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United Dance Company’s Brian Bout arrested over rape claim

Ears To The House Team 18 August 2022

Ears To The House can reveal that Brian Bout, the owner and director of United Dance Company, the organisation which runs annual Netherlands festival Dance Valley, was recently arrested on suspicion of rape. Bout,...

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Trax gloat at Kanye West legal action – pot kettle black?

Ears To The House Team 29 July 2022

We do thoroughly enjoy it at Ears To The House when someone or something displays a remarkable lack of self-awareness. This is something which is in plentiful supply in dance music, and keeps us...

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Why is the CPS allowing drill music videos as evidence?

Ears To The House Team 4 July 2022

We have an explicit rule here at Ears To The House – it applies to both our writers and to those who frequently contribute ideas for stories to the site. This rule is pretty...

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Kanye West, The House Music Anthem and a $150k lawsuit

Ears To The House Team 1 July 2022

The legal troubles of Kanye West keep mounting up. Fresh from Bishop David Paul Moten suing West over allegedly unauthorised use of a speech on the song “Come To Life”, Ultra International Music Publishing...

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Chaudhari vs R&S and Vandepapelier – what the media didn’t tell you…

Ears To The House Team 14 June 2022

Ears To The House has little to make in terms of comment on the case of Raj Chaudhari versus R&S Records and owner Renaut Vandepapelier, which was recently concluded. Chaudhari sued R&S and Vandepapelier...

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Buy now, get paid six weeks later – Bandcamp’s legal battle heats up…

Ears To The House Team 25 May 2022

Back in March, Epic Games confirmed they had acquired Bandcamp. Cue much scratching of heads amidst the heavy publicity for the news. Epic’s official statement said “Epic and Bandcamp share a mission of building...

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After a footballer’s arrest, questions of culture in music too

Ears To The House Team 31 January 2022

Yesterday, a rather disturbing video emerged on social media. The roughly one minute long clip contained a picture of a woman who appeared to have been assaulted, and included audio of what I will...

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The Neil Young thing really isn’t the big story here! Whilst Daniel Ek’s Spotify fights bid to pay songwriters more money, the company is about to sign a sponsorship deal worth $380million with Barcelona FC…

Ears To The House Team 28 January 2022

Much has been said over the past few days about musician Neil Young demanding his music was taken off Spotify due to false Covid information allegedly being broadcast by their $100million podcaster Joe Rogan....

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One rule for us, another rule for them! As BBC radio DJ Maressa Innerarity is fined £1,000 for lending her speakers to a plague rave, when will Boris Johnson be receiving his demand for payment?

Ears To The House Team 27 January 2022

It must be quite expensive being Boris Johnson. For starters, there’s the taste for the finer things in life he’s had since pretty much the day he was born. For example, he once described...

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Was this a smart move? Old Mr Fingers music was amongst Trax Records re-releases put out quietly over the New Year period – right in the middle of a court case brought by Larry Heard and Robert Owens against the label…

Ears To The House Team 21 January 2022

I speak frequently on this blog about how a fair few people in dance music are unable to see the wood for the trees. They’re so deeply immersed in their own little worlds that...

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New year, same old tired tactics! The DJ who publicly posts anti-vaxxer propaganda yet had his booster jab last month – and he’s threatening to sue anyone who publishes his name…

Ears To The House Team 4 January 2022

It might be a brand new year and everyone might well now be packing away the dreary song that is Auld Lang Syne until the next New Year’s Eve, but some old habits from...

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I’m just surprised it’s taken this long before it happened! Berlin’s ban on dancing in clubs is being challenged in court – and Paul Van Dyk is spearheading the case…

Ears To The House Team 21 December 2021

When the pandemic started, Germany was seen as something of a role model in Europe as to how to handle it. Whilst Britain was in a strict lockdown and seeing around 1000 deaths per...

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Four Tet has been given permission to pursue breach of contract claim against Domino Recordings in their messy legal fallout – but could the case end up in the High Court as a result?

Ears To The House Team 16 December 2021

The falling out between Four Tet and Domino Recordings has been messy so far. The dispute is primarily about Four Tet disputing streaming royalties from three albums originally released in 2001 – when online...

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The next big scam in the music industry? Criminals pretending they own the rights to records and coining it in – as two US men face charges of stealing $20million of royalties…

Ears To The House Team 6 December 2021

Criminality has never been a million miles away from the music world, as I outlined in an article recently about “dark forces” in the major labels working overtime to stop themselves having to give...

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Is there something they’re not telling us here? They don’t want to pay Four Tet more in royalties – but Domino Recordings DO want to pay someone to assist the staff who pay out the royalties…

Ears To The House Team 28 November 2021

Over the past week, I have noticed that the long-running legal dispute between electronic musician Four Tet and Domino Recordings. The spat is over the way Domino appear to have interpreted how much to...

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EXCLUSIVE: Plague rave agency which tried to shut me up has to pay out AGAIN as someone caught Covid and almost died after being at their event – and wait until you read their charming reply!

Ears To The House Team 18 November 2021

Quite a few months ago now, this blog published an account by a plague rave DJ of his activities during the pandemic. The deal was simple – I would allow him to publish his...

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