At the time of publication, Mary Elizabeth Truss has been the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for some 20 hours – and Ears To The House is already wishing we could have Boris...
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Has the business techno scene forgiven Jackmaster?
Four years ago, Jackmaster’s career was developing quite nicely. He had numerous record labels, released a steady supply of music and had a busy DJing schedule. It seemed that little could stop the 36-year...
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DJ Spen wants you to send 15-minute DJ sets of his own tracks!
As Ears To The House was writing about as recently as yesterday, DJs typically used to get noticed back in the day through one of two methods. They would either spend hours and hours...
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Trax Records and Rachael Cain accused of fraud – what’s going on?
Just under two weeks ago, the world finally got to find out how a legal action over allegations of unpaid royalties by Larry Heard and Robert Owens against Trax Records would be settled. And...
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Are upcoming DJs getting fake verified to get to the top?
From the relatively early days of social media, it’s been possible to buy followers. Although the technology existed in Facebook’s infancy, it was when Twitter came along in 2006 that it started to really...
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Ash Lauryn’s sister calls EP “Sex Worker” – smart or stupid?
The mysteriously rising star Ash Lauryn – known as such because no one can quite work out how she ascended to her current fame in such a short time – has a sister. Now,...
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How much of John Summit’s “on a bender” image is real?
Let’s face facts. There aren’t exactly a lot of new standout artists in the dance music world right now. A lot of this is probably to do with established artists trying to secure their...
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The Saunders era looks a lot like the Dunmore era at Defected…
Over the weekend, we got pondering at Ears To The House HQ about what’s going to happen with Defected, now they’re under new leadership. Will the label be going in a more commercial direction...
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Who appeared with Carl Craig at Teksupport? An update…
We’ve just realised something after another busy Sunday here at Ears To The House – we forgot to update you on a story we first ran in August and came back to on Friday....
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Mark Broom sampling Paul Johnson sampling George Benson…
House music was built on a sampling culture. This isn’t an especially controversial statement – even in house music’s early days, sample packs were a thing, albeit on far more dodgy legal ground than...
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So how much did Juan Atkins contribute to techno?
Here at Ears To The House, we were very pleased to discover that Juan Atkins reads our site. He joins an increasing array of DJs, producers, promoters and journalists who decry this site, yet...
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Sympathising with predators? Not just a dance music thing…
Absolutely no one who reads Ears To The House with any kind of regularity will be surprised to discover we don’t think the dance music world does anywhere near enough to address problems such...
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Someone pretended to be Derrick Carter’s tour manager…
Isn’t that just typical? We at Ears To The House take our traditional Saturday off – although that’s one tradition we’ll be disposing of once we’re good and ready – and something like this...
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So who is Carl Craig’s “surprise guest” tonight at Teksupport NYC?
Brooklyn’s Teksupport slogan is “provides a solution within house and techno” – and tonight, they’ll also be providing a solution in the form of a hefty pay cheque for Carl Craig, Ricardo Villalobos and...
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Get Defected on the line! New Beethoven sampling tech-house…
Cast your mind back to two years ago – we were just coming to the end of the summer of 2020. It was a strange time – the first Covid-19 wave of March and...
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Facebook won’t let A Guy Called Gerald play his own music…
Social media throws up some very strange things. Misinformation about vaccines is permitted to remain online, yet someone who uses an obscenity to describe a politician faces a temporary ban from posting anything. People...
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