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Leading British dance music magazine Mixmag are searching for a new House Music editor after incumbent editor Craig Torrance gave up the job to concentrate on DJing and production.

Deputy Ed Duncan Dick told Skrufff they’re looking for candidates with a ‘freakishly extensive and detailed knowledge of house music’ varying from DJ Sneak to Swedish House Mafia. Full details are below.

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“Mixmag, the world’s biggest clubbing and dance music magazine, is looking for a new house editor.

The paid post involves listening to the hottest house promos and filing two pages of reviews each month. It also involves becoming one of the single most important voices in dance music culture. And, of course, hearing the freshest new house records before anyone else.

If you are interested in applying for the role you should:

: be an experienced journalist / reviewer, capable of filing near perfect, entertaining, insightful copy to deadline and within word limits every single month

: be a passionate lover of house music in all its forms, from Maceo Plex to Swedish House Mafia, DJ Sneak to Solomun, Defected to Dessous

: have a freakishly extensive and detailed knowledge of house music and its history

: be immersed in dance music and a regular attendee of the best clubs and festivals

: be opinionated, independent and incorruptible, with no affiliation with any PR agencies, labels or dance music brands

: have some existing contacts / relationships with labels and the dance music industry

If you think you have what it takes, send a CV and a separate word document with reviews of six fresh house tunes (100-150 words each) to duncan@mixmag.net

Please use ‘HOUSE EDITOR POSITION’ as the subject line of your email

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Chicago house pioneer DJ Sneak launched a unilateral assault on pop dance trio the Swedish House Mafia, in a no holds barred interview in DJ magazine.

“It’s a sad thing when the Swedish House Mafia is being paid big money to come to the US to play house music,” said Sneak, “For the record, they do not play house music.”

He followed up on Twitter defiantly telling Steve Angello that he was ‘exposing the fake shit you guys portray’, provoking an impressively thoughtful response from the Swedish superstar spinner.

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“He might hate me and what I do but in the end of the game not everyone can like everything. I just think it’s immature to do it on twitter when we can do it in person,” said Angello.

“In the end of the day its all about music and no beef. That’s what dance music is about and that’s why its the biggest music genre out there. We built this together and we’ll sink it together if we continue to handle success as kids. I die for this and dedicated my whole life to it. Doesn’t matter if you like me or not I’ll continue this journey with the love we have from our fans and we’ll never stop!” he vowed. (Twitter: http://bit.ly/HvPENd )

Sneak’s latest outburst came over six years after he launched a similar tirade against trance DJs during an interview in Skrufff in which we quizzed him whether he still owned a T shirt saying ‘Trance sucks’.

 “It didn’t say ‘trance sucks’, it said ‘Fuck Trance’ and l still stand by it. There’s nothing about that style of supposedly music that I can even comprehend,” Sneak retorted.

He was similarly outspoken when asked why he thought trance music was then so much popular than ‘house’?

“It’s like comparing pop music and real music. You work really hard to get somewhere then you get some little Pop Idol dude coming up and doing his shit who gets everything that you are supposed to be getting if you work hard,” he complained.

“Or somebody just gets it handed it on a plate because some executive or a manager has put this project together and said ‘hey this is where we going in New York’. Trance is commercial and anything commercial sells. If you are the cheesiest person in the world and you can play it out then you don’t mind because basically you have no dignity.”

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