Tagged: House

Music is still a huge part of my life but I don’t really talk to people about it – people ask me what my favourite roast dinner is, not what my favourite track is. Plus I do like some weird music, anyway. But on the off-chance you are interested, here goes. Firstly, I’m way more organised than you might think. I have blogs. Yep, James has a blog about something. Every single track that I love, I list on House Minimal Techno Disco – which is basically a load of YouTube videos on a website. I wrote the website years …

I’ve been feeling fairly flat this week. Not down, not miserable, just flat. A slight struggle to motivate myself, for example to do healthy things – I sit here with a beer, bread and butter, and a large bar of chocolate which is unusual for a Thursday evening. I’m still doing stuff. Still working. Still doing the washing up. Still writing roast dinner reviews. Still researching where next to throw money away on the stock market. Just with less enthusiasm – well, no enthusiasm. To give it a football analogy, I’m grinding out 0-0 draws in the hope of staying …

Have you ever wondered why it seems that about 99% of DJs are men?  In my world it isn’t quite that percentage, at least in my perception – the art of being a good DJ is being able to understand what the crowd are looking for and being able to respond to their desires, and I don’t see why one sex would be better than the other sex at understanding a dancefloor’s desires. I’ve never been convinced of arguments about sexism, I think it perhaps tends towards more of a confidence thing. I have many friends who are DJs, and …

I never really wanted to post anything sad or depressing on my blog but the news from the Love Parade on Saturday did affect me quite badly, and I’m sure many others, so I do feel compelled to say a few words. I am very lucky in that I have only experienced death close to me when my grandad died when I was 12, and he was ill for some years so I was expecting it. Having been to the Love Parade when it was in Berlin in 2006, and had one of the best days of my life there, …

Given that Sven Vath has put a link to my review of Cocoon In The Park, I feel I should elaborate a little more about what my relationship is with house music, in the hope that it might get a few more people to understand house music. Growing up in Hull, in the north of England, it wasn’t the nicest of places and there was little hope for the future. Grim, would be a good descriptive word. But as early as 1990 when I was about 10, mid-way through the Kylie Minogue & Jason Donavon thing, I begun to realise …