I read an extremely interesting article on the 5 Magazine site earlier this week. They’re one of very few dance music outlets that I have any time for. The article goes into detail about...
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Don’t want to pay £28 for a Todd Edwards shirt courtesy of Defected? Here’s how you can get one that’s better… and cheaper!
Occasionally, I do more analytical pieces on this blog. Some things can’t be explained in a few sentences, after all. I wrote a few weeks ago about some things going on at Defected Records...
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He thinks he’s packing something that’s 12 inches in size – but would DJ Sneak underwear put you in the mood for love?
Recently, I published a post about how DJ Sneak – probably the man who’s argued with the most people in house music in history – was resorting to smutty puns to get people watching...
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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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NFTs? My phone’s auto translate changes that into “nuts” – and it turns out for good reason…
I’m going to do something unusual here. I’m going to send you all somewhere else to read something. Unusual, perhaps. But I’ve come to the conclusion over the years that it’s sometimes best to...
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Can you open a nightclub without taking the financial risk? BIT in the Netherlands think you can…
Time was that if someone wanted to start their own nightclub, they’d have to take a fair number of risks to do so. They’d have to find a suitable building. They’d have to design...
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How are they still even in business? Mixmag’s owners own accounts show a loss of almost £5million – and that was BEFORE the pandemic hit
Here’s another story that you won’t read on Mixmag, or on any of their competitors. For some reason, there’s some kind of code in place which means they don’t say anything negative about each...
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The latest trend in music? Finding old stuff that was overlooked the first time round and making it popular – if only I knew an artist worthy of such treatment…
I never knew this, but one of the latest trends in music is trying to find old stuff that wasn’t very popular when it was new. I read about this over on MBW, with...
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Arsenal’s reject Daniel Ek’s offer to buy the football club – but all his statement at the weekend shows is his glaring lack of self-awareness and hypocrisy
Self-awareness was never a quality that Spotify CEO Daniel Ek had in any meaningful quantity. This is, remember, the man who told musicians who make no money on his service to make more music,...
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Aren’t there already millions of sampled clap sounds online? Yet another pointless plugin is released to help producers waste time trying to make that “perfect” clap sound
This is one for those of you who have more money than sense – and let’s be honest, there’s more of them in dance music than anyone would admit. You can now actually buy...
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Whilst Detroit DJ Terrence Parker begs fans to save his favourite club Djoon, a straightforward question – did Parker ever pay back all the people that HE owed money to?
I see that Terrence Parker has been on social media, helping spread the message that his favourite club needs money to continue operating. The fundraiser for Paris based Djoon is aiming to raise $50,000...
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Periods of reflection don’t last as long as they used to! US country singer Morgan Wallen back in the fold just three months after using racial slur
Some of the earlier followers on this blog might remember what I wrote on February 8th about Morgan Wallen, a huge country music singer from the USA. The full post is here, but here’s...
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The REAL story behind Daft Punk and why Eddie Johns was never paid for the “One More Time” sample – not the clickbait version the press would have you believe
Over the past few days, you might have noticed a story going around about Daft Punk’s 2000 release “One More Time”. The song is built heavily around a few chopped up samples of a...
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Is Bandcamp Friday going to become a permanent feature on the site? Whispers that music retailer is “seriously considering” keeping it past the pandemic
Bandcamp Friday began last year back in March. It was the website’s response to the coronavirus pandemic decimating several income streams for artists, producers, singers and others in the industry – who saw live...
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Berlin is declaring its clubs to be “cultural institutions” – sensible or just a sign of the dry German sense of humour?
Much is made by the dance music press here in Britain who think that nightclubs and such are treated badly by the authorities. It’s something you’ll find them going on about whenever a journalist...
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Couldn’t you just make a TV documentary and be done with it, Danny? Turns out Danny Rampling owns a TV production company…
Time was that Danny Rampling took the threat of coronavirus extremely seriously. Back on March 23rd last year, after the British Prime Minister imposed some of the tightest restrictions on life since World War...
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