Many don’t like to face up to this fact, but dance music has been around now for a long time – with the first house tracks being released almost four decades ago. Infact, one...
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BREAKING NEWS: Jesse Saunders in hospital after “major stroke”
Ears To The House is saddened to learn that Jesse Saunders, quite possibly the first person to release a house track on vinyl, has had what we understand to be “a major stroke”. Two...
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House music is on the resurge – fact or fiction?
It seems the debate about house music and its apparent resurgence rumbles on. Ears To The House thought it had all concluded a few weeks ago, but apparently not. No, it seems The Guardian...
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A clarification on our Jesse Saunders article
Yesterday, Ears To The House published an article originally headlined “Is Jesse Saunders promoting house – or himself?”. The article itself queried why only Chicago DJ Jesse Saunders seemed to be doing interviews on...
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Why are the press only talking house with Jesse Saunders?
Update on 12th July: After some reflection from the Ears To The House team, we’ve decided we weren’t happy with the original headline of “Is Jesse Saunders promoting house – or himself?” for this...
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On and on indeed, part two! After Jesse Saunders takes issue with claim Farley Jackmaster Funk was the first to play early house records, now Chosen Few DJs founder Wayne Williams has a few things to say…
Here in Britain, a political row developed last week after MPs voted to allow water companies to send more raw sewage out into rivers and oceans. But by the looks of it, the real...
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On and on indeed! Jesse Saunders takes issue with Spin magazine claim that Farley Jackmaster Funk was the first to play early house records – so what does Farley himself say?
What happened in the early days of house music? Well, we know that much of what has been chronicled about Detroit techno, for example, was rubbish. The Belleville Three story, which lazy journalists continue...
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How Jesse Saunders blames Pete Tong for not being paid sales money from UK release offers “Love Can’t Turn Around” – an update
Time now for an update on a story which I first posted on May 25th. I told you about Jesse Saunders not being paid a lot of money that he was due over London...
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Is there anyone in the dance music who ISN’T a crook, part two? How Jesse Saunders never got sales money from UK sales of “Love Can’t Turn Around” – and Pete Tong remains silent to this day…
The depressing litany of producers who were conned out of money continues to grow. Last week, I detailed how A Guy Called Gerald was deprived of money from “Voodoo Ray” and an EP he...
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