Ears To The House

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You can’t just keep rinsing the 80s and 90s forever! As streaming’s tentacles continue to influence the way people listen to music, where ARE the classics of tomorrow going to come from?

Ears To The House Team 7 January 2024

You know things are getting desperate when the establishment media start asking the big questions. And no, we’re not talking about the dance music press – if the questions aren’t about drugs or about...

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The music making bug never leaves you! Brian Tappert confirms that 90s US garage duo Jazz-N-Groove are working on new projects – but where does that leave their current baby?

Ears To The House Team 18 December 2023

There’s only one week now until the large bearded one with the red coat makes his annual visit – and people finally find out who made the nice list and the naughty list. But...

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Is Wez Saunders a fan of recycling? Defected have been getting into the garage house scene – by getting Crackazat and Sean McCabe remix stuff from the old Sub-Urban catalogue they own…

Ears To The House Team 22 November 2023

There are a truly endless number of dance music sub-genres in existence. So many, in fact, that Ears To The House can’t help but wonder if some of them are just made up –...

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It sounds like it was made in 1983! Innovator Juan Atkins brings Cybotron out of retirement with new track – but Rik Davis isn’t involved, and the whole thing smells of a cash grab…

Ears To The House Team 29 August 2023

Juan Atkins is a man who calls himself some very grandiose names – innovator and originator are currently his favourite two. Others within the Detroit techno scene these days reportedly call him slightly less...

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Are you still using Windows XP over there? Detroit’s Juan Atkins was doing a show last night – promoted with an advert which looks like it was made in 2001…

Ears To The House Team 2 July 2023

We’ve got to concede that it does sometimes look like Ears To The House is simply trying to mock some of the people we write about. Naturally, it’s a charge we refute – most...

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The internet is angry over an Amelie Lens mix they haven’t heard…

Ears To The House Team 11 September 2022

Think of the long running Global Underground series and names like Tony De Vit, John Digweed, Deep Dish, Carl Cox and Danny Tenaglia come to mind. As part of the series, they released mixes...

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The world needs another Deep Inside remix – so say Strictly…

Ears To The House Team 2 August 2022

Dance music has a truly incredible ability to cannibalise itself, doesn’t it? In every other music scene, it’s a regular supply of new music which keeps things going – but in the world of...

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New mixes of classic Basement Jaxx not up to scratch…

Ears To The House Team 7 July 2022

Do you remember an era when Basement Jaxx used to pleasantly surprise us each time they turned up with a new release? Ears To The House most certainly does – most of us can...

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When Kylie met Peggy – and we’re already wishing they hadn’t…

Ears To The House Team 25 May 2022

For every great and good remix in the annals of history, there are equally bad ones. Such as Armand Van Helden’s attempt in 1995 to create a remix of “Cotton Eyed Joe” by Rednex...

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So how far will they be taking their ban on men? London festival Rinse only wants women DJs and staff – but no word on whether the “divine feminine” will be banned from playing male music or taking their money…

Ears To The House Team 25 January 2022

That idea of men and women being equal in dance music never really took off, did it? For decades, men dominated lineups everywhere you looked – and frankly, they still do. And no one’s...

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The Flying Lotus used the pandemic to make changes which brought him a Grammy nomination – what a contrast to the lazy so-called innovators of dance music…

Ears To The House Team 23 January 2022

I’m going to start this post with a passage from The Bible, of all places. The book of James, chapter one, verses two to four state “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,...

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So you wonder why I gave up making music? In a climate where 82% of all music streamed in the USA is now old music, new stuff has never found it so tough to break through…

Ears To The House Team 10 January 2022

Last summer, I published an article commenting on the fact 66% of all audio streaming in the USA consisted of so-called catalogue material. And just to be absolutely clear here, catalogue material is anything...

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As a new year begins, part two of this blog’s series glancing into a crystal ball to make some not entirely serious predictions about what 2022 might have in store…

Ears To The House Team 2 January 2022

Yesterday, this blog made its predictions for what was not especially likely to happen during 2022 from January to June. Today, the series concludes by going through the months from July until December… As...

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It’s not hypocrisy when they do it! CamelPhat moan about “tech house variants” of old tracks – but just look at some of the drivel they’ve put out during their careers…

Ears To The House Team 21 December 2021

Many DJs in the higher branches of the dance music tree are so intertwined in what they do that they can no longer see the woods from the trees. They can no longer see...

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Is this another thing we’re just going to blame Covid for? Up to four in ten ticket holders aren’t turning up for some events, and no one wants to ask why…

Ears To The House Team 17 December 2021

The music press this week has been wailing in despair over the news that the number of people not bothering to attend gigs that they’ve bought tickets for is rocketing. In some cases, up...

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Haven’t we all suffered enough already in 2021? Once great label Positiva asks Jamie Jones remixes “Tainted Love” by Soft Cell – and it’s just as awful as you’d expect…

Ears To The House Team 6 December 2021

Believe it or not, but there actually was a time in dance music history when new songs came out frequently and were supported. And older records would typically only be remixed when there was...

new not old please