Traditionally, the start of a brand new year would herald that annual batch of weight loss videos. This usually consists of some smug, high-minded type exercising in exceedingly tight lycra to make you feel...
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So which 5-star Riyadh hotel shall I stay at next time? The question every business techno DJ will be asking as Saudi Arabia confirms it wants to become a global “cultural hub”…
The Nazï regime was probably the first in the world to truly understand the power of the media. Hitler tasked his propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels with ensuring the media of the time – which...
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€87 for Judge Jules, €237 for deadmau5 and €66 for Paul Oakenfold to wish your best friend a happy birthday – inside the latest money-spinner for DJs who despite Covid still have big bills to pay…
Time was that celebrities made the vast majority of their money in their main line of work. For instance, most of the movie stars in Hollywood years ago got their money out of starring...
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NFTs: just the latest method of scamming artists or a new way to let them keep control and have more money in their pockets? This blog is undecided (for once!)…
First of all, welcome back to the blog. I had the day off yesterday – and I hope you didn’t miss Amateur’s House too much. It’s back to somewhat normal business this morning –...
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Is it aimed at DJs in clubs or the ones in their kitchens? Beatport recently unveiled a new $9.99 streaming plan – which just leaves me with more questions than answers…
Someone somewhere is benefitting from streaming. But whom? It’s certainly not the artists whose music is on such services. They’re being paid a pittance for the use of their work. And it’s not even...
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There’s money in old rope! Why this blog’s statement about veteran house producer Michael Gray doing well out of remixing archive tracks during 2021 is correct…
Last week, this blog published an article about the Traxsource Top 200 chart of 2021. I commented on the large number of remixes of old tracks in the chart – and pointed out that...
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Turns out they don’t support freedom of speech either! MDL Beast Soundstorm’s prima-donna DJs are locking down their comments against criticism – proving they really do hold their fans in contempt…
In life, you’re occasionally going to have to make choices which could be divisive or controversial. Such is the way with the DJs who made their decision to go to the MDL Beast Soundstorm...
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Plenty to write about next year, then! Country wants to increase number of concerts they host by 600% during next year – so how much will it cost to allay all those consciences? (and that’s not to mention their egos…)
By now, all those DJs who went out to Saudi Arabia’s MDL Beast Soundstorm festival will be either heading home or about to do so. They go back knowing their bank accounts are looking...
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As MDL Beast Soundstorm closes today, how much Saudi money was enough to buy the silence of DJs? An old tweet by deadmau5 (who was on the lineup) reveals a possible clue…
It was Russian crime boss Ray Bulgarin in Grand Theft Auto IV who once said “There is a price for everything in this city. You just have to find out what it is”. And...
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Charlotte De Witte FINALLY speaks out about the MDL Beast Soundstorm festival controversy – after missing her own set because she kept getting stuck in police road blocks…
As far as excuses for missing a DJ set go, this is probably one of the most amusing stories I’ve come across in quite a while. Business techno DJ Charlotte De Witte – yes,...
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So that’s what Dennis Waterman is doing these days! News that a project created songs out of Covid-19’s DNA code just reminds me of old comedy Little Britain…
Those of you living in the UK might remember a show which was on the BBC during the 2000s – it was called Little Britain. The comedy show was created by Matt Lucas and...
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As the controversial MDL Beast Soundstorm festival launches today, Human Rights Watch suggest DJs should “speak out about human rights abuses” in the country – so take a guess what they WON’T be doing?
So the disgraceful day is finally here. The DJs and other acts are getting ready to do their sets at the MDL Beast Soundstorm festival in Saudi Arabia. At the time of publishing, many...
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Well, this blog’s faith has been well and truly lost! Faithless rinse yet another song from their back catalogue – by giving David Guetta the chance (and money) to remix their 1998 hit “God Is A DJ”…
Let’s talk about Faithless. They created the since massively overplayed “Insomnia” back in 1994. Island Records were originally meant to release it, but they admitted several months after signing the contracts that they had...
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DJ Sneak gets into the Christmas spirit by flogging some T-shirts from his online shop – and there isn’t an overpriced baseball cap to be seen anywhere near it!
If there’s one thing we know about DJ Sneak – other than the fact he loves a good row with his fellow DJs, or the fact he still hasn’t delivered his vow to remove...
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I told you these people can’t take criticism! Now Jeff Mills switches comments off on his Facebook page after swipes at his laughable defence of doing MDL Beast Soundstorm festival rumbles on…
This blog is beginning to suspect that one person is looking forward to Christmas even more than normal this year. And that person is Jeffery Eugene Mills, 58, from Detroit in Michigan, USA. He...
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Who seriously cares? My own question for Music Business Worldwide as they ask whether Universal or Spotify will be worth more at 2021’s end…
Back on Monday, Music Business Worldwide asked what they thought was an important question concerning Universal Music Group and Spotify. “Which of music’s two giants will be worth more at the end of 2021?”,...
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