When Wez Saunders made the decision to raise the capital to buy the Defected empire of companies in 2022, questions inevitably arose as to what he wanted to do with it. No one spends...
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An 85-year challenge for Tomorrowland as they agree a deal confirming they’re staying at De Schorre Park until 2090 – but who on earth will be playing on their stages by then?
Let’s begin this article by doing something a little unusual for us – taking a look at the DJ Mag Top 100 lists for both 2022 and the year 2000. Yes, we’ve got the...
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Electric Zoo cancelled their first day because they couldn’t get their stage up in time, and from there, it just got steadily worse – so why couldn’t they perform this year? A lawsuit might provide some clues…
Difficulties in getting and maintaining erections are something that many men have to deal with at some point in life. Whilst the occasional failure to rise to the occasion is normal, those who regularly...
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Burning Man? More like Raining Man! Festival ends in farce with 70,000 people forced to use the Nevada desert as a toilet – and tragedy as a 40-year old dies at the event…
The weather here at Ears To The House HQ has been mostly awful for weeks – indeed, only on this first week of September are we now getting to enjoy some much-wanted sunny skies....
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As Rebekah Teasdale leads the charge against Sonus for booking Derrick May, his name has been mysteriously wiped from their website – so why won’t they confirm if he’s still appearing?
What’s the one thing that we can say for certain after spending two years reporting on the 60-year-old occasional DJ Derrick May? If we had to choose, it would be that nothing is ever...
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Was that the best you could come up with, Mike? Sonus Festival make dubious claim Derrick May is “continuing to shape the genre of techno” – despite doing almost no gigs in three years…
Sometimes, Ears To The House feels like we’re a gun staring down at a barrel full of fish. Because no matter how many good people are in the industry that we cover, there are...
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TikTok’s favourite DJ Schak played 1961 hit “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” in his set for Hideout Croatia – and the internet really isn’t sure what to think…
There was a time, long ago, when DJs rose through the ranks in quite an organic way. Take, for example, Frankie Knuckles – who spent years working for the likes of The Continental Baths,...
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At least he’s found a country that doesn’t boil people to death! Derrick May’s “European Coming Back Tour” continues with Croatia’s Sonus Festival in August…
When the 60-year-old occasional DJ Derrick May faced multiple allegations three years ago of sexual abuse, he had three options available in response. He could have admitted to the allegations, denied them and come...
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Dumb as a rock! Britain’s Home Office moves the goalposts on drug testing – saying they must pay £3000 for a licence (oh, and did we say the process takes three months?)
Here at Ears To The House, we don’t take a view on whether drugs are a good thing or a bad thing. We believe that’s for others, such as politicians, to decide – the...
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Two people died at a shooting near the Beyond Wonderland festival on Saturday night – but why did it take organisers until Sunday morning to cancel the rest of the event?
News of mass shootings from the United States never seem to be far away from our screens these days. Ears To The House doesn’t claim any kind of expertise in this area – indeed,...
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Meet Tec-Troit – a free three-day festival that REALLY celebrates techno’s past, present and future (no matter what Mixmag might tell you!)
Contrary to what some people in the city believe, Ears To The House are big fans of Detroit. We believe the city’s legacy of house and techno music belongs to far more than just...
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Too many festivals, or has the Guinness curse struck again? Fabric cancel their summer Exodus Festival – but at least there’s a free drink for those who missed out!
If there’s one thing the dance music world does not need in 2023, it’s yet another festival. Indeed, there are now so many festivals that the season is fast becoming a thing of the...
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As Derrick May gets ready to perform at Future Scope tonight, the instruction from organisers to “leave your clothes at the wardrobe” isn’t even the worst of it…
This evening, the European Coming Back Tour for Derrick May, an occasional 60-year-old DJ from Detroit, takes another very small step forward. The man himself is currently in Europe – Ears To The House...
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Is Mixmag going to try sending Annabel Ross to Movement Detroit again – and how will Carl Craig respond if they do?
Earlier this week, the Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit announced their full lineup. Thoughts at Ears To The House were the lineup has basically gone global – this is truly the year where...
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One major festival privately admits they’re “risking going bankrupt” with their 2023 strategy…
Regular readers of Ears To The House might have noticed us commenting a few times lately on how the dance music festival world’s strategy for 2023 seems to be to go big or go...
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The Insider explains why festivals are spending big for 2023 – but could it backfire on them?
Over the past two weeks, Ears To The House has written quite heavily about the massive cheques being thrown around by the festival world. It seems the big festivals in dance music have responded...
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