There are some things in the dance music world that just wouldn’t make sense anywhere else. For example, parents sending in their children to school know that there are only going to be so...
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Pay $200 less to be ignored than before, part two! Pete Tong’s DJ Academy, with its “visibility opportunities”, is offering places for $279 a time – but only until Christmas Day…
Just what on earth do you get the budding DJ in your life for Christmas nowadays? Sure, you could stick to more standard offerings at this time of year – things like boxes of...
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Beatport’s majority owned IMS Ibiza announces the first topics for discussion – with “rebuilding community” and Defected’s gobbling up by Wez Saunders top of the agenda…
Is the International Music Summit in Ibiza a place where business in the dance music world gets done, or nothing more than, to use a term that the event’s British founder Pete Tong might...
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That’s at least one thing that hasn’t gone all wrong! As Pete Tong’s Radio 1 show gets ready for its 33rd birthday in January, how has his show survived whilst all the others fell?
Buried deep within BBC documents is the remit of Radio 1 – as founded back in 1967 to counter Britain’s pirate radio stations at the time. In their own words, “the remit of Radio...
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Has Pete Tong’s DJ Academy got a rival in music education? SeeDJ claims to “accelerate your path” into the industry – with Nastia’s “Growing As A DJ” lesson costing $49…
It used to be ever so simple. Years ago, DJs could make money by simply being DJs. All they had to do was turn up, play some vinyl, and collect their money. Some can...
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Meet Alessandro Tripi, the silent partner behind Pete Tong’s DJ Academy – with a background in the beauty business and almost as many music connections as Tongy himself…
Following the money is something that has served some of dance music’s biggest names very well. Now, Ears To The House doesn’t believe this is necessarily a bad thing – in most walks of...
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Pay $200 less to be ignored than before! Pete Tong’s DJ Academy, with its “visibility opportunities”, is offering places for just $247 a time – but the offer expires next Tuesday…
Mr Peter Michael Tong MBE is a man who has done very well for himself in life – not least by following the money throughout his career. From record labels, radio shows, DJing, and...
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Did Carl Cox play those illegal raves in the 1980s for exposure? Pete Tong’s DJ Academy is pushing “visibility opportunities”, which Coxy duly promotes – but you’ve got to pay your $447 first!
Peter Michael Tong MBE is a man who has done very well indeed for himself. At the age of 15, he played his first ever public set at a friend’s wedding – and he’s...
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Has Pete Tong’s £418 DJ academy met its match? Now Richie Hawtin is doing scholarships – in Huddersfield, of all places…
The upper echelon DJs are a curious breed, forever trying to devise new ways of staying relevant and to keep the lifestyles they’ve become hopelessly accustomed to. And it seems one of the most...
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Pete Tong wants to reward students on his £418 DJ academy…
Regular readers of Ears To The House might recall a story that we originally published in May about Pete Tong’s latest money spinner – a school for DJs. For the princely sum of £418...
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DJing for your country – would today’s prima donnas do it?
As Britain gets ready to begin the four-day jubilee today – celebrating 70 years of having Queen Elizabeth II on the throne – our thoughts at Ears To The House turn to DJs. Naturally...
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The Pete Tong DJ school and a terrible case of price inflation…
If there’s one thing DJs in the upper echelons of dance music are good at, it’s making money. Lots and lots of it – but in their eyes, there’s one way to distinguish between...
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The old ones are the best – for repackaging and making money from all over again! Pete Tong and his orchestra go back out on the road to rinse classic tunes out yet again…
One thing which streaming did to revolutionise the music world – and not necessarily for the better – was to allow people to easily listen to old records. Time was if you wanted to...
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Pete Tong making lots of money out of other people’s music by travelling with an orchestra? It’s no different to what he’s done his whole career…
Who is making the money in dance music these days? Mostly the rich old white men at the top of the business playing the music is the short answer. Some of it trickles down...
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One year on from Erick Morillo’s death, will the likes of Sharam, Yousef and Pete Tong finally apologise to the world for their utterly nauseating tributes?
It was one year ago to the day today that we learnt Erick Morillo had taken the easy way out. Facing a rape charge and with a court appearance due, Morillo was found dead...
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Learning to live with the virus or rich (mostly) white men wanting to get back to making lots of money – what’s REALLY motivating the guests behind the “Co-Existing With Covid” show?
Over the past week or so, I’ve seen this programme being promoted quite heavily on social media. Which is ironic, because the show itself is much longer than anything normally being pushed on the...
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