Those of you who use Facebook or Instagram this week might have been forgiven for having a startled moment upon seeing posts on Paul Johnson's socials - they've been active again. The man himself died last year after contracting Covid-19 at the age of 50, so what's going on here?…
What would happen if you stuck all the anti-vaxxers in dance music on Danny Rampling's Love Groove Dance Party bus? Aside from the rest of us hoping Rampling drives it straight into the Bermuda Triangle, there's little doubt the bus would certainly be a noisy place. Random stories about their…
In the dying days of 2020, DJ Sneak posted a few musings on his social media pages. The pandemic had given him time to think, and he’d decided he would be doing things differently in the future. And one thing he pledged to do was remove his music from the…
So it's Christmas Eve. If your tree isn't standing tall by now, it almost certainly isn't going up this year. By now, you've probably got all the stuff you need for a table-groaning dinner tomorrow, and this blog hopes you've got all the presents you're going to need for your…
If there's one thing we know about DJ Sneak - other than the fact he loves a good row with his fellow DJs, or the fact he still hasn't delivered his vow to remove his music from digital stores - it's that the so-called house gangster is a very good…
I like to try and learn something new every single day. Those lessons vary from brilliant insights which I can rely on until the day I die to utterly useless information which stays in my head despite having no use for it whatsoever. And yesterday's lesson is admittedly somewhere in…
One thing which I've wondered about a lot recently - well, over the past 20 minutes, anyway - is how old the average reader of dance music publications actually is. Are they read mostly by fogeys who think everything was better in the nineties, or young whippersnappers who think anything…
On this Friday morning, it would be churlish not to acknowledge the man in house music who has probably started far more arguments than anyone else. Yes, DJ Sneak - real name Carlos Sosa - is 52 years old today. Everyone at Amateur’s House wishes him a happy birthday on…
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 services. This was taken to mean download and streaming sites, although Sneak never elaborated further. So…
This blog's problem with streaming is, quite simply, this isn't how it was meant to be. Streaming was supposed to be help make music more democratic and give everyone an equal chance of being discovered - whether you were signed to a label or not. And it was also supposed…