Back in the days when Ears To The House was a one-man band – indeed, before this site was even called Ears To The House – we published an article about how Mutya Buena...
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What’s got you feeling so positive, then? Derrick May tells Facebook that “it’s good to be alive” – despite having almost no work lined up and no money (but at least Carl Craig’s standing by him!)
As the world continues to muddle through the strangest Monday since, well, the last one, there is at least one person out there who continues to see the positive side of things. Indeed, the...
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“Everything he touches is STILL turning into s**t!”: After another January of festival announcements nears its end, why hasn’t a single date from the Belleville Three tour been revealed yet?
The year 2023 ended in a very muted manner for Derrick May – performing a DJ set on a skywalk at a Detroit steakhouse alongside Kevin Saunderson, D Wynn, and Insane Who Sane. May...
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A TV show with Derrick May that hasn’t been cancelled! Local celebrity Moorish Mudd paid a visit to see Mayday’s grand return to New Year’s Eve at a steakhouse skywalk – but why was there no interview?
These days, it’s incredibly rare to see footage of Derrick May doing anything at all – mostly because no one usually wants to film it. It’s a pointless endeavour documenting Detroit’s most occasional DJ...
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Thing with illusions is that you can’t keep them up forever! Peggy Gou’s New Year set for Apple Music was promoted by XL over the weekend – and they had to switch their comments off…
Toxic positivity is one of those things that’s always been in ample supply in the dance music world – and this is why so much of what has happened over the years has gone...
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DJing on a bridge between buildings, almost no techno played on the night and a VERY subdued atmosphere: Derrick May’s latest New Year’s Eve – as reviewed by someone who was there…
For Detroit’s most occasional DJ, 2023 was a year where, as one of our sources previously put it, “everything he touched turned to s**t”. So it seemed strangely appropriate that Derrick May’s December was...
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So where IS Derrick May’s New Year’s Eve gig for 2023? Er, at the Hanah Steakhouse in Detroit alongside Kevin Saunderson – but not Juan Atkins, for some reason…
Historically speaking, one of the most lucrative nights in the DJ calendar was New Year’s Eve. That great clamour amongst many to celebrate the inevitable passage of one year into the next has to...
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Why DO they continue to praise this man? Back In The House posts yet again about Erick Morillo doing a $300 Paris gig in 1995 – but make no mention of THOSE rape allegations…
Many lofty minded types in the music industry would have you believe that you should separate the artist’s output from everything else they did. A perfect example of this is Chris Brown – a...
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You DJs realise you’d be nothing without singers, right? Defected proudly showcase Jazzy singing “Giving Me” – whilst Belters Only are reduced to background bit players…
If there’s one thing that Ears To The House believes in more than anything else, it’s a sense of fair play. We don’t really care if one person or twenty were involved in the...
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So what’s Tim Westwood doing with himself these days? Er, welcoming in the New Year in Birmingham – and even letting people come to the club for free until 12.30am…
Over the past few years, some DJs have had to grapple with a very different kind of question to the ones they had in mind when starting out in their careers – namely, how...
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Have we had too much to drink this Christmas? Defected are selling earplugs on their site – but one of our colleagues thinks there’s something they’ve missed…
One of the most crucial aspects of the modern business world is presentation. No matter what the product being supplied is, if it’s being showcased to the world in the wrong way, you’re going...
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Britain’s government announced a crackdown on drink spiking days before Christmas – then the Home Secretary joked about giving his own wife a date-rape drug…
Christmas is normally a time when not a great deal goes on. Infact, when our editor turned to us a few days ago and told us Ears To The House would be providing a...
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What was that you said about leaving the digital world behind again? DJ Sneak (quietly) embraces digital as six-track The Son Of Chicago EP from the man himself goes on sale in January…
As we begin another Christmas Eve here at Ears To The House, there might be slightly more sweets and alcohol involved than on a normal working day – but what ultimately underpins this site...
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It’s almost like you don’t want anyone to hear them! Contest winning remixes of Louie Vega’s “How He Works” are being released slap bang between Christmas and New Year…
Back in early May, Ears To The House published an article all about a remix contest being run by Luis Ferdinand Vega Jr – better known simply as Louie Vega. In conjunction with the...
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What HAS he been smoking this time, part two! DJ Sneak posted about “leaving the digital world behind” – literally days after putting out a new release on Traxsource…
Here at Ears To The House, we take people exactly as they are. In an industry where the dance music press doesn’t do that, preferring instead to mostly idolise and fawn over the people...
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Does he just like pizza and cappuccinos? Derrick May did a secret gig in Italy’s Torino at the weekend – squeezed in at 3.30am during an appearance by his friend Seth Troxler…
Italy is a country that has much to offer. For example, it gave the world a fine dish called pizza – a food that has provided the fuel for more Ears To The House...
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