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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Movement tickets won’t sell themselves, you know! Paxahau fire up Detroit propaganda machine with reference to “originator” Juan Atkins – ready for their flagship event later this year…
If there’s one thing that dance music has continued to cling onto like a bad smell over the years, it’s mythology. Because there’s nothing quite like historical stories that you suspect are mostly untrue...
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Not even Santa can manage THAT Christmas miracle! Detroit’s Belleville Three are fed-up with questions over techno’s origins story – but things aren’t getting better anytime soon…
If there’s one thing that Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, and Derrick May would love to see under their Christmas trees this year, it would be a well-wrapped box with a pretty bow on it...
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That wasn’t your smartest move, was it? Turns out Juan Atkins can’t actually sell his catalogue to the big boys like Beat Music Fund – because he flogged it on the cheap three years ago…
Last week, Ears To The House reported on speculation that Juan Atkins might be next in line to receive a big fat cheque from someone like Beat Music Fund. Earlier this year, his friend...
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Haven’t we all suffered enough already? Sterling Void says he’s coming to Britain next year in bizarre Facebook rant – and the Belleville Three are looking for a British date, too…
Do you ever get the feeling that life is permanently one set of trolls followed by another? That’s the feeling at the Ears To The House office this weekend – we’ve had rising inflation,...
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After Kevin Saunderson sold the KMS catalogue to Beat Music Fund this year, the mystery remains of why Juan Atkins hasn’t sold the Metroplex archive to the highest bidder…
Whilst Ears To The House aren’t fans of pointlessly dwelling on the year that’s gone by – we prefer to leave the lists to other websites – it hasn’t gone unnoticed that 2023 was...
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Nothing new to see here, then! How DO you make some quick money if you’re Juan “Originator” Atkins? Er, by re-pressing some old stuff you put out in 1993…
Every now and then, a question arises in the heads of the legacy DJs from dance music’s early days – how on earth can I make a bit of money, and quickly? Going out...
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Juan Atkins celebrated his 61st birthday at the weekend by playing Insane Who Sane – as a source confirms that he REALLY thinks he founded techno…
For some reason, which Ears To The House will probably never fully understand, a lot of DJs like turning their birthdays into a public event. They usually do it by holding a party –...
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Juan “Originator” Atkins would have you believe that he created the entire genre of techno – but an unearthed interview he gave nearly 30 years ago shows much more humility…
Over the past year or so, the three members of the so-called Belleville Three have been trying to claim they started techno. Derrick May spent many years telling the world this message – it’s...
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Just how many founding fathers DOES Detroit techno have? Ahead of their next party on Friday night, Detroit Beatdown add Eddie Fowlkes’s name to the already crowded list of originators…
How many founding fathers is too many? It depends on who you ask and how widely you define “founding fathers”. For example, historian Richard Morris says that there are seven founding fathers to what’s...
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The Warehouse’s Robert Williams is launching a series of events to “celebrate the global impact of Chicago house music” – so why on earth is Detroit’s Juan Atkins invited?
It’s been a fairly good few months for those fighting to preserve Chicago’s history with house music – a welcome relief in a city that has often shown great hostility towards a genre that...
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Is there ANYONE this man doesn’t cause problems for? Now it’s revealed that Derrick May curated two programmes for PBS – and execs have no idea what to do with the other episode…
Back on Sunday, Ears To The House reported on the fallout from the now-deleted PBS documentary starring Derrick May. Within hours of the programme being broadcast on the network last Wednesday, PBS took it...
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After PBS takes down a programme about Detroit techno featuring Derrick May, hardly anyone in the city has a good word to say – and the other two members of the Belleville Three aren’t happy either!
It was supposed to be Derrick May’s latest opportunity at redeeming himself. Following the Derrick May European Coming Back Tour earlier in the year, the next plan was to appear on the TV –...
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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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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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Who will be next to give up their vinyl collection? After Detroit’s DJ Rolando confirms he’s selling 600 records, friends say Derrick May is “seriously thinking about it” amidst ongoing financial woes…
One constant in the ever-changing dance music world is the ability of DJs to keep finding new ways to make money. Examples of this came about during the pandemic – such as Derrick Carter...
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