Here’s a view that you’ll never find expressed in the dance music press – we think a lot of the higher echelon DJs care only for themselves and their bank balances. Hence why they...
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Does he want a plaque as well? Kevin Saunderson flies to “Europ” with Delta Airlines for an Inner City show in Belgium – adding to his miles, just like pal Derrick May!
Spare a thought on this busy Monday for Kevin Maurice Saunderson – for it cannot be easy to be him at the moment. Indeed, things have got so bad of late that his own...
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Will no one think of the polar bears? Not so frequent flyer Derrick May gets a plaque from Delta Airlines as he joins the five million mile club…
Let’s face facts here. There are quite a few DJs in dance music’s higher echelons who care about no one or thing but themselves. In a way, we don’t totally blame them – when...
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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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As Ed Sheeran reveals he offsets carbon emissions from his tours by planting lots and lots of trees, when will dance music’s biggest polluters step up to fix the damage they’re doing to the planet?
The music industry cares little about the environment, on the whole. For decades, this was partly because they had no choice. Vinyl purists might have argued the sound was better – but the idea...
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What to do with a problem like climate change? If you’re Coldplay, you get your fans to make electricity on the dancefloor – whilst continuing to travel around the world on luxurious private jets…
In the world we live in, there’s an increasing number of people who have no ability whatsoever to understand how their actions might be perceived by others. This usually results in them being completely...
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Eric Prydz’s fear of flying means less time in the air, but no slacking on the luxury – so is there a lesson here for gas-guzzlers like Richy Ahmed and Louie Vega?
Last week, whilst everyone rowed over comments by Eric Prydz that techno was one thing until 2005 and then became something else, some people took a peek at the rest of his social media...
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It’s not just Louie Vega and Derrick Carter who need to think of the polar bears! Massive Attack publish report into live music and climate change – and the industry won’t like its contents…
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the perspective of an insider on the music industry’s attitude towards climate change. Which is basically nothing. And before that, I wrote in April about a report...
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Dance to save the polar bears! The innovative new way Glasgow club SWG3 will use clubbers body heat to cut their own energy bills – now will Louie Vega and Derrick Carter want to boogie for the environment?
When I started Amateur’s House a few months ago, I wasn’t expecting to end up writing about the environment. Still, it shows you what I like about running this blog – no two days...
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Have Louie Vega and Derrick Carter started thinking about the polar bears yet? My insider reveals what the DJ scene intends to do to reduce their carbon footprint – here’s a hint, it’s not much…
Back in April, Clean Scene released a report which revealed some of the most gas-guzzling DJs in the world today. Richy Ahmed topped the list, travelling over 790,000km during 2019. Rebekah, Steve Lawler, Louie...
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Won’t Louie Vega and Derrick Carter think of the polar bears? Report into DJ carbon emissions released to accusations of hysteria
I never thought it would fall down to me, of all people, to defend the so-called superstar DJs in dance music. Yet I strangely feel the need to, given how the dance music press...
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