As the world continues to muddle through the strangest Monday since, well, the last one, there is at least one person out there who continues to see the positive side of things. Indeed, the...
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A TV show with Derrick May that hasn’t been cancelled! Local celebrity Moorish Mudd paid a visit to see Mayday’s grand return to New Year’s Eve at a steakhouse skywalk – but why was there no interview?
These days, it’s incredibly rare to see footage of Derrick May doing anything at all – mostly because no one usually wants to film it. It’s a pointless endeavour documenting Detroit’s most occasional DJ...
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Thing with illusions is that you can’t keep them up forever! Peggy Gou’s New Year set for Apple Music was promoted by XL over the weekend – and they had to switch their comments off…
Toxic positivity is one of those things that’s always been in ample supply in the dance music world – and this is why so much of what has happened over the years has gone...
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Did Defected REALLY try to find a venue in Antarctica? As label mysteriously goes silent on Instagram, Wez Saunders makes suspect claim in end of year address – so we looked at whether it could actually be done…
Since the beginning of the year, Defected has done something rather unusual – it’s gone quiet. Regular Ears To The House readers might have noticed that the label appears to have deleted everything on...
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Why DO they continue to praise this man? Back In The House posts yet again about Erick Morillo doing a $300 Paris gig in 1995 – but make no mention of THOSE rape allegations…
Many lofty minded types in the music industry would have you believe that you should separate the artist’s output from everything else they did. A perfect example of this is Chris Brown – a...
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You DJs realise you’d be nothing without singers, right? Defected proudly showcase Jazzy singing “Giving Me” – whilst Belters Only are reduced to background bit players…
If there’s one thing that Ears To The House believes in more than anything else, it’s a sense of fair play. We don’t really care if one person or twenty were involved in the...
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Omar S breaks his silence on social media amidst police probe into THOSE allegations by Supercoolwicked – but it’s only (briefly) to promote one of his releases…
Ah, the beauty of Instagram Stories. To the average user of the social media site, it’s an excellent way to get pictures out as quickly as possible – if you don’t have time to...
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What HAS he been smoking this time? DJ Sneak posts about “leaving the digital world behind” – on the ever-so analog platform that is Instagram…
It might surprise some of you, but Ears To The House has a little respect for Carlos Sosa – the real name of DJ Sneak. Aside from his surprisingly shrewd recent business ventures, as...
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Aren’t you the ones who just get Sam Divine and Low Steppa to play all your events? Defected post a meme about going to see new artists – and their hypocrisy couldn’t be clearer to see…
One regrettable truth about the dance music world is how many within it possess almost no sense of self-awareness whatsoever. It’s not hard to explain – this is what happens to people and businesses...
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Isn’t that one reason why you get paid the big money? David Morales complains of being tired just before starting a 10-houe set at Stereo Montreal at the weekend…
Back in the early days of Ears To The House, we used to run an occasional column called Things That Dance People Think About. Long-winded name aside, these articles were mostly about the complaints...
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So it’s STILL not about talent, then? Modern Machines denies that DJs get booked just for having lots of followers – but then reveals it’s actually about how good you look!
Let’s start this article by posing an important question – well, important by the standards of disc jockeys everywhere, anyway. What is the most important thing for a DJ working in 2023 who wants...
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Do we really have to be the ones to point this out? Kenny Carpenter posts an old photo with Don Welch from the mid-90s at Sound Factory NYC – and says “we were still playing vinyl”…
Back when house music was starting to become a thing, there was no such thing as a career in it. You did what you did, and you might have some successes – or you...
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London’s Ministry of Sound take Omar S off their lineup for Saturday’s It’s All Gone South – and a well-placed source confirms it’s all because of what happened last weekend..
Yesterday, Ears To The House took a little time to try and figure out what happened in Detroit between producers Omar S and Supercoolwicked at the Paramita Sound record shop and bar over the...
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It’s one way to make sure you get read! Nina Kraviz received a letter from an audience member at her Halloween show at Italy’s Monsterland – and its contents are quite touching…
In the year 2023, what’s the best way to make sure someone actually reads what you send them? Certainly not social media – whether they see it or not depends entirely on a mysterious,...
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Even announcing it at the last minute isn’t working anymore! As Derrick May’s techno documentary for PBS gets pulled, how’s the man himself taking the news? Er, not all that well…
If you head over to the PBS profile page on X, formerly Twitter, they make a declaration as proud as it is pomopus. They say that “PBS’s editorial independence is central to our work...
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You’d almost think they said it on purpose, wouldn’t you? Traxsource use their social media to tell people to spend less time on social media – and argument quickly ensued on social media…
Social media is one of those things that’s been around for longer than people think. Contrary to popular belief, it did not just suddenly sprout up when Mark Zuckerberg decided to open FaceMash in...
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