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Even Detroit is rewriting Belleville Three story – but why?

ETTH Team 26 August 2022

Last night, God Said Give ‘Em Drum Machines finally received its premiere in the city of Detroit. Not only that, but a party took place afterwards to celebrate the event, simply because they could...

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Was Wez Saunders eyeing up Defected top job for two years?

ETTH Team 25 August 2022

Many people seem to have been surprised by the news this week that the Defected empire has a new boss in charge. And whilst it hasn’t come as a complete surprise to Ears To...

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What’s next for Wez Saunders and Defected’s new era?

ETTH Team 24 August 2022

With the changing of the guards at Defected now apparently complete – at least until the next set of changes are brought in – everyone is getting used to the same faces still being...

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34 years in prison for using Twitter on MDL Beast territory…

ETTH Team 19 August 2022

Could you possibly imagine a scenario where people could be imprisoned for having a Twitter account? The editor of Ears To The House would be doing porridge alongside his colleagues and huge swathes of...

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Masters At Work are milking the Nuyorican Soul cow again…

ETTH Team 18 August 2022

There are few people in the dance music world who have been around longer than Louie Vega and Kenny Gonzalez. The two are primarily known as Masters At Work when they DJ together on...

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Spotify are going into ticket trade – guess who’s not happy?

ETTH Team 12 August 2022

Imagine that you run a business which was repeatedly cited as having saved an entire industry, yet your own company had never made a single penny of profit in its entire 17 years of...

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Louie Vega and a Wet Deck – insert your own joke here…

ETTH Team 11 August 2022

Louie Vega has been in the house music business for some 35 years now – and by that, we very much mean in the business. Sources who know Vega describe him as a man...

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Mixmag think you should spend almost £1500 on equipment…

ETTH Team 4 August 2022

If there’s one thing which can always be said of the dance music press, it’s that they show a lack of self-awareness which is staggering – even by the levels typically seen in this...

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Cybotron to make London appearance – but where’s Rik Davis?

ETTH Team 29 July 2022

Juan Atkins was the inventor of techno and probably also invented sliced bread, the wheel and built the ancient pyramids of Egypt. If you spoke to the man himself, you might be tempted to...

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No, Nervous don’t make branded bed sheets – but should they?

ETTH Team 28 July 2022

Time for something a bit lighter for this Thursday evening. Every now and then, Nervous Records post pictures of bootleg merchandise doing the rounds. Having been in the merchandising market since at least the...

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Would you pay $100k for a helicopter ride? Rollin’ Loud reckon so…

ETTH Team 25 July 2022

As much as the likes of Defected would like to tell you that everyone is equal in the world of house music, some people are more equal than others. The idyllic early days of...

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With such a big lineup, how does Tomorrowland make a profit?

ETTH Team 22 July 2022

A few weeks ago, Ears To The House published an article pointing out how the Tomorrowland lineup for this year “worships at the altar of business techno”. It’s a criticism we stand by –...

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Defected are looking for new blood in A&R department…

ETTH Team 20 July 2022

There seem to a few changes afoot at Defected right now. Last week, their A&R manager Adrienne Bookbinder confirmed that she was leaving in August – posting a long thread on her Twitter account...

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Untold Festival reveals lineup… is the same as everyone else’s!

ETTH Team 5 July 2022

Why is the festival world so mind-numbingly boring and averse to risk these days? It’s a question Ears To The House has posed before – because this naturally conservative natured beast is being especially...

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Larry Levan tribute nights? No, we’re not fans, either…

ETTH Team 29 June 2022

Back on Monday, Ears To The House published an article about a Frankie Knuckles tribute event in Italy last weekend which met with scorn by David Morales – one man who knew Knuckles more...