelon DJ could simply concentrate on being a DJ. Go to a gig with a box or two full of vinyl, play for a few hours, get...
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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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Ash Lauryn appeared at Detroit’s TV Lounge last week – alongside possibly the worst flyer of 2023 so far…
The mysteriously rising star that is Ash Lauryn – who claims to represent Detroit whilst living 722 miles away in Atlanta – did a DJ set last week. Nothing unusual there, of course –...
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So what do they talk about at the €336 per ticket International Music Summit? The first oh so thrilling topics are revealed…
The exact reasons why Beatport recently snapped up a majority stake in the International Music Summit remain cloaked in mystery right now. Ears To The House reported on the first clue a few weeks...
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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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