Update (14/12/2021) – Kevin McKay points out that T Markakis was in fact paid shortly after he went public with his allegations. Happy to correct the record. As I write on this Monday morning,...
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Derrick May is complaining to his friends that someone is leaking information about him – and guess what? Even THAT conversation got leaked to this very blog!
Back in 2004, a film was released called Der Untergang. This German movie was about the final days of Adolf Hitler’s maniacal Nazi regime. It’s particularly well known for a scene where Hitler is...
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I was told I’d have 5G and a phone call from Bill Gates by now, but I’m still waiting – so having had my second Covid jab this weekend, how DID the anti-vaxxers get it so wrong?
The anti-vaxxers have been telling us for months now that you shouldn’t get the Covid vaccine. It’s part of an evil plot so that Bill Gates can take over the world by sending drones...
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Sneak’s a freak! House gangster DJ Sneak uses rude puns on his website stream – but what’s he packing that’s 12 inches in size?
A friend of mine mentioned yesterday that I haven’t written about DJ Sneak recently. Well, I’ll be giving an update on when Traxsource Freedom Day is for Sneak sometime next week. In the meantime,...
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Now, about the homophobia: what you won’t be reading in the press as the veneration of Saint DMX goes on
New York State has decided it will be renaming December 18th “Earl Simmons Day” in honour of DMX, a rapper who died three weeks ago. We know this because Mixmag told us – the...
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What disease – and it’s not coronavirus! – threatens to bring the dance music world crashing down? Why the idolising needs to go
I remember the first time that I read a dance music magazine. It was all the way back in October 2001. I was at college at the time studying for my A Levels and...
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Here’s something you won’t see often on this blog – a defence of Spotify raising their prices!
I note that Spotify has finally decided to do something that nearly every other company on the planet does – and that is actually raise its prices by a little bit. Shocker! Last year,...
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The fall and fall of Danny Rampling: his journey from okay-ish DJ to full-on Covid denying conspiracist
Those of you of a certain age will probably know Danny Rampling as that DJ who used to have a show on Radio 1 called “The Love Groove Dance Party” – a name that...
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What a load of clap!
I’m really thinking that I should make this into some kind of series. More and more frequently these days, I come across adverts for increasingly ridiculous plugins. I had a quick look recently at...
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Can we drop the Miami albums, please?
It’s that time of the year again. It’s when the Miami compilations inevitably appear on the digital stores. It appears that the Covid-19 pandemic has not done away with this tradition. I seriously think...
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Burn down my studio? Nah…
There are many people who have wanted to say nice things about me in the past. There are also those who, well, haven’t. Quite the opposite sometimes, actually. For example, I accepted a remix...
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Why haven’t you phoned to ask about my location, Bill?
Last week, I wrote about my experience of getting the coronavirus vaccine. I had my first at the start of March and the second should follow in a few weeks. And since then, I’ve...
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EXCLUSIVE: Daft Punk in rumoured collab with Amateur At Play?
The above, of course, is complete bollocks. I just made it up. Right now. But it’ll get me lots of readers wondering who the hell I am, why they’d be collaborating with a relative...
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Sterling Void and remix version 4258 of “It’s Alright”
It’s been a while since we had a post about Sterling Void, hasn’t it? They practically write themselves! So let’s see what he’s been up to. As I’ve commented before, Sterling Covid, whose depressing...
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It’s chest not cricket
I’m glad I’m a man sometimes. I don’t have to put up with half the stick that women get. No one ever makes comments about my appearance whenever I post about my latest release....
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Nostalgia isn’t all it’s cracked up to be (again)
The name Simon Dunmore comes up quite a few times when you search this blog. He’s mentioned a few times both in a critical and favourable manner – hardly surprising for a man with...
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