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Will we EVER see the two of them together? As Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” movie opens, there’s no sign of Honey Dijon – and she has nothing to say about Israel hosting the premiere, either…

ETTH Team 10 December 2023

Over the past year or two, Honey Dijon has been trying to navigate an almost impossible position – plugging how many famous friends she has whilst also simultaneously insisting that she somehow remains as...

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Two fashion disasters in one week! Carl Craig went to play in Fujisawa, having apparently borrowed Jeff Mills’s coat – whilst The Wizard himself posed for an unflattering photo…

ETTH Team 10 December 2023

Occasionally, DJs like to complain about the fact that no one’s really focusing on all the work they’re supposedly doing. They whinge that people are talking about them pointlessly twiddling their knobs, or simply...

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This can’t simply be magicked away! Unison’s Midi Wizard 2.0 has AI generated chord progressions – so is this dumbing down music or just the latest advance in technology?

ETTH Team 10 December 2023

When house music first emerged during the 1980s, there were plenty of questions by inquisitive journalists – and one of those was what they were using to make this stuff. After all, no one...

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Beatport’s majority owned IMS Ibiza announces the first topics for discussion – with “rebuilding community” and Defected’s gobbling up by Wez Saunders top of the agenda…

ETTH Team 8 December 2023

Is the International Music Summit in Ibiza a place where business in the dance music world gets done, or nothing more than, to use a term that the event’s British founder Pete Tong might...

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Not another helping of Solomun, please! After Rockstar Games FINALLY release a trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, Robert Owens shares an interesting question – what DJs could end up on the playlist?

ETTH Team 8 December 2023

In the world of music these days, there aren’t as many reliable money spinners as there used to be. Higher echelon DJs, for example, often have the option to effectively become a circuit DJ...

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Jeff Mills and Carl Cox were happy to line their pockets at MDL Beast Soundstorm two years ago – so why are these two stalwarts now nowhere to be seen on the lineup?

ETTH Team 8 December 2023

Long-time readers of Ears To The House might remember that two years ago, we had quite a few questions to ask about MDL Beast Soundstorm. Indeed, we revisited the subject only yesterday, pointing out...

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Does Spotify have ANY idea what it’s doing anymore? Fresh from announcing no pay for less than 1000 streams next year and 1500 job cuts, they’re now plugging three months of free Premium!

ETTH Team 8 December 2023

There’s simply no way that Ears To The House can be alone in wondering just what on earth is up with Spotify at the moment. Call us cynical if you must – some readily...

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Aren’t you the ones who just get Sam Divine and Low Steppa to play all your events? Defected post a meme about going to see new artists – and their hypocrisy couldn’t be clearer to see…

ETTH Team 7 December 2023

One regrettable truth about the dance music world is how many within it possess almost no sense of self-awareness whatsoever. It’s not hard to explain – this is what happens to people and businesses...

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Amazing what money can do, isn’t it? As MDL Beast’s Soundstorm festival prepares to get underway next week, at least one DJ on the lineup is playing in the homophobic state – despite being gay himself…

ETTH Team 7 December 2023

Saudi Arabia is a country with a long history, dating back to at least the 1700s. With a population of over 32million people and roughly 93% of them being Muslims, the country has lots...

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Why do we get the feeling there’s a sting in the tail? Parklife reduces its entry price by £4.50 to make the event more “accessible” – but it’s still a whopping £125 to get in, for starters…

ETTH Team 7 December 2023

Christmas is fast approaching – with only 18 days now remaining until people open the presents left under the tree by the big-boned bearded man and eat chocolates for breakfast. In the dance music...

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Have Mixmag totally lost the plot? Evian Christ – who has Raoul Moat on his Instagram profile photo – claimed in his interview with them that “he wants to break people”…

ETTH Team 6 December 2023

The dance music press gets a terribly hard time from their detractors, don’t they? So say the journalists who work within it to anyone who’ll listen – although we’ve noticed that these self-appointed gatekeepers...

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Take it you don’t mind being called Scrooge, Daniel? Fresh from announcing they’re not paying for anything less than 1000 streams next year, Spotify say they’re giving 1500 workers the axe…

ETTH Team 5 December 2023

Back in 1843, the most well-known novel by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, was released in London. The book – telling the story of a rich miser called Ebenezer Scrooge who changes his mean,...

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You’d almost think the big players don’t want things to change! DVS1 launched Aslice last year to get more money to producers making the music higher echelon DJs play – so why haven’t they embraced it yet?

ETTH Team 4 December 2023

There are lots of things that music producers like about what they do, but even the most hardened music-maker has to admit there are one or two problems that no one seems to know...

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Why IS dance music getting faster once again? Italy’s Sam Paganini – who’s been in this position at least once before – posts an intriguing theory claiming social media is the explanation…

ETTH Team 4 December 2023

Anyone who’s been listening to dance music for even just a few years will notice trends – and one of those is that the music speeds up and slows down during certain periods. For...

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So how much money was behind those cute Spotify Wrapped pictures last week? German composer Hainbach answered the question that many wouldn’t – and it’s about a pitiful $0.00216 per stream…

ETTH Team 4 December 2023

Last week, Spotify engaged in its latest, now annual piece of marketing – Spotify Wrapped. They would take all the data that they’ve obtained over the past twelve months, and compress it down into...

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Is Defected lining up their next tech-house cash-in record? Label jokes on X about people sampling “Prisencolinensinainciusol” by Adriano Celentano on their own track…

ETTH Team 3 December 2023

When thinking about dance music, the name Adriano Celentano is probably not the first that comes to mind – well, not unless you work for Defected’s social media team, anyway. During the week, they...