Puff pastry is nice. It’s a nightmare to make – so much so that many restaurants actually buy it rather than let their chefs attempt the lengthy process themselves. It’s also messy as anything,...
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What took them so long? Mixmag FINALLY write something about Eric Prydz’s hopelessly vague comments on the techno genre – over two weeks after he said it!
As I said a few weeks ago, I’m very proud of what’s being created on this blog. I’m also particularly impressed with the fact that a one-man operation is basically able to outdo the...
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After DJ Mag plug their video of David Guetta re-editing one of his own tracks to make it even more crap, Dave Clarke gives a caustic take in the comments…
Sometimes, there’s no need for a big blurb before I get to the point of an article. This is one of those times. On Friday, DJ Mag published this on their Facebook page. It...
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And people accuse me of publishing any old rubbish! Mixmag run an article on Nile Rodgers being a fan of a Liverpool canal – so what could they decide to print next?
So what was the most important news story of the week? Was it Nicki Minaj saying the Covid jab gave her cousin a bad case of swollen testicles? The authorities in Trinidad and Tobago...
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Don’t write about controversial stuff and be nice about Mixmag, says a journalist to this blog – but has he ever seen this site’s tagline?
Journalists are a curious bunch, aren’t they? I took a look through the list of my email subscribers earlier this week, and discovered something quite astonishing. Several hacks publicly distance themselves from this blog...
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Can we drop the idea dance music is a safe space yet? An astonishing 84% of respondents to a Ballantine’s True Music survey say they’ve seen discrimination on dancefloors…
The dance music world is filled with types who like to think their favourite genre is a safe place where everyone is free to be whatever they want to be. This line of thinking...
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As Ash Lauryn’s latest EP gets a glowing review from Resident Advisor, a question – isn’t it a conflict of interest for them to write about music from their own contributors?
I made emphatically clear in the past few days that I will continue to cover things that go on inside the dance music press. Whilst I accepted a recent post on Resident Advisor’s editor...
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Think slagging off the dance music press is a new thing? Nope – the tradition has been going strong for at least 20 years now…
There are people out there – and if you don’t know one, you probably are one yourself – who think everything was better in the past. You know the sort. They’d have you believe...
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As Mixmag are paid to write a puff piece for Departure in Mexico, what could possibly be the reason they didn’t mention most of the line-up are plague rave DJs?
Lesson of the day – whenever you see the words “in association with” at the start of an article, especially where the name of who wrote it typically appears, beware. This is essentially an...
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Whitney Wei wants to “raise the calibre of music journalism” – so how does she explain one of her writers pinching 5 Magazine stories on her watch?
Regular readers will no doubt be aware by now of my views on Whitney Wei, the new editor of Resident Advisor. If you don’t – I think she’s a terrible editor. The only thing...
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Which is the more shocking story here: Priti Patel justifying extra powers for police using dodgy data – or Mixmag doing good journalism for once?
It would be churlish of me not to start this Wednesday by saying I’m mightily impressed with Mixmag’s latest scoop. It’s a good one, gathered using freedom of information requests – politicians and the...
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That outrage didn’t last long! After excoriating plague rave DJs in Zanzibar article, 5 Magazine put Solomon on the front page… who was DJing in Tulum during Covid wave in January!
And there was me thinking that 5 Magazine were one of the better ones. Admittedly, this isn’t difficult in a dance music press which exists mostly to kiss the backsides of those they report...
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As Whitney Wei sets out on a mission to “raise the calibre of music journalism”, wouldn’t she do better to get her own house in order first?
Whitney Wei is keen to go down in history as someone who’s made things just a little bit better than they were before she came along. It appears that Resident Advisor’s new editor in...
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Scotland has been closed for the past two years? Either Resident Advisor has an exclusive not even the Scottish press could find, or their headline writer’s on a day off…
Resident Advisor have an amazing exclusive on their site today. It appears that Scotland has now reopened after being closed for almost two whole years. And somehow, no one in Scotland or indeed the...
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Well it’s nice of you to say hello at long last, Whitney! Resident Advisor’s new editor finally gets a mention on her own website – but what took them so long?
If you’re a regular reader of Resident Advisor, you probably wouldn’t have been aware that they had a new editor in charge. Because for some reason, they’ve only just announced the news today. And...
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Whilst Paul Johnson’s time in hospital being treated for Covid-19 goes on, false rumours about his death continue to circulate – and how the hell did 5 Magazine get their coverage so badly wrong?
I have no further news about Paul Johnson at the time of publishing this post. But I do think it’s important to mention a few things that have been happening online which really worry...
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