We’re well aware at Ears To The House that it’s summer for much of the world right now – temperatures in Detroit today look set to reach 25°C. London looks set to get to...
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Reviewing Futur Festival – simply because we can…
Last Thursday, we ran an article on Ears To The House about how festivals try to control the media narrative about their event by limiting the numbers of those journalists who can be graced...
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Is Detroit’s toxic masculinity wearing off?
The world of Detroit techno – and arguably Detroit dance music more widely – has historically been quite homphobic. Despite the fact house music is descended largely from gay black men, there have always...
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Will Ash Lauryn stick to Belleville Three script?
Believe it or not, but there was once a time when documentaries were produced and narrated by people who had some distance from their subject. To be commissioned to make a documentary for a...
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So who got Derrick May cancelled at Futur?
A few weeks ago, Ears To The House wrote all about the various goings-on between Carl Craig and Annabel Ross. We broke the initial story about the disgusting meme that Craig and his friend...
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Any reason you’re not sharing this photo, Carl?
When it comes to the debate over occasional Detroit DJ Derrick May, his friend Carl Craig has made his position very, very clear. He’s firmly on the side of his friend – a position...
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Now 5 Magazine condemn Mixmag over Carl Craig’s alleged ultimatum
Ears To The House must admit we’ve been enjoying the state of open warfare developing in the dance music press this week. As your favourite dance music site has been writing in detail about...
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Did Carl Craig REALLY stop Annabel Ross reviewing Movement Detroit?
Last week, journalist Annabel Ross was subject to some truly disgusting abuse by Detroit’s Carl Craig and Alexander Omar Smith. Ears To The House took a strong line on the subject, condemning the vile...
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Why did the press not defend Annabel Ross this week?
Maybe we’re biased, but we think it’s safe to say Ears To The House has been the most vocal critics of Carl Craig and Omar Smith’s appalling treatment of Annabel Ross over the past...
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Carl Craig: yet another one who can’t take any criticism!
We shouldn’t be surprised with this by now, but we’re always being astonished at Ears To The House with just how thin-skinned some of the dance music world’s favourite DJs and producers really are....
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Carl Craig and Omar S shame themselves with vile attack on Annabel Ross…
The Detroit techno bunch are feeling a little on edge at the moment – and not just because the documentary God Said Give ‘Em Drum Machines actually acknowledged the sexual abuse allegations against Derrick...
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Planet E is 30 – but why has Carl Craig not had his mentor on?
If you had a look in the dance music world at what labels were around in the 1990s, you’ll quickly notice almost all of them have long disappeared. If industry politics didn’t take them...
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Carl Craig: Stay out of Detroit business… unless you’re paying!
Within each of the many strands of dance music, there are people who believe in spreading the word and making the scene – or should that be their part of it? – as big...
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FAC51 The Haçienda have an exclusive at their Good Friday party in London – and they don’t even know it!
The myth of the Belleville Three had a good life, but now it’s time for the final nail in its coffin to be well and truly hammered down. With Derrick May now having effectively...
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Touchy little fellow, isn’t he? Carl Craig is upset (yes, again!) about people “whose opinions you don’t care about” – and he even switches comments off in sign of contempt towards his own fans…
There’s always one, isn’t there? I’m sure you’ve probably come across one of these in life, dear reader. The sort of person who constantly claims not to care about the opinions of others –...
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The Flying Lotus used the pandemic to make changes which brought him a Grammy nomination – what a contrast to the lazy so-called innovators of dance music…
I’m going to start this post with a passage from The Bible, of all places. The book of James, chapter one, verses two to four state “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,...
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