Anyone growing up in Britain from the 1970s until recently will almost certainly have heard of Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile OBE – usually known simply as Jimmy Savile. He was a DJ for...
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Is there ANYONE making money in this industry? Melvin Moore – Subliminal’s A&R guy who died suddenly last week – joins the long list of those needing a fundraiser to pay for his funeral…
There are many things which we love about the dance music world – at its best, its ability to bring people of different hues and colours together is almost unparalleled. But there are a...
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There’s clearly still money in old rope! As Louie Vega confirms Lost Tapes 10 is due out this Friday, a question – can we have some new material from Masters At Work in 2024, please?
Dance music is in a seriously strange place, even by its own standards. Since almost the beginning of the genre, parts of it have been too eager to look at the past. This was...
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“How did those c**** find out?”: Derrick May’s camp are annoyed at Ears To The House reporting on a possible Belleville Three comeback – and wait until you hear what else they’ve got to say!
Those of you who read Ears To The House on a regular basis will know that we don’t shy away from the more weighty issues in this scene. Whilst the likes of Mixmag and...
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Kenny Summit leads tributes for former Subliminal A&R guy Melvin Moore, who died suddenly last Friday – but amidst sadness, questions linger over who’ll be taking house music into the future…
Anyone following Ears To The House on our socials will almost certainly have seen our posts last Friday night referencing the death of Melvin Moore. Now, Moore wasn’t the most famous name in the...
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It’s not just Kevin Saunderson who looks surprised! The Belleville Three – that glorious fairytale of Detroit techno – are planning a comeback in 2024, but just WHAT will they actually do?
It seems to be one of those weeks for us at Ears To The House, where the stories just write themselves. In a way, this suits us fine – anything that makes the endless...
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As Juan Atkins fails to promote new Cybotron release, a reminder there’s STILL a $4000 bounty for anyone who gets footage of the man himself playing – and it’s unclaimed after over a year!
One might imagine that a self-called originator and innovator such as Juan Atkins would be very familiar with the internet. It can be safely stated an innovator would be aware of how the online...
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Did Carl Cox play those illegal raves in the 1980s for exposure? Pete Tong’s DJ Academy is pushing “visibility opportunities”, which Coxy duly promotes – but you’ve got to pay your $447 first!
Peter Michael Tong MBE is a man who has done very well indeed for himself. At the age of 15, he played his first ever public set at a friend’s wedding – and he’s...
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Is this REALLY the best they could do? DJ Pierre and Paul Van Dyk got together to make a track – and all they could conjure up was a mediocre new version of “Acid Trax”…
A few things make us despair of the state of dance music here at Ears To The House. Contrary to what some people seem to think, it is not cynical to ask questions of...
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Is there ANYONE straight in this business? Now Detroit’s very own Carl Craig admits to having “borrowed” hardware over the years that he’s never returned…
Dance music’s history is one of those things that grinds our gears – mostly because our predecessors did an utterly appalling job of documenting it. Yes, we all know a lot of people were...
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Vintage synths galore! Danny Tenaglia is auctioning off his old gear – including Juno 106, EMU SP-1200 drum machine, and even a 909 – but why is he selling the equipment he built his career on?
There are some things which, on the face of it, make perfect sense. There are other things which, on the face of it, make little sense until you start to dig into what’s really...
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That’s one collab we didn’t expect to see! As Tony Touch’s “Apaga La Luz” does rather nicely in the charts, just how DID Louie Vega and David Guetta cross paths?
If you go back far enough in music history, one thing you’ll quickly notice is artist collaborations were few and far between. Most artists – being the egotistical types that they are – preferred...
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If you’re going to fail, do it spectacularly! The Guardian tried to do a top 20 of Detroit techno – and they’ve annoyed Juan Atkins, ignored Derrick May, and put a house track at number one…
The mainstream press are a weird lot when it comes to dance music. They’d have you believe that Beyoncé Knowles saved house music from an impending death last year – all by sticking a...
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After former Defected boss Simon Dunmore repeatedly points out his “values” on Lenny Fontana’s True House Stories, one question – just what ARE your values, Mr Saunders?
Just a few short days ago, the now deposed owner and founder of Defected gave a nearly two hour long interview. Speaking to Lenny Fontana’s intriguing True House Stories series, Simon Dunmore spoke about...
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Something isn’t adding up here! Mystery as Danny Tenaglia claims he was working on THAT infamous “Finally” remix the night before 9/11 – but they got a vinyl release less than a week later…
If you asked anyone born before around 1990 where they were when they first found out about the terrible events unfurling in New York on September 11th 2001, they’d most likely remember. Those images...
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It sounds like it was made in 1983! Innovator Juan Atkins brings Cybotron out of retirement with new track – but Rik Davis isn’t involved, and the whole thing smells of a cash grab…
Juan Atkins is a man who calls himself some very grandiose names – innovator and originator are currently his favourite two. Others within the Detroit techno scene these days reportedly call him slightly less...
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