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Tory MP complains about illegal rave – Britain tries not to laugh…

ETTH Team 6 June 2022

A prerequisite these days of being a British Tory MP is a complete inability to be able to see themselves and to defend literally anything that the leadership does, no matter how monumentally stupid...

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The 23by23 campaign: a progress report

ETTH Team 3 June 2022

Late last year, DJs Sydney Blu and Rebekah Teasdale – who usually operates under just her first name – started a new campaign called 23by23. The idea behind it? To increase the percentage of...

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Watch out, Boris! Jeff Mills is coming to Manchester…

ETTH Team 3 June 2022

Back in November last year, there was much controversy reported on this site when the MDL Beast Soundstorm festival was due to take place in the human rights abusing Saudi Arabia. A lot of...

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The Belleville Three myth lives on at Resident Advisor…

ETTH Team 3 June 2022

Those of you who have been paying attention will already know that the Belleville Three cover story – peddled without question by the useless dance music press for decades – is largely a myth....

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“Father of MIDI” Dave Smith dies aged 72

ETTH Team 2 June 2022

Occasionally in life, you come across someone who was a real pioneer. Someone who was ahead of their time and brought about a seismic change in the way things were done. They’re usually too...

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Is Bandcamp Friday becoming permanent?

ETTH Team 1 June 2022

This isn’t an industry with a lot of good guys in it. Call us cynical if you like, but the truth is there are a lot of people in music who are out for...

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Will festivals spread monkeypox this summer?

ETTH Team 1 June 2022

And just when you thought it was safe to go outside again, another virus is suddenly on the loose – and this time, no one can even try to blame the Chinese for it....

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Clubs are back – ugly side and all…

ETTH Team 1 June 2022

Some people occasionally get the impression that Ears To The House aren’t exactly keen on clubbing. Not so – it’s a central part of the dance music world and probably always will be. This...

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UPDATE: Moodymann OK after car accident, but shows to be cancelled

ETTH Team 31 May 2022

Time now to update you on a story which broke late last night. As Ears To The House reported, Moodymann – real name Kenny Dixon Jr – was involved in a car accident yesterday...

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Planet E is 30 – but why has Carl Craig not had his mentor on?

ETTH Team 31 May 2022

If you had a look in the dance music world at what labels were around in the 1990s, you’ll quickly notice almost all of them have long disappeared. If industry politics didn’t take them...

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The dance music press attitude to Covid? Here’s a clue…

ETTH Team 31 May 2022

Was it always like this? This is the question posed about the dance music press – known mostly for being craven sycophants afraid to ask anything remotely difficult or controversial. The richest people in...

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Kevin Saunderson poses with Derrick May – then Louie Vega doesn’t…

ETTH Team 31 May 2022

It’s been a busy few days for Derrick May – perhaps it’s just as well, as he doesn’t have many of them anymore. Since Saturday, he’s been hanging around at the Movement Electronic Music...

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Phones on dancefloors – we agree with Simon Dunmore!

ETTH Team 30 May 2022

We have to concede that here at Ears To The House, we have mixed feelings about Simon Dunmore. On the one hand, the Defected boss is buying up huge swathes of house music history...

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Will “I Want The Love Of My Own” by Frankie Knuckles EVER see the light of day?

ETTH Team 30 May 2022

Quite some time ago now – 26th August last year, to be precise – Ears To The House published an article about how a big mythical vault full of unreleased Frankie Knuckles records basically...

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Derrick May is now plugging Andres’s music…

ETTH Team 30 May 2022

The Movement Electronic Music Festival is concluding today in Detroit. The curiously rising star that is Ash Lauryn have performed, alongside the likes of Jeff Mills, Carl Craig and names like Kaskade – whose...