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You’re supposed to be based in Detroit, not London! A first glimpse at Movement’s lineup reveals Britain’s Fatboy Slim, Chicago’s Honey Dijon, Italy’s Joseph Capriati – and even Mr Human Diazepam is going…

Ears To The House Team 29 January 2024

Turning a one-off festival into an annual event isn’t something that comes naturally to many – and a lot of people have tried and failed in the process. Kudos, therefore, to Detroit’s Movement Electronic...

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“Everything he touches is STILL turning into s**t!”: After another January of festival announcements nears its end, why hasn’t a single date from the Belleville Three tour been revealed yet?

Ears To The House Team 29 January 2024

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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DJing on a bridge between buildings, almost no techno played on the night and a VERY subdued atmosphere: Derrick May’s latest New Year’s Eve – as reviewed by someone who was there…

Ears To The House Team 7 January 2024

For Detroit’s most occasional DJ, 2023 was a year where, as one of our sources previously put it, “everything he touched turned to s**t”. So it seemed strangely appropriate that Derrick May’s December was...

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So where IS Derrick May’s New Year’s Eve gig for 2023? Er, at the Hanah Steakhouse in Detroit alongside Kevin Saunderson – but not Juan Atkins, for some reason…

Ears To The House Team 29 December 2023

Historically speaking, one of the most lucrative nights in the DJ calendar was New Year’s Eve. That great clamour amongst many to celebrate the inevitable passage of one year into the next has to...

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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…

Ears To The House Team 22 December 2023

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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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…

Ears To The House Team 17 December 2023

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…

Ears To The House Team 14 December 2023

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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Was parroting this rubbish part of the deal? Now Beat Music Fund are doing Kevin Saunderson’s bidding – and recouping their money – by wheeling out Derrick May on social media…

Ears To The House Team 20 November 2023

Back in June, Ears To The House started reporting on a curious new phenomenon in dance music – called Beat Music Fund. Set up by Armada Music, it calls itself “dance music’s first investment...

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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…

Ears To The House Team 9 November 2023

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!

Ears To The House Team 5 November 2023

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!

Ears To The House Team 24 October 2023

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?

Ears To The House Team 22 October 2023

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…

Ears To The House Team 20 October 2023

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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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…

Ears To The House Team 2 October 2023 1 Comment

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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There’s money in old rope, you know! So how much money DID Kevin Saunderson make from selling the KMS catalogue to Beat Music Fund – and who else in Detroit is considering flogging their own archive?

Ears To The House Team 24 July 2023

As things stand, the best way to make money out of dance music is to have had the good fortune to be one of those that got in early. If you ran a record...