Ears To The House

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Has Grant Nelson complained about this yet? Garage house rising star Marc Cotterell brushes off online woes and goes stateside on Nervous…

Ears To The House Team 12 June 2023

Last Monday, Ears To The House ran a story featuring a leaked screenshot from a private Facebook group, in which UK producer Grant Nelson accused rising garage house star Marc Cotterell of borrowing a...

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Is garage house FINALLY gaining some traction? Defected sign Marc Cotterell to deliver two remixes of 1994 K-London Posse track

Ears To The House Team 24 January 2023

Ever since its inception around 2016 or so, the garage house sound has had a troubled start. Part of this was not knowing what it was meant to be – something which didn’t really...

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Is there any artist Grant Nelson DIDN’T remix during the 1990s? According to the man himself, Janet Jackson isn’t on the lengthy list – now read the story of how this myth came about…

Ears To The House Team 28 December 2021

It might be hard for some people to believe, but Grant Nelson wasn’t always making house and garage. He started out his career in the early 90s making breakbeat and hardcore under the Wishdokta...

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Two months after Traxsource gave garage its own category on the site, this blog takes a look at what needs to happen in 2022 – part two of two…

Ears To The House Team 26 December 2021

Part one of this series on Christmas Eve covered what has been happening on Traxsource with garage music during 2021. In this concluding part today, I draw on my personal experiences of making music...

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Two months after Traxsource gave garage its own category on the site, this blog takes a look (with a little statistical help from Danny J Lewis) at the current state of play – part one of two…

Ears To The House Team 24 December 2021

Two months ago, the result of a few years of campaigning produced results. Around five years ago, a new movement started to circulate within dance music – it was called garage house. It was...

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Isn’t it nice to know Comical Ali found a new job after the Iraq war? Music producer who’s clearly never read this blog has come up with a novel way to end the UK garage schism – let’s just stop reporting on it…

Ears To The House Team 30 November 2021

Back in 2003 during the Iraq war, a figure whom the public quickly came to know was Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf. He was the Iraqi government’s Information Minister and was known in the press as...

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Traxsource might have boosted the garage genre by putting it in its own category, but the schism within remains as wide as ever – and why CAN’T the old and new school get along?

Ears To The House Team 29 November 2021

Another day, another row in the world of garage music in the UK. This blog had a horrible feeling that the excellent news of Traxsource awarding garage its own category was only going to...

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After Traxsource give garage its own category on the site, their rivals at Beatport are keen to remind us they have one too – and are plugging it heavily online…

Ears To The House Team 10 November 2021

A few weeks ago, the garage house crew were happy. Traxsource had finally given garage its own category on their site after a campaign which has been on and off for the past three...

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Now why didn’t I think of that for an article? Fresh from Traxsource garage category success, Danny J Lewis posts on his blog about the mysterious question of how to pronounce “garage”…

Ears To The House Team 1 November 2021

Danny J Lewis is one name this blog has quite a lot of time for. Aside from his videos on music production on YouTube, his sizeable catalogue of music – and even his successful...

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As EDM festival Electric Daisy Carnival holds a virtual event on gaming platform Roblox, is there a lesson here for other areas in dance music?

Ears To The House Team 25 October 2021

I started secondary school back in 1996. The structure here was very different to primary school – lessons now were delivered at set times each day and different teachers did different subjects. Hence why...

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Victory! The garage house crew shall have their rightful place at the Traxsource table after campaign spearheaded by Danny J Lewis for a genre category of their own…

Ears To The House Team 21 October 2021

Oh what a difference just a few years can make. Around three or four years ago, the garage house sound started to emerge from London and quickly spread. The best of the genre paid...

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The garage house crew, led by Danny J Lewis, want their (rightful) place at the Traxsource table – but is there are any chance infighting within the scene could stop first?

Ears To The House Team 19 October 2021 1 Comment

The garage house movement is having another one of its “stand up and be counted” moments. Admittedly, most of these in the past have just resulted in shouts of “sit down”, but there are...

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Ever wondered why the garage house movement ended up going nowhere? Legendary producer Tommy Musto helped explain it – decades it before it happened…

Ears To The House Team 12 October 2021

In 1997, the speed garage movement was getting underway in the UK. The scene developed from Sunday club parties which took place near the Ministry of Sound in London – there were only so...

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Is it just the Detroit techno lot who spend their entire time squabbling? No, the garage house lot in London do as well – as an insider tells of “festering wounds” and dirty tactics “being used to undermine others”…

Ears To The House Team 23 August 2021 1 Comment

Back around 1996 or so, something called The Sunday Scene started in London. The idea was to essentially squeeze in one more party before Monday made its dreaded call once more. As the name...