Two months ago, the result of a few years of campaigning produced results. Around five years ago, a new movement started to circulate within dance music – it was called garage house. It was...
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Making new music is too much like hard work! Traxsource’s Top 200 tracks of 2021 chart is filled with a worrying number of remakes and remixes of tracks from days gone by – and hasn’t Michael Gray done well out of it?
It’s the time of year when everyone thinks “nope, had enough now”, and starts churning out lists of what was supposedly good this year. Rest assured that your favourite dance music blog is swerving...
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As Traxsource release their 2021 In Review graphics to artists to tell them how they did on the site this year, are they relevant in the dance music scene today – or just a pointless vanity badge?
It’s that time of year once more. The dance music scene is mostly winding down now for the winter. Clubs may well remain open – at least where Covid restrictions permit it – but...
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After Traxsource give garage its own category on the site, their rivals at Beatport are keen to remind us they have one too – and are plugging it heavily online…
A few weeks ago, the garage house crew were happy. Traxsource had finally given garage its own category on their site after a campaign which has been on and off for the past three...
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Did your takedown requests get lost in the post? DJ Sneak – who promised to take his music off digital stores in January – still has hundreds on Traxsource…
On December 29th last year, DJ Sneak decided to make a few changes to the way he did business. And one of those was to declare his music would be coming down from digital...
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Victory! The garage house crew shall have their rightful place at the Traxsource table after campaign spearheaded by Danny J Lewis for a genre category of their own…
Oh what a difference just a few years can make. Around three or four years ago, the garage house sound started to emerge from London and quickly spread. The best of the genre paid...
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Got nothing else to do all day? Traxsource’s most recent Weekend Weapons chart has 325 different tracks in it – and it would take almost 11 hours to preview the whole lot…
A while ago now, I was talking to a friend of mine recalling his experiences from the early days of house music. He said “I first got into house in 1986. I used to...
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Do they have a toddler bashing buttons on a keyboard at random, or do you have to be friends with the boss? The mystery of how you get onto Traxsource’s highly coveted Weekend Weapons list explored
During my time as a music producer, I felt there were a number of topics which I couldn’t discuss – mostly because I’d be stepping on too many toes, some of them quite unfairly....
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Why do I get the feeling he wasn’t being entirely serious? DJ Sneak’s Traxsource Freedom Day is now sometime in 2024 as number of records on the site goes UP, not down…
At the beginning of the year, DJ Sneak decided to make a vow to himself and his fans. He said he was going to have his music removed from the digital stores. Since then,...
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1+2=0? DJ Sneak’s bizarre new strategy to remove his music from digital stores by adding MORE tracks onto the list
This blog has been doing a public service at the request of its readers over the past few months – although I suspect the protagonist here would prefer I didn’t. I’ve been keeping an...
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Did they stop compiling the list in 1999? Questions for house music’s future as Traxsource’s Best Of 2021 So Far is weighed down with decades old records – and how’d they make this list anyway?
UPDATE: Since the publication of this article, Traxsource have since responded to my request for comment, saying that the lists are based entirely on sales. It was Carl Cox who said many years ago...
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Shake your lettuce! The heartwarming story behind the lead track of my new EP, out on May 17th
You might have noticed a banner appearing at the top of this website in recent days, and wondering what it’s all about. Well, it’s the title of my new two track EP, soon to...
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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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Amateur At Play & Morris Revy – Perfect Vacation (OUT 22/03)
Vocal mix… Dub mix… Like it? Preorders are now being taken on Traxsource. Simply add it to your basket and you’ll have it on the day of release – March 22nd*. * Traxsource on...
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Freedom beckons for DJ Sneak (but there’s a catch!)
Back on December 30th last year, DJ Sneak made a vow to the world. He said he would no longer be a slave to the digital world. He would decide where his music was...
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Still missing the target by 592, DJ Sneak
It’s been well documented, not least of all here and here, that DJ Sneak has his issues with the way music is consumed in the digital age. He’s not alone in that – but...
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