# House Music

> A chronological documentary of 823 moments spanning 1973–2026.
> Source: https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music · Loreline (loreline.live)

House music, from a members-only warehouse on Chicago's South Jefferson Street to the sound under most of pop radio. Built by Black and Latino people, many of them gay, out of drum machines their own manufacturers had discontinued, then carried to New York, Ibiza, Britain, Johannesburg and Paris. Includes the correction most references get wrong: kwaito is house, by its own originators' testimony, not hip-hop.

_Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-08-22._

## Eras

- **Music Box**, Chicago, and the disco backlash that was supposed to end all this. On 12 July 1979 a baseball crowd blew up a crate of disco records between games and rioted; the industry read it as a verdict and dance music lost its major-label home. What grew back grew in a members-only warehouse on South Jefferson Street where Frankie Knuckles played to a mostly Black, mostly gay crowd, people who needed the room to exist. The name of the club became the name of the music. This facet is that room, the first records made by the kids who danced in it, and the founders who never got paid properly for any of it.
- **Paradise Garage**, New York took the same impulse somewhere else: warmer, more gospel, built on a voice. David Mancuso's Loft was a private party in his own home; Larry Levan's Paradise Garage ran ten years on King Street and is still the room every club is measured against. The lineage runs through Salsoul, through Loleatta Holloway and Taana Gardner, out into the vocal house that most people picture when they picture the genre. Almost none of it was photographed by anyone who licensed the results freely, so this facet lives on the records, the sets and the people who kept telling the story.
- **Drum Machines**, The TR-808 sold badly and was discontinued. The TB-303 was meant to be a bass player for guitarists practising alone, was mocked for not sounding like one, and was dumped into second-hand shops. The TR-909 was another commercial disappointment. Every one of them was rescued from the bargain bin by people who could not afford a band, and misused into a new music, the 303's filter twisted until it screamed, which no manual suggested. This facet is the hardware, and the fact that house was built out of equipment its own makers had written off.
- **Acid, and What Britain Did With It**, Phuture's "Acid Tracks" turned a broken bassline into a genre, and Britain caught it harder than Chicago did. The Second Summer of Love put tens of thousands of people in fields; the Haçienda went from empty room to the centre of Manchester; the tabloids and then Parliament went after it, and the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 wrote "sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats" into British law. A government defined a drum pattern in a statute. This facet is that collision.
- **Island Detour**, The route from Chicago to Britain ran through Ibiza. At Amnesia, DJ Alfredo played house next to Spanish pop, indie guitars and whatever else fit the night, no genre discipline at all, and in 1987 a handful of London DJs went out, heard it, and came home to build clubs around what they had felt. Balearic was never a sound so much as a permission: that records with nothing in common could belong to the same night. The island then spent thirty years industrialising it.
- **Everywhere It Landed**, House travels well because it needs very little: a machine, a room, a reason. France built a filtered, sample-heavy version that briefly conquered pop radio and then walked away from it. Italy had a piano-and-diva era that the UK charts swallowed whole. Japan, Brazil, Germany and the Netherlands each arrived at their own, and Detroit, which invented something adjacent and is forever being merged with Chicago by people who were not in either city, appears here on its own terms. This facet is the music after it stopped being American.
- **Kwaito**, South Africa has the longest and least correctly filed house story outside America. Kwaito is house slowed to roughly 110 BPM, "When house music got popular, people from the ghetto called it Kwaito," said M'du Masilela, who made it, and it became the sound of the first generation to grow up after apartheid. Nearly every reference work, Wikipedia included, shelves it under hip-hop instead, which is the whole pattern in miniature: Black South African dance music sorted into the Black American genre slot Anglophone listeners already had a box for. Kalawa Jazmee, Arthur Mafokate, Boom Shaka, TKZee, Trompies, Mandoza, Brenda Fassie, then the deep-house decades, gqom out of Durban, and amapiano, which descends from all of it. Filed here as what it is.
- **Who Got Paid**, The founding records were licensed for a few hundred dollars and pressed on recycled vinyl. Trax's catalogue is legendary and its royalty history is a scandal that outlived several of the people owed. Meanwhile the job of DJ went from paid-in-drinks to a headline fee larger than most bands earn in a year, and the streaming era rebuilt the whole payment structure again around a fraction of a cent. This facet follows the money, which is the part of the story the music press covers least and the originators talk about most.
- **Four to the Floor Again**, In 2022 Beyoncé made a house record and dedicated it to her late uncle Johnny, who was gay and who raised her on this music; Drake put one out the same summer. Amapiano went global. A genre that spent the 2010s as a specialist concern is back under mainstream pop, and the argument that came with it, about credit, about who is invited to the front of a music built by people the mainstream once had no room for, is the same argument the archive opens with. This facet is the last few years, and the return.

## Timeline

### 1973
- **1973**, Soul Train line dance to Jungle Boogie. The Soul Train line to Kool and the Gang's 1973 record: Black social dancing broadcast weekly on American television a decade before house had a name. This is the floor culture and the record vocabulary that Chicago and New York DJs inherited and rebuilt. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c002165b-1b3e-4d7d-ab1a-72169a14324f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lODBVM802H8
### 1976
- **1976**, Double Exposure - Ten Percent (Walter Gibbons 12" Mix). Salsoul's 1976 release, widely cited as the first commercially available 12-inch single, and more importantly the record that put a DJ's re-edit on the label as the main event. Walter Gibbons stretched a three-minute Philadelphia soul record to nearly ten so it would work on a dancefloor. Everything about how house records are built starts here. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/20ed7d24-809b-489b-a245-b4a39af44caa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCz8Kunyjlk
- **1976**, The Salsoul Orchestra - Nice 'N' Naasty (Walter Gibbons 12" Mix). Vince Montana's Philadelphia session players cut for the New York dancefloor, in Walter Gibbons's extended mix. Salsoul, founded in 1974 by the Cayre brothers, is the label whose catalogue the Loft and the Garage ran on and which house producers sampled for the next twenty years. A record made for DJs before that was an industry. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6667fa4e-798f-42ff-8246-ba8091993347) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0s8V50AYog
### 1977
- **1977**, The Disco Sucks shirt, 1977. Rich Carey wearing an original 'Disco Sucks' T-shirt in 1977, two years before the Disco Demolition Night crowd burned records in a Chicago ballpark. The backlash this shirt belongs to pushed disco's audience, largely Black, Latino and gay, back underground, and house is what came out the other side. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/12891c38-0b5c-45de-a31c-91bb01889e74) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rich_Carey,_1977.jpg
- **1977**, First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder. The original album cut from Delusions on Salsoul, before the remixes turned it into an anthem at the Paradise Garage and the Warehouse. First Choice were a Philadelphia vocal group whose records DJs in New York and Chicago rebuilt the dancefloor around. This is the source recording that everything later was cut from. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c58406f1-2eaf-497a-a5cf-6016aa150ebd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzINxcLQzIU
### 1979
- **1979-01-11**, Wish You Were Here? visits Ibiza (Thames TV, 1979). A British holiday programme finds Ibiza a quiet, picturesque island, filmed a year before Ku's parties and eight years before the trip that exported the Balearic sound. It is Ibiza as ordinary package tourism, which is exactly what makes it worth keeping. The Thames archive gives the transmission date precisely. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/30ea80fe-2c89-483c-bb4b-82680436eb11) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynYHczhZQmY
- **1979**, McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stopping Us Now on Soul Train. Philadelphia International's 1979 anthem performed on Soul Train at the height of the disco years, months before Disco Demolition Night in Chicago turned the backlash into a public bonfire. The Philly vocal record is the direct ancestor of what New York and Chicago DJs kept playing after the industry declared disco dead. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0ea80547-6375-4c69-b560-fcde38f7a75a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEWkZb11pss
- **1979**, Larry Levan live at the Paradise Garage, 1979. Ninety minutes of Levan in the Garage's second year, fully tracklisted, Ashford & Simpson, T-Connection, Stephanie Mills, on a Richard Long system that François Kevorkian called a temple of music. This is disco being turned into something else in real time, several years before anyone called it house. The best-documented copy of the 1979 tape. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1d93c7da-2368-4338-8fa6-b471a93cb430) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCH6U3P7CeY
- **1979-07-12**, Disco Demolition Night, Comiskey Park, 12 July 1979. Footage of the White Sox promotion in which a crate of disco records was blown up between games of a doubleheader, the crowd stormed the field and the second game was forfeited. Contemporary critics including Dave Marsh and Nile Rodgers read the ritual as an attack on music made by Black, Latino and gay people; Steve Dahl, who staged it, has always denied that. Disco was already declining, so the night symbolised and accelerated a collapse rather than causing it - and it is the collapse that pushed the music underground into the Chicago and New York clubs where house was made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5cbd1332-5433-41d9-864c-0eb0f0222c07) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqbPSKCwdnw
- **1979-07-12**, The field at Comiskey Park. Fans pour onto the field at Comiskey Park during Disco Demolition Night on 12 July 1979, forcing the second game of the doubleheader to be abandoned. The claim that the stunt killed disco is contested; what is not contested is what the crowd was told to burn, and whose records those were. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c00a9903-7b77-4ce2-a31d-95b3214eb42c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Disco_Demolition_Night,_1979.jpg
- **1979-07-12**, United Press International at the riot. A United Press International photograph of the anti-disco demonstration at Comiskey Park on 12 July 1979. Accounts of the injuries range from none to more than thirty; the wire copy of the night is the most reliable record of it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e8319b6c-e23c-472d-a7df-c8c834c58c86) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Disco_Demolition_Night_by_UPI.jpg
### 1980
- **1980**, Zebra - Paradise Garage, 1980. A short piece of audio circulated as Paradise Garage material from 1980, the club's third year at 84 King Street and Larry Levan's. It is kept because the garage facet has almost no surviving video or audio of any kind, and even weakly attributed artefacts are part of what remains. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ce18fbb6-4ea5-4173-b244-992a00e0dab5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZWaQ-fX1B4
- **1980**, Ku, Ibiza: daytime party footage, 1980. Rare colour footage of a daytime party at Ku, the open-air club at San Rafael that preceded the superclub era, lifted from the 1980 feature Die schoenen Wilden von Ibiza. It shows the island's club architecture already fixed - no roof, a pool, all day - years before Balearic had a name. This is the room Alfredo's generation inherited. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2b2d46e8-7854-4038-a823-84b960258c83) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTsXiSaLKxI
- **1980**, Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation (12" Mix). Written and produced by Dan Hartman for Salsoul in 1980, and the single most consequential vocal in dance music: Holloway's take was lifted without credit for Black Box's "Ride on Time" in 1989, and she spent years fighting for payment because the label, not the singer, owned the master. The full 12-inch is the version that lived in the Garage and in every record bag after it. Holloway died in 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/26d61e11-0598-4758-b06e-c1fc05b4d2ce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-NHjKV8eO0
- **1980**, Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation. The full Gold Mind/Salsoul version of the vocal that became the most-sampled voice in house, lifted wholesale into Black Box's 'Ride on Time' and a hundred records after it. Written and produced by Dan Hartman for a gospel-trained singer out of Chicago. This is the template for the female vocal that garage house was built on. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ad91b9ca-4ea4-4ed9-bea9-09201db25c26) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPOR1EtIehA
### 1981
- **1981**, Frankie Knuckles live at the Warehouse, Chicago, September 1981. A cassette recording of Frankie Knuckles playing the Warehouse, the South Side members' club where a Black gay crowd danced to records a New York DJ reshaped for them, and whose name the music was eventually given. The Warehouse ran 1977 to 1982, so a September 1981 tape catches Knuckles in the room's last full year. Audio only, from a private tape collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6a2dcedb-4d8b-4dc5-bb58-b36cece01adb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv7o7Xl4vHw
- **1981**, Taana Gardner - Heartbeat (12" Club Version). West End's slow-motion ten-minute 12-inch, mixed by Larry Levan and played at the Paradise Garage until the floor learned to move at under 100 BPM. Kenton Nix's rhythm track and Gardner's flat, unhurried vocal made a dance record out of almost nothing. It is the proof that Levan's room had its own tempo and its own idea of what a club record could be. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6781e823-2e72-4d59-9dde-8fbb4b3c02b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN5GBxLZ-5o
### 1982
- **1982**, Peech Boys - Don't Make Me Wait. Larry Levan's own production with the NYC Peech Boys: dub space, gated drums and a gospel-derived vocal, the first record that sounds like the Paradise Garage rather than like disco. Blues & Soul traces the garage sound itself back to this record and to Boyd Jarvis. Posted here by West End, the label that released it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b3e211f3-2c7c-4e9b-86fd-048d634da831) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXCSYeNb10Y
- **1982**, Gwen Guthrie - It Should Have Been You (Larry Levan Mix). Guthrie's debut single for Island, produced by Sly and Robbie and mixed for the club by Larry Levan. A long-serving backing singer stepping out front, with the Paradise Garage's resident DJ deciding what the 12-inch should do. The Levan mix, not the album cut, is the version the New York floor knew. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/04343d0f-ba17-4e28-a65f-fd636795d425) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRhB35GfHc
### 1983
- **1983**, Brenda & The Big Dudes - Weekend Special. The breakthrough that made Brenda Fassie a star at nineteen - bubblegum, the disco-descended South African dance pop that set the template kwaito would slow down a decade later. The official video is one of very few moving images of the group from the period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/22b9b1bf-adac-4feb-b7a2-5a21bb4e3efd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjQD--fgCFM
- **1983**, The Making of the Hacienda, Riverside, 1983. A BBC Riverside report filmed at the Hacienda in 1983, a year after Factory Records opened it on Whitworth Street West, describing it as a club for the future that intends to stay. This is the venue before house music reached it, which is exactly why it is worth holding. The club would close in June 1997 and be demolished in 2002. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/27658d69-fff5-47ff-ad2c-01ad113adc8c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiRqIxRQqgo
- **1983**, First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder (Frankie Knuckles 12" Remix). Frankie Knuckles' extended remix, the version that made the record a standard on both floors. It is the clearest single artifact of the traffic between Chicago and New York: a Salsoul vocal rebuilt by the DJ who defined the Warehouse sound. Eight minutes of drums, break and voice, arranged for a DJ rather than a radio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/35ebda7e-88bc-4289-8acb-6831fddc3773) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsCN9K3j1H0
- **1983**, Gwen Guthrie - Padlock (Larry Levan Mix). Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare's reggae rhythm track, remixed by Larry Levan for the Padlock EP on Garage Records. Guthrie's voice over a Jamaican bassline, stretched to seven minutes, is one of the strangest and most durable things ever played at the Paradise Garage. It is also the record that shows how far outside disco Levan was willing to reach. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/00b24935-a660-466b-9773-7c0301e52b6d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W34hm7vYpq8
### 1984
- **1984**, Ralphi Rosario - WBMX Hot Mix 5, 1984. The earliest WBMX tape in this batch, from before house existed as a recorded genre in any quantity. What the Hot Mix 5 were mixing in 1984 was disco, Italo and electro, and hearing it makes plain that house was a way of playing records before it was a way of making them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/90549856-d16d-4faa-aa29-a12cdefc6c32) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iei9xNgPp3k
- **1984**, The Tube reports from New York's clubs, 1983-84. A segment from Channel 4's The Tube, with Jools Holland and Leslie Ash touring the New York clubs just as dance music was becoming its own scene rather than disco's afterlife. It is one of the few pieces of moving footage of these rooms from the period, which matters because the garage lineage - the Loft, the Paradise Garage, the Jersey clubs - is almost entirely undocumented on film. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/026544f0-8140-4442-9c43-c9ea4a4ff765) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1hQcFXSWkQ
- **1984**, Ear Say: Ibiza in 1984. A British television report from Ibiza in 1984, including early footage of Café del Mar and Es Paradís. This is the island three years before the 1987 trip that carried Balearic back to London - the bars and the sunset ritual already in place, the acid house years still ahead. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8b27c4f3-7662-498e-a89f-b79fed9db9b3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94mjsSlTjD0
- **1984**, Jesse Saunders and Vince Lawrence - On and On. The Jes Say Records 12-inch usually cited as the first house record put out commercially, built on a stolen-record loop and a drum machine in a South Side bedroom. This copy credits Vince Lawrence alongside Saunders and gives the label and catalogue number. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ac0ca22d-c190-423f-92ed-82e7bde2762e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMfzGRT53wg
- **1984**, Jamie Principle - Your Love (unreleased early version). An early unissued take of Your Love, recorded around 1984 and finally pressed in 2009. It is direct evidence of the tape-before-vinyl problem that wrecks every 'first house record' claim: this existed on cassette in Chicago clubs years before anyone could afford to press it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f1c61647-0781-42fc-bde6-5f5f7eaf8b74) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbiAoNdoZZI
- **1984**, Jesse Saunders - On and On. The Jes Say Records pressing, catalogue JS-9999, routinely called the first house record. It was a remake of a disco bootleg Saunders had been playing, which is the honest version of the story: house began as Chicago DJs rebuilding disco records they could no longer buy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6fd595f3-dd19-4393-b166-979723e1a286) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpAx5dCLSAU
- **1984-06-19**, Ron Hardy live at the Music Box, 19 June 1984. Ninety minutes from 1984, the earliest dated Hardy tape here and only about eighteen months into his Music Box residency. The programming is still mostly disco and Italo being pushed past what it was built for, which is exactly what house came out of. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d76d9cb2-fb3c-40f0-ad83-70700589888c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hTyHPa8Rlg
### 1985
- **1985-06-08**, Ron Hardy at the Muzic Box, 8 June 1985. A precisely dated night from the Muzic Box, one of the very few Hardy tapes where the actual date survives. This is the room where 'Acid Tracks' was first played to a floor that emptied, and where bootleg cassettes labelled 'Ron Hardy's Acid Track' gave the record its name. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/53ab4486-6246-4cdd-9918-a7756302aa2f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoNUWrNmYaQ
- **1985**, Julian Jumpin Perez - WBMX Hot Mix 5, 1985. An hour of Julian Jumpin Perez on WBMX from 1985, the year before the first wave of Chicago house records reached the charts, with a tracklist still weighted toward Italo disco, freestyle and imports. It captures the format at the point where the DJs were making house out of records that were not house yet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7cc54181-4817-4622-a383-bc68d5846ee0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFm1bTpd3k
- **1985**, Brenda & The Big Dudes live at Concert in the Park, Ellis Park. Brenda Fassie performing Weekend Special to a stadium crowd at Ellis Park - the biggest integrated concert audience South Africa had assembled at that point, under apartheid. Live footage of the bubblegum era at that scale is close to non-existent. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a4ec3aac-6928-4b62-b172-ccad22a9e429) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoWQuI80ejo
- **1985**, Sipho 'Hotstix' Mabuse - Jive Soweto. From the album 'Burn Out' (1985). This is bubblegum, the synth-driven, disco-descended South African pop that kwaito grew directly out of, and the sound the first kwaito producers were slowing down and stripping back a few years later. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1ae455c6-e6c1-489a-9884-50cf904a6a03) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRZupkv232A
- **1985**, Alfredo at Amnesia, Ibiza, 1985. An earlier Amnesia recording of Alfredo, from before the 1987 visit that carried the Balearic idea to London. The Argentinian DJ arrived on Ibiza in 1976 and built the style at a club whose sound system had to compete with the sunrise. Recordings from this early in his residency are rare. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/238e063a-51c2-4daf-9800-aa6c96b67a9e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2rDUttOrLc
- **1985**, Chip E. - Time to Jack. From Chip E.'s Jack Trax EP, the record that gave the dance its name and put 'jack' into the language of house. Chip E. built the sound partly out of what he saw people buying at the Importes Etc. counter where he worked, which is as close as the genre gets to a documented feedback loop between shop and dancefloor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8bf40d34-a1cf-4729-b3e8-635be3e74d96) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXuQb8Ln6_g
- **1985**, Mr. Fingers - Mystery of Love (original version). Larry Heard's original on his own Alleviated label, and effectively the birth certificate of deep house: chords borrowed from jazz and soul laid over a drum machine, warm where the rest of Chicago was brutal. Heard built it at home, which is one of the accounts of where the word 'house' came from at all. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/23c4d6ea-ff1c-4ad0-8636-58d388873686) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9o2v3SA1Co
- **1985**, Ron Hardy at the Muzic Box, Chicago, December 1985. A 47-minute edit of Hardy's December 1985 nights at the Muzic Box, the club Robert Williams renamed after Frankie Knuckles left the Warehouse. It captures the year house stopped being disco played differently and started being its own repertoire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4097e00c-d120-44e2-82bf-4b6a5c7c2704) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tBtNzeh0O0
- **1985**, Chip E. Inc. feat. K. Joy - Like This (House Mix). DJ International DJ890, from the year Chip E. was also cutting the Jack Trax EP. Chip E. worked the bins at Importes Etc., where the crate labelled 'As Heard at the Warehouse' is one of the credible origins of the word house, and this is him making the thing the label was pointing at. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/88f464fc-cabf-447c-bcdd-4bbabbebd8b8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ8cqID3wx0
- **1985**, Larry Levan live at the Paradise Garage, 1985. Two hours of Levan playing the Garage's Richard Long system at the height of his residency, the New York room that ran on gospel-rooted vocals and a mostly Black and Latino gay membership. Recordings like this are the only surviving record of a club that was never photographed properly. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d2b4dbc0-8f28-4466-a008-3f210effaee6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luAx0xKWiRo
### 1986
- **1986-04-25**, Ralphi Rosario - WBMX Hot Mix, 25 April 1986. Forty-four minutes of Ralphi Rosario on WBMX, with Steve Silk Hurley's Jack Your Body in the tracklist alongside boogie and Italo imports. Rosario was one of the youngest of the Hot Mix 5 and a gay Latino DJ on Chicago's biggest dance station, which is the demographic history of this music in one air slot. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7e4cca8f-4bd7-45dd-9c15-ebea77879882) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI2dpKcsVcI
- **1986-05-30**, Mickey Mixin Oliver - WBMX Hot Mix, 30 May 1986. A full off-air recording of Mickey Mixin Oliver's Hot Mix on WBMX, mixing Italo, electro and early Chicago tracks on turntables in real time for a citywide audience. Airchecks like this are the only surviving record of what Chicago radio actually sounded like in the year house broke. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d9136726-66a2-4f7d-8598-7ba804682024) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Igp8Eo-4AI
- **1986**, Kenny Jammin Jason - WBMX Hot Mix, 1986. Kenny Jammin Jason live on WBMX in 1986, the member of the Hot Mix 5 least represented in circulating tape. Another distinct voice from the same booth in the year Chicago radio was carrying house to a mass audience before the records were widely distributed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6061cf61-fcef-46d5-82ca-6a979ef04325) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br3bEYveLbE
- **1986**, Frankie Knuckles - WBMX Hot Mix, Chicago 1986. Two and a half hours of Frankie Knuckles on WBMX, the Warehouse resident who had come from New York and effectively defined the Chicago sound, working a commercial radio slot. Long-form tape of Knuckles from the period is rare, and the archive holds almost no moving-image record of him at all. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9d1a768d-9ce0-43b4-be92-c5aaa2fc7fbd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbu-Hv_Dn5o
- **1986**, The first Chicago TV news report on house music. Local Chicago television discovering house, with Farley Jackmaster Funk, Steve Silk Hurley, Keith Nunnally and Danny Sweet-D Wilson on camera as young men explaining their own music. The scene it is reporting on was built by Black and Latino Chicagoans, many of them gay, in rooms the city's news had never had a reason to film before. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9f0a6fe5-4e86-4ba0-85ad-d2dcb03baab2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O17kvAwh554
- **1986**, Marshall Jefferson - Move Your Body (The House Music Anthem). The Trax Records 12-inch that gave house its piano and its slogan, written by a Chicago post office worker on borrowed equipment. It is the record that made the genre legible to people who had never been in the clubs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9086b7ef-a785-4144-be45-bde768f79111) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhKMMh4qOL8
- **1986**, Jamie Principle - Your Love (Persona Records original). The first commercially pressed version of Your Love, on Persona Records, catalogue JP-222, with Principle playing every synth and programming the drums himself. Rawer and longer than the later Trax cut, it is the record as its author made it before the label system got hold of it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/16bb0142-038b-4993-9e45-5bd852bda2f0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjyNk_pEEaM
- **1986**, Larry Levan live at the Paradise Garage, 1986-87. A second two-hour Garage tape from the club's final period, distinct from the 1985 recording. The programming shows Levan's late style, longer records and heavier dub treatment of vocal house. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d6472160-4eee-41ba-b25c-c614d0c4c2d9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnEc9lhNR0A
- **1986**, Blaze - Whatcha Gonna Do. The record that announced Blaze - Kevin Hedge, Josh Milan and Chris Herbert out of Newark - on their own Quark label. Deep, church-schooled vocal house made in New Jersey while Chicago was getting the headlines, and one of the founding documents of what the garage facet actually sounds like. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8673b7bb-eb47-4205-a5dd-346ddae61df7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS08FodbmVY
- **1986**, Mr. Fingers - Can You Feel It. Larry Heard's Can You Feel It on Trax, catalogue TX127 - a Juno-60 bassline and a TR-909, and effectively the blueprint for deep house. Heard was a drummer raised on his parents' jazz and gospel records, and it shows in how little the track needs to work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1fd1c1f0-43cf-4a29-b6ee-f419c320d649) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N9Wnqz8Rh8
- **1986**, Steve Silk Hurley - Jack Your Body (original 12-inch). The original US pressing on Underground Records, catalogue UN-101: almost no words, a sparse machine groove, and an instruction. Hurley cut it as a working Chicago DJ, and it is the clearest example of house as functional dancefloor tooling rather than song. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cc2fc93e-8b4a-4709-b125-1d7531e07d25) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M8Pa4kQCmg
- **1986**, Farley Jackmaster Funk - Love Can't Turn Around on Top of the Pops. Darryl Pandy performing Love Can't Turn Around on British primetime television in 1986 - a large, Black, gay gospel singer throwing himself around a Top of the Pops stage in front of an audience that had no reference point for any of it. This broadcast did more to sell house music in Britain than any record shop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/54c89235-364a-4077-827d-a17b8dba8c4c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlO1w_8QiBk
- **1986**, Farley Jackmaster Funk - Love Can't Turn Around. The House Records 12-inch, catalogue FU-11, built by Farley Keith and Jesse Saunders over Darryl Pandy's enormous gospel vocal. It was the first Chicago house record to break the UK top ten and the moment house stopped being a local Chicago format. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3a81692c-274f-4834-9038-120a18a56d0f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O9lhZPpLQM
- **1986**, Love Can't Turn Around on Dutch TV show Countdown. Farley Jackmaster Funk and Darryl Pandy performing on the Dutch pop show Countdown in 1986, a separate broadcast from the Top of the Pops appearance and evidence of how fast the record moved across European television. Pandy's full-voiced gospel delivery is the whole performance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/aafaac88-6e39-4d23-bb8d-ab1c3b5c9110) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPYZUDiHRho
- **1986**, Adonis - No Way Back. Trax Records TX112, one of the records that fixed what a Chicago house track sounded like: a stalking bassline, almost no melody, and a vocal reduced to a warning. Adonis cut it on borrowed gear for a label that paid its artists next to nothing, and it still became one of the most-played records of the Muzic Box era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b30bad26-731d-46f0-b49d-1e7d38351038) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-UQG56qFNk
- **1986**, Ron Hardy live at the Muzic Box, Chicago (1986). Around eighty minutes of Ron Hardy working the Muzic Box, in the best-sounding tape of him in circulation. Hardy played harder and more violently than Knuckles, ran records at the wrong speed on purpose, and premiered tracks that Marshall Jefferson and Larry Heard brought him straight off the machine. The room was Black, largely gay, and existed because nowhere else would have it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8c812fb7-46c2-429e-86ad-93308f3aa3fa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqtFl2AXy9M
- **1986**, Frankie Knuckles at the Power House, opening night 1986. Phil Ranstrom's short film of the opening night of Knuckles' own club, the Power House, shot in 1986 and unseen until the Media Burn Archive released it in 2014. Actual moving footage of Knuckles at work in a Chicago club in the 1980s barely exists; free-licensed still photography of him from this era does not exist at all. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6a86341a-a92e-4314-b813-22a1b0666ae0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f1TdEcqw_M
### 1987
- **1987**, Steve Silk Hurley - Jack Your Body (UK single, No.1). The London Records pressing, catalogue LON117, that took Chicago house to number one on the UK singles chart in January 1987. It is the moment an underground Black gay Chicago sound topped a foreign national chart, and the point at which the British music industry started paying attention. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cd088a76-ffda-475b-8f97-d90126313ae1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsv57UaHXRE
- **1987**, Phuture - Acid Tracks (full 12-inch). The complete Trax 12-inch, all three sides, that invented acid house from a secondhand TB-303 nobody wanted. Ron Hardy broke it at the Muzic Box, where it emptied the floor on the first play and filled it by the fourth. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/aba1b407-47ba-4b6f-a775-2b05646500af) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igNBeo3QSqc
- **1987**, Phuture - Acid Tracks (original 12-inch). The full twelve-minute twelve-inch, the record that turned a discontinued Roland bass machine into a genre. DJ Pierre, Spanky and Herb J built it from a secondhand TB-303 they did not know how to use properly; Ron Hardy broke it at the Muzic Box, where the floor emptied on the first play and went off on the fourth, around four in the morning. The bootleg tapes the crowd made, "Ron Hardy's Acid Track", are where the title came from. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2544e847-63c3-41f7-897b-5d8aef90554a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJJ5FxpVGUY
- **1987**, Senyaka - Go Away. From 'Fuquza (Dance)', Senyaka Kekana's 1987 debut and one of the foundation stones of the slowed, electronic township dance music that would be called kwaito a few years later. This predates the Chicago-house-in-Johannesburg story most accounts start with. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c3a7d5a7-d494-4778-a36c-959dfbef74b1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHmqxOcDWs0
- **1987**, Ibiza, 1987. Home footage of Ibiza in the summer that Alfredo's Amnesia sets were heard by the visiting London DJs who carried Balearic back to England. Brief and grainy, but the Balearic thread has almost no moving-image record of the island in this specific year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/13aa1fdc-82a1-4ac0-881d-3fe7ab0f59d0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mPYybHT0y4
- **1987**, CeCe Rogers - Someday. The keystone gospel-house record, produced by Marshall Jefferson and released on Atlantic in 1987. Rogers sings it as a civil-rights sermon, 'there'll be no more hunger, no more hate', and it became the definitive statement of the vocal/gospel lineage that ran through the New York rooms rather than the Chicago ones. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/75d40c7d-581d-418c-b0d3-aa9843257b9e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VD_uWNLJCg
- **1987**, CeCe Rogers - Someday (12" Club Mix). The full club mix of the gospel-house record that gave the music its social conscience: "the world is cold and times are bad", sung straight over a Marshall Jefferson production. It became an anthem in the New York and New Jersey rooms, the Garage, Zanzibar, where the vocal lineage of house lived. This is the extended 12-inch, the version DJs actually played. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/62b4341c-f083-43b4-aab0-fa6eb1c77799) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPveJo1MZWM
- **1987**, Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage, 1987. Nearly five hours of Levan at 84 King Street in the club's final year, the closest thing that exists to sitting in that room. The Garage was members-only and served no liquor, which is exactly why it had no closing time and why the DJ set could become an art form. Levan's audience was overwhelmingly Black, Latino and gay, in a room that existed because they were not welcome elsewhere. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b20a139d-72bf-4dc9-bdbe-cdba6b3a99df) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D14seC3yXio
- **1987**, The Final Night in Paradise - Paradise Garage closing party footage. Previously unseen split-screen video from the Paradise Garage's closing party, the 48-hour goodbye held before the lease ran out on 1 October 1987. It is the only substantial moving image of that room full of people. Boiler Room released it with a new soundtrack by DJ Harvey. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/40f7f5aa-5d9e-4932-9674-dd7d924977bb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkCJEkkJfDk
- **1987**, Frankie Knuckles & Jamie Principle - Your Love. The Trax Records pressing of the record Frankie Knuckles had already been playing off reel-to-reel at the Warehouse for years, sung by Jamie Principle. Its slow synth pulse and unguarded male vocal set the template for what house could sound like when it was tender rather than hard. Made by two Black gay men in Chicago for a dancefloor that existed because nowhere else would have it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f80ba802-9133-47f6-aed5-5ec81bbc8f3d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ottFhv0zD_8
- **1987**, Ron Hardy at the Muzic Box, Chicago (1987). Forty-five minutes of Hardy in 1987, by which point the tracks he was breaking were being made specifically for his floor. Hardy died of AIDS-related illness in March 1992 at 33, and these tapes are close to the whole of what is left of him. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/edbc57c0-3d07-4424-9ba7-0e2a820d3b3e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joWkoFnWH1o
- **1987**, Joe Smooth feat. Anthony Thomas - Promised Land. DJ International's gospel-house sermon, and the record that proved house could carry an explicitly utopian message without embarrassment. Written out of the same Black church tradition the genre's vocalists came from, it became a closing record on both sides of the Atlantic and the Style Council covered it within a year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4a999883-a2cd-4e08-8b22-fe7638318d14) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on7ExO7T0hE
- **1987**, Sterling Void & Paris Brightledge - It's Alright. A Chicago record on DJ International, produced by Sterling Void with Marshall Jefferson, carrying Paris Brightledge's plainly hopeful vocal over a house track built for a long night. It crossed to Britain during the 1988 Summer of Love and was covered by the Pet Shop Boys, which is how most of the world heard it. This is the original mix. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e6fcef76-d2c0-4057-8170-79e12d4f6589) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSosK05tjwg
- **1987-09-26**, Larry Levan's closing set at the Paradise Garage. Two and a half hours from the last weekend at 84 King Street, September 1987, the end of a ten-year residency and of the club that named a genre. Levan died five years later, aged 38. This is the sound of the room shutting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/02b7465a-b97e-4f7b-9985-f15da0cf6126) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRocoi2lQLQ
- **1987-09-26**, Larry Levan: the last night at the Paradise Garage. Three and a half hours from the closing party at 84 King Street, the end of a residency that had run since the club opened in January 1978. The lease expired that autumn and the membership had nowhere comparable to go. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2dfc09ff-4a90-42eb-a4d8-6d60e0d300f2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgQ0FAaBT-U
### 1988
- **1988-01-14**, Krush - House Arrest on Top of the Pops. Sheffield's Krush perform House Arrest on BBC prime time as it climbs to number three, one of the first British house records to reach the singles chart. This is the moment the Chicago sound stops being an import for specialist DJs and becomes chart business in Britain. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cd3b4d23-8d50-4d65-acec-6ca1c7aea14d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgcKlUHF738
- **1988-03-03**, Coldcut and Yazz - Doctorin' the House on Top of the Pops. Coldcut with Yazz and the Plastic Population performing the sample-built record that took British house to number six in March 1988. It shows the commercial end of the story arriving months before the tabloids noticed the clubs at all. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/35349f39-2cc2-44a3-905b-345a080cc06c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZfQBZ8GTsQ
- **1988-05-03**, Tony Humphries live at Club Zanzibar, Newark - 3 May 1988. A 1988 Zanzibar tape from a year when Humphries was simultaneously the club's resident and the voice of Kiss FM's mastermix, moving records from a Black and Latino dancefloor in Newark onto New York radio. Forty minutes of the vocal-led sound that defined the East Coast alternative to Chicago. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/de2999c9-2aca-4ee3-821e-4ca3085e8582) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqxDE6KhFo
- **1988**, World in Action: A Trip Round Acid House. Granada/ITV's current-affairs strand turns on acid house at the moment it broke out of the clubs, filming the crowds and the smiley iconography while the commentary treats the whole thing as a public menace. It is the earliest sustained British television treatment of the scene and the template every later tabloid panic followed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/40f9183a-3951-4ee5-8198-34c198b9a602) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi0eFyqG3vU
- **1988**, BBC news report on acid house, 1988. A short 1988 BBC news item on the acid house scene, delivered in the alarmed register that defined that year's coverage. Period broadcast material of exactly the kind the archive is thin on. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/33c91f41-a7c0-4595-9276-c5f972aa56ec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgjog28R9_0
- **1988**, Royal House - Can You Party on Top of the Pops. A sample-built New York house record performed on British prime-time television during its UK chart run. The clip is a small piece of evidence for how fast house crossed from Black and Latino club floors in New York into the mainstream British charts. Period broadcast footage rather than a record upload. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/bea8a20a-48dd-4fec-a4fd-59960c53335c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqm1FdWOkHA
- **1988**, BBC news on Britain's illegal warehouse parties, 1988. A short 1988 BBC news item on the unlicensed warehouse parties run by Sunrise, Biology, Energy, Genesis and Weekend World, in the alarmed register that defined that year's coverage. Broadcast material from 1988 itself, rather than a later retrospective, is what this part of the archive is thinnest in. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/70f9d020-77c5-478b-bd60-1798f02abbe8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7yglq_7xsc
- **1988**, Danny Rampling at Shoom, Southwark, July 1988. A fourteen-minute recording from Shoom at the Fitness Centre on Southwark Street, with Danny Rampling playing and Mr C on the microphone. Shoom, run by Danny and Jenni Rampling, is where the Second Summer of Love actually happened in a room rather than in retrospect, the smiley face was taken up from a flyer for its third party. Recordings from inside these nights are extremely rare. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/95887b9e-fa8d-4e91-8c57-0b030f3abd24) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usRp2fFjky8
- **1988**, RIP at Clink Street, London, 1988. Archive film of a night at RIP in the Clink Street vaults in Southwark: strobes, oil-wheel projections and a dancing crowd, shot inside the club rather than reconstructed later. RIP was the hardest and least commercial of the 1988 London acid house nights, and moving-image footage from inside any of them is scarce. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cd9b4248-8cfc-47b6-8fbe-fe63ef98f875) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxpAdDrlFk4
- **1988**, Clink Street 1988: inside the RIP acid house nights, part 1. Camcorder footage from Clink Street Studios in Southwark, home of RIP, the hardest and darkest of the London acid house nights that ran through 1988. It shows the room, the crowd and the smoke rather than the DJ, which is what makes it useful: this is what the Second Summer of Love actually looked like from the floor. Very little Clink Street video survives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1c3dd546-58af-446c-bb33-f0deb21cbfb2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3y5RB7MA88
- **1988**, Shoom, Boy's Own and the 1988 London acid house scene on camcorder. Home-video footage from inside the London acid house nights of 1988 and 1989, Shoom, Boy's Own, all-dayers, with Danny and Jenni Rampling, Andrew Weatherall, Terry Farley and Pete Heller among the people on camera. Unpolished and unedited, which is its value: this is what the rooms looked like before the scene was narrated back to itself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2f238909-46a4-4bf9-b728-18002c387b36) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RHxVhNlur4
- **1988**, Clink Street 1988: inside the RIP acid house nights, part 3. A second segment of the same 1988 VHS record of RIP at Clink Street Studios, covering a different stretch of the night. Kept alongside part 1 because they are different footage rather than duplicate uploads, and because contemporaneous video of this club barely exists. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b2968079-7dde-4300-9b47-37c1d94062e8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZvDLZdi9FE
- **1988**, Acid house TV report: Shoom, Spectrum, The Trip and Clink Street, 1988. A contemporary television report filmed inside the first London acid house nights - Shoom, Spectrum, The Trip and the Clink Street parties - in the year the sound crossed from Chicago via Ibiza into the capital. It catches the crowds, the smiley iconography and the alarmed press framing at the moment both were forming. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/faf982f4-e0a9-45c7-b2e1-cf0d7cfe1ca7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPh3DyxIFOw
- **1988**, A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray. Gerald Simpson's Manchester record was the first British acid house track to become a genuine hit: a 303 line, a Roland drum machine and a chopped vocal sample that became one of the most recognisable hooks in British dance music. Released on Rham! in 1988, it proved the Chicago sound could be made in England without imitating it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/33131aa9-eaf2-43d1-b9a3-a22069b6dbc0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7vxHOCeiQ4
- **1988**, Bad Boy Bill - WBMX Chicago, late 1980s. An hour of Bad Boy Bill mixing on WBMX, the youngest of the station's house DJs and the one who carried the Chicago radio-mix style into the following decade. Raw off-air tape with no narration, of the kind that documents the station's last years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a56c54e3-fa2f-468e-8f27-836a85d4024b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_3k9xMOSCE
- **1988**, A Guy Called Gerald live at Victoria Baths, Manchester, 1988. Gerald performing Voodoo Ray at the 'Wet' party held in the drained pools of Victoria Baths in November 1988, filmed for Manchester's Other Side of Midnight. Rare live footage of a British acid house record being played by its maker in the year it came out. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/71f964f4-df78-4a63-93a1-2c157d541db1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LiFdvTzZOY
- **1988**, Royal House - Can You Party (Club Mix). Todd Terry under the Royal House alias, cutting Chicago's 'Can You Feel It' and a stack of breaks into six minutes of New York sample house. It is the moment house stopped being played on machines alone and started being assembled out of other records. Terry's method came straight from hip-hop, made in the same boroughs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0b8e0bff-f36e-4010-97a9-cd56c135e2b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP3h8An4qXI
- **1988**, Can You Feel It with the In the Beginning There Was Jack sermon. Larry Heard's track carrying Chuck Roberts' spoken sermon - 'In the beginning there was Jack, and Jack had a groove' - the most quoted piece of text house music ever produced. It names the dancefloor as a place where race, class and sexuality were left at the door, which is what the Chicago and New York rooms actually were. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a87dbfa2-4457-4c1b-8fa2-14926a95a225) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts8iBs3tpmw
- **1988**, Fingers Inc. - A Love of My Own. Larry Heard and Robert Owens together on the Another Side album, the record that proved house could sustain a full-length statement rather than a 12-inch. Owens sings it as testimony, and the arrangement leaves him room the dancefloor records never did. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1264d04b-2dc0-43b1-a963-0a81c880d3b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wFOkQ7QCG8
- **1988**, Fingers Inc. - Picking Up the Pieces. Another Side album cut, Larry Heard's production under Robert Owens' vocal at its most restrained. It shows deep house as a songwriter's form rather than a DJ tool, which is the thread that later runs out to New York and to Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2946720b-f23b-42a4-9153-76a0c410406c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO2AwUHDObE
- **1988-07-16**, Farley Jackmaster Funk - WBMX, 16 July 1988. Two and a quarter hours of Farley Jackmaster Funk from midnight on WBMX, recorded in the final weeks before the station abandoned the format that had carried house across Chicago. Farley was both a Hot Mix DJ and the maker of Love Can't Turn Around, so this is a producer playing his own scene on his own station. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fec23c2a-0271-43f9-abac-1f5ad9d4d9b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAAtFa60Pbg
- **1988-11-06**, The Other Side of Midnight: Victoria Baths, Manchester, 1988. Tony Wilson's late-night Granada show filmed at Victoria Baths in Manchester on 6 November 1988, with A Guy Called Gerald performing live alongside Graham Massey and DJ sets from Jon Dasilva and Graeme Park. It is broadcast footage of the Manchester scene at the exact moment acid house took the Hacienda, made by the man who ran the club. Almost nothing else from that year was filmed by television with this access. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/86fcd717-e1c3-445a-8a1b-eee37f7c0bb0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8iCDSWElxo
### 1989
- **1989-02-26**, Graeme Park and Mike Pickering at the Hacienda, 26 February 1989. Nearly three hours of Graeme Park and Mike Pickering playing the Hacienda on a documented night in February 1989, with the full tracklist preserved: Inner City, Royal House, Raven Maize, Gino Latino. Pickering had run the Nude night since 1986 and co-launched the Hot acid house night in July 1988. A dated recording of a specific night is the most valuable kind of object this archive can hold. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d49b91c5-b60d-48de-b688-e5dca6d5a937) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUVeVZbgwZc
- **1989**, Alfredo at Amnesia, Ibiza, 1989. A full hour of Alfredo Fiorito playing Amnesia, the open-air club where the Balearic style was assembled out of whatever fitted the room: house, pop, rock, Italo, all in one set. Alfredo's genre-blind programming is what the British DJs who visited in 1987 carried back to London. He died in Ibiza in December 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2c47042c-fe6d-47fb-abad-0c0eebceac63) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ULe_PoACvc
- **1989**, TV news report on rave parties, October 1989. A contemporaneous television news report on the 1989 rave parties, filmed while they were still happening rather than remembered afterwards. Short, but it is primary broadcast evidence of the year the orbital scene peaked. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7c7549e6-af00-44ba-8618-41935f907601) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuAjsg07isQ
- **1989**, Late 1989 news report on raves and the police operation. A news item from the end of 1989 covering both the parties and the police effort to stop them, the period when the Pay Party Unit was formed under Ken Tappenden. It documents the enforcement side that led directly to the 1990 Bright bill. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1584b7e9-7e50-4f92-826b-c06de5a6671b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyXlPzBcF94
- **1989**, UK Rave Footage, Late 1980s. Stock-library archive film of a British rave in the late 1980s: the crowd, the lights, the dancing, shot at the time rather than reconstructed. Footage of this period is scarce and mostly amateur, which makes a catalogued library reel unusually valuable. It shows the Second Summer of Love as it actually looked from the floor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/737b84c9-003c-4b97-84b6-c62cb003cdb1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JBurpJ2q8Y
- **1989**, 808 State - Pacific on Top of the Pops, 1989. 808 State miming their saxophone-and-909 instrumental on prime-time BBC television, the moment Manchester's machine music reached the British mainstream. The band took their name from the Roland TR-808 and this was the record that made the reference legible to a national audience. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0f34ca74-32e8-49e5-be35-cd915a26ad7b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSwGF8pRPMU
- **1989**, Rave '89 - illegal acid house parties across Britain. Ninety minutes of period camcorder footage from illegal acid house raves in 1989: the fields, the convoys, the rigs and the crowds, with no narration between the viewer and the event. Raw material of the sort that almost never survives from these parties. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0f843e51-91c7-44b4-ae7b-4aa00588cf5f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_3Rf0ubH20
- **1989**, Thames Television report on the acid house rave scene. A London regional news report filmed inside the rave scene rather than about it from a studio, taking in the pirate station Sunrise FM, promoters and DJs including Ellis Dee. It is contemporaneous reporting from the year the parties moved out to the warehouses and the M25. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/983ba443-14fd-4d2a-9bb0-bbf4e2c879fc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fuuz8viQR4
- **1989**, 808 State - Pacific State (12-inch version). Graham Massey, Martin Price and Gerald Simpson's crossover record: a soft, saxophone-led piece of Manchester house that came out of the same acid house circuit as Voodoo Ray and went top ten. The full 12-inch, where the track has room to unfold rather than being cut to a single edit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b36656cb-063a-44b2-8ee1-050d93e230c9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv0UiQ5n7SM
- **1989**, Orbital - Chime (full 12-inch). The Hartnoll brothers recorded Chime on a cassette deck for next to nothing and pressed it in a tiny run; it became the record that carried British rave from the warehouse into the charts. The full 12-inch, which builds far past the length of the single edit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0b992214-cbbb-46ee-b471-88b9ef539afe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8r53Ap6tpo
- **1989**, BBC South Today on acid house party raids. Regional BBC news from the south of England covering police breaking up acid house parties, filmed while the operations were still going on. It documents the enforcement side of the second summer of love away from London, in the autumn when the police response hardened into a co-ordinated campaign. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/deb13e18-e0f6-48de-96ce-4370d3991668) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCObekfr6AY
- **1989**, Sunrise and Back to the Future warehouse raves, 1988-89. Camcorder footage from inside the orbital warehouse parties thrown around the M25 by Sunrise and Back to the Future, two of the promoters the Pay Party Unit was set up to stop. Unpolished, first-person and shot by someone who was there, which is most of its value. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/38200d2d-fd61-452c-8b73-fd31d9e463a3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRFArAtzpRA
- **1989**, Local news report on the Phantasy rave, Reigate, 1989. Newsroom South East covering one of the Surrey orbital parties, in the register British regional television used for acid house that year: helicopters, road blocks and shocked residents. A useful counterweight to the raves' own footage of themselves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/674c5c0f-d74e-4ab0-b4b2-6cb6ce89fcba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2sozCXog8E
- **1989**, M25 orbital acid house parties, 1989. Footage from the Rave89 VHS compiling illegal warehouse and outdoor parties across the M25 belt in the year the scene went national. Shows the scale these events reached before the Entertainments (Increased Penalties) Act made them ruinously expensive to throw. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/10ed5c75-6929-4664-b364-f646d74dfd12) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6M8b3fblG0
- **1989**, Graeme Park and Mike Pickering at the Hacienda's Nude night, August 1989. Nearly three hours of Park and Pickering playing Nude, the Friday night that turned Factory's failing post-punk venue into the club where British house was heard properly. The tracklist is a snapshot of what a Manchester floor was being fed in the summer of 1989, from Inner City to Italian piano records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/36966468-c893-4f5e-af25-e31c2b61ecac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZSkMipURM4
- **1989**, Ten City - That's The Way Love Is (Underground Mix). Byron Stingily's falsetto over a Marshall Jefferson production, remixed by Steve Silk Hurley and released on Atlantic in 1989. Made in Chicago but written straight out of the New York vocal and gospel lineage the Paradise Garage built, it is the record that proved house could carry a real singer without losing the floor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8940b2bc-676a-486c-963c-43c1ffb4bdd9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wossf7w1o4
- **1989**, Frankie Knuckles pres. Satoshi Tomiie feat. Robert Owens - Tears. A New York record, not a Chicago one: Knuckles had moved east and formed Def Mix with David Morales, and Tears is what happened when Chicago's best vocalist met the plush, string-led production the city of the Paradise Garage had taught him. It is the single clearest bridge between the two scenes this archive covers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/97e788e5-b915-49e0-8e18-6e9baf26ed3c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj4Ze89pH0s
- **1989**, Ten City - That's the Way Love Is (Pop Formule TV performance). Byron Stingily and Ten City performing their Marshall Jefferson-produced Chicago house record on the Dutch variety show Pop Formule. Rare broadcast footage of a Chicago house group performing live rather than a record sleeve over audio, and a clear line from Sylvester's falsetto through to house's vocal side. The single topped the US Dance chart and reached #12 R&B. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9ebdfd0d-25a3-40ac-a525-45b6364a3879) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EklS9HZ43iQ
- **1989**, Ten City - That's the Way Love Is (Extended Mix). The full-length 1989 Atlantic 12-inch, produced by Marshall Jefferson with Byron Stingily's falsetto lead. It is the moment Chicago house went fully song-shaped and crossed onto radio without giving up the church in the vocal. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e180616b-4253-46ba-93d3-0801511b0e36) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K57tJ5GiAXs
- **1989**, Joe Smooth - Promised Land (promo video). The period promo film for Promised Land, kept because it is one of the few pieces of purpose-shot visual material the Chicago labels ever commissioned. It shows how DJ International tried to present house to television at the point it was crossing into the UK charts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/77c15bc4-c6aa-4d30-bd0e-1a5ad9087d81) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML3w4HIMHpY
- **1989**, Frankie Knuckles - Tears. Knuckles with Satoshi Tomiie and Robert Owens on vocals, the record that carried the Chicago vocal tradition into a New York studio and onto British radio. One of the few records that both founding cities claim without argument. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/eba9e088-eb74-46bf-a152-bb547105e569) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_1FcgC9icM
- **1989-07-21**, Tony Humphries live at Club Zanzibar, Newark - 21 July 1989. An hour of Tony Humphries on his home floor at Zanzibar in Newark, the New Jersey room that carried the garage sound after the Paradise Garage closed. Humphries' blend of gospel-rooted vocals and hard percussive tracks is the template later called Jersey garage. Recorded from the night itself, not a studio mix. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/65e73b4a-2b66-4757-92e4-d7b4c254f69c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqfesVFawxc
- **1989-10-03**, Amnesia Closing Party, Ibiza, 3 October 1989. Video shot at Amnesia's closing party on 3 October 1989, with Alfredo playing and the open-air club still roofless. It is one of the few pieces of moving-image footage of the room where the Balearic sound was made, dated to the night. Part one of the recording. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6769d1a1-d20f-451a-85b4-1c75349f6aa4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b43Tb5PrqR4
### 1990
- **1990**, A Guy Called Gerald meets Derrick May, Manchester 1990. Granada Television footage from the 'Madchester' special in which A Guy Called Gerald, who made 'Voodoo Ray', meets Derrick May. It catches the moment Manchester's acid-house scene and Detroit were talking to each other directly, on regional British TV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0b83ab78-ec09-4333-bfe6-c4a6d7f6a2d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGCM0hlsm88
- **1990**, Inside the Hacienda, Manchester, 1990. A minute of footage shot inside the Hacienda in 1990, taken from the television documentary The Sound of the North. Short, but it is the club at its peak filmed at the time, not a reconstruction. Very little film of the Hacienda dancefloor survives in circulation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c298efe6-8349-40d8-a67e-0f55bf003745) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZxDAKJfELI
- **1990**, Madchester: The Sound of the North. The 1990 television documentary on Manchester at the moment guitar bands and house records collided, featuring the Hacienda, 808 State, A Guy Called Gerald, Derrick May and Tony Wilson. It was made while the scene was happening rather than in retrospect, which is why the interviews are unguarded. It is also the source of most of the circulating Hacienda footage from that year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7050f6e8-e079-4cf5-9123-3875d58d7757) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRDU9VjXtdA
- **1990**, Granada Reports on the Lancashire acid house parties, March 1990. Regional news covering the Blackburn warehouse parties, the northern equivalent of the M25 orbital scene, at the point when police and councils were being pushed to shut them down. Broadcast weeks after the Freedom to Party rally and months before the Bright bill became law. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c648b46f-2ed7-438d-b488-2f6943ec5f41) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3lo-1yDkg4
- **1990**, Dream 2 Science - Mystery of Love. Not the Larry Heard record of the same name, this is Ben Cenac's Dream 2 Science, a Brooklyn deep-house project working in the drifting, keyboard-led idiom that New York produced after the Paradise Garage closed. Kept because free-licensed material from this scene does not exist and recorded sound is the only surviving trace of it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a1e0137d-fb1a-4e50-a5e4-e4f8a91e7460) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw0XMj36lWA
- **1990**, Frankie Knuckles live at Sound Factory, New York, 1990. Frankie Knuckles guesting at Sound Factory in New York, the club where Junior Vasquez held the residency, with a tracklist running through Shep Pettibone remixes and Alison Limerick. It documents the New York end of Knuckles' career after he left Chicago. The whole set circulates only as a tape rip like this one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d22ce842-4de4-4f59-9549-7f607590f607) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcX2AXWxlpY
### 1991
- **1991**, Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman, live on Top of the Pops. Crystal Waters performing "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)" on Top of the Pops at the height of its 1991 run. The record is house at its most unlikely: a Korg M1 organ bassline, a nonsense hook, and a lyric about a woman living on the street outside an office block, sung straight into the pop charts. Period television footage of a record that carried the vocal house sound worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5efbfa86-1e5b-431d-868a-d7b2782508b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIsqUvqhV0I
- **1991**, Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless). The record itself, produced by the Basement Boys in Baltimore and released in 1991. Its organ riff is the Korg M1 preset that defined the house sound of the early nineties, and its subject, a homeless woman the singer passed every day, is a reminder that this music kept reporting on the lives around it. The official label copy, kept over the several remix uploads the scout also returned. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/420685e0-f0d7-40f2-9010-21bf9d05ad16) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHIgpxwdZfg
- **1991**, What Is House? An Insider's Look at Dance Music (WMAQ-TV, 1991). A 46-minute Chicago local-television programme explaining house to a mainstream city audience, six years after the records that made it. Contemporaneous broadcast journalism about the scene from inside the city that produced it, which is far rarer than retrospective documentary. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b44fc3a5-3d78-418b-8e40-1337f38cef5f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtTcR3KRY3E
### 1992
- **1992-03-15**, Junior Vasquez at the Sound Factory, New York - 15 March 1992. Ninety minutes of Junior Vasquez at the Sound Factory, the after-hours room on West 27th Street whose largely gay, largely Black and Latino floor set the tone for 1990s New York club music. Restored from both sides of the original cassette. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/69ab48aa-9240-4a9e-b0c9-a3ea35a3b8a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS08x-6Mthc
- **1992-05-15**, Fantazia: Takes You Into Summertime, 15 May 1992. The official video release of a Fantazia event, filmed the week before Castlemorton, when the licensed rave promoters were selling to tens of thousands what the free parties were giving away. Shows the production, the crowd and the scale the legal end of the scene had reached by 1992. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/36d0c6d6-e75d-4578-8bbe-7e5f4300abf1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvH48Oup8As
- **1992**, Larry Heard interviewed by Colin Faver on Kiss FM. Colin Faver interviews Larry Heard on Kiss FM around the release of the Introduction album, with Heard discussing tracks including 'Distant Planet'. This is Heard speaking at the time rather than in retrospect, and it captures the moment Chicago deep house was being taken seriously by British radio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1ae98eaf-a0f1-43f7-a79f-89168901a0d4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By4DcfoP864
- **1992**, DJ Alfredo at Space, Ibiza, 1992. A full recorded set from Alfredo Fiorito, the Argentine DJ whose Amnesia sessions defined the Balearic mix that British visitors carried back to London after 1987. Recorded at Space five years on, it shows what the style actually was across a whole night rather than as an anecdote. Long-form Alfredo recordings from this period barely exist. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7b425831-cd8e-43e0-8fcb-e8a975344b46) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cueBWO1Yi44
- **1992**, Ministry of Sound: Berkmann, Owens and Heard interviewed. Early-1990s footage from Ministry of Sound, with founder Justin Berkmann alongside Robert Owens and Larry Heard. Berkmann built the club explicitly on the Paradise Garage model, sound system first, no bar in the main room, and having the two Chicago artists in the same clip shows how directly London imported both the New York room and the Chicago records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/dba04e3b-e26d-4dc3-8dac-85b575f7dfde) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpMUaOBBe-Q
- **1992**, Burtle rave - local news report. Regional television news covering the free parties at Burtle in Somerset, one of the West Country flashpoints between sound systems and police in the years running up to the Criminal Justice Act. Local reporting of this kind is where the rave crackdown is actually documented. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fae76883-3f4c-431b-8f07-35d9aec8bb4c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT7kuJThnWk
- **1992**, News report on the Castlemorton Common free festival, 1992. Broadcast coverage of the week-long free festival on Castlemorton Common in the Malvern Hills, where between twenty and forty thousand people gathered around Spiral Tribe, Bedlam, Circus Warp and DiY. The media panic this report belongs to swelled the crowd and led directly to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/00d5142b-291d-44a2-b338-7d86529e863b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnash9aBjW0
- **1992**, Spiral Tribe and the travellers on the road to Castlemorton. Spiral Tribe meeting the new age traveller convoy in the weeks before Castlemorton, the alliance between free party sound systems and travelling communities that produced the largest illegal gathering in British history. Filmed by people inside it rather than by a news crew. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b9fca107-1fe3-4f66-94a5-de2b0303b51c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UtzCU1iZHw
- **1992**, DiY sound system: Digs and Woosh at Castlemorton, 1992. Ninety minutes of Nottingham's DiY playing deep American house to a free festival of tens of thousands - a reminder that Castlemorton was not only techno and breakbeat. DiY ran their rig for free on principle, and this recording is how their set that week survives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/08b800b9-95a9-46c2-8b41-076005181ad0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bUgtdAgClU
- **1992**, Spiral Tribe at Castlemorton Common, May 1992. Spiral Tribe's rig running on the common, the sound system whose thirteen arrested members were eventually acquitted after a long and expensive trial. Short, but it is the event itself rather than a report about it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0c4619cf-1f41-449a-9a45-d9c48180c198) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LNTBtYs860
- **1992**, Fantazia: The First Taste, 1992. Fantazia's debut event, released on video as The First Taste - the beginning of the promoter that did more than any other to turn the illegal warehouse party into a ticketed arena business. Useful as a record of what the commercial rave looked like at the moment it separated from the free scene. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/93d77719-b20c-437d-827a-9d69e240f131) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXj8bgbRQsU
- **1992**, Kenny Dope and Louie Vega live at Evolution, San Francisco. Eighty-eight minutes of Masters At Work playing an American club before either of them was famous, recorded off the floor. The tracklist is a snapshot of what New York house sounded like in 1992 when it was still a working DJ's record box rather than a canon. Pre-2000 club recordings of this length barely survive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5a4ebda4-3563-420f-abd0-d4997f2c3531) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LgKNWLupb4
- **1992**, Club Zanzibar and the New Jersey sound, part 1. Tony Humphries on Zanzibar in Newark, the room where the garage sound was worked out alongside the Paradise Garage rather than after it. Zanzibar's floor was Black, largely gay and working-class Newark, and almost nothing else about it survives on film. Posted by Humphries himself, its resident DJ. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f1b4fa57-5f2f-40c2-ac5d-765fc81c2430) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7LcSxDXMAI
- **1992**, Club Zanzibar and the New Jersey sound, part 2. The second part of Tony Humphries' account of Club Zanzibar and the roots of the New Jersey sound. Follows the same thread: the Newark room, its dancers and the gospel-leaning vocal records that defined what Humphries played there. The only substantial video the archive has on Zanzibar. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/dface78f-52e7-4fed-9e9a-3fb5ac9a16ff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRhn3Owe-N4
- **1992**, Frankie Knuckles live at The Roxy, New York, 1992. A recording of Frankie Knuckles playing The Roxy in New York in 1992, later rebroadcast as a guest mix on Defected's radio show. By this point Knuckles had moved from Chicago to New York and was working the city's big gay clubs at the height of the vocal house era. The tape is the only form in which most of these nights survive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b93c872a-f57d-44e6-ad9f-3c5b1c73ee43) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrYwmPVR-wk
- **1992-10-17**, Tony Humphries on 98.7 Kiss FM from Club Zanzibar - 17 Oct 1992. A ninety-minute WRKS Kiss FM broadcast taken live from Club Zanzibar in East Orange, New Jersey. This is the mechanism by which club records became city-wide hits: a commercial radio signal handed over to a working dancefloor. The air-check preserves both the mix and the station furniture around it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b251b95a-04a6-4e1e-a6fa-a4b3f212cfd1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzRKoQyhWs
### 1993
- **1993**, Boom Shaka - It's About Time. The debut that introduced Boom Shaka and made kwaito's biggest crossover act. The video's dancing was attacked as indecent by the same commentators who refused to hear the record as house. Mathosa's vocal is the audible link back to the gospel and disco line that house came from. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/81a5eef1-f55e-4e9b-8720-cc25ece4e5e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzxud8tRYJo
- **1993**, Boom Shaka - It's About Time. Boom Shaka's debut single, produced out of the Kalawa camp by DJ Christos with Don Laka writing, the record that established kwaito's vocal side. It is house music decelerated to a swagger, and it arrived as apartheid ended, which is exactly why the archive files it here rather than under hip-hop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1c78f619-cf43-4627-b803-1299fe156f7e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w9vCkGNOi8
- **1993**, Senyaka - Ma-Gents. The title track of Senyaka's 1993 album, widely described as kwaito's first diss record, aimed at Brenda Fassie and Yvonne Chaka Chaka, the bubblegum stars the new township sound was displacing. An early marker of kwaito as a scene with its own internal politics. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/65fc9ac3-64e7-4a41-8818-193b4f85463a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JEnexHyG3k
- **1993**, Knuckles, Morales and Humphries at the Underground Network. Period footage of three of the defining DJs of the New York and New Jersey sound talking together at the Underground Network in 1993, the year after Levan's death. Humphries carried the garage sound at Zanzibar in Newark; Morales carried it into the remix industry. Short, but it is contemporaneous film of people usually only heard on tape. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/96addfc9-6a85-402f-81cb-1790a49937c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czA4hdnB6Tc
- **1993**, Nuyorican Soul - The Nervous Track. Masters At Work's first record as Nuyorican Soul, on Nervous Records: congas, flute and a walking bassline turned into a house track with barely a drum machine in it. Vega and Gonzalez were two Latino kids from the Bronx and Brooklyn making Latin jazz legible to a house floor. Everything the project did later starts here. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1e3c28e9-2fb2-41b1-84d6-c3fcbab85499) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDLPwk7O6Kc
- **1993-11-27**, Terry Farley and Pete Heller - Junior Boy's Own Essential Mix, 27 November 1993. One of the earliest Essential Mixes, broadcast weeks after the strand launched on 30 October 1993, with the Junior Boy's Own pair playing the British house their label was defining. The BBC keeps almost nothing from this period, so listener tapes like this are the archive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/231b0244-c966-46f0-95b5-c38c08c2d98b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmgl7vc_TlQ
### 1994
- **1994-04-12**, Commons Debate on the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill, 12 April 1994. House of Commons footage from the 12 April 1994 debate on the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill, the Act that criminalised gatherings around repetitive beats. It received Royal Assent on 3 November 1994, and Sections 63 to 67 gave police powers to shut down raves outright. The primary record of a dance-music scene being legislated against on the floor of Parliament. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5dcd2f1d-b85c-4b0b-a430-18b0217023dc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR9QUhTLTO8
- **1994**, Boom Shaka - Kwere Kwere. The title track of Boom Shaka's debut album, produced by Don Laka for Kalawa Jazmee. The word is South African slang for a foreign African migrant, and the group put it over a house groove pitched down to township tempo, the earliest full-length statement of what kwaito was. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2645b8f1-6ad7-4199-827f-dddf13c64ea2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnvZjmVo-U4
- **1994**, Boom Shaka - Siya-Khala. Another cut from the 1994 Kalawa Jazmee debut, produced by Bruce Sebitlo, showing the group's gospel-leaning vocal side over the same slow four-to-the-floor. The lineage runs straight back to the vocal house records coming out of Chicago and New York a few years earlier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/df74a4cf-dd49-4ef9-b311-420fcf135009) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNUeW0bgzdU
- **1994**, Exist to Resist - free party and rave footage. An extended run of footage shot inside the 1990s free-party scene by the Sunnyside sound system, made in explicit opposition to the outlawing of that way of life. It shows the parties, the rigs and the confrontations from the inside rather than from a news helicopter. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/93ab1c28-dadf-49a7-a697-742f9e636034) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH39_1-13q8
- **1994**, Equinox: Rave New World (1994). An hour-long Channel 4 Equinox episode from 1994 turning the strand's science-documentary format on rave: the music, the drugs and the crowds, broadcast in the same year the Criminal Justice Act was passed. It is establishment television trying to explain a culture it was simultaneously helping to criminalise. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/04c0dccd-2935-460c-8201-a4d6e8b04a06) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ngaSb3TfFU
- **1994**, Anti-Criminal Justice Bill Rally, Summer 1994. Camcorder footage from a summer 1994 rally against the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill, the legislation that defined outlawed music as a succession of repetitive beats. The protests that year drew tens of thousands, and the largest, on 24 July, filled central London. Filmed by a participant rather than a broadcaster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7321bfe9-1fcf-4ecf-a3e3-279bcea15845) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQOfyYQT6ec
- **1994**, Defying the Criminal Justice Bill, November 1994. Footage from the last stretch of resistance to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, filmed around the November 1994 Royal Assent and drawing in the No M11 Link Road campaigners who had been fighting evictions in east London. It records the alliance the Bill created between ravers, travellers and road protesters, the constituencies it criminalised together. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7dab16de-c2a3-4e51-85f4-19801ce32b48) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sD7H9OwN3Y
- **1994**, Orbital - Chime live at Glastonbury, 1994. Orbital's Glastonbury set is the performance usually credited with proving that dance music could headline a festival stage built for guitar bands. Chime played live to a field, filmed by the BBC, in the year the Criminal Justice Act was passing through Parliament. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/449facc8-b915-4ff7-9dd5-836e4bc180c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfCTtR_a_rE
- **1994**, Melanie Williams - Everyday Thang (Frankie Knuckles Def Mix). Knuckles remixing a British soul singer in 1994, in the piano-and-vocal style that made Def Mix the default treatment for major-label records that wanted a dancefloor. The founding Warehouse DJ working as a hired remixer is the whole story of house going commercial. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/686eb943-7263-49a1-8015-0f899da7c051) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVGDZTYae5Y
- **1994-07-24**, Criminal Justice Bill Protest, London, 24 July 1994. Seventeen minutes of footage from the 24 July 1994 demonstration in London against the Criminal Justice Bill, where crowds estimated at twenty to fifty thousand turned a protest into a party. It is the largest of the three 1994 mobilisations against the Act and the one where the tactic and the target were the same thing. Filmed on the day by someone in the crowd. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f628b074-a01e-4ac9-a1e6-7b4000104b04) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_RqQR9fmA8
- **1994-09-24**, Anti-Criminal Justice Bill demonstration, Norwich, 1994. Camcorder footage of a September 1994 march against the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill, weeks before it received Royal Assent on 3 November. The Act's Section 63 defined the target in law as "sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats", a British government legislating against a rhythm. Ground-level footage of the people it was aimed at. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f9817c37-c6b6-44cb-ba7c-0a10c801c82d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdoqcwdkCTg
### 1995
- **1995**, Daft Punk - Da Funk. The record that carried Chicago house back out of Paris, first issued on Soma in 1995 and then on Homework. Its filtered, hip-hop-tempo groove is the founding statement of the French touch, and the Spike Jonze film built around it made it a mainstream artefact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7c688507-cad9-4d1e-9a0e-8dc4470d7bfa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmi60Bd4jSs
- **1995**, Daft Punk live at Planet Rose, Doornroosje, November 1995. A recording of a Daft Punk DJ set from November 1995, before Homework, with a tracklist running through Chemical Brothers, Thomas Bangalter's own Roule material, DJ Sneak and Lil' Louis. It shows what the duo were actually playing as the French touch formed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c17ef60c-b8e1-4feb-afb7-8637b7ae1a16) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQcNoWhxLXI
- **1995**, Arthur - Kaffir. The record that broke kwaito nationally: Arthur Mafokate turning the apartheid-era slur back on the boss who used it, over slowed-down house. It landed in the first years after the end of apartheid and made township house a commercial format. Almost everything later filed as kwaito descends from it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2bcc80d9-be04-476d-bcdc-801a7a8848a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sep8mvPZW6s
- **1995**, Arthur Mafokate - Kaffir (Radio Mix). The record that broke kwaito nationally, selling over half a million copies: house slowed to a township walking tempo with a Sotho/Zulu vocal that throws the apartheid slur back at the people who used it. Kwaito is filed as hip-hop almost everywhere; it is house, by the testimony of the men who made it, and this is its first mass-market hit. Arthur Mafokate came out of Soweto and built the 999 label on the back of it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8721fb09-e92f-49ed-adb7-eda5ba225997) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIkvg_plkvE
- **1995**, M'du Masilela - Y U 4 Me. One of the defining kwaito records and M'du's best-known track, written, produced and rapped by him on his own Mdu Productions imprint. Nine minutes of a single house groove held at walking pace, the structure is a DJ tool, not a rap single, which is the whole point about where this music comes from. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9245dcf5-93ee-448f-a777-dd8796832128) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rChFN71SEdY
- **1995**, Trompies - Sigiya Ngengoma. Trompies were the Jazmee half of Kalawa Jazmee and the group that carried pantsula, the township dance and dress culture that predates kwaito, into the music. The official video is one of the few filmed records of that style at its peak, over a house rhythm slowed to about 110 BPM. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/baae18ff-734f-4f21-b539-a8d1e171d289) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGVHkx74mTY
- **1995**, Thebe - Philly. Early Thebe on Kalawa Jazmee, from the first years of kwaito, when Chicago house records were being pitched down on township turntables until a local music fell out of them. The video is a rare surviving visual document of the period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/80d5071e-e203-49aa-b216-e830d15aa8f2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eDvF8flsRE
- **1995**, A Piece of the Action: a 1995 UK rave documentary. A short British documentary on the rave scene made in 1995, in the aftermath of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, when the free party culture that grew out of acid house was being legislated out of existence. Useful as period reporting on how the scene described itself once the moral panic had turned into law. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/09e66352-1700-4364-bc1a-7ab4ddf55b3d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBcRzWxtpPI
- **1995**, Zion Train - Resist the Criminal Justice Act. A dub record released as a direct protest against the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, from the sound-system culture that shared the free-party circuit with acid house. It sits in the archive as one of the documented musical responses to Section 63, alongside Autechre's Anti EP. Dub rather than house, kept for what it records about the moment the Act landed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fd6072a6-34ac-45ec-9bf9-a183f6c02b3d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ0UpkpxBqY
- **1995-07-08**, Water fight at the Love Parade. Ravers turning the Love Parade into a water fight on Tauentzienstrasse, Berlin, on 8 July 1995. The parade put German dance culture in the middle of the city in daylight, which is a very different proposition from a dark room at four in the morning. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9436a881-85e2-4640-ba50-85f81f536867) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loveparade_1995_Tauentzien_03.jpg
- **1995-07-09**, Terry Farley and Pete Heller - Junior Boy's Own Essential Mix, 9 July 1995. Two hours of Junior Boy's Own on Radio 1's Essential Mix: the label that grew out of the Boy's Own fanzine, run by the same Balearic crowd that came back from Ibiza, given a national platform. This is house music becoming part of the British broadcasting furniture rather than a police problem. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fac64a2d-56dc-448d-b971-86a3b9c205f8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIfoFNEhkEY
### 1996
- **1996**, Masters At Work in their New York studio. Unseen VHS footage of Louie Vega and Kenny Dope working in their NYC studio, found on a dusty tape by Mr Bongo, who had commissioned remixes from them at the time. It shows the samplers, the desk and the working method behind the records instead of the finished track. Studio footage of house producers from this period is rare. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d9544f6f-2a58-4ca9-b7fa-a794fbfd3573) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcBiJeUNVfc
- **1996**, Motorbass - Pansoul. The album by Philippe Zdar and Etienne de Crecy that set the template for French house: dusty samples, heavy filtering, and a debt to Chicago worn openly. It preceded Homework and shaped everything the French touch generation did next. Presented here in full. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d49e7e98-ef1e-4ff6-944a-ee8a308b0ce4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1I6AScMKQ
- **1996**, Motorbass: Philippe Zdar and Etienne de Crecy on French house. Period French television footage of Motorbass, the Zdar and de Crecy project whose album Pansoul set the template for the filtered French sound. It shows the studio culture the French touch came out of, before Daft Punk's Homework made it a phenomenon. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/35321cb9-5d04-4ab0-b6b6-087ff2b13032) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOdICxiE_Ps
- **1996**, Hot Mix 5 fifteen-year reunion. Scott Silz, Kenny Jason, Ralphi Rosario, Farley Keith Williams and Mickey Oliver back on air together for the team's fifteenth anniversary. A full hour of the original line-up mixing after WBMX itself was gone, and one of the few pieces of evidence of the crew working as a crew. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1ecec4c1-67a7-4e56-a292-77c466a2de15) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApcHgYPxie4
- **1996**, Chiskop - Klaimar. Chiskop, the Katlehong group that Mandoza came up in, from their Akusheshi album with Gabi Le Roux producing - the same partnership that would later make Nkalakatha. Early kwaito at its rawest: house programming pulled down to a chant tempo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2da717a8-04d2-4259-9a29-d1b3e130201a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOtrsiFHkBc
- **1996**, Chiskop - Chiskop. The group's self-titled track from Akusheshi, with all four members - Mduduzi Tshabalala, Sizwe Motaung, Sibusiso Thanjekwayo and Siphiwe Sibisi - trading vocals. A document of kwaito's first wave before any of them were famous. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/37b32bbf-2a31-49ea-9c19-bdd7c9e4a43e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4g3D4oYx9g
- **1996**, Skeem - Waar Was Jy?. Ghetto Ruff's biggest kwaito record and a genuine crossover hit, sung in the Afrikaans-Zulu township vernacular. It marks the point where the music stopped being a Johannesburg club phenomenon and became national popular culture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/79edb954-201f-4fa9-93c6-4b47226659bd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQXsIoxtefw
- **1996**, Derrick Carter at Slick's Lounge, Chicago. An undated tape of Derrick Carter playing Slick's Lounge, a small Chicago bar, rescued from a private trade and posted for preservation. Recordings like this are how the second generation of Chicago house survives at all, no label, no promoter archive, just a DAT that changed hands. A copyright claim mutes 49:02 to 52:34. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d7428c85-d6a6-4c73-a039-801e930ae60b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPyvEB8wl8
- **1996**, Nuyorican Soul feat. George Benson - You Can Do It (Baby). Louie Vega and Kenny Dope's Nuyorican Style Mix, a sixteen-minute live-band house record with George Benson playing and singing over it. Masters At Work used the Nuyorican Soul project to put Puerto Rican New York, Latin jazz and house musicians in the same room and record them properly. Almost no house record of the period was made with a band like this. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/17a97d10-0b78-48cf-a3a3-4ae038adf55d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L9KkZoNZkA
- **1996**, Fonda Rae - Livin' In Ecstasy (Mood II Swing New York Mix). Mood II Swing rebuilding a record for a singer who had been on New York dancefloors since 'Over Like a Fat Rat' in 1982. Lem Springsteen and John Ciafone's mix is the house end of that continuity: the same voice, a decade on, over their dry swung drums and sub-bass. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4b74fa05-c5e1-41dd-be45-c5ccaef397b1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNXUjoUrWfg
- **1996**, Mood II Swing - All Night Long. Lem Springsteen and John Ciafone's own production for Strictly Rhythm, from the 'Do It Your Way' album. Mood II Swing were the hinge between the Paradise Garage vocal tradition and the stripped 1990s New York club record, and this is that sound in its released form. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/65807cec-4481-44ba-b82e-c5b6d1b82e58) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUqVU9_1iGQ
### 1997
- **1997-01-20**, Daft Punk - Homework. The full 1997 debut album that made French touch an international proposition, built by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo out of filtered disco loops, a TR-909 and a room in Paris. Revolution 909 and Da Funk are explicit acknowledgements of the Chicago and New York records the pair grew up on. Released 20 January 1997 on Virgin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/21f8a36a-360e-4393-932b-7680a260fd55) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdzxXjYJ4KM
- **1997-03-17**, The Braxtons - The Boss (Masters At Work mix). Louie Vega and Kenny Dope's rework of the Braxton sisters' cover of Diana Ross's 'The Boss', issued as the third single from So Many Ways. It is the New York vocal-house formula in miniature: a disco standard rebuilt on a Masters At Work drum track for the club, then sold to radio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3d7b91f9-f083-44d0-87a7-4a0119790b8e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDxpGb6Pd2s
- **1997**, David Morales interviewed on ITV's Shift, 1997. A late-night British television interview with David Morales at the peak of the remix era, when a New York house producer was a mainstream chart force. Period broadcast footage of a scene otherwise documented almost entirely in print. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cbfa3aaf-acb2-41ff-b615-ab635706862d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BIMzgozUDc
- **1997**, Motorbass - Ezio (Cassius remix). Cassius reworking Motorbass, released as a white-label promo 12" on Different in France. A small record that shows how tightly the Paris circle worked, remixing each other under overlapping names. Deep house built out of filtered loops. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/12517e60-2cd1-403e-af9b-8007c2a53686) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6L6o8g6nqA
- **1997**, French touch reportage with Bangalter, Zdar, De Crecy and Garnier. A Dutch television report from the height of the French touch, with Thomas Bangalter, Philippe Zdar, Etienne de Crecy and Laurent Garnier on camera in the period. Contemporary footage of the scene rather than a later retrospective, which makes it rare. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0c1aa3ee-4cee-4984-800b-619d390fd9c7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wlYZnTSasA
- **1997**, Alfredo playing Space Ibiza, late 1990s. A short clip from the club's own archive of Alfredo behind the decks at Space in the late 1990s. Brief, but rare moving footage of the DJ generally credited with inventing the Balearic sound. The camera also catches the open-air terrace that made Space's daytime sessions famous. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e36216dc-79e3-42b4-ace0-457366d0c6bd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TFxo2vFzao
- **1997**, 10 Years of Ibiza 1987-1997 (BBC Radio 1). Nicky Holloway, one of the DJs on the 1987 Ibiza trip, presents Radio 1's tenth-anniversary account of what the island did to British dance music. Taped off air by a listener in the summer of 1997, it is a contemporary telling rather than a later retrospective. Holloway's own stake in the origin story is worth hearing alongside the standard version. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6d52be6f-2f9c-43dc-838a-1a9edebdc8f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWNx3MKjIYM
- **1997**, M'du - Ma Bankbook. One of M'du Masilela's signature records, built on the slowed four-to-the-floor South African producers made out of imported Chicago house. M'du is the clearest witness to kwaito's origins and produced much of its first decade. The swagger here is the template a hundred kwaito records followed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f2623d88-7a77-44af-95e3-2d195d7825b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmgdFM58IiE
- **1997**, Brenda Fassie - Vulindlela. The biggest South African record of the 1990s, from the Memeza album, made with the kwaito-era studio machinery that had grown up around Fassie. It sits exactly where township pop and slowed house met, and it is the record most South Africans name from the period. Her phrasing carries the same gospel line that runs under house everywhere. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6d93946f-2e47-41bf-b6d7-f19063fa3f71) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB-OGtSEc64
- **1997**, Arthur Mafokate - Oyi Oyi. Arthur's biggest post-Kaffir single and the record that won him the South African Music Award for Song of the Year. The official video shows the physical vocabulary that came with the music, pantsula footwork over a mid-tempo four-to-the-floor that is house in everything but speed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3def03b1-ae9a-436b-af66-5977c9d1dc3b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPOObqtDTeE
- **1997**, M'du Masilela - Mazola. Mid-1990s M'du, from the period when kwaito had taken over South African radio outright. Sparse programmed drums, a rolling bassline and a chanted hook: the machine language of house, running slow. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0f7f27de-05c8-48c8-ab1e-55153bdbf218) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-gPjkA5jRQ
- **1997**, Brenda Fassie - Vuli Ndlela. Brenda Fassie's late-career comeback single, produced by Sello 'Chicco' Twala - the bubblegum lineage that kwaito grew directly out of, still selling in the years kwaito took over. It is the bridge record between South African pop and the township house that followed it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/22d57ee5-1744-4c6e-bce7-138e60ea6fd2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbr3ck1FjlU
- **1997**, Chiskop - Relax. The title track of Chiskop's Relax, between Akusheshi and Ghetto 2000 - EMI South Africa putting money behind kwaito once it was clear the records sold. Gabi Le Roux again on production. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/195af224-c9cc-4f93-a6e5-8a090b91ef10) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq0iQJhLZog
- **1997**, Phuture 303 - Acid Soul. A late-nineties Phuture 303 record showing the acid sound a decade after Acid Tracks, deeper and more musical but still built on the same box. Evidence that the 303 lineage kept developing rather than ending with the Second Summer of Love. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fc89302b-70c5-4ba0-ab01-3f7a266219da) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ca1Qe_D1Ts
- **1997**, Nuyorican Soul feat. India - Runaway. Masters At Work rebuilding the Salsoul Orchestra's 'Runaway' with India singing it, closing a twenty-year loop back to the label whose records made the Paradise Garage. India was one of the great house voices of the 1990s and this is her at full stretch. Live strings and percussion, cut for the club. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/82f84f74-8e13-4473-a32b-659f02f2eff6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUTdIlL3kEM
- **1997**, Smoke City - Mr Gorgeous (Mood II Swing Mix). A commercial remix commission showing how the New York duo's drum programming travelled: a British-Brazilian pop record dragged onto a Manhattan dancefloor. This is the everyday work that spread the Mood II Swing sound far beyond Strictly Rhythm's own catalogue. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6086c443-ed16-4e34-a6c9-bce3002ced42) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVlsdiXfoBE
- **1997**, Ultra Nate - Free. Strictly Rhythm's biggest crossover vocal record, written and sung by Ultra Nate with the Mood II Swing mix that became the definitive version. A gospel-shaped refrain about doing what you want, sung by a Black woman on a New York house label, taken to number one on the club chart. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3e827d50-4512-450a-92e7-a89e8b5119ae) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoyK0PsQpbA
- **1997-07-11**, Ultra Naté - Free, live on Top of the Pops. Ultra Naté performing "Free" on BBC's Top of the Pops in July 1997, the moment a Baltimore club record built on the New York vocal-house lineage crossed onto British primetime television. The song's gospel-shaped release, a Black woman singing about being free to do what she wants, is exactly the emotional register house inherited from the Garage and the Loft. Period broadcast footage, re-uploaded decades later. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/18cfa78d-9bce-44af-87d2-bb502dc5cced) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9HGs4n60E0
### 1998
- **1998**, Daft Punk, Garnier and Motorbass on Dutch TV, 1998. A Dutch television report on the French house wave, filmed in Paris with Laurent Garnier, Motorbass (Etienne de Crecy and Philippe Zdar) and Daft Punk on camera. Period broadcast footage of the scene while it was still forming, before any of it was canon. The interviews are the primary value. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4d04cf80-c3ac-44b1-8a6e-29783708b10b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwckhxzCGE0
- **1998**, Sun City at the Hippodrome, April 1998. Over an hour of raw footage from a UK garage night at the Hippodrome in London, filmed on the floor: the DJs, the MCs, the clothes and the crowd. Pre-2000 club video of this scene barely exists, which makes an unedited night like this more useful than any retrospective. The record of what the room actually looked like. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/455539f2-6701-4f16-b08f-07d114a3c817) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtKIilc_3NQ
- **1998**, M'du - Siya Jola (Ok'Salayo). From M'du Or Die, one of the albums that carried kwaito through its peak at the end of the 1990s. Masilela wrote, produced and sang it, the normal working method in a scene built on cheap studio time. It is house music at roughly 110 BPM, sung in township vernacular. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/30480adb-55d5-4b99-bf35-748347f29e65) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-loCWtuiXg
- **1998**, Boom Shaka - Free. Boom Shaka, with Lebo Mathosa and Thembi Seete out front, put women at the centre of kwaito and took the public abuse for it. This is from their late-1990s run on Kalawa Jazmee. House at township tempo, sung rather than rapped - which is precisely why filing the genre under hip-hop never made sense. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/24dcb561-67be-41c8-b822-f75afddcd580) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkaA4tfyTXM
- **1998**, TKZee - Shibobo / The Final Countdown. TKZee with Bafana Bafana striker Benni McCarthy, built over the Europe riff, released around the 1998 World Cup and instantly the country's football anthem. A kwaito group taking a stadium-rock hook and running it over a slowed house track is the clearest possible demonstration that this was dance music, not rap. Tokollo Tshabalala died in 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d8b03398-f57f-46f5-8617-ad2334e9b76f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhdxwySgEPQ
- **1998**, TKZee - Dlala Mapantsula. An instruction to the dancers, and a record that names its own ancestry: mapantsula is the township street culture kwaito grew out of. From TKZee's 1998 peak, and a good example of how close the production sits to the house records being made in Chicago and Johannesburg at the same moment. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/810f5c19-0a39-4cf9-88b8-e83da8877ff7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X0Z1nWwM7s
- **1998**, Bongo Maffin - Thathi Sgubhu. Kalawa Jazmee's flagship group at their peak, produced by Oskido, with Don Laka among the writers. The title is an instruction to the DJ - 'take the drum' - and the track is house built on a South African pulse rather than an imported one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/51cc85ed-fc3c-464c-b173-aa533543d72b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwyvj-HS5yQ
- **1998**, Roy Davis Jr. - HouseWares record shop, Haight Street. Roy Davis Jr. playing in the HouseWares record shop at 1322 Haight Street in San Francisco, with a tracklist that runs from Stardust's 'Music Sounds Better with You' to Chicago and Detroit records. In-store sets like this were how the American house network actually operated, through shops, not promoters, and very few were recorded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c3d52d23-cb98-4035-86c7-9cf41956ad84) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7kUAWuYsj0
- **1998**, Junior Vasquez - For the Record. A short film about Vasquez made at the height of the Sound Factory years, covering his residency and his remix work. Period documentary rather than retrospective, which makes it a primary source on how he was seen at the time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7256e3b3-4cc8-4dcf-9cda-1dd33143cbca) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-mmmLC4WO0
### 1999
- **1999**, Derrick Carter live at Moxa Club, Mantova. A four-and-a-half-hour recording of Derrick Carter playing the Moxa Club in Mantova, one of the Italian venues that booked Chicago DJs through the club boom. The full-night length shows what the export market actually bought: not a festival hour but a resident's shift, played by a visitor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5735208f-9d03-4b3c-a198-fd0ec8171e94) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJuym2AB2zc
- **1999**, French Touch - a documentary by Alexis Bernier and Philippe Levy. A fifty-minute film made at the height of the French Touch, when Daft Punk, Cassius and Motorbass were still current rather than historical. Contemporary documentaries like this are worth far more than retrospectives: nobody in it knows how the story ends. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4a259bc7-27b9-40dd-a08c-8b8c8f31707e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGHFOCimq9U
- **1999**, Daft Punk interviewed in the Homework era, 1999. A short television interview with Daft Punk from 1999, subtitled by a fan channel. Interviews with the duo from before the helmets and the near-total media silence are rare, and this one catches them while Homework was still the record they were being asked about. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ce5d8124-b3d1-40fd-8905-0eaef4147c9c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxk6m5XLKO0
- **1999**, Boom Shaka - Ballgame. A later Boom Shaka single from the end of the 1990s, when the group were the biggest name in South African dance music. The production is still slowed house, with the vocal-group arrangement that separates kwaito from anything in hip-hop. Released on Bula Music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/624d4d62-ee0d-4515-8ab8-a7d86fb0351d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-McF-9oS3CI
- **1999**, Boom Shaka - On & On. From the end of Boom Shaka's run, two years after their kwaito rendition of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika caused a national row and a year before Lebo Mathosa left and the group folded. By this point the production had drifted back toward straight house tempo, which makes the family resemblance obvious. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/92417b7d-924a-4ba0-8258-2719cc0e57b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7KEt6zou0Q
- **1999**, Chiskop - Abasazi. From Ghetto 2000, the CCP album that set Chiskop up for the crossover that followed. It shows the group's sound tightening toward the pop-weight kwaito that would dominate the next few years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/bc4d2ac2-5268-4bdc-8e66-92c555dfbd96) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wgWU7I0EN0
- **1999**, Alaska - Accuse. Alaska's signature record, on Kalawa Jazmee at the end of the 1990s. The official video is one of the few filmed artefacts of a group that otherwise survives only as audio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d49611f8-0c07-4bda-b9ae-b7f16b3a4800) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj1sSy7u8sE
- **1999**, Roy Davis Jr. live at Oxygen, Austin. Roy Davis Jr. recorded live at Oxygen in Austin, Texas, two years after 'Gabriel' with Peven Everett turned a Chicago gospel-house record into the founding text of UK garage. The tape catches him working across funky, disco and early tech-house records in a single long set, at the point when Chicago's second generation was touring the United States constantly. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a60ed26e-cc48-42c2-91c7-94dfee0a0e2e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSNuO_OSN6E
- **1999**, Masters At Work feat. India - To Be In Love. The promo video for Masters At Work's biggest vocal record, with India singing over a Kenny Dope drum track. It is the New York gospel-and-Latin vocal line - the Paradise Garage lineage - arriving on daytime radio and in the UK top 25. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6b826cc0-2c09-47a7-85da-eca4efb26a27) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OSMjaU4Kzg
- **1999**, Pioneers: Larry Levan and the Paradise Garage. A BBC Radio 1 documentary narrated by Danny Tenaglia on Levan and the club he defined, told partly by the people who worked the room. It is one of very few broadcast treatments of a scene that left almost no photographic record. This is the longer cut of the film. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/90037d64-38b9-4765-beb1-f8ad4f73191d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DhkY7u5QLY
### 2000
- **2000**, Jesse Saunders - House Music: The Real Story. Saunders' own documentary, made to accompany his book House Music... The Real Story, arguing his case as the man who put the first house record on vinyl. It is a partisan account and should be read as one, but it is a founder's own telling, and the footage and interviews it gathers do not exist elsewhere. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4bbae5fd-9a1c-4039-8a76-dbb757a38eac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-kkG7wRIsw
- **2000**, Carsten Hellmich in Dortmund. The deep house DJ Carsten Hellmich playing the Juicy Fruit festival in Dortmund in 2000. Germany absorbed house early and kept a deep-house lane running alongside its better-known techno. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1fbc8d3d-b081-4c72-9f66-c4878c7818ca) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carsten_hellmich_087_Kopie.jpg
- **2000**, Mandoza - Nkalakatha. The biggest kwaito record ever made and the first genuine cross-racial pop crossover in post-apartheid South Africa, it topped Black and white radio at the same time, sold around 350,000 copies, and was sung in English, Afrikaans, isiZulu and isiXhosa. Mandoza came from Soweto by way of the group Chiskop and died in 2016 at 38. The rhythm underneath the rasp is house, hardened and slowed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cde23ff5-aef7-45f7-ad80-fa3258482218) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b28vJvntyUM
- **2000**, Mandoza - Nkalakatha. The record that took kwaito out of the townships and onto every radio format in South Africa, written by Mduduzi 'Mandoza' Tshabalala and produced by Gabi Le Roux. Kwaito is house slowed to roughly 110bpm - its makers said so plainly - and Nkalakatha is the point where that South African house tempo became a national pop language. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/eb5cbcbc-2fef-44a9-b320-2c29709a939b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9t1paBXTZs
- **2000**, Zola - Umdlwembe. The title track of Bonginkosi 'Zola' Dlamini's debut, named for the Soweto section he came from, and the record that made kwaito's hardest voice a household one. Kwaito took house and dropped it to a walking tempo so the words could carry; nothing demonstrates that better than this. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/af7e3bd8-63f2-4c31-b70d-ddff1e7dcc21) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlEOXqKNsGE
- **2000**, Zola - Mzioni. Another cut from the Mdlwembe debut, showing the album's range beyond the title track - the same slowed house programming from producer KB, with Zola's clipped Soweto delivery riding it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/abe03692-9c7f-4347-98d4-c13855c1a804) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HwxSmNFh3k
- **2000**, Doc Shebeleza - Ebumnandini. A later Doc Shebeleza single for CCP, from the point at which the majors had moved in on kwaito and were pressing it at scale. Kwaito is house slowed to roughly 110 BPM, and its makers said so themselves, M'du Masilela: "When house music got popular, people from the ghetto called it Kwaito." [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5d1d4785-a173-4717-9650-69cb28fb3c5d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoUkWLxtXI8
- **2000-11-24**, BBC News: The Hacienda Auction, November 2000. A BBC News report from November 2000 on the auction of the Hacienda's fittings, with Peter Hook and Tony Wilson picking over what was left. Three years after the final night in June 1997, the club was sold off piece by piece; the building itself came down in 2002. Broadcast news coverage of the end of the club, transferred from VHS. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/014f5f6c-2edc-4ba3-98ac-dd562367ea80) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxrz0FwTd18
### 2001
- **2001**, A rave in Seoul. 2001, uploaded to Commons two decades after it was taken. Korea's dance scene grew through the 1990s and 2000s with almost no coverage outside the country. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9c91ef70-383f-42b4-808d-b473d1d5de1d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Rave_in_Seoul,_South_Korea_in_2001.jpg
- **2001**, The Chemical Generation - Boy George on UK acid house. A fifty-minute Channel 4 documentary presented by Boy George tracing UK acid house, rave and club culture from the mid-1980s through its collision with the law, with participants speaking on camera. It is one of the few full-length broadcast histories of the British end of the story. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f81c335e-0b84-454f-bebc-7413108e04a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxBCaMvBH5c
- **2001**, Brenda Fassie - Vulindlela live at the Kora Awards. Fassie performing her signature song at the Kora All Africa Music Awards, three years before her death. One of the few decent live records of her during the Vulindlela years. The crowd sings every line back at her. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0113f45b-ca8e-4f10-9807-54dd0fe3e769) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZyuHEL2npo
- **2001**, Pump Up the Volume: A History of House Music. The full two-and-a-half hour Channel 4 series, still the most complete broadcast history of the genre, running from New York disco through Chicago and on to the European rave boom. It carries interviews with founding figures who have since died. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5a6c2eb1-f1a9-4388-bf3b-1dea6db5d11b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDBpXSMOBiA
- **2001**, Spikiri ft. Kabelo, Red, Stoane & Kamazu - Ndofaya. Spikiri of Trompies on Kalawa Jazmee, the label he co-founded with Oskido, Don Laka and Bruce Sebitlo - the central institution of kwaito, and a Black-owned one at a moment when almost no South African dance music was. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b37dd3a1-112f-4259-a5fd-39a648c45cd1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZHhQBKgZME
- **2001**, Thebe - Bula Boot. Thebe Mogane's best-known record and one of kwaito's durable anthems, still played in clubs twenty years on. Kwaito is house slowed to roughly 110 BPM, and its makers said so themselves, M'du Masilela: "When house music got popular, people from the ghetto called it Kwaito." [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3c3cb2a5-45ed-426f-a737-c165dbe03267) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaAKjUNwjGo
- **2001**, Senyaka - Romeo, O Shwa Jwang Unkolota. Senyaka on Sony's South African arm, comic and conversational over a house rhythm track, the register that made him one of kwaito's most recognisable voices. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/52b15963-d0ed-476d-ad2b-623c4f5474f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YWl3oaJTtA
- **2001**, David Mancuso live at Respect, Paris. Almost two hours of Mancuso playing outside New York, in the style he never changed: records played whole, no mixing, sound quality treated as the entire point. He invented the private, non-commercial dance party in 1970 and spent thirty years refusing to turn it into a business. Recordings of him playing are rare. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d79cfe46-8f6a-4de4-8386-bc95a720f466) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0701OK2qHg
- **2001**, Body & Soul NYC Vol. 4 - Krivit, Francois K and Joe Claussell. The fourth volume of the mix series that documented Body & Soul, the Sunday afternoon party that kept the Paradise Garage's mixed, largely Black and gay dancefloor alive into the 2000s. Danny Krivit, Francois Kevorkian and Joe Claussell mixing the room's actual repertoire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/04ffb4d6-389a-4dee-8d98-2bc232b37412) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyxM-HUcYVE
- **2001-07-21**, DJ Hell interviewed at the Love Parade. Daisy Dee interviews DJ Hell for the television programme VIVA Club Rotation at the Love Parade in Berlin on 21 July 2001. By then the parade was a mass televised event, worked by camera crews the way a sport is. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f4a544ee-4054-4c55-91a7-a96ce4eabb01) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loveparade_2001_berlin_3.jpg
### 2002
- **2002**, Rave dancers, two seconds of exposure. Dancers photographed handheld at two to four seconds under available light at a rave in 2002. The blur is the exposure rather than a mistake; the photographer was after the motion of the floor instead of the faces on it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3b11ca3f-a5f0-4feb-9f81-deb34e7dfe69) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_rave_dancing_motion_blur_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg
- **2002**, Bodies and light on the floor. A second frame from the same 2002 series of long-exposure rave photographs. Dancers register as trails of skin and light, which is roughly what a crowded floor looks like from inside it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ae06c46f-e22f-43d0-afd6-a9f71e11cf53) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:05_rave_dancing_motion_blur_experimental_digital_photography_by_Rick_Doble.jpg
- **2002**, After Robot: Kwaito Music in Johannesburg. Simon Klose's half-hour film on kwaito, shot in Johannesburg and edited for Swedish television. Kwaito is house slowed to around 110 bpm - by the testimony of the people who made it, not a South African branch of hip-hop, which is how almost every reference work still files it. Filmed close to the ground, in the townships where it was made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b4e0d06c-488b-47e7-a99d-81375ea9244e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPMydKs71Jc
- **2002**, Brown Dash ft. Zola & Mzekezeke - Puff N' Pass. Three of kwaito's biggest voices on one CCP single, with the music video that went with it. Brown Dash died in 2016 and his catalogue is poorly archived, so surviving video of him at his peak matters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7b635f7b-d7c9-4e82-9d6f-b11d1f83a93d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQqZz6yva78
- **2002**, Kabelo ft. M'du - Nako Ifitlile (Black On Track). Kabelo with M'du Masilela, the producer who said it most directly: 'When house music got popular, people from the ghetto called it Kwaito.' A record made by the man whose testimony is the reason this archive files kwaito as house rather than hip-hop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8a13c50e-2218-4c99-b8d6-09c211d1f5b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KijIsmnYhs8
- **2002**, Mzambiya - Ghetto Tragedy. Mzambiya was kwaito's teenage star, signed young and pressed by a major. The record is a reminder that by the early 2000s this was mainstream South African pop, not an underground. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cedce0c4-92db-451f-a704-2c4c3c879942) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUMNQ7gijnE
- **2002-07-13**, Love Parade, Berlin, 2002. A raver at the Love Parade in Berlin on 13 July 2002, filed on Commons under raver hairstyles. The parade is where German rave culture was at its most public and least deniable. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a110c304-4424-469b-8289-4d5d0a5bd7f4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loveparade_2002_berlin_6.jpg
- **2002-11-15**, DJ Sneak at Crobar, Chicago. Two hours of DJ Sneak at Crobar in Chicago, recorded on the night and preserved by a live-set archive group. It is a rare full document of an American superclub floor at the point when house had become an established weekend circuit rather than an underground one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9b8231b5-7014-4fa8-bee7-b6bc95f50437) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4sYo_7TXFo
- **2002-11-24**, Body & Soul live in New York - November 2002. Two and a half hours of the full Body & Soul trio at work, the long-form version of a party built on gospel-inflected vocal records and very slow builds. This is the closest thing to standing in the room. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3be72ba5-f04f-457d-96c7-712c72a13860) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqkkAAeiA7g
### 2003
- **2003**, Sharp Sharp! The Kwaito Story. Aryan Kaganof's documentary on kwaito, filmed while the genre was still the dominant popular music of post-apartheid South Africa. It captures the scene at its commercial peak, before amapiano and long before any reference work considered filing it as house. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7999ed40-0f8f-4bdb-8c96-51c99e5fee6c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHkBilnq908
- **2003**, M'du Masilela - Chomi Yabana. M'du writing, producing and singing the whole thing himself, from the album 24 Seven. Worth carrying because the same Masilela name reappears twenty years later in the credit fight over amapiano's electronic log drum, one producer sitting at both ends of South Africa's long argument with house music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/87b33091-6dc6-4e54-9ca0-36d09b873c70) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHWA1dA7j2g
- **2003**, Chiskop - Sinbhekile. Late Chiskop, from the Sunday album, recorded while Mandoza's solo career was already the bigger story. The production stays with Gabi Le Roux and the slowed house pulse the group started with. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0b85c301-ca34-47e3-8b43-f7e34a7ac5d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoW2Vp2YCww
- **2003**, Chiskop - Askies. Another Sunday-album cut, and one of the last Chiskop records before the group wound down. Useful as the end-point of a group whose members bracket the whole first decade of kwaito. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1677731f-9cbc-4552-96cb-a3c9f7c0328f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Em68z7IoU0
- **2003**, Mzekezeke ft. Brown Dash - Akekh'ugogo. Mzekezeke and Brown Dash together on CCP/TS, with the period music video. Both artists are thinly archived, so the surviving video is worth as much as the record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9baad801-0a39-4247-a49d-8ce769b1b466) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhtmEqYqQag
- **2003**, Mzekezeke - Gandaganda. Produced by Mandla 'Spikiri' Mofokeng of Trompies - one Kalawa generation producing the next label's star. Gandaganda is kwaito at its most rhythmically stripped: a bassline, a chant and a machine. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/04d3d129-1d18-4e11-923e-8eaae44cb9e6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNUfxpcylv8
- **2003**, Maestro: the story of Larry Levan and the Paradise Garage. The full feature documentary on the Garage and the wider New York dance underground, with interviews from the Loft and Garage circles including David Mancuso's milieu. It is the primary filmed source for a scene held together by Black, Latino and gay dancers who built their own room. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1bcff346-910f-4762-a8b3-f07f3d835682) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ApuznGVRJQ
- **2003**, Frankie Knuckles presents Def Mix Productions, 2003. A sixty-minute air-check of Knuckles presenting the Def Mix roster, the production house he ran with David Morales that turned Chicago's original sound into New York's remix industry. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2e0f5102-d139-45ae-b5f6-a37b2f517d42) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lm_oXH3pvo
### 2004
- **2004**, Disco Demolition Night: the 25th anniversary documentary. An hour-long retrospective on the 12 July 1979 riot at Comiskey Park, when a radio stunt blowing up disco records ended a White Sox doubleheader. The backlash it symbolised drove Black, Latino and gay dancers back underground in Chicago - which is where house was made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3bc66458-3519-464e-93d0-bd5e52c8209b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWNh_vdg75s
- **2004**, Zola 7 - Ghetto Fabulous. One of Zola's biggest singles, from Bhambatha - kwaito at its most triumphal, and a reminder that the genre's subject was township life told from inside it. Sung and chanted over house programming at kwaito's slowed tempo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/46ea1cfa-f3bb-4e53-ab09-778627b627df) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSYxiMO0coM
- **2004**, Mzekezeke - Izinyoka. A TS Records single with its music video, kwaito at the point where it was fully a commercial pop format in South Africa while still running on the same slowed house programming. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f66df52d-b44d-4683-83d6-916e7d5f0bce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFGPTNuKiCg
- **2004**, Kabelo - Love Me Or Leave Me Alone. Kabelo on CSR with the accompanying video, showing kwaito's move toward outright pop songwriting while keeping the four-to-the-floor house frame underneath. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b17d5333-f60b-403c-9690-78725ff60ea0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR28IxVfkxI
- **2004**, Brown Dash - Vum Vum (ft. M'Du, Brickz). Brown Dash with M'du Masilela, the producer who gave this archive its central quote: "When house music got popular, people from the ghetto called it Kwaito." The record is the proof of the sentence, house structure, township tempo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c1b14dbe-eed9-40bc-8895-d32ed8ea67bf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8yERbTtsUI
- **2004-12-23**, Roland TR-909. The TR-909, released in 1983 as the successor to the 808 and the first Roland drum machine to use samples. Like the 808 and the 303 before it, it sold badly, went out of production and was picked up cheap secondhand by the musicians who then built house and techno on it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2f69967a-e7e9-41f8-8542-8630d2ed757a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tr-909.jpg
### 2005
- **2005**, Tony Humphries interviewed in Lisbon, 2005. A found interview with Tony Humphries filmed at Queens Club in Lisbon and posted years later by the person who shot it. The sound is rough, but it catches him mid-career on the European circuit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0e3b4e0b-cef7-4551-99de-33c16fd35d20) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui9oA1Z8gmY
- **2005**, Ibiza Drugland (BBC, 2005). The third and final part of the BBC's Ibiza: A Clubber's Guide, reporting on the drug economy underneath the island's club industry. It is broadcast journalism about what mass clubbing turned Ibiza into two decades after Alfredo. A useful counterweight to the island's own promotional history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1907fe81-5c76-491f-a9fb-729c4921a52d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JlsZhGcTXU
- **2005**, Larry Heard on Robert Owens and being sampled. Larry Heard, who as Mr. Fingers effectively invented deep house, on working with Robert Owens in Fingers Inc. and on watching his records get sampled by everyone who came after. He also gives his own account of where the word "house" came from, DJs making music at home. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/79ff7367-d310-4f88-9f54-131db9d42247) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed-2VQM35xU
- **2005**, M'du Masilela - C-Simple. Title track of M'du's mid-2000s album, a decade after his first hits and still built the same way, a producer working alone with a drum machine and a sampler. Kwaito's second decade, when the genre was competing with the SA house records that would eventually absorb it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5ca89a99-e3ee-419d-87f2-c4354e391e19) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-JTQubpp5M
- **2005**, Little Louie Vega - Ministry of Sound Sessions Five. A full two-hour commercial mix CD by Louie Vega for the Ministry of Sound Sessions series, here restored in full. It documents the soulful, Latin-inflected New York house Vega was playing at the height of the superclub era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/dd0e211d-55d6-4a2b-82c4-eb0a7bf4d668) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJTAohbd9sM
- **2005**, Zola - Stars. The official video from Ibutho, Zola looking back on his own run through the industry. It is a rare piece of period South African music video for an artist whose visual record is thin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1a73f4dc-3bc2-4e32-958a-c8fc872e175f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iJhcQIm6TM
- **2005**, Kerri Chandler - Red Bull Music Academy lecture, Seattle. Kerri Chandler on building the New Jersey deep house sound, growing up around Club Zanzibar in Newark and running Madhouse Records. The Jersey lineage is the direct continuation of the Paradise Garage vocal tradition, and Chandler is its most articulate surviving practitioner. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4357d19c-2929-41c2-ac36-a7d96e8e3f1f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igx6IFXz0D4
### 2006
- **2006-04-29**, Daft Punk's pyramid at Coachella. Daft Punk inside the pyramid at Coachella in 2006. The French duo's return to the stage reset expectations for what a dance act's live show could look like, and every LED stage since owes it something. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/dbd41825-3a7f-4eaf-8be6-8ad115460ab2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daft_punk_at_coachella.jpg
- **2006-06-10**, 1989: Summer of Rave (BBC Two documentary). A BBC Two history of the year acid house spread from a handful of London clubs to the whole country, built from news archive and interviews with the people who threw and policed the parties. It also covers Madchester, and is one of the more careful British broadcast accounts of the period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ccce722c-fad2-4ea1-bf8f-d5bdc0d8e51c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLw8It37ro
- **2006**, Tobi Neumann at Registratur. Tobi Neumann performing at the Registratur in Munich, shot by his brother. Munich's club scene of the 2000s was one of several German circuits where house and techno shared the same rooms and the same bookings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/627d378c-4d11-4ece-85b6-e777925b9242) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2006-21-05_Tobi-Neumann_Registratur.JPG
- **2006**, Cassy - Panorama Bar 01. The first release in Ostgut Ton's Panorama Bar mix series, by Cassy, who held one of the room's earliest residencies. It is the founding document of how Berlin's biggest club programmed house rather than techno. The selection reaches back to Chicago and Detroit records alongside contemporary European deep house. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fb16714a-008c-4fd4-a2fb-65cb6b876d99) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU1ESft07xU
- **2006**, Daft Punk on Kastljós, Iceland, October 2006. Icelandic national television interviews Daft Punk, in bags rather than helmets, during their 2006 visit. It is a small, strange piece of broadcast archive from the year before Alive 2007 made them a stadium act. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8525add8-7ff5-400d-9e77-80c5e677416b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayr9ssOfaF4
- **2006**, M'du - Home Sweet Home. A later M'du record on his own Mdu Productions imprint, a decade past kwaito's first wave and still recognisably house at walking tempo. It shows the genre kept working after the press had written it off. Masilela wrote, produced and performed it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/444e103b-8fd3-493d-afe6-7cf7cdf0b678) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX0pyEEuPFk
- **2006**, Frankie Knuckles and Tedd Patterson live for Def Mix, 2006. An hour of Frankie Knuckles alongside Tedd Patterson at a Def Mix event. Knuckles spent his later career in New York with Def Mix Productions, and recordings of him actually playing - rather than being interviewed about Chicago - are comparatively scarce. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/63c65ebc-f049-400a-b523-ecc3092944fa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f4Jl-c3zgY
- **2006**, Kabelo - Kwaito General. A title that states the archive's case for itself: the genre naming its own veterans. From the Exodus album, and kwaito by then meant a career, not a scene. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fffd1108-d321-4d0d-8aa4-ed8e16d02d64) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRr4jo25xGw
- **2006**, Spikiri - Money Talks. Official music video from Mandla 'Spikiri' Mofokeng of Trompies, one of the founding figures of kwaito and a Kalawa Jazmee principal. Kwaito is house slowed to roughly 110 BPM, and its makers said so themselves, M'du Masilela: "When house music got popular, people from the ghetto called it Kwaito." [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/85fddc59-868d-4971-802f-127102580927) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdKUI7-CnQA
- **2006-06-30**, Ibiza nightlife, summer 2006. A night-time scene from Ibiza in 2006, filed on Commons under the club Amnesia though the uploader's own note places it on Sant Antoni's West End strip. It stands for the island's summer economy rather than one venue. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e0f52ebd-b886-439f-aecf-e1077ea24639) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amnesia_Ibiza_2006.jpg
- **2006-08-26**, Xxxperience, Santa Luzia. The Xxxperience rave at Santa Luzia in the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area on 26 August 2006. Brazil's large outdoor dance events ran on a circuit of their own that owed very little to Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/35a7141f-78dd-4eac-aef7-e4759280c8bd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rave_xxxperience_bh.jpg
### 2007
- **2007-02-23**, BBC Inside Out: acid house at Moseley Road Baths. A BBC regional documentary revisiting acid house through a Birmingham venue, cutting present-day interviews against 1988 news footage of the moral panic. Useful because it preserves the original broadcast propaganda inside a later retrospective frame. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/af170aad-1903-4525-b31c-99c5ecd29397) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPR7junkTc0
- **2007**, Chab at Continental, Mexico City. The Swiss producer and DJ Chab playing the Continental club in Mexico City in 2007. By this point a working house DJ's year was a circuit of foreign clubs booked weeks apart, which is how the music spread and how the money was made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e8870a2a-57b3-47be-885e-8431bcc2a3eb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chab_At_Continental_Dj_Club_(Mexico_City)_2007.JPG
- **2007**, Masters At Work at a Winter Music Conference yacht party, Miami. Handheld footage of Louie Vega and Kenny Dope opening a sponsored yacht party during the Winter Music Conference in Miami Beach. It shows the trade-show economy house had grown into by the mid-2000s: brand money, free drinks and pioneer DJs as the draw. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f2ca8eb0-1418-4910-bfd5-09ae149ce3cc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbSWs-fCjt4
- **2007**, Dance Britannia - the acid house episode. An episode of the BBC's Britannia strand covering acid house, built from period footage and interviews with the DJs and promoters who ran the clubs and the orbital parties. Broadcast history rather than fan compilation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f3c50fc2-5316-407e-9235-8a2fa6d2fce5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTxC1Y6FZqg
- **2007**, Yellow, Tokyo. The club Yellow in Nishi-Azabu, Tokyo, long the room visiting house DJs most wanted to play and a fixture of the city's nightlife with a capacity of around 800. Japan built a serious house circuit largely out of view of the Anglo-American story. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a36233d9-15e4-4f5d-b4a4-dcd478c94688) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lascar_Yellow_Club_(1299705960).jpg
- **2007**, Philippe Zdar live on Radio Campus Paris. An hour of Zdar mixing live on Paris student radio during the Cassius touring year, recorded off air. The kind of unglamorous document that normally disappears: no edit, no promo, just the set as broadcast. Zdar died in 2019, which makes recordings like this scarce. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/35d5c656-fb12-48cd-b06d-f35d11c722f2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djwunCbC86s
- **2007**, Factory Records: The Label Behind the Hacienda. A BBC Four documentary on Factory Records, the Manchester label that financed the Hacienda and absorbed its losses for fifteen years. It matters here because the club that carried house music into Britain existed only as a record label's expensive side project. Runs from the label's punk-era beginnings through to the Madchester years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/764eb2e8-b6d3-413b-9452-9934603545b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-lDXeBueRk
- **2007**, The Godfather of Disco: Mel Cheren and West End Records. Feature documentary on Mel Cheren, who founded West End Records and bankrolled the Paradise Garage, with Danny Krivit, Louie Vega, Nicky Siano, Joey Llanos and Tony Humphries. It is the business and the friendship behind the club, told by an openly gay label owner who later put his money into AIDS activism. West End is where much of the Garage's own record supply came from. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2de9724e-c0b8-48b6-a6f5-c788b8d54e04) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuBGPj-klT8
- **2007**, Body & Soul live in New York - 2007. A later Body & Soul recording with Claussell, Kevorkian and Krivit, from the years after the weekly residency ended and the party ran as occasional reunions. Useful for hearing how the selection aged without the sound changing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1ff02daa-729c-48b9-8090-f565d27b3361) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWzJjYJLSn0
- **2007**, Spikiri - Vat-En-Sit (ft. Mandoza, Tokollo). Spikiri with two of kwaito's biggest voices, Mandoza and TKZee's Tokollo Tshabalala. The record is house at township tempo, sung in the Afrikaans-Zulu-Sotho street mix of the mines and the taxi ranks. Tokollo died on 15 August 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/30ab0765-6185-4f6b-b1bd-b18267d8dc75) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doQBkWYXA9k
- **2007-06-16**, Daft Punk at O2 Wireless. Daft Punk performing at the O2 Wireless Festival in London in June 2007. French touch built its sound on filtered disco loops, the same records Chicago had been playing a decade earlier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1a1d9131-e286-40b7-bede-80b4203c0747) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DaftAlive.jpeg
- **2007-07-01**, Flats on the Hacienda site. The apartment block standing where the Hacienda stood, photographed in 2007. The club opened on 21 May 1982, financed by Factory Records, New Order and Tony Wilson; it was among the first British clubs to play house, ran the Hot acid house night from July 1988, closed on 28 June 1997 and was demolished in 2002. It never made money. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d6332510-0b45-44ee-adcc-8fc469100c63) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haciendaapartments.jpg
- **2007-07-05**, Roland TB-303, close up. The Roland TB-303 Bass Line, sold from 1981 to 1984 as a computerised bass machine for guitarists with no bass player. It failed at that: the sound was judged unrealistic and Roland discontinued it. That failure is why it turned up cheap secondhand in Chicago, and cheap secondhand is how acid house got made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3fc32313-f9ba-4308-a7b7-87251a98a45c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tb303_closeup.jpg
- **2007-07-28**, A 303 in the rack. A TB-303 racked with a TR-606, an MPC500 and small effects units. The 303 almost never worked alone; acid records were built by wiring it to whatever else was already on the desk. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9836b851-f827-4969-a4c6-151605975437) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TB-303,_TR-606,_MPC500,_Micro_racks.jpg
- **2007-08-03**, Amnesia from the outside. The exterior of Amnesia on the San Antonio road, photographed in August 2007. The club began as an open-air finca and its terrace remains the defining Balearic room. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8a356ba7-1abe-40b4-b5f3-b4159c0f7941) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amnesia_Außenansicht.jpg
- **2007-08-13**, Flowers for Tony Wilson. People laying flowers outside the former Hacienda on 13 August 2007, days after the death of Tony Wilson, who with Factory Records and New Order had put up the money for the club. The building had been gone for five years; the mourners came to the address anyway. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a433d604-0e37-4133-8b96-4eeede74362d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hacienda_flats.jpg
- **2007-08-31**, The rig, built by IT Productions. A sound system built by the Los Angeles company IT Productions at an event in August 2007. The rig is the one cost a party cannot improvise around; almost everything else about a warehouse night can be. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1086995a-a7e7-41fa-9cac-dbaa61e073b7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Groovy_2007_IMG_8290_(1310587792).jpg
- **2007-12-22**, Closing the show in Sydney. The closing moments of Daft Punk's set at Sydney's NeverEverLand event in December 2007. The Alive tour ran through 2006 and 2007 and was recorded for the live album that followed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/acf4a1a1-b227-40a9-acf8-ff0f2f144aa0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DaftPunk_NeverEverLand_Sydney_2007.JPG
- **2007-12-31**, A 1982 TB-303, still working. A TB-303 built in 1982 and photographed by its owner twenty-five years later, still working. Roland made the machine for three years and stopped. The surviving units are now the expensive part of a sound that was built entirely on cheap equipment: it sold for a few hundred dollars new and went for four figures secondhand within three decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2b85c0a4-1e92-4a10-96c8-94e390eb5d32) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Roland_TB-303_(2163385152).jpg
### 2008
- **2008**, François Kevorkian on studio technology, 2008. A Future Music studio interview with François Kevorkian in his New York room, on the equipment and the mixing approach behind decades of remixes. Gear talk from the engineer's side of the Paradise Garage generation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4e44a932-0206-45d2-847d-02983cfc267c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2RAFaZWEl0
- **2008**, Guest set at Club Yudelins. The DJ Makai playing a guest set at Club Yudelins in Japan in September 2008. Japan built a durable club and house scene of its own that the Anglo-American press has largely never looked at. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/78745349-e850-46b1-8c7e-bcdf42e5adb5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2008.09.12@CL@B_YUDELINS_005,_MAKAI.jpg
- **2008**, BBC Look East: policing Norfolk's illegal raves. A regional BBC news report on the police 'rave intelligence' operation used to shut unlicensed parties down, with officers justifying the budget on camera. It shows the enforcement machinery built by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 still running two decades after acid house. The free-party scene it targets is the direct descendant of the orbital M25 raves of 1988-89. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/181b75cd-7f7e-4d0b-890b-1d55205aeb8c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LydmL0Y3Wsg
- **2008**, Arthur Russell, Dinosaur L's "Go Bang!" and Mancuso's Loft. An excerpt from Matt Wolf's portrait of Arthur Russell, built around the night "Go Bang!" landed at David Mancuso's Loft in the François Kevorkian edit. It connects downtown New York's avant-garde to the dancefloor that house grew out of. The Loft parties were invitation-only, sold nothing, and set the template the Garage inherited. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3d19c0e9-8447-43a8-a9e9-ac4308205c9a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2B-UjR6Jp0
- **2008**, Arthur Mafokate - Vuvuzela. A music video from Arthur Mafokate, whose mid-1990s breakthrough gave kwaito its first national hit and its first scandal. This is late-period Arthur, working the same slowed-house formula into stadium-season material. Filmed and posted by its own director. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/69c8251b-5b46-434d-94e6-17dc02710f5d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QpNoXswKAI
- **2008**, Spikiri - Gcwala Ngo Cleva (ft. Brown Dash). Spikiri with Brown Dash, one of the last great kwaito frontmen, on Kalawa Jazmee. Late-period kwaito, by which point the genre had absorbed a harder, more rap-inflected delivery while keeping the house four-four underneath. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cd00a550-7719-45e0-ad9c-21263e210750) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Wt1agF_dY
- **2008-07-21**, Danny Krivit on how New York shaped his DJing. A short sit-down interview with Krivit on the city's influence across his career, from the downtown loft parties to Body & Soul and 718 Sessions. Early enough to catch him before the recent wave of house retrospectives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3a15a8ae-6980-4fa2-a66d-f87cb8d22a1a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt4I9vXajGk
- **2008-08-04**, Martha Wash in Stockholm. Martha Wash performing at Grona Lund in Stockholm in 2008. Her uncredited lead vocals on early-1990s dance hits led to litigation and to vocal credits becoming a contractual norm, the credit argument that runs through this whole music, fought and won in court. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/38a0bc99-9cd6-40ec-8286-c25ce3b7a8f7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martha_Wash.jpg
### 2009
- **2009-02-21**, 808 and 909, side by side. The TR-808 of 1980 and the TR-909 of 1983 together. Both were commercial disappointments that Roland stopped making within a few years, and both were then bought secondhand and cheap, largely by Black musicians in Chicago, Detroit and New York. The sound of house is Roland's marketing department having been wrong. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c4c365f5-fd77-4e59-8c9d-1f2907db5c41) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roland_TR-808_&_909.jpg
- **2009**, 09-09-09: An Oral History of the Roland TR-909. A short narrated oral history of the TR-909, made to mark twenty-five years of the machine. It gathers the accounts of the people who used it into a compact history of how a rejected drum machine became a genre's rhythm section. Made for 909 Day, 9 September 2009. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/173c954e-5086-4183-af57-024472ba5426) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icOrGNHGkIA
- **2009**, Rachael Cain on Trax Records: from vinyl to virtual. A recorded panel talk, 'I Love Chicago House: From Vinyl To Virtual & Beyond', with Trax Records president Rachael Cain. She addresses what the collapse of physical sales did to an independent label built entirely on 1980s Chicago 12-inches. This is the business side of the music rather than the dancefloor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ef8ca75c-8d42-49ad-a481-7ed1f69b134f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mORy8qH9dnA
- **2009**, Barzilay, Tel Aviv. Barzilay, a gay nightclub in Tel Aviv that became one of the city's core electronic-music rooms, photographed around 2009. House's spread through gay nightlife is not incidental to it; it is the mechanism. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/582daeb3-d422-4ce2-b8df-a0230636420c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barzilay_Venue_in_Tel_Aviv_Israel.jpg
- **2009**, Tama Sumo - Panorama Bar 02. The second instalment of Ostgut Ton's Panorama Bar mix series, by the room's long-standing resident Tama Sumo. Panorama Bar is Berlin's house floor above Berghain's techno room, and this series is the closest thing to a document of what is played there. The tracklist runs through deep house and Detroit-leaning records rather than techno. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/28389cf1-6a1b-49ec-864f-5d6df586bf43) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9A3uYftX8o
- **2009**, Mzekezeke - Ngihamba Phantsi (remix). A posse-cut remix pulling in Brickz, Howza, Pro and most of the TS Records roster - kwaito late in its commercial life, already overlapping with South African hip-hop without becoming it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e14ab720-6ab9-41fc-b79f-6777edd9e63c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqiqoOyQXlI
- **2009**, Black Coffee ft. Bucie - Superman. The record version of the biggest South African deep house crossover of its decade, from Black Coffee's album Home Brewed. Bucie's vocal over Maphumulo's keys is the template a generation of SA house singers worked from. This is house, made in Durban and Johannesburg, not an offshoot of it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e2e44d94-013a-42e5-89f2-a340779667d8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6-tR3PKCHA
- **2009**, Black Coffee ft. Bucie - Turn Me On. The other Black Coffee and Bucie record from the Home Brewed period, slower and more gospel-leaning than 'Superman'. It shows the vocal house lineage running from New York garage straight into South African studios. Uploaded by a fan channel two years after release. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a1e893b2-d412-4595-a6af-9f073ba4fa84) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjuPp6YglmE
- **2009**, Black Coffee ft. Zakes Bantwini - Juju. Black Coffee and Zakes Bantwini's 'Juju', a percussion-driven house record built on Zulu vocal chant rather than an imported diva sample. It is one of the tracks that convinced European labels that South African house had its own grammar. From the album Home Brewed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/bd0e7f85-3f1f-4c13-8e8c-68541520501d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLnUjcYZil0
- **2009**, Black Coffee ft. Ringo Madlingozi - Mama. Black Coffee producing under Ringo Madlingozi, one of South Africa's best-known Afro-soul voices, on the Home Brewed album. The record shows house being used as the country's mainstream pop production language rather than as a club niche. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ffa1ce69-98c8-4a33-b1d5-3f3b5a010209) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73YXb5HpxkU
- **2009**, Culoe De Song ft. Busi Mhlongo - Webaba. Culoe De Song was still a teenager when he built 'Webaba' around Busi Mhlongo's voice, from his debut album A Giant Leap on Black Coffee's Soulistic label. It is the record that proved SA deep house had a second generation. Mhlongo, a Maskandi singer, died the following year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/caa71074-59a3-4b5f-9e96-0b8017eeb090) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2gf9VzEuBk
- **2009-08-17**, CeCe Rogers in Manchester. The American house vocalist CeCe Rogers, photographed in Manchester in 2009. He is best known for 'Someday', one of the vocal standards of the Chicago era, and was still singing it more than twenty years later. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/051a43ab-f565-4d94-a8dd-5d947adc9388) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CeCeRogers_à_Manchester.jpg
- **2009-08-21**, Amnesia promoters work the beach. Costumed entertainers parade along an Ibiza beach to promote a night at Amnesia in 2009. Street and beach promotion is how the island's clubs have always filled their rooms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2fcd3475-540a-4696-bfa7-cba206e49ef3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amnesia_Ibiza_Beach_Promotion_1.jpg
- **2009-09-05**, Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer. The TR-808, launched in 1980 at 1,195 dollars and out of production by 1983 after around twelve thousand units. Roland stopped making it because it could no longer buy the faulty transistors that gave the machine its hiss, and by 1983 secondhand units went for under a hundred dollars. It has since been used on more hit records than any other drum machine. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b48143a9-102c-434f-90f7-cdc9b51d2977) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roland_TR-808_Rhythm_Composer.jpg
### 2010
- **2010-03-02**, Oliver Wilson on his father's club, the Haçienda. Tony Wilson's son looks back on FAC 51, the club Factory Records and New Order financed, which opened on 21 May 1982, launched its Hot acid house night in July 1988 and closed for good on 28 June 1997. Peter Hook's accounting is the punchline the family lived with: the club that defined a decade of British music lost up to eighteen million pounds and never made money. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c262dc78-5288-44b4-b50f-d93e30ff76b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJqqmScn-Qg
- **2010-05-31**, Circoloco opening party at DC-10, Ibiza, 2010. A minute of crowd footage from the 2010 Circoloco opening at DC-10, with Loco Dice playing. Phone-grade, but genuine period documentation of the party in its peak years at the small club by the airport runway. The room and the crowd are the subject, not the booth. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b60ccc5e-ff20-48aa-b6e7-a44dbc5a7756) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNw1O2Yz60c
- **2010**, T Dance crowd, Midsumma. The crowd at T Dance, the daytime dance party run as part of Melbourne's Midsumma festival. House came out of queer dance floors in Chicago and New York, and queer dance floors on the other side of the world are part of what kept it going. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/745de5b2-3341-42d0-8d8b-95055c0283d1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010_TDANCE.JPG
- **2010**, Cassius interview, Paris, 2010. Philippe Zdar and Boombass on camera in Paris, talking through the duo's work and the scene they came out of. First-hand testimony from two of the people who actually built French house rather than a retrospective about them. Posted again after Zdar's death in June 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/50f4ce7a-32d5-4160-ad17-58558e4b7d43) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXXFizg81w8
- **2010**, Theo Parrish - Boiler Room London debut. Theo Parrish's first Boiler Room, filmed in a London flat in the series' opening year. Parrish's Detroit deep house is built from unusually long, unquantised edits, and this is one of the earliest filmed records of the format that would go on to televise club DJing worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0208ab61-368f-4266-b242-12feb90e6919) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wZ5-lb7bQ4
- **2010**, Groove Armada - Superstylin' live at Glastonbury 2010. Groove Armada playing 'Superstylin'' on Glastonbury's stage, one of the British house records that carried the sound to a mass festival audience. It is a useful marker of how far house had travelled from the clubs by the 2000s. Filmed by the BBC as part of its Glastonbury coverage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1a828b7d-71b2-4700-8eee-e35947644cd4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEKUKDsw0JU
- **2010**, Powerhouse arena at Southport Weekender 46, May 2010. A clip from the Powerhouse room at Southport Weekender 46, filmed at the Pontins site. The Powerhouse was the weekender's main house arena and the room that gave the British soulful scene its annual gathering point. Rough footage, but it is period evidence of the crowd and the room. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4d19eff6-b621-4280-9a80-679b21262b86) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hojt1w9_9s
- **2010**, Black Coffee - Crazy (Culoe De Song Winter Remix). Culoe De Song's remix of Black Coffee's Crazy, on Black Coffee's own Soulistic Music. Two of the defining South African house producers of the era on one record, in the deep, live-sounding style that became the country's signature abroad. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cae14b03-75f9-41c9-8f5e-d454de68901c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWGiQIK_Sz0
- **2010**, Culoe De Song - Webaba (Innervisions EP version). The longer version issued on Berlin's Innervisions as the Webaba EP, the release that carried Culoe De Song out of South Africa and onto European floors. Same track, different record: this is the export edition, and the reason a Johannesburg producer ended up on Dixon and Ame's label. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2b7fa3f0-a2f2-455e-ad35-dad1245905d1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0_2kdgilak
- **2010**, DJ Cleo - Aaaiiiyyy. A DJ Cleo single with its own video, from the Es'khaleni run that made him one of kwaito's biggest sellers. Kwaito belongs in a house archive by the testimony of the people who made it: it is house slowed down, made in the townships, and filed as hip-hop everywhere else. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7fe71ae9-baa0-4536-ab48-d95542c8c117) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAibpGHesg4
- **2010-08-19**, Danny Krivit on the art of the disco edit. Krivit explaining how he re-edits records for the floor, made around a compilation of his edits for Strut. The edit is the connective tissue between 1970s disco and house, and this is the practitioner describing the technique directly. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d7e6e835-d660-4e70-8a05-059e4769af2f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xidigbYsc-U
- **2010-09-03**, Drum machines for sale in Harajuku. A TR-909 and a TR-808 on the shelves at Five G, the vintage synthesiser shop in Harajuku, Tokyo, in September 2010. Since Roland stopped making them the secondhand counter has been where these machines actually live. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ec725cd0-4abe-43cf-968e-193e5a8fc7e3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roland_TR-909_&_TR-808_Rhythm_Composers_@_Five_G_music_technology,_Harajuku_-_2010-09-03_(by_j_bizzie).jpg
- **2010-11-06**, A TB-303 behind glass. A TB-303 on show at the Tekniska Museet in 2010. A commercial flop of 1981, dumped cheap and then rebuilt into a genre by people it was never designed for, ends up in a museum as a historical instrument. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2a9f2b51-0709-4fcb-a34e-84783a22f93b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roland_TB-303_@_nordcafe_Teknisca_Museet.jpg
- **2010-11-14**, Open-air party outside Chiang Mai. Dancers at an open-air party on the outskirts of Chiang Mai, Thailand, in November 2010; the photographer notes the night ran on house and techno. House travelled a long way past Chicago, and it usually arrives like this, at small unlicensed parties rather than in clubs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1d2e3016-ae00-4c38-adc2-34b642564690) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chiang_Mai,_Thailand,_Party,_People_dancing.jpg
- **2010-12-11**, Daft Punk at the Tron premiere. Daft Punk at the Los Angeles premiere of Tron: Legacy in December 2010, having scored the film. Scoring a Disney blockbuster is one measure of how far the studio-bound French house project had travelled. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/98fa77a1-64c5-4a69-9a60-bfeca2849f9b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DaftPunkTronPremiere.jpg
### 2011
- **2011-01-01**, 718 Sessions New Year's Day party, Santos Party House. Phone footage of the floor at Krivit's 718 Sessions on New Year's Day 2011 while 'You Bought the Sunshine' plays. Rough, but it is dancers rather than a DJ booth, and that is the scarce material for this facet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/47bff9fc-96ae-40d8-825f-6d4dbb771fbb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfO4kBhkqio
- **2011-01-23**, Robert Owens on Larry Heard, Chicago and the Muzic Box. Christopher Tubbs talks to Robert Owens about Larry Heard, the Chicago clubs and Ron Hardy's Muzic Box, where Jefferson and Heard first tested records on a dancefloor. Owens is the most recognisable male voice in house and talks here about what a singer owes the room rather than the record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fe8565b9-0fff-448e-ade1-369369079f76) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIwLApcyRdA
- **2011-03-02**, Vince Lawrence on founding Trax Records. Vince Lawrence describes how Trax Records was set up, including the deals with pressing plants that let a Chicago label put records in shops with almost no capital. Trax released the defining early house records and became just as well known for what it never paid the artists who made them. The founding told by one of the people who did it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/15c53903-cd3e-4244-9b4d-5f483f835ba8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXfSZUvtOVQ
- **2011-03-02**, Vince Lawrence, house music pioneer. The opening segment of a gearwire interview with Vince Lawrence, who was pressing records as a teenager and co-wrote 'On and On' with Jesse Saunders before helping start Trax. He was also on stage at Comiskey Park for Disco Demolition in 1979, which makes him a direct link between disco's public burning and what Chicago built on the ashes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1d860562-f172-47ee-8ce3-b8092e774156) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnrICBhXk5I
- **2011-03-02**, Vince Lawrence on the rise of On and On. Lawrence tells how he asked for studio time instead of a car for his eighteenth birthday, and what happened once 'On and On' started selling in Chicago stores. Within a year he had helped start a label, which is roughly the speed at which the whole Chicago industry assembled itself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d0654371-fdaf-49e6-9b60-1dcab0edbf0a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo4Lnuoqd80
- **2011-03-04**, Vince Lawrence's studio tour. Lawrence walks through the racks at his Slang Music Group studio, naming the machines he works on and how they compare with the cheap Roland boxes that made the first Chicago records. A gear tour by someone who was there when the gear was chosen because it was what the pawn shops had. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3ff83bab-5e7c-485b-be02-5c706411008b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvxKdr6b1V0
- **2011-03-04**, Vince Lawrence on getting into distribution. Lawrence explains how Trax stopped sharing Chicago territory with rival stores and went out to Detroit and beyond to place its own records. Distribution is the unglamorous part of the story and the part that decided which Chicago records the rest of the world ever heard. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8df805f0-e762-47e2-ab48-91c94a19afe6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lozc-0K-rL0
- **2011-05-02**, Back in the House - New York house documentary trailer. An eleven-minute trailer for a five-hour documentary on 1990s New York house, with Francois K, Tony Humphries, Timmy Regisford, Kerri Chandler, Joe Claussell and Frankie Knuckles on camera. The full film is hard to find, so this stands as the surviving public cut of that footage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5dcdce2a-ba62-403a-b68c-30863ffc67c4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsIt8ZDMJTU
- **2011-05-03**, Honey Dijon interviewed in San Francisco, 2011. An early interview with Honey Dijon at the EndUp in San Francisco, years before her mainstream profile, recalling her Chicago house grounding and her New York years around Danny Tenaglia. Brief, and valuable mainly for how early it is. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/09649a94-7072-4154-a8cf-7a3406ebed53) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsQVR8S9YCw
- **2011-06-03**, Derrick Carter - Essential Mix, BBC Radio 1. Two hours of Derrick Carter for Radio 1's Essential Mix, the show that has been the British establishment's dance-music shop window since October 1993. A Chicago DJ given national airtime on the BBC is the point here, the record of house on radio is otherwise almost entirely a story of intermediaries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c5fe42e7-8fc0-474e-80bc-cddfc763bc3e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXW1zg6BB6U
- **2011-06-13**, Nicolas Jaar in Spandau. Nicolas Jaar and his band at an open-air event staged by the Berlin club Wilde Renate in a film-studio compound in Spandau on 13 June 2011. Jaar's early records slowed house down to a walking pace and found an audience doing it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/77d32a9c-ef65-4335-b528-4e5de945467d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wilde_Renate_Open_Air.jpg
- **2011-06-13**, Alfredo - A Balearic Gift. A commercially released mix album put together by Alfredo Fiorito himself, issued in 2011 as the first of the Legends Series. It is the father of the Balearic beat setting out his own canon, which makes it a source document rather than a fan compilation. Useful as the authored version of a style otherwise preserved only in mislabelled bootleg tapes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e71a669c-88bd-400d-8822-344bf37b3236) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKA--gRuFhY
- **2011**, David Morales interviewed at Pacha, Ibiza. An Italian television segment filmed at Pacha, with David Morales on the Ibiza circuit that turned New York house DJs into international residents. Short and Italian-subtitled, but shot on site in one of the island's defining rooms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c645391b-2294-432f-bd6d-5756576ba15f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8KwgCml0rE
- **2011**, Frankie Knuckles on the Warehouse, Def Mix and a life in music. A ninety-minute Red Bull Music Academy lecture in which Knuckles talks through the Bronx, the Loft, moving to Chicago, the Warehouse, and founding Def Mix with David Morales in New York. First-person testimony from the person the whole origins chapter turns on. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/abdba4cc-8397-4ee5-85f6-12115d3fa7dc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOg4TxWUiQA
- **2011**, Frankie Knuckles interviewed by Simon Dunmore. A half-hour career interview with the Godfather of House, from the Bronx and the Continental Baths through the Warehouse and after. Knuckles talks about the music as work rather than legend, which is rarer than it should be. He died in March 2014, so late long-form interviews with him are finite. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/be628762-5bfb-43b6-a125-e06d5c67a66f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_vgKgoHmVQ
- **2011**, DJ Sneak - DJsounds Show interview and mix. An hour with DJ Sneak that pairs a mix with an interview about founding Magnetic Recordings and about the bumpy, filtered sound he is credited with. The talk matters as much as the music: Sneak is one of the few Chicago figures who speaks bluntly on record about credit and money in house. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/63ff36c9-e888-4ea2-875f-dc9d1eebc123) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDtsqgJhAds
- **2011**, Culoe De Song and Black Coffee at the Vodacom Red Hot Concert, Lesotho. Amateur footage of Culoe De Song and Black Coffee playing a stadium concert in Lesotho. Contemporary crowd-level video of South African house at scale, before either DJ had an international profile. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/35db9785-9539-4968-89bc-001a25c213f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGwo8oux214
- **2011**, DJ Soul T ft. DJ Cleo - Impempe. A kwaito music video from DJ Cleo's own channel, made with Gorilla Films. Kwaito is house slowed to a walking tempo of around 110bpm - M'du Masilela put it plainly: when house music got popular, people from the ghetto called it kwaito - and this archive files it as house, which almost no reference work does. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/747f9a30-3eef-4b8b-8c14-9574fc4e9c91) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooLQ6avMZr4
- **2011-10-26**, Frankie Knuckles on working the lights for Larry Levan. Knuckles describing the years before either of them was famous, when he ran lights while Levan played. The two founding figures of house and garage met as teenagers in New York's Black queer nightlife and came up through the Continental Baths together. A short, load-bearing piece of testimony. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/14080e38-45a5-4cc4-886b-4a922eca2f36) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKo2qOTFJms
- **2011-12-06**, Bassline Baseline - a TB-303 documentary. A twenty-minute video essay on the invention, commercial failure and resurrection of the Roland TB-303. It is the fullest account in this batch of the archive's best machine story: a discontinued flop, dumped cheap in Chicago pawn shops, turned by Phuture into an entire genre. Includes the design context and the people who found the machine afterwards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/af268f56-639b-4051-8140-2ee69d100f5b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omHUR3R0Qqw
- **2011-12-19**, Jesse Saunders in conversation, part one. Jesse Saunders, whose 'On and On' in 1984 is the record most often called the first house release, talks through the pre-history: the Playground, the disco bootleg he was rebuilding, and what Chicago sounded like before there was a name for it. His claim to being first is contested, and hearing him make it is part of the record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6afc53a6-92d4-40da-9c5b-ff6138415dad) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCZbYzAun58
### 2012
- **2012-01-07**, Acid Trax jammed live on TB-303, TR-909, TR-707 and TR-606. A full hardware performance of the Phuture record on the actual Roland boxes it was made from, with the 303's filter and resonance worked by hand throughout. The clearest demonstration in this set of how the acid sound is physically produced. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b63acea2-a065-4be6-bd77-f211a1635844) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UxedgYEgks
- **2012-02-26**, Frankie Knuckles at the decks. Frankie Knuckles DJing at The Mighty in San Francisco in 2012. He moved from the Bronx to Chicago in 1977 to open the Warehouse, a club whose crowd was largely Black and gay, and the music that came out of that room took the building's name. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1205f754-7287-401e-8bd2-91bfa3ddd30b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frankie_Knuckles_at_The_Mighty_(SF),_2012_-1.jpg
- **2012-02-26**, Frankie Knuckles and David Harness. Frankie Knuckles playing alongside the San Francisco DJ David Harness at The Mighty in 2012. Knuckles was still working weekly club dates two years before his death in 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ccb3f08d-a5e4-4009-98da-12f69a1ed799) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frankie_Knuckles_and_David_Harness_at_The_Mighty_(SF),_2012_-9.jpg
- **2012-04-05**, Frankie Knuckles interview, part one. Frankie Knuckles on his beginnings in New York, DJing disco and soul alongside Larry Levan, and the move to Chicago in 1977 that produced the Warehouse. Both men were young, Black and gay, and the rooms they built existed because they were not welcome in the ones that already did. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ed794a11-8192-43c3-a0ca-96698f7293e6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOOCL2-BT-o
- **2012-04-06**, Frankie Knuckles interview, part two. The second half of FACT's interview with the Godfather of House, made two years before his death. Knuckles talks about the practice of the job, records, edits, reading a room, from the man whose residency at the Warehouse gave the genre its name. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6e39a133-558f-4950-bf07-298fbe4761c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc9mlmkv-O8
- **2012-06-03**, Benoit & Sergio at Piknic Electronik. The duo Benoit & Sergio performing at Piknic Electronik in Montreal in June 2012. The daytime outdoor series is one of the formats house found once it outgrew the nightclub and became a booking on a festival sheet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a6561105-8542-4ea1-8aa3-6981a2b20567) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benoit_&_Sergio_Piknic_Électronik.jpg
- **2012-06-15**, Cream opening night at Amnesia. The crowd at Amnesia for a Cream opening party in June 2012. Cream's residency was one of the British superclub brands that colonised Ibiza's summer calendar. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/84435fbd-a61a-4f82-a03e-89abeee42a1e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amnesia_Ibiza_Crowd_10.jpg
- **2012**, Derrick May on what separates techno from house. Derrick May draws the line between techno and house in his own words, which is the distinction most secondhand accounts blur. Short, and useful precisely because a founder is defining the terms rather than a journalist. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d56690be-1955-4d29-bece-76396c4a8cf4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L1GXBmG2A4
- **2012**, How Clubbing Changed the World. Idris Elba's television history of British club culture, from the acid house raves and the Hacienda through the superclubs to the export of the UK DJ. It connects the Chicago and Ibiza records to what Britain built on top of them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c2166b2d-8dfd-4427-8644-b1e1a9613d7a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZhIazg2n7E
- **2012**, Danny Rampling at the Shoom 25th anniversary party. Rampling playing to a strobe-lit room at the 25th-anniversary Shoom night, dropping 'R U Happy'. A short, amateur record of the club's afterlife, and one of the few pieces of moving image tied to the Shoom name at all. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7ea67326-8756-4138-accc-042aaeb3a65a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svsdK8wCGok
- **2012**, Frankie Knuckles at the Def Mix party, Amsterdam. Three minutes of Knuckles DJing in Amsterdam in 2012, playing 'The Whistle Song'. He died in 2014, so late footage of him behind the decks rather than in an interview chair is worth keeping. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/bc18ee60-355e-4a00-ac01-3adfc791b889) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOd_vAN-XWM
- **2012**, Kerri Chandler - Boiler Room London, second appearance. Kerri Chandler's second Boiler Room, an hour of the deep, chord-heavy New Jersey house he has been making since the late 1980s. The New York and New Jersey garage lineage barely survives in photographs, so filmed sets by its surviving practitioners carry most of the weight. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/53feb0e4-2b72-4b07-bf45-d6382e5e3996) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwew9TzWY3M
- **2012**, Kerri Chandler - Boiler Room London, first appearance. Kerri Chandler's first Boiler Room, described at the time as twenty years into a career that started with Madhouse Records and the Club Zanzibar orbit in New Jersey. It is the earlier of his two 2012 London sessions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f46161bc-8657-4501-94d3-45752eaf77a2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K23EMICW8W8
- **2012**, Yes-Ja! The Kwaito Documentary. A feature-length documentary made by the Namibian artist EES on kwaito's spread beyond South Africa, with the artists and producers on camera. It is one of very few full-length films on a genre with almost no free-licensed visual record at all. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cffb0a1e-70a8-4b03-b672-23c5dbfc828c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgvEuDna2rw
- **2012**, Black Coffee ft. Bucie - Superman, live from Africa Rising. Black Coffee performing 'Superman' with Bucie on the Africa Rising concert film, with a full band behind the record rather than a DJ booth. It is the song that made South African deep house a mainstream national sound. Nkosinathi Maphumulo lost the use of his left arm in a car strike on 11 February 1990, the day Mandela walked free, and built the country's largest house catalogue one-handed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/53512ee5-a687-4869-9600-dd3ac91a5be9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_72j4UqOSM
- **2012**, Black Coffee ft. Zakes Bantwini - Juju, live at Africa Rising. A thirteen-minute live reading of 'Juju' from the Africa Rising concert, with the chant carried by a live band and crowd rather than the record. Useful as footage of what a South African house show actually looked like at scale in the early 2010s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/dcf37150-e991-4d4c-b90c-ee857f4f4a49) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1VN_QNrC3s
- **2012-06-27**, Foam party at Amnesia. Performers in the foam at Amnesia in June 2012. The club claims the foam party as its own invention and has run it since the 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8443edaf-ea97-45c0-aad4-3b1615e12508) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amnesia_Ibiza_Clowns.jpg
- **2012-07-09**, Cocoon night at Amnesia. Dancers at Cocoon, Sven Vath's long-running Monday residency at Amnesia, in July 2012. Cocoon pulled the club toward German techno while the terrace kept its house programming. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0f45b410-458e-4464-8adb-fd0bcaae28ba) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amnesia_Ibiza_Cocoon_Dancers_4.jpg
- **2012-07-24**, The terrace, packed. The Amnesia terrace during the Together night in July 2012. The terrace, once open to the sky, is the room most associated with the Balearic sound. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/56622f52-49d8-40a8-a048-de488a5c5cd8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amnesia_Ibiza_Crowd_1.jpg
- **2012-08-06**, Fire show at Cocoon. A fire performance during Cocoon at Amnesia in August 2012. Ibiza's big rooms sell spectacle alongside the music, and the production budget shows. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2dffebe9-75d8-4161-aaa6-ff736be51649) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amnesia_Ibiza_Cocoon_Fire_Show.jpg
- **2012-08-30**, Calvin Harris on the Amnesia terrace. Calvin Harris playing the terrace at Amnesia for Cream in August 2012, at the height of the EDM crossover. A pop producer headlining a Balearic institution is the period in one frame. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e729aeda-2101-462c-9d66-15a712f979d7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amnesia_Ibiza_Calvin_Harris.jpg
- **2012-09-17**, Cocoon in September. Dancers at Amnesia during a September Cocoon night in 2012, near the close of the Ibiza season. The island's club year runs roughly June to early October and then empties. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2947d49e-41a5-47b6-abd8-02b9f9b0dd53) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amnesia_Ibiza_Cocoon_Dancers_1.jpg
- **2012-10-20**, Frankie Knuckles at Amsterdam Dance Event. Frankie Knuckles playing the Sugar Factory during Amsterdam Dance Event in October 2012. ADE is where the business of dance music meets each year, and the man who named the genre was on a club bill like anyone else. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/acd5bd3c-9f9e-47a3-b3f3-62a86912f82b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frankie_Knuckles_@_ADE_2012.jpg
- **2012-12-03**, Real Scenes: Paris. Resident Advisor's film on Paris after the obituaries, tracing the city from the filter-house years of Daft Punk and the French touch to the promoters rebuilding a club circuit under some of Europe's tightest nightlife policing. France is the one place outside America that rewrote house into a national style, and this shows what that scene looked like once the hype had gone. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5b8f326b-dcc2-447e-a27e-64c312a616b3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0jxccR7-fg
- **2012-12-03**, Robert Owens performs Tears live at the HMV Forum, London. A full seven-minute live reading of Tears, filmed from the wings. Owens' delivery is the gospel inheritance the garage facet is built on, sung by one of the few people who was actually in the room when house was being invented. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/604e76b1-295b-47ce-a635-1776dcf70938) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3-TuSAgsIs
- **2012-12-07**, Derrick Carter - Boiler Room London. An early Boiler Room booking for Derrick Carter, playing a Sunday-evening set in the London studio two years into the platform's existence. It documents both a Chicago original abroad and the moment when a webcam show started to function as the world's main window onto DJ sets. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ccd777d2-9996-4d02-ad88-a466539138e4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45nBi2gPSEU
### 2013
- **2013-01-03**, Danny Krivit and Reverend P in conversation. Danny Krivit, of Body & Soul and a New York record family, in conversation at the Paris club Djoon. Short, and posted by the venue, but the garage lineage has so little filmed material that even a club's own clip is worth holding. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9f1ff644-a965-4381-9a83-03b69386d698) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXxGIqXOnKQ
- **2013-01-15**, Real Scenes: Johannesburg. A documentary portrait of Johannesburg's house scene, filmed with the DJs, producers and dancers who sustain it. It shows house as ordinary popular music in South Africa rather than a niche import, which is the point this archive needs made. Published January 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e8dcfe79-169b-4912-a5d3-ae1f06afb17f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykt2f6o7-e8
- **2013-03-02**, RudeBoyz - Mitsubishi Song. The earliest item in this batch: a raw RudeBoyz track posted in March 2013, before gqom had a name in print. The uploader calls them 'Durban based young House producers' and describes the sound as a home-brewed version of house, which is precisely the filing this archive argues for. It is a document of the genre in the moment it was still just local house. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9bf520c0-d455-4e1f-8e42-51a2231fdc65) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf5lPkV8ApA
- **2013-04-26**, Real Scenes: New York. Resident Advisor returns to the city that gave dance music the Loft and the Paradise Garage and asks what survived the Giuliani-era cabaret-law crackdown. It sets the Levan and Mancuso inheritance, rooms built by and for Black, Latino and gay New Yorkers who were not welcome elsewhere, against the loft parties and small clubs carrying it on. The garage lineage has almost no surviving visual record, which makes this film unusually valuable here. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/56ed531e-9150-4370-aeea-bb6167b65b47) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDtf0uIUPuE
- **2013-05-12**, Frankie Knuckles - Boiler Room New York. Frankie Knuckles, the DJ who built house at the Warehouse in Chicago out of disco records for a largely Black and gay crowd, playing a Boiler Room session in New York less than a year before his death. Filmed footage of Knuckles at work is scarce, which makes this one of the archive's most important rows. He died on 31 March 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/67b76f64-a74d-4f27-b601-3c78d76958be) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=644UU55eyzk
- **2013**, BBC Radio 1 Stories: The TR-808, TR-909 and TB-303. A full-length BBC Radio 1 documentary on Roland's three genre-defining boxes, with the producers and DJs who built dance music out of them. It treats the 808, 909 and 303 as instruments rather than curiosities, which is the right frame for a house archive. Roland designed all three for other purposes entirely and discontinued all three as commercial disappointments. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/51a08401-a2e8-49a1-8d4e-4dd07aa9e72e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBvmnqeJWl4
- **2013**, Daft Punk in 2013. A promotional photograph of Daft Punk from the Random Access Memories campaign in 2013. The album hired the session players and disco producers of the 1970s, arguing the lineage out loud. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0116bb1b-8080-4fd1-bf45-e6185c5e8cec) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daft_Punk_in_2013.jpg
- **2013**, Rewind 4Ever: The History of UK Garage. The feature documentary on UK garage, tracing the London scene from its roots in New York garage house through the pirate radio and Sunday-morning years. UK garage is a direct descendant of the Paradise Garage sound, rerouted through British sound-system culture - a different genre with a shared parent. Told by the DJs, MCs and promoters who ran it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2c9c9e8c-acc3-4f20-b64e-29522f742050) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XDpsaC0unk
- **2013**, Theo Parrish - Boiler Room at Studio Africa. A short Theo Parrish set recorded for Boiler Room at the Studio Africa project. Parrish plays African and diasporic records alongside Detroit house, which is the argument the whole event was making about where the music comes from. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/80cf32ce-8e8c-427e-b837-920d33a357b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU7-KNdokU4
- **2013**, Masters At Work live in Sydney. An hour of Louie Vega and Kenny Dope playing together in Sydney, captured by an audience camera. Useful as evidence of how far the New York sound travelled and of what a MAW back-to-back actually sounds like outside a club-brand livestream. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1050337a-c8b4-4f1e-b127-50cb17ce3ec4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeEjCurhKHU
- **2013**, Tom Moulton on the first mixtape and the remix. Tom Moulton invented the extended dance remix and the 12-inch single, and his Salsoul and Philadelphia mixes are the raw material every New York house DJ inherited. Here he explains how the first continuous mix tape and the first remixes came about, and how the industry reacted to a man rearranging other people's records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b85d4ed5-5809-4bb6-9bee-6d19eeb3150c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaXKAaE7qSM
- **2013**, Masters At Work on The Ha Dance, Nuyorican Soul and NYC. Louie Vega and Kenny Dope on growing up Puerto Rican in New York, the DJs and clubs that formed them, and how their remixes and the Nuyorican Soul project pulled Latin music into house. Two hours of first-hand account from the pair who defined the New York sound of the 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a657bd74-65ce-431d-93b1-ee06cc6f0f3a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcT9p985H6M
- **2013**, François K on Arthur Russell and Depeche Mode's Violator. François Kevorkian on the New York years, remixing, engineering, working with Arthur Russell, and later mixing Violator. Kevorkian called the Paradise Garage sound system a temple, and he is one of the few people who can describe both that room and the recording studios that fed it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cd40de15-71a3-4092-a300-ad7b8aa74f8f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l_XPJO6hAY
- **2013**, DJ Spoko - Batauweng (feat. Kapa Kapa). A track by the Pretoria producer DJ Spoko, a central figure in bacardi house, the fast Tshwane strain that later fed into amapiano. Released by his label ahead of the Ghost Town EP. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1b630c4d-02f2-4cb3-8946-0a09900ef11f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCgE8DT3S6E
- **2013**, Uhuru - Y-Tjukuja (feat. Professor, Oskido, DJ Bucks). A Kalawa Jazmee record from the group that bridged kwaito and the house-driven Gqom/amapiano decade, with Oskido himself on the credit. It shows the Johannesburg label system still working two decades after kwaito began. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5e14551c-6945-4588-add1-d70566ebbab9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD3jRqcvz0Y
- **2013**, Uhuru - Thath'isgubhu (feat. Bongo Maffin). Uhuru rebuild the Bongo Maffin anthem fifteen years on, again on Kalawa Jazmee and again produced by Oskido, with the original group singing on it. It shows the label's house lineage handing itself forward to the generation that would carry it into amapiano. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/928f36e2-32b5-4558-a415-54dd8e53eb2c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mXatzTzdqQ
- **2013**, Professor ft. Oskido & Uhuru - Speaker (University of Kalawa Jazmee). From Kalawa Jazmee's University compilation, the label putting its veterans and its new signings on the same record. The Uhuru credit here is the same crew whose members would go on to shape the next decade of South African dance music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6314b1f3-3da5-4182-9039-b97696403237) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkCVHKy2EgI
- **2013-08-21**, Jamie Jones - Boiler Room Ibiza villa takeover. Jamie Jones playing a poolside villa takeover in Ibiza at the height of his Paradise residency at DC-10. The villa party is the island's other economy, off the club circuit and out of the ticket price, and Boiler Room filming it in 2013 is a neat record of how Ibiza sold itself in that decade. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/07b0a8af-e9ab-4d93-99de-79ff6517da83) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGdA7cmSkFk
- **2013-09-16**, Nightmares On Wax - Boiler Room London. George Evelyn DJing house, disco and soul in the London Boiler Room studio. His records for Warp came out of the Yorkshire bleep scene that formed directly downstream of Chicago acid house reaching northern England, and his selections as a DJ trace that inheritance rather than his own downtempo albums. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3d6afdc5-8611-4365-9559-287529bf1dbc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q692lHFaLVM
- **2013-10-03**, Frankie Knuckles - Boiler Room London. A daytime Boiler Room session by Frankie Knuckles in London, filmed months before he died. It is a second surviving piece of moving-image footage of him mixing, from a career that is otherwise documented almost entirely in audio and photographs. Knuckles was still touring constantly at this point. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ec0aade1-7f20-4509-aaf7-3f167ce1e128) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EanuiNxcVHk
- **2013-11-23**, A 303 clone under computer control. The Cyclone Analogic Bass Bot TT-303, a hardware copy of the TB-303 run from a computer, photographed in 2013. Roland's discontinued failure became a circuit other manufacturers have been rebuilding for thirty years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8d33ea06-166a-4065-8706-238876b8f1ec) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyclone_analogic_Bass_Bot_TT-303_Computer_Controlled.jpg
- **2013-12-18**, Kaytranada - Boiler Room: Montreal. An early Boiler Room from Kaytranada, filmed in Montreal before he had an album out. His way of pulling house tempos through hip-hop swing became one of the defining crossover sounds of the following decade. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/21e8400c-a351-48c7-b8b8-234e56818d1a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5EQIiabJvk
### 2014
- **2014-01-20**, Roland engineers on the TR-909. Roland's own engineers describing how the TR-909's sounds were arrived at, the digital samples and MIDI that separated it from the TR-808 it succeeded. Notable because the company states flatly on the record that house and techno were born out of this machine, an admission about a product it discontinued as a commercial disappointment. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5418532c-5daf-40ba-a180-c37ee6c75961) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXsMvTSCkuY
- **2014-03-06**, Frankie Knuckles and the origins of house. A Mixmag mini-documentary on Knuckles and the birth of the genre, published three weeks before he died. It is one of the last pieces of press made while he was alive to speak for the scene himself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a472d953-d3f7-465c-acc3-2d462a7e321b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7JHqtMuuAI
- **2014-03-28**, Roy Davis Jr. - Boiler Room London, 2014. Forty-five minutes from Roy Davis Jr. in the London Boiler Room, described by the platform as carrying the torch for Chicago. He came up around Trax and the second wave of the city's producers, and his gospel-inflected records are the direct link between Chicago house and the vocal garage sound Britain built on top of it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ee44fd73-062e-4d57-a54f-7b876c9686fd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8wHzeWPj1s
- **2014-04-01**, Frankie Knuckles on first hearing the phrase house music. Knuckles recounts seeing a sign advertising house music and only then learning the crowd had named the sound after his club. First-person testimony from the person the whole origin story runs through. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4963f48d-f6ea-4ef6-b55b-0295056a5873) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM0fga9HdIE
- **2014-04-02**, CBS Chicago reports the death of Frankie Knuckles. Local news report on the death of the Warehouse resident who turned re-edited disco into house music, with friends and DJs reacting on camera. It is the rare mainstream broadcast that treats a Black gay club DJ as a figure of civic importance in his own city. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f68a944d-b8ea-412d-a27c-187f2dd2cee8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zIcOV4ACuo
- **2014-04-29**, Roy Davis Jr. - Boiler Room: Chicago. Roy Davis Jr., a second-wave Chicago producer who worked with Phuture and later wrote 'Gabriel', playing on home turf. His records sit exactly on the seam between Chicago's machine tracks and New York's gospel-vocal house, and the set moves between both. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4e383cfc-2699-4e30-a5d6-a2132e7b5a57) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INZkYvPIX6c
- **2014-05-11**, What Is the Paradise Garage? - Larry Levan Way block party. Thousands fill King Street in SoHo for a block party outside the Paradise Garage's former home, at the naming of Larry Levan Way. The Garage was a members' club for Black and Latino gay New York, and this is the city finally putting that on a street sign, twenty-seven years after the club closed and twenty-two after Levan died. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/94ca53b4-aed0-4322-af8f-79aabc030c72) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2O6y74xTXM
- **2014**, Derrick May on Detroit, Chicago and club culture. An interview in which Derrick May talks through the relationship between Detroit and Chicago and how both cities' records travelled internationally. Extended conversation on the exchange between the two scenes rather than on techno alone. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cdb20ff3-f584-4f97-b364-f731cdeac72a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlqXJ9TFU6w
- **2014**, Roland TR-808 famous drum beats. The drum patterns that made the 808 the most recorded drum machine ever built, played back on the original hardware. It shows how a commercial flop became the rhythmic foundation of hip-hop, electro and house once it was cheap enough for the people who wanted it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e964625c-7d71-46bb-b29e-1730ba4d0827) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeZZk2czG1c
- **2014**, Tony Humphries on Zanzibar, KISS FM and the Jersey sound. A Red Bull Music Academy lecture from the DJ who made Newark's Club Zanzibar and New York radio into a single institution. Humphries' KISS FM mixes taught a generation of listeners what a house record was supposed to sound like. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/77cd43b4-6e2b-41de-ae61-e14559a649b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2t8gmR9FuA
- **2014**, Rave culture twenty years after the Criminal Justice Act. A short documentary piece marking two decades since the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, filmed among a festival crowd and asking what the law actually did to the culture it was written against. It puts the Act's Section 63 'repetitive beats' clause in front of the people living with its consequences. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c3e70300-1819-4c90-9593-1598027f5643) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzt21beRmKU
- **2014**, Ryan Elliott - Panorama Bar 06. Ryan Elliott's entry in Ostgut Ton's Panorama Bar mix series, released free through the label. A Detroit-raised DJ resident in Berlin, Elliott shows the deep house and dub-inflected end of the room's sound. It is one of the better-documented statements of Berlin's house floor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/47b11030-61b4-4813-9fb7-57409af28e9d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOQHvCtY5Y
- **2014**, Southport Weekender 50 - the house room, May 2014. A short piece of floor footage from the house room at Southport Weekender's fiftieth edition. Handheld clips like this are the only visual record of a scene that was documented almost entirely in audio. It shows the soulful-house crowd that sustained the sound in Britain between revivals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/797bba88-cf0e-408f-aaa7-36e7cc713f95) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2jWgPY7lCs
- **2014**, Moodymann on Detroit and staying independent. Kenny Dixon Jr. on Detroit, vinyl, and refusing to work the way the industry wanted him to. Moodymann is the clearest case of Detroit producing house rather than techno, soul, gospel and disco records rebuilt into loops, and of an artist keeping ownership of them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c3cf3725-e4bc-40a5-b68d-5aa7dc7d6a72) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MURWcoKrWI
- **2014**, Frankie Knuckles - In Session, his last recorded mix. The mix presented as Frankie Knuckles' last recorded session, made for Mixmag's In Session series. It is the closing entry in the working life of the man who gave house its name and its first audience in Chicago. Two hours of records chosen by the person who invented the form. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fa3331a0-86c3-49c1-b320-5959c0dc41a7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEzZBYIkKaY
- **2014**, DJ Sneak - 90s vinyl mix for the DJsounds Show. DJ Sneak plays nothing but his own 1990s records, all on vinyl, for Pioneer's DJsounds series. It doubles as a guided tour of the Chicago jacking canon by the man who cut much of it, and as a demonstration of how the music was actually mixed before digital libraries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/66dd99b6-5c2e-4266-b855-f53a9d644c32) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdWu09bUjPw
- **2014**, Black Coffee in The Lab LDN. A house set for Mixmag's London studio sessions, from the period when Black Coffee was still being introduced to European audiences. Shows the sound before the festival-scale production arrived: long, patient, percussive. An early record of South African house being taken seriously in the UK press. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/10a21b5e-2738-4d4a-9db0-9c3c42c5cd66) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0coQKqxzU0
- **2014**, Oskido ft. Heavy K & Nokwazi - Woza Nana. Oskido two decades into the job, now working with Heavy K out of the Eastern Cape - the kwaito generation feeding straight into the South African house that would carry the country into the amapiano years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4e607416-3a8a-46c2-9d53-577a7a35e2bd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-eiMF8kaO0
- **2014-07-08**, Dennis Ferrer on getting started and Kerri Chandler. A short interview in which the New York house producer describes how he came up and what Kerri Chandler's mentorship meant to him. It is a small piece of oral history connecting two generations of the East Coast garage lineage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4e7431e8-ab88-464b-970d-4c106f20b32c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSvgC6jkWWA
- **2014-08-28**, Masters At Work - Boiler Room London. Louie Vega and Kenny Dope play a full Boiler Room in London: two of the architects of New York house, working records the way they did at Sound Factory Bar. The set is the clearest modern document of the Garage-descended vocal and Latin-house lineage in action. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/aa5e0ab3-7e03-4faf-9ac0-30836163d6ab) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfRJhmC-G1Y
- **2014-09-23**, This Is Space Ibiza: 25 Years (DJ Mag documentary). DJ Mag's documentary on Space's first quarter-century, with Carl Cox, Sasha, Nic Fanciulli and Basement Jaxx on what the club and its terrace meant. Made during the 2014 anniversary season, two years before the club closed. A record of the superclub model at its late peak. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/034095d8-cae0-4dee-8921-8fda8cf72458) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOZwVumhxAc
- **2014-10-21**, Origins: Black Coffee (Resident Advisor). Resident Advisor's film on how Nkosinathi Maphumulo became South African house's biggest export, shot in South Africa. He has DJed his whole career with the use of one arm, after being hit by a car in February 1990 while celebrating Nelson Mandela's release. The film connects township house directly to the international circuit he later dominated. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b7c737ae-61d3-46a1-9522-74ee50a8c6cf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lio7k3tMoqM
- **2014-11-19**, Culoe De Song: deep tech house DJ set in Cape Town. A filmed and streamed club set by Culoe De Song, one of the producers who carried South African deep house to European floors. Pre-amapiano South African house played in the room it was made for. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cbe3456b-cf6e-4960-8c14-1d38f3d98e2e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIay_u3n6-4
### 2015
- **2015-02-04**, Roland TR-909 demo. A clean hardware demonstration of the Roland TR-909, released in 1983 as the 808's successor and the first Roland drum machine to use samples. Its kick and open hat are the physical basis of house and techno, and it got there because it failed commercially and was dumped cheap into the hands of musicians in Chicago and Detroit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2695ebe7-f4af-4e39-a4b1-ac880e512479) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGAzhmmakco
- **2015-03-06**, Roland TR-808 demo. A demonstration of the Roland TR-808 across its full voice set. Launched in 1980 at $1,195 and killed off in 1983 after roughly 12,000 units, it was discontinued because Roland could no longer source the faulty transistors that gave it its sizzle, and by 1983 used units were going for under $100. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7ec78dd6-5a05-4d33-9035-52947c165106) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoiDs41Pr_0
- **2015-03-07**, Bassline Baseline: a Roland TB-303 documentary. A twenty-minute video essay on the invention, commercial failure and resurrection of the TB-303. It is the clearest single account of the pattern the archive keeps running into: a machine Roland could not sell, dumped cheap secondhand, picked up by young musicians in Chicago and made into a genre. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2777ec5c-953e-450a-8bd8-d794c57f6114) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBG7Gzxm0cU
- **2015-05-11**, Black Coffee in 2015. Black Coffee, the South African DJ and producer who took Durban and Johannesburg house to an international circuit. South African house is the largest living house culture and is routinely left out of the standard histories. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/11dcdd03-6060-47fe-9066-a1932afed188) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WE_Black_Coffee_and_Heavy_Cream_(16902490093).jpg
- **2015-05-14**, Paul Oakenfold on 25 years of Perfecto Records. Oakenfold on founding Perfecto in 1989 while working A&R at Champion Records, built to sign the Balearic and house acts coming out of the Ibiza-to-London pipeline. This is the business end of the story: how a DJ turned a scene into a label and then into a brand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d6d961bf-b680-4fdd-a0fd-36d32a3bfcc9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1pWOAfz9go
- **2015-05-20**, Derrick Carter - Boiler Room Chicago. Derrick Carter playing a hometown Chicago Boiler Room, in a venue where he holds long-running residencies. His mixing, three decks, heavy on edits and drop-outs, is the clearest video record of the technical style that came out of Chicago after the first wave of records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/63353937-3a4e-47a8-98a6-19dd6362d4ab) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGb63nD6PHQ
- **2015**, Julio Bashmore on his production process. The Bristol house producer opens up a session and walks through how his tracks are actually assembled, from drum programming to the swing that makes them move. It is a Studio Science episode, so the value is in watching the machines and the arrangement rather than hearing the finished record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8edf064a-e6c4-4429-92d8-c6b4ee28eb6c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L2aRZTckGE
- **2015**, Trax TV: Screamin' Rachael on Move Your Body's legacy. A Chicago public-access television special hosted by Screamin' Rachael, built around Marshall Jefferson's 'Move Your Body' and the evolution of house, with an interview segment and a Trax album launch. Local cable is one of the very few places the label's own account of itself was ever televised. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d1d89347-c276-485c-962a-4589cf6c4994) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2PGbv1neus
- **2015**, Solomun - Boiler Room: Tulum. Two closing hours from the Diynamic label boss, mixing older records with unreleased material, at Boiler Room's second Tulum broadcast. Tulum in the mid-2010s is where the Ibiza superclub economy exported itself to Mexico, and this set is a document of that circuit at its peak. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f1e56f7d-6d2a-4d62-932f-035f203f1e5b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk6Xst6euQk
- **2015**, Gene Farris - Boiler Room: Chicago. Gene Farris closing a six-hour Boiler Room session in Chicago, playing the second-wave house he helped define through Relief and Cajual in the 1990s. He is one of the local figures who kept the city's sound working commercially after the founding generation had been stripped of its royalties. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/43a6d2b4-54cb-4d23-89eb-561ec3210442) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVzPsKNUyxY
- **2015**, Kerri Chandler b2b Chez Damier at the final Southport Weekender. An hour from the closing back-to-back by Kerri Chandler and Chez Damier at the last edition of Southport Weekender. Chandler carried New Jersey's church-rooted deep house and Damier came out of Chicago and Detroit, and the pairing is the two lineages in one booth. Filmed by Mixmag at the end of a four-hour goodbye set. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c52da1af-1d70-44e2-ae3f-d9ee3da6ac9f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcSIhUm-XC0
- **2015**, Kerri Chandler in conversation at ADE. A long career conversation recorded at Amsterdam Dance Event, ten years after his Red Bull lecture, in which Chandler talks about what still pushes his DJing and production. It catches the New Jersey deep house tradition at the point where it had become a fixture of the European club circuit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f4fe4cff-dd6e-467d-a0b7-41aad1d6870d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48f1ZwBFru0
- **2015**, Black Coffee - Boiler Room Johannesburg. Black Coffee playing in Johannesburg, the city where South African house became a mass-market music rather than an import. He plays one-handed after the 1990 car crash that damaged his left arm, and this broadcast is the moment the international audience for South African house became impossible to ignore. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1a89f424-275b-4d86-948b-fcb4c4aa49cc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JtTbx-hYWk
- **2015**, Black Coffee - Mixmag Live, Village Underground, London. A three-hour Black Coffee set filmed at Mixmag's monthly London party, long enough to show how he actually builds a night rather than a highlight reel. It captures the point where the South African deep-house sound broke fully into the European club circuit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/951f5e32-0658-47f9-a04b-38ede07d8873) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wamL0A9Qzxg
- **2015**, Babes Wodumo - Wololo (feat. Mampintsha). The single that broke gqom nationally and made Babes Wodumo the genre's biggest star. Produced by Distruction Boyz for West Ink, it is house at gqom's lurching tempo, and it did for Durban what a Chicago 12-inch did in 1986. It later anchored the album Gqom Queen, Vol. 1. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b7fa5955-5895-4e4c-b0c4-2b8e54d47176) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu_hL0iBUmI
- **2015**, RudeBoyz - Gqom Originators. A RudeBoyz track issued on NON Worldwide's first compilation, one of the first times Durban gqom appeared on an international release. The title is a claim, and it is a fair one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/05f6402f-c467-437c-b6d0-62706921a283) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyI3ERtljpY
- **2015-08-08**, Do You Own the Dancefloor? Documentary Trailer. Trailer for the documentary about the people who bought pieces of the Hacienda at the 2000 auction and what they did with them, featuring Mike Pickering. The film premiered as a charity screening on 15 August 2015. A record of how the club's physical remains were dispersed into private hands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3ed0d76f-8562-4295-bb21-32c6ec965725) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63JYZc9cS30
- **2015-10-05**, Premiers symptômes: aux sources de la French Touch (1/5). The opening part of a Swiss public radio series on where the French Touch came from, noting that the term itself was coined by the British press about a group of artists who did not all make the same music. Broadcast reporting rather than fan retrospective. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b8bc4c03-812c-4947-9a0d-f51e51094493) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpQ0oAM8mjk
- **2015-11-09**, Roy Davis Jr. - Boiler Room London, 2015. A 68-minute set from one of Chicago's second-generation house producers, the man behind "Gabriel" and a Prescription Records regular. It is a working demonstration of how the Chicago record bag travelled: disco edits, gospel-inflected vocals and jacking drum tracks played to a London room three decades after the Warehouse. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8cc0d1fe-174c-470b-a4fa-0164ac0b3eb9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TErwhiObVo
- **2015-11-25**, Hot Mix 5: the story of Chicago house on the radio. A short documentary on the Hot Mix 5, the DJ team assembled on WBMX in 1981 whose weekend mixshows put house on commercial FM across Chicago. Most of the city heard this music on a radio rather than in a club, which makes the mixshow, not the dancefloor, the mass distribution channel of the early years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4b5640a2-c043-40ad-aade-323ff326b789) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuiw9vpM_Fg
- **2015-12-03**, DJ Heather - Boiler Room: Chicago. DJ Heather's first Boiler Room, recorded in Chicago. One of the few women to hold a front-rank position through the city's second wave, she plays the deep, unshowy Chicago style that the house records of the 1990s were built on. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fe175bd0-0ec1-489a-b28b-5ada3b5cb34b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTspV7RiZlM
### 2016
- **2016-01-01**, Masters At Work live at Ministry of Sound, 1 January 2016. Louie Vega and Kenny Dope playing a four-hour New Year's Day set at Ministry of Sound, a club explicitly modelled on the Paradise Garage. Masters At Work are the direct continuation of the New York Latino and Black dance tradition that ran from the Garage through Strictly Rhythm. The full-length recording shows how they build a room over hours rather than in a highlight. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0cf92e94-a1d7-411f-8b3c-25df0396763f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chfa2ndoNjI
- **2016-02-29**, Inside Joe Mansfield's drum machine collection. A visit to the collector behind the Beat Box book, filmed among the actual hardware: rare rhythm units, the Roland boxes and the machines nobody kept. Useful to the archive because it shows the instruments as physical objects with prices and scarcity, not as plug-in presets. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a3c39ec7-9aa1-493f-8135-1b34e5c29bdc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=452F4x0omoc
- **2016-05-04**, Shimza and Black Coffee. DJ Shimza playing alongside Black Coffee. Both came out of township scenes that fed South African house, kwaito and later amapiano. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5c4fdc25-17b5-4251-bd74-06ebb6b85314) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dj_Shimza_with_Black_Coffee_Dj.jpg
- **2016-05-12**, Nicky Siano on the Gallery, Larry Levan and life after music. A full Red Bull Music Academy lecture with the founder of the Gallery, the 1970s New York party where Levan and Knuckles worked before either had a residency. Siano is the direct eyewitness to the point where disco becomes the thing house grew out of. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/13176617-4a21-4429-ad1c-80692b68a382) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR6pHVkzuew
- **2016-05-21**, Arthur Mafokate on the SABC's 90% local music quota. News reporting on the SABC's decision to play 90% South African music across its eighteen radio stations, with Mafokate arguing it changed how South Africans hear themselves. Radio quotas are the single biggest lever on what a national dance scene sounds like, which makes this an industry story as much as a musical one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c8b62d56-d4ef-40d3-ba36-8f6cae0d5fbb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdkmxKa4yAw
- **2016**, The Black Madonna - Mixmag Live at Patterns, Brighton. Nearly three hours of house and disco at Mixmag's monthly party in Brighton, recorded in the year the magazine named her DJ of the Year. The length is unusual for a media-brand recording and shows her actually building a room rather than delivering a showcase hour. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1af1b2d2-9fb5-415a-87fa-978993d04961) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJlz0KDidqY
- **2016**, Carl Cox closes Space Ibiza with Your Love. Carl Cox plays a remix of Frankie Knuckles' Your Love during the final nights of Space Ibiza, with the club's owners on stage behind him. Twenty-nine years of the island's most important room ending on a Chicago record is the whole argument of the balearic strand in one moment. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/278941a4-d440-4827-a7e0-55ff9ab6c41e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2vVc85s4QE
- **2016**, Honey Dijon - Boiler Room Madrid. Honey Dijon in Madrid for the Ray-Ban x Boiler Room series, playing to a room she visibly pulls toward her. The set is a good record of how the Chicago-via-New-York sound travelled through the branded club circuit of the mid-2010s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5de74016-c8ac-4447-885d-3c376344cced) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBH5NI9vzx4
- **2016**, The Black Madonna b2b Mike Servito - Boiler Room x Dekmantel. Two hours back to back with Mike Servito at Dekmantel in Amsterdam, one of the sets that made both DJs' reputations outside the United States. It also documents the Midwest American queer club network, Chicago and Detroit by way of New York, arriving on the European festival circuit as a scene rather than as individual bookings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a42403a2-0b47-4189-9ccd-203d3f1ddd0c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGJEe-yGLos
- **2016**, French Waves. A feature documentary on French electronic music told through the artists themselves, tracing the line from illegal raves back to its American roots and forward to a younger generation. It is explicit about the debt French house owes to Chicago and Detroit rather than treating the French Touch as spontaneous. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2be3f5e0-7ce4-4eb4-8f81-bd3a239fe1b8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNbfgRuypyE
- **2016**, Miss Nicky Trax. The French DJ and producer Miss Nicky Trax, photographed in 2016. Commons files her under acid house; the record here is thin beyond that. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5cf177f8-53b1-45b2-ad40-0c458b5b08ca) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miss_Nicky_Trax.jpg
- **2016**, Frankie Knuckles: what house music is. Knuckles answering the only question everyone asks him, in a bonus-feature clip from the Liquid Vinyl documentary. His definition is the one the archive should carry, because he is the person with standing to give it. Under a minute and worth more than most hour-long explainers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/35d75560-3951-4c26-b1be-b203c3b014d7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAUryfrRtPU
- **2016**, DJ Sneak - I Am A House Gangster, Chicago. A full hour of DJ Sneak at his own I Am A House Gangster party in Chicago. Sneak, Puerto Rican and raised in the city, built the filtered, looped, sample-driven jacking sound that carried Chicago house through the 1990s, and the IAHG nights are where he keeps it as a working club format rather than a legacy act. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/928471ae-c367-4a5e-a7ae-f2150f259c93) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS5vRR_JjL0
- **2016**, DJ Sneak b2b Mark Farina at the MID, Chicago. A half-hour film of DJ Sneak and Mark Farina playing back to back at the MID in Chicago, shot as a document of the night rather than as a static booth camera. The two of them together are effectively the city's 1990s club sound, Sneak's jacking loops against Farina's slower, jazzier mushroom-jazz reading of house. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7eab5bf6-2446-42a0-96bb-73b9a6b53ec1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY3yrewMLJg
- **2016**, Kerri Chandler b2b Jeremy Underground - Boiler Room London. A two-hour back-to-back pairing Kerri Chandler with Jeremy Underground, a French collector who grew up on his records. It is a rare filmed example of the New York and New Jersey deep-house canon being handed over in real time between generations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3df189cb-ac11-4080-bf04-9b88d5d509d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDsVTBix5_U
- **2016**, Louie Vega - Boiler Room New York. Louie Vega of Masters At Work playing New York with live vocals from Dominique Bingham and keys from Axel Tosca, showcasing his 'Starring… XXVIII' album. Vega's Latin and gospel-inflected house is the direct continuation of the Paradise Garage and Salsoul records the city's clubs were built on. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/310b7558-a193-4dcb-98f1-c130768bad9d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtWLjXuj3R0
- **2016**, Babes Wodumo - 'Wololo' performance, Durban 2016. Amateur footage posted by a Durban dance-crew channel of 'Wololo' performed and danced in 2016, the year the track went national. Gqom's dance form, bhenga, is inseparable from the music, and clips like this are most of what survives of it. Babes Wodumo was the first woman to front the genre in the mainstream. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8ae272f5-7a14-4fe3-9b03-bd64f4d94ba9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bUQ3QkdOt0
- **2016**, 'Wololo' bhenga dance battle, Durban 2016. A street bhenga dance battle set to 'Wololo', filmed in Durban in 2016. Bhenga is the dance gqom was made for, and this kind of phone footage is the only real archive of how the music was actually used. It shows the scene as participants, not as an audience. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e34b4299-298a-4ad5-a537-81f5a9964fee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUCbPerwpg
- **2016**, DJ Lag - Ice Drop. The track that made DJ Lag the international face of gqom, released via London's Goon Club Allstars. Its hollowed-out drums and single sliding motif are gqom's whole method in three minutes. Durban producers had been making this for years before a European label put a name on it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/536f6fb6-28e3-4093-8063-d24330d3a2ce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ycr4BI8I94
- **2016-06-21**, Todd Terry meets Trevor Jackson for Defected House Masters. An hour-long conversation between Todd Terry and Trevor Jackson, made around Terry's entry in Defected's House Masters series. It doubles as a look at how a label curates, packages and resells a catalogue built in the late 1980s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b7057200-4e5e-4507-8b2e-3f375ca8b733) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a50gWYSwgms
- **2016-07-18**, DJ Christos - guest mix, Deeper Shades of House 512. An exclusive guest hour from DJ Christos, one of the first South African house DJs to record and release rather than only play. Deeper Shades of House gave the SA deep house lineage a standing international broadcast slot when very little else did. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0408b0c7-fc07-4fad-9427-f6893e2384b7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO5gKpY1ilM
- **2016-08-17**, Space Ibiza 27th anniversary party. The club's own film of its last anniversary party, weeks before it closed for good. It shows all five rooms, including the outdoor terrace, working at capacity. Promotional, but also among the final footage of Space as a going concern. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e7141f44-e266-42dc-85ac-8d1518edc25a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9zknM-ke2I
- **2016-08-23**, Masters At Work at Space, Ibiza. Three and a half hours of Vega and Gonzalez at Space, in the final seasons of the club, on the island that carried house back to Britain in 1987. Long-form evidence of how the pair actually build a night rather than a highlight reel. The New York lineage playing the Balearic room. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3a32e2b6-8906-4f88-8867-70506267e583) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpcRgXrENDA
- **2016-09-02**, Black Coffee interviewed on BBC 1Xtra. Black Coffee talks to DJ Edu about carrying South African house to an international audience, at the point where he stopped being a domestic success. South African house is house rather than an offshoot of it, and this is a mainstream British broadcast treating it that way. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f7f0738d-3e66-4635-8502-3ab2f5b393eb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKXke0TD-MU
- **2016-09-06**, Babes Wodumo performs 'Wololo' on Thursday Night Live. A live television performance of 'Wololo' on the opening episode of Robert Marawa's Thursday Night Live. Broadcast footage of South African house is scarce and rights-locked, which makes any surviving TV appearance valuable. It captures gqom at the exact point it crossed into mainstream South African broadcast. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/651ee5d7-a284-4b8d-80c6-5268ab2525da) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRDkGUz1PVc
- **2016-09-21**, Trompies perform Sigiya Ngengoma on Expresso. Twenty years after the record, Trompies play it live on South African breakfast television as part of a football campaign built around remakes of kwaito standards. It shows the music's afterlife as national heritage, and the group has since been among the loudest voices on how badly kwaito artists were paid for it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8f61e63b-2ebb-4ceb-b6ff-d808ac25d7e4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V9LnO6_tIo
- **2016-09-22**, How to use the Roland TR-808. A full operating walkthrough of the original TR-808: step programming, patterns, fills and the accent and tuning controls. A tutorial whose subject is the historic machine itself, which is how the archive can show the sound being made rather than described. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6841ba4e-b615-4d2d-8fa1-84cd2d7db8d4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCjI-MvEJ2w
- **2016-09-23**, Earl Spanky Smith of Phuture with his TB-303. Dutch broadcaster NTR films the Phuture founder holding the machine he used to make Acid Tracks, released after his death as part of the Planet Elektro documentary. One of very few filmed records of Smith speaking about his own instrument. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a095f334-7bf2-4cea-b656-ec9c9722c05f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjdnYcwdLsE
- **2016-10-10**, Space Ibiza closes after 27 years (BBC News). BBC News reports from the last party as Space shuts in autumn 2016, with DJs flying in for the closing night. Contemporary coverage of the end of the club that invented the Ibiza after-hours session. It marks the point where the island's superclub era changed hands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0177a043-9fb2-4a5b-a5a2-0de17c7bee1f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlFeBMT0dmI
- **2016-11-25**, The Second Summers of Love, 1988 and 1989. A segment from BBC Four's The People's History of Pop covering the acid house summers of 1988 and 1989 in Britain. It carries participant testimony and period footage from the orbital raves and the club nights that followed the Ibiza trip. Broadcast 25 November 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3b217a7a-6cdd-41c2-b850-557e1cf6ca74) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUqa9Bu6D5I
- **2016-12-02**, Carl Cox: Space Is The Place. Resident Advisor's film on Carl Cox's fifteen-year Wednesday residency at Space in Ibiza, made as the club shut its doors for good. It is a portrait of the Balearic superclub at the end of its life, and of the British DJ whose Music Is Revolution nights turned a beach-side terrace into the island's most important room for house and techno. The footage of the final season is the clearest record of what Space actually felt like. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fb07f1d2-c02f-416e-b6c5-6300a56f5946) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxP5HZTTQ2k
### 2017
- **2017-01-07**, Roland TR-909 in action: what makes it sound like that. A hardware demonstration of an original Roland TR-909, isolating the kick, the snap of the snare and the metallic sampled hats that became the physical signature of house and techno. Showing the machine being programmed is the only way to make clear that the sound was a set of engineering decisions, not a style choice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ac7f3ddb-3ab6-4c46-9be1-eb22fe04a331) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fmu4gB9lmo
- **2017-03-08**, Vinny Da Vinci - guest mix, Deeper Shades of House 546. An exclusive hour from Vinny Da Vinci on Lars Behrenroth's long-running Deeper Shades of House radio show. The show is one of the few places outside South Africa that has carried SA deep house continuously for two decades, and the guest hour is the closest thing to a recorded statement of Vinny's selection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e758534e-2995-40e7-a19b-410b6c511fde) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq2CzqFpPIA
- **2017-03-14**, The Korg M1 piano and organ presets behind house. A demonstration of the two Korg M1 presets, the organ bass and the piano, that are audible on an implausible number of house records from 1989 onward, played against the originals they appear on. It shows how much of a genre's sound can come down to a factory preset on one workstation keyboard, released in 1988 and sitting in nearly every studio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b87c8443-2997-41b4-b7bc-d15099e8c160) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfvGMLkxR1o
- **2017-03-15**, A Larry Levan story: "Release Yourself" into "When Doves Cry". A first-hand account of one night on the Garage floor when Levan mixed two records and took the room apart. Testimony like this is most of what survives of a club nobody was allowed to photograph. Short, specific and told by someone who was standing there. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/683d632e-6463-400b-98b6-16ca1fe769f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-41_FzudxR8
- **2017-03-15**, François Kevorkian interviewed on tour. A long interview with François Kevorkian, the Paradise Garage engineer and remixer who did as much as anyone to define what a 12-inch remix could be. The upload carries no description, but the conversation runs close to twenty minutes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/faf42b9f-9163-40e4-a70e-eaa8a164d95d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQlAm1-pHfs
- **2017-03-28**, Black Coffee in The Lab, Miami Music Week. Black Coffee in Mixmag's Miami studio during Miami Music Week, playing the Afro-house sound that would later run through his Grammy-winning album and his work with Drake. Miami Music Week is the industry's annual trade fair, so the booking itself marks how far the South African scene had moved into the business. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a2e3ec0d-1c53-4c44-9a7f-a7e00717b573) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEfQ3ERwVH8
- **2017-04-04**, Ron Trent - Boiler Room Chicago at Smartbar. Ron Trent warming up at Smartbar, the Chicago club that has carried the city's house programming since 1982. Boiler Room note how rarely he takes an opening slot, and the set is built accordingly, slow, deep and patient rather than a showcase. Trent made 'Altered States' as a teenager in 1990 and co-founded Prescription; this is him at home. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cffd9f20-7c8c-4d8e-a326-46b7fadebc8f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrb9wefe2U0
- **2017-04-11**, Moodman - Boiler Room Tokyo. The House of Liquid resident giving what Boiler Room framed as a lesson in Japanese house music. Japan built a deep and largely self-contained house scene around small, sound-obsessed Tokyo clubs, and there is very little filmed record of it in English-language archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e21e0cda-b7bc-4ede-954c-2041f124dfd9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiRt0jyPeP8
- **2017-04-14**, Citizen Boy - Gqom Edits 001. A Citizen Boy edit published by Norient alongside its reporting trip through Durban's townships, where the writers met and interviewed the producers directly. It is one of the few contemporaneous outside documents of the scene at source rather than at a festival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c1deaa70-e381-4c51-b04f-b4c9a1d000d8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ47gzKGkwM
- **2017-05-01**, Chicago Music History 101: The Warehouse. WBEZ's short history of the three-storey former factory on South Jefferson Street where Frankie Knuckles held residency from 1977 to 1982. The club existed because its crowd, overwhelmingly Black and gay, had nowhere else in the city that wanted them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9e62e577-baa2-4036-a351-ec2535a2cb2c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOimSPH6jc
- **2017-05-08**, How House Music Was Born. A twenty-three minute Channel 4 documentary on how Chicago's underground gay clubs, and the collapse of disco that pushed Black and Latino dancers out of the mainstream, produced a new music. It runs from the Warehouse through the first records to the genre's spread abroad. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/06d78f45-435b-4494-abd2-fc4926b329a2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp8K_vwI9u4
- **2017-05-10**, The Story of When House Music Went Global. A Channel 4 short on the young Black entrepreneurs who turned house from an underground import into a business that reached the UK charts. It is a rare piece of reporting on the commercial machinery - labels, promoters, distribution - rather than on the DJs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7ef30caa-5381-49f2-9139-e81f4c99012e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnUQ8ofR3SQ
- **2017-06-14**, Real Scenes: London. Resident Advisor's portrait of London club music, a scene made by immigration and by the pressure of the city, where house sits alongside the garage, grime and jungle it helped produce. It is the best available account of how a house record functions in a British city rather than an American one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2bae9f9d-473a-4e69-a1b8-3687377a6df3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN1XUBrwp5A
- **2017**, Derrick May on the Belleville Three and house music. A long Red Bull Music Academy lecture in which Derrick May goes through his Belleville upbringing, 'Strings of Life' and the constant traffic between Detroit and Chicago. He is direct about how much of what Detroit made was heard, and sold, as house. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9c65e543-c690-4664-b4c1-0cb406066c08) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1L4Ks6yoeI
- **2017**, I Was There When House Took Over the World, part two. The second part of a broadcast documentary on how Chicago house reached the British charts, with Nile Rodgers, Jesse Saunders, Traxman and Honey Dijon. It follows the young Black entrepreneurs and the money as much as the music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8f7a0a02-8f29-4173-96cf-b82a1826e639) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INXiIq5Puu0
- **2017**, The History of Anjunadeep, with James Grant. Label boss James Grant on how Anjunadeep grew out of a side project into one of the defining British deep-house imprints of the 2010s. A useful modern counterpart to the Chicago and New York label stories: same job, different decade. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6f367a98-31a8-477c-a5dd-57f799ae9289) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av1skJP1abU
- **2017**, Nightmares On Wax - sunset set in The Lab, Ibiza. A sunset set from George Evelyn, an Ibiza resident for years, recorded at Mixmag's Lab on the island. Sunset programming is the Balearic idea in its purest working form: slow, melodic, genre-indifferent records chosen for a time of day rather than for a dancefloor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a2c81995-76b4-4775-8dc1-fe7c43a9f9d1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFkqZBAhJ58
- **2017**, Honey Dijon - Boiler Room Berlin. An hour of hard house from Honey Dijon at Boiler Room Berlin's sixth birthday party in Mitte. A Black trans DJ from Chicago who learned in the city's clubs and then made her name in New York and Berlin, she is the most direct living line from house's founding rooms to the current international circuit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b999395b-9768-49d8-b27f-d012faafea9b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCFno0V0Fe0
- **2017**, Peggy Gou - Boiler Room at Dekmantel, Amsterdam. Peggy Gou's long-awaited Boiler Room, played at Dekmantel in Amsterdam just as she moved from respected selector to headline name. A Korean DJ built out of Berlin, she is a good marker of how far the genre's centre of gravity had spread by the late 2010s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d4649162-ec7e-4d4c-b6e8-296362659abf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKHpbiYCtDQ
- **2017**, Kevin Saunderson - Boiler Room at Movement Detroit. Kevin Saunderson of the Belleville Three DJing at Movement in Detroit. Saunderson is the Detroit figure whose Inner City records, 'Big Fun', 'Good Life', were house records with house vocals, and this set is where the two cities' traffic is audible. It is kept as Detroit's relationship to house rather than as techno. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f48ede17-8fd9-4db0-a616-aa55e8b59d72) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w213LSTyn8E
- **2017**, Danny Rampling on 30 years of Shoom (BBC Newsnight). Rampling looks back on Shoom, the small, sweaty Southwark club he and Jenni Rampling opened in November 1987 that turned the Ibiza trip into a London scene. A national news strand treating acid house as history rather than menace, three decades after the tabloids ran it as a threat. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4d0f19f2-e588-4546-8093-3f1f9deba162) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL1XKQkJiLg
- **2017**, Homework at twenty - a Daft Punk documentary. A French television documentary made for the twentieth anniversary of Homework, on a duo who gave almost no interviews for three decades. It treats the record as the pivot on which French house turned from a local studio habit into an export. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d6226ba6-cd2e-4e1b-bbd6-8c518d877ad4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6qxGqPA3XY
- **2017**, Come As You Are - the Loft era in New York. A short documentary on the Loft and what club dancing meant to the Latino and African American New Yorkers who built it. It treats the dancefloor as a place of repair rather than nightlife, which is how the people in it describe it. Direct testimony from a scene with almost no surviving imagery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a9e969d4-89df-44f1-9c60-0f8993d22a25) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKZyeShtnNk
- **2017**, Kerri Chandler b2b Disclosure - kitchen mix. Kerri Chandler and Disclosure playing back to back on a domestic kitchen counter, filmed for Chandler's own channel. Disclosure's success rested openly on the New Jersey and New York house records Chandler helped make, and the two hours here are the acknowledgement in practice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ca5a9223-fdd4-462b-a2d5-359d20e64fc3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsH0Re1bzek
- **2017**, Louie Vega - Boiler Room, Brazil. Louie Vega playing in Brazil, leaning hard on percussion and broken rhythm rather than straight four-to-the-floor. It shows the Latin side of New York house meeting a South American crowd that already had its own percussive dance tradition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/802b437e-1f37-4889-ae89-16f06802d72e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L5wlovOy54
- **2017**, Black Coffee: The Journey. A short film built around Black Coffee's album Pieces of Me, tracing his route from Durban and the Red Bull Music Academy to international stages. It is the fullest first-person account of the most globally visible South African house artist. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c2897104-16f5-420b-9cd5-0b8a7b20b0b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJsL0OHcAw
- **2017**, Oskido - 50 Degrees (feat. Nokwazi, Presh BeatMaster). A late record from one of kwaito's founders and the co-founder of Kalawa Jazmee, still making dancefloor music thirty years on. It documents the continuity between the kwaito generation and contemporary South African house. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1c4a5ffe-3c04-446c-9cdb-0848b77a8a7d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnx3VoxYryo
- **2017**, TLC Fam - Isbethelo seGqom. A Gqom Oh! release from Durban, where producers stripped house down to raw drums and space and built a genre out of it. Gqom descends from South African house by way of kwaito, and this label was the route by which it reached listeners outside the country. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c264174a-e7e0-4eb2-814a-3f3b412dec00) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_P3ixfLeW0
- **2017**, Distruction Boyz - Omunye (feat. Benny Maverick & Dladla Mshunqisi). The Durban record that carried gqom out of the townships and onto national radio, from the album Gqom Is The Future. Gqom is a house subgenre built from Zulu percussion and stripped-back, broken 4/4 - the uploader's own text calls it that. It is the moment gqom stopped being a local scene sound. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/947a6f68-266c-4ba4-8d2b-d9093a903c46) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXIM_zyeoVE
- **2017-07-03**, Body & Soul 21st anniversary on Governors Island. The party's 21st anniversary, moved outdoors to Governors Island for an afternoon in July 2017. Short, but it shows the dancers, which is the part of this lineage that photographs almost never preserve. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f34ca162-2ebd-4f25-83cb-46073c936ab3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pxp10j_nPA
- **2017-07-16**, South Africa's gqom goes global. A short broadcast report on gqom, the raw Durban strain of house that spread through phone-to-phone sharing and free downloads before any label was involved. It shows the distribution mechanism as clearly as the sound. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0ce1d68c-ba03-47fe-bc06-d844a0a130a7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w580I8PtdfU
- **2017-09-03**, Danny Krivit on record pools, the Paradise Garage and the Loft. A long Red Bull Music Academy lecture with a DJ who was inside the Loft and the Paradise Garage and ran a record pool. Since almost no photography of those rooms exists, first-hand accounts like this are the primary source for the whole garage story. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/18c8be7e-509a-4a3b-8493-0de8a8038678) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX3-S6wrfg4
- **2017-09-26**, Maestro: Larry Levan and the Paradise Garage - trailer. Trailer for Josell Ramos's 2003 film on the Loft and Paradise Garage, released online by Boiler Room on the exact thirtieth anniversary of the Garage closing. Maestro is the primary filmed source on the club and the people in it. The trailer carries the surviving footage most viewers will ever see. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1cefd3d2-759e-4260-90e2-100c74ee67d5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s8pP63l6nk
- **2017-10-15**, The TR-08 at Machines in Music. Roland's Boutique TR-08, a miniature digital reissue of the TR-808, on the company's stand at the Machines in Music show in New York in October 2017. Roland has spent decades selling copies of the machines it once could not give away. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f636e3bc-beca-4efb-8c94-75c9942d14f5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roland_Boutique_TR-08_&_D-05_-_Machines_in_Music_2017_(2017-10-15_08.09_by_Kazuhisa_OTSUBO).jpg
### 2018
- **2018-01-30**, DJ Sneak live at Focus, Orange County. Two hours of DJ Sneak streamed live from Focus in Orange County, an unglamorous mid-week club booking captured in full. Sets like this are the working reality behind the touring careers of the Chicago generation, and almost none of them get recorded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f400e5d1-150c-4b68-818e-191371ce417e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NIjsmcgTvY
- **2018-02-13**, Louie Vega - soulful house set in The Lab, London. Louie Vega playing Mixmag's London studio for a Ministry of Sound and Groove Odyssey takeover, an hour and a half of vocal, soulful house. Ministry of Sound was itself modelled on the Paradise Garage, which makes the booking a closed loop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/bcd461f2-6fe3-43bc-9017-c1e0f12675a0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Mn18e1Sm0
- **2018-03-01**, Todd Terry interviewed in Red Hook, Brooklyn. A studio interview with Todd Terry recorded in Red Hook for a Brooklyn interview series. Local, unhurried, and rooted in the neighbourhood the records came out of. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ee030a29-4318-4dbd-bfb3-74d6ab32149e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai8O9uy1vyE
- **2018-03-08**, Tony Humphries in conversation in Milan. A short interview with Tony Humphries recorded during a visit to House of Frankie's Milan studio. Brief, but filmed Humphries testimony is scarce and the Zanzibar and Jersey lineage has almost no visual record at all. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0c09604b-d748-47ab-aa75-d04207a93eae) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejg0UUxDC0k
- **2018-03-16**, Nightmares On Wax - Boiler Room Sheffield. George Evelyn closes Boiler Room's return to Sheffield, the city where Warp Records started in a record shop in 1989. Sheffield's bleep records were northern England's answer to Chicago acid, and putting a Warp artist in that room is the closest this set list gets to naming its own lineage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a2da1a65-15c2-48de-81b2-be55bb10b683) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm_Zc4T_1rU
- **2018-03-23**, Chip E., Carl Cox and Martin Garrix in Miami. Three generations in one frame: the Chicago originator Chip E., the British DJ Carl Cox and the Dutch producer Martin Garrix, photographed in Miami after the release of the documentary What We Started, in which all three appear. The distance between the man who was there at the beginning and the stadium headliner is the credit argument in a single picture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0dac7b8e-446b-4cbc-8dcf-807a887bac1f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Cox,_Martin_Garrix,_Chip_E._B&W.jpg
- **2018-03-27**, Juan Atkins on Detroit, the Belleville Three and Chicago. Juan Atkins on founding Detroit techno and, more usefully here, on the rivalry with Chicago that shaped how both cities' records were made and marketed. The Chicago question is the reason this belongs in a house archive rather than a techno one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5b30fe6a-9171-464a-bfa5-b178b8c65786) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyqhPVPZ_3c
- **2018-05-08**, How Larry Heard made house music deep. A short essay on Larry Heard, the Chicago producer who as Mr. Fingers gave house its melancholy and its chords, and on how the term 'deep house' drifted away from what he actually made. Heard's records are the point at which house stopped being purely a dancefloor tool and became music to sit inside. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3863c97d-6abb-4ade-9490-9181255b3d40) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjV3PDi3KE8
- **2018-05-24**, Solomun at Théâtre Antique d'Orange. Solomun playing a Cercle set in a Roman theatre in the south of France, at the height of his Ibiza residency years. It is a good marker of the superstar-DJ economy that grew out of house once the music became a global touring business. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1b745a46-00c8-4e2b-8989-416af4092751) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHDRRxKlimY
- **2018-05-25**, Spikiri on the death of kwaito. Spikiri of Trompies and rapper Kid X argue that payola and radio bribery hollowed kwaito out from the inside. Short, but it is one of the genre's founders naming the industry mechanism that killed it. The complaint is a house-industry story, not a hip-hop one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/42ce9d4d-8ecd-48dd-848d-fba475d0e3a5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHffDn3Q2Pg
- **2018**, Black Coffee at Hi Ibiza. Black Coffee during his Saturday residency at Hi Ibiza in June 2018. A South African DJ holding a season-long headline slot on the island marked a real shift in who Ibiza books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d31bd89d-2532-417d-a27c-cd821642ab09) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Coffee_perfoming_at_Hï_Ibiza_in_June_2018.jpg
- **2018**, Tony Pike, the man behind Pikes hotel. A short film with Tony Pike, whose San Antonio hotel was the island's celebrity hideout for decades and remains one of its working venues. He is a link back to the pre-superclub Ibiza that the Balearic story starts from. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3822c878-944c-4884-9232-517b5a6366e2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvLM8DS-BJo
- **2018**, Omar S - Boiler Room BUDx, New Delhi. The Detroit producer and FXHE label owner playing in New Delhi, a set that sits squarely in the raw, unpolished Detroit house that runs parallel to the city's techno. It also documents the late-2010s push to build club circuits in India through brand-funded events. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b4968536-32af-4a87-97a5-9e24b7454ac1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exP5Oi4SL6I
- **2018**, Marcellus Pittman - Boiler Room BUDx, New Delhi. Marcellus Pittman bringing Detroit records to Delhi on the same BUDx run as Omar S. Together the two sets document a deliberate attempt to seed a house circuit in India using Detroit's second generation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/63c6f1b1-095d-4496-8f53-227beaf0bbc5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypPZfAgepiA
- **2018**, Jamie Jones at Time Warp, Mannheim. Two hours of Jamie Jones at Time Warp in Mannheim, a hall built for German techno and rarely programmed with house. The booking is worth keeping precisely because it sits on the border: it shows the tech-house strain being accepted by a techno institution that spent the 1990s defining itself against Chicago's sound. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cc9e0152-df6e-4b8d-8e15-a733abc91908) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Pg_jvAMCM
- **2018**, Ron Trent on Chez Damier, sound systems and making music. Ron Trent made "Altered States" at fourteen and went on to run Prescription Records with Chez Damier, one of the labels that kept deep house serious through the 1990s. He talks here about sound systems, Chicago's clubs and how the partnership worked. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/356c1916-bb4b-452d-af8d-8947bc9888ab) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi_5tO0J7Ng
- **2018**, David Mancuso and the Loft, New York. A short film piece on Mancuso and the Loft party he started in 1970 at 647 Broadway. It covers the model that made everything downstream possible: invitation only, nothing sold, no cabaret licence needed. Brief, but the facet has very little moving image at all. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/60106af3-5df9-46be-b1bd-febf2fe06195) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDhbNXl-7_4
- **2018**, Nicky Siano on the Gallery and Studio 54. A sixteen-minute interview recorded at a party in 2018, with Siano on running the Gallery and on later DJing at Studio 54. Covers the transition from a members' loft party for a mostly Black and gay crowd to the celebrity club that displaced it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ed29330d-2f54-454e-a7d1-7c4bc086b43c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a8hkBXzLmA
- **2018**, Black Coffee at Salle Wagram, Paris. The South African DJ playing Paris's oldest ballroom for Cercle, filmed as a single continuous set. Black Coffee is the figure who carried South African house onto the global circuit without diluting it, and this is him at the point that became undeniable. Deep, unhurried, and built on African percussion rather than European build-ups. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/bb2365f3-f55c-4c04-b41f-6fecb342e633) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGqg_ZzThDU
- **2018**, Vinny Da Vinci - sunrise set at The Annual Imbizo, Newcastle. Vinny Da Vinci playing the sunrise slot at The Annual Imbizo in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal. The all-night-into-morning set is a South African house ritual carried over directly from the Loft and Garage tradition of playing until the room empties. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/bf7e8210-193a-489c-864a-6e47d7cdde76) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy3hIUiZDfA
- **2018**, Lady Sakhe and DJ Christos live at House 22. Lady Sakhe and DJ Christos playing House 22 on the SculpturedMusic Breath Again album tour. An album tour built around DJ sets rather than a live band is how the South African house industry actually promotes records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a8963f20-91de-498c-80f3-d2fcbf0acb8b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbeHaLzmkek
- **2018**, Kabza De Small & Leehleza - Umshove. One of the records that established amapiano's log-drum-and-shaker template and made Kabza De Small its central producer. Amapiano runs at roughly 112 BPM - the same walking tempo kwaito slowed house to in the 1990s, which is the strongest structural argument that all of it is one lineage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5f640ece-6ef4-40e9-87b4-000341a19918) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJexB-qG9C0
- **2018-07-13**, Chip E.. The Chicago DJ and producer Chip E. in 2018. He worked at the Importes Etc. record shop in the early 1980s and is one of four people with a competing account of how house got its name; his version has the shop's bins labelled 'As Heard at the Warehouse', shortened by customers to House. None of the four accounts is documented, and no one should pick between them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1b0a283a-ca1a-4da1-812a-59b5e453e06a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chip_E._circa_2018.jpg
- **2018-07-17**, Roland TR-909 famous patterns. A walk through the TR-909 patterns that became famous records, programmed on the machine itself so you can hear how each one is actually built. It is the most direct way to show that the rhythmic vocabulary of house is a specific box being programmed a specific way. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/37d2a04f-1380-4040-a113-ec14c438acbd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiWt8IcMmM
- **2018-07-27**, Roland TR-909 video manual. A full operating manual on video for the original TR-909: sequencing, accent, shuffle, flam and the sound-shaping controls, at length and on the real hardware. Everything the archive says about the machine's sound is verifiable here. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8852574a-3aca-4b6d-9282-4b01b0042f29) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPqxdBjscyY
- **2018-07-31**, Kalawa Jazmee at 24: fans tell the label's origin story. Vox-pop interviews filmed at Kalawa Jazmee's 24th-anniversary showcase, where attendees try to recount how the label came together. Kalawa is the imprint that carried kwaito out of the townships onto national radio, and it is as old as South African democracy. Kwaito is house slowed to roughly 110 BPM, and its makers said so themselves, M'du Masilela: "When house music got popular, people from the ghetto called it Kwaito." [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/84ccb0ac-64bd-49cb-83d1-bc5156b4b461) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NnvyadOGZk
- **2018-08-19**, Marshall Jefferson on house and the LGBTQ club scene. A short piece in which Jefferson describes making music for rooms that were overwhelmingly Black, Latino and gay, the ballroom and club world later filmed in Paris Is Burning. House was not adopted by queer nightlife, it was made inside it, and this states that directly rather than treating it as background. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/72003052-09c9-4e4d-a57e-012b208cacbc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvYTDx59tBw
- **2018-09-13**, Thirty Years On: The Summer of Love, 1988. A short retrospective film marking three decades since house music spread across Britain in the summer of 1988. It sets the club nights, the warehouse parties and the tabloid reaction against each other in compressed form. Published in 2018 as an anniversary piece, so the events it describes are thirty years older than the film. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4027d792-99a9-4371-93b1-724fc22a0f6d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmKko4E-vwQ
- **2018-09-21**, Roland TB-303 Bass Line in action. The TB-303 demonstrated as an instrument: the filter cutoff and resonance being swept live, producing the squelch that Chicago producers found by misusing a machine sold as a bass accompaniment for guitarists. Roland made it from 1981 to 1984, sold badly, and discontinued it; the cheap secondhand units that resulted are what made acid house possible. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fcc1bc96-96f7-47d3-ab54-563bb2ed399a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt71d5LIV5M
- **2018-10-04**, Electric Rhythm: the history of the drum machine. A produced history of the drum machine from the 1930s Rhythmicon through the Roland and Linn boxes that rebuilt popular music. It gives the machines facet its long view: the instruments house was made on did not appear from nowhere, and most of them were sold to musicians who did not want them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/26af36ef-6c1a-45cf-9027-c22a0357422f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d89S-jOsfY
- **2018-12-06**, Peggy Gou - old-school acid set, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille. Peggy Gou playing a deliberately old-school acid house set inside a Lille fine-art museum for Cercle. The programme is 303-driven material from house's Chicago and UK acid periods, replayed for a streaming audience in a room built for paintings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4d0675df-a999-4b87-b655-465d9744a31b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UOMvxh4MYU
- **2018-12-18**, Louie Vega - Times Square Transmissions, The Lot Radio. Nearly two hours of Louie Vega broadcast live from The Lot Radio's Times Square residency, a New York DJ playing New York records in the middle of the city. Independent street-level radio like this is where the garage lineage is still actually transmitted rather than commemorated. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2acae35a-8ec1-4d13-aaaf-4d6422cdfed0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EC4BynJ1MA
- **2018-12-19**, Kabza De Small performs 'Umshove' on Massive Music. Kabza De Small playing 'Umshove' on Channel O's Massive Music stage in December 2018, before amapiano had national saturation. Channel O's archive is one of the only broadcast records of this period of South African house, and it is largely rights-locked. Catching the sound on television this early is unusual. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c80de816-49f1-4504-9745-4e7864e9a2df) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlOH_CMxbmE
### 2019
- **2019-02-27**, Masters At Work and MikeQ on "The Ha Dance". How a 1991 Masters At Work B-side became the fundamental record of ballroom, its horn stab cued to the dip in a vogue performance. Ballroom was built by Black and Latino queer New York out of the same clubs as house, and this is the clearest single example of the two scenes sharing a record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/760874bf-97ad-4fb3-a6be-4c554e145851) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tSQ0pemd1M
- **2019-03-02**, DJ Pierre on the Roland TB-303. Roland's own 303 Day film, in which DJ Pierre talks through the silver box he and Phuture turned into acid house. The company that built the machine as a bass-guitar substitute, sold it from 1981 to 1984 and gave up on it hands the story to the Chicago musician who found the sound it is actually famous for. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/edb31e25-6aeb-4b57-b025-08d5255807bc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zQA0WZdApc
- **2019-03-04**, How the TB-303 Changed Music: Hood, Hawtin and Ware. Robert Hood, Richie Hawtin, Martyn Ware and Cosey Fanni Tutti recall first encountering the TB-303 and what it did to their records. First-hand testimony from people who were making music when the machine surfaced, rather than a retrospective narration. Short, but it is primary-source interview material. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c9bc0832-3dc2-45f4-a59f-9fd843b6d7cd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE5N4hYJEdI
- **2019-04-04**, Land of the Rising Sound: a Roland retrospective. A feature-length independent documentary on Roland told through its instruments, with the TR-808, TR-909 and TB-303 in their proper place as commercial disappointments that outlived their intended market. Seventy-two minutes on the hardware that made house physically possible. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0643e0f6-edfe-4a2a-b526-2ad1a29b5695) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcbpRMZIQ8g
- **2019-04-23**, The role of South African dance music under apartheid. A researched short documentary on how bubblegum, Afro-synth and kwaito carried resistance through the apartheid years and into the transition. It is the clearest published statement of the lineage this archive files as house rather than hip-hop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2804bb86-b35b-4bfc-b17e-71434460f065) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10dKeg73nMo
- **2019-05-24**, Kabza de Small interview, 2019. A 38-minute interview with Kabza de Small from before amapiano had international traction, and before he became one of the most-streamed artists in Africa. Early interviews with a producer who later stopped giving them are the kind of record that only exists by accident. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/131ae984-5743-4436-9892-74be11264787) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvUWdCmAERA
- **2019-06-01**, Ravekjavik, third edition. A performance at the third Ravekjavik festival in Iceland in 2019. Small national festivals are where house and the styles next to it get played outside the big-market circuit, and they rarely get photographed at all. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a091d206-6e04-4850-97a1-b0f9671b2b33) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ravekjavík_2019_01.jpg
- **2019**, Jamie Jones in The Lab, Paris. Jamie Jones plays Mixmag's Lab in Paris as part of BUDX, a Budweiser-funded series of club events. The row belongs to the business side of the archive as much as the musical one: by the late 2010s a magazine's DJ booth was a brand-sponsored content studio, and that is how most sets reached listeners. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d60c8639-97b3-48df-94c5-78db6950d992) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScltZ2cnp0
- **2019**, Green Velvet - 25 Years of Bugged Out!, Printworks London. A 90-minute set for Bugged Out!'s 25th-anniversary party at Printworks. Bugged Out! began in 1994 at Sankeys Soap in Manchester, in the club culture the acid house raves left behind, and this booking is that lineage still running a quarter of a century later. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/916cbf5d-3d01-4b7a-bac7-f72a0710a4c6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyOpubDs-qI
- **2019**, Jamie Jones at Music On Festival, Amsterdam. Two hours from Jamie Jones at Music On's festival weekend in Amsterdam's Havenpark, filmed for the promoter's own archive. Music On is Marco Carola's brand and one of the biggest of the Ibiza-derived tech-house franchises, so the set is a good record of what that end of the house family sounded like at its commercial peak. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7c0a93ab-5d7d-4ba1-b453-d819356c0588) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS_C905WYnE
- **2019**, Jesse Saunders on making On and On. Saunders tells the story of building the first commercially released house record after his copy of Mach's On and On was stolen from his DJ bag. Short but it is the maker's own account of the record usually named as the genre's first. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3ff3564c-0dda-4fbc-9b2e-ab46f480dbb5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9gSMs29Sf8
- **2019**, Kerri Chandler - classic house set at BUDX Amsterdam. Kerri Chandler playing an hour and a half of well-known house records at BUDX in Amsterdam, filmed by Mixmag. It is Chandler in crowd-pleasing rather than deep mode, and doubles as a useful survey of the canon he helped write. The camera stays on the mixer for much of it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b8cd8c9e-25eb-447b-accc-4501bc4fcc9a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNWEM5yEWhM
- **2019**, Citizen Boy - Mzansi (feat. ANT the Artist & Simore). A vocal Citizen Boy track released through the Bandcamp gqom underground rather than a label. That distribution route is how most gqom reached listeners outside South Africa. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4eeec6bd-2958-4cac-abae-a3bb0d0a658d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPPV2QP9z6w
- **2019**, MFR Souls - Lalela (feat. The Squad). An early MFR Souls single from the EP The Beginning, made when amapiano still sounded closest to deep house. The duo are among the producers usually credited with shaping the sound in Gauteng. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/12827da5-b66c-4a67-a3bf-5c590cebb946) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btCKOpa7-8s
- **2019-07-03**, Larry Heard interview with Charlie Bones on NTS. Larry Heard in conversation on Charlie Bones' Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show, talking about the making of the Mr Fingers records and his long withdrawal from the industry that built itself on them. Heard gives very few interviews, which makes any extended one worth keeping. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/68fb3b94-82af-47fc-9ea7-3696a8eda2f7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yMTS7snEM
- **2019-07-22**, Selectors: Danny Krivit. A portrait film on Danny Krivit, five decades into a New York DJing life running from his father's club through the Loft and Body & Soul. He talks about records he has been playing for longer than most of his audience has been alive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e50d161c-f645-4b8e-a5fd-9f7131342228) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKALGzVOR-A
- **2019-08-02**, Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984–1992. Jeremy Deller's film, built from a lecture delivered to a class of A-level politics students, arguing that acid house in Britain was not a spontaneous import but a response to the miners' strike, deindustrialisation and Thatcherism. It is the strongest single argument in the archive that the Second Summer of Love was political before it was hedonistic, and it keeps the Chicago and New York origins of the music in view rather than starting the story in Ibiza. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/aac702bd-dfe1-462d-b5fc-339a40c45941) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thr8PUAQuag
- **2019-08-07**, Oskido on the Kalawa Jazmee formula. Oskido recounts the founding of Kalawa Jazmee and how B.O.P. Records shaped South African dance music and kwaito, including how he handled tempo. It is a first-hand account from one of the handful of people who turned imported house records into a South African genre. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6e194957-492f-49c9-9e93-c80cac4ee686) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_iskBDZ2Uc
- **2019-08-18**, Scorpion Kings Tour, episode 2. Road footage shot on Maphorisa and Kabza de Small's first Scorpion Kings tour, in the year amapiano broke nationally in South Africa. Filmed by the artists' own team, it shows the circuit - halls, clubs, drives - that carried the sound out of Gauteng. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/64ea6487-b030-4671-be14-cd3e5458d9ce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1fc1RQnMCI
- **2019-08-23**, The Black Madonna - Creamfields, Daresbury. Ninety minutes streamed by Beatport from the All Gone Pete Tong stage at Creamfields, the British festival end of the business rather than the club end. The set shows what happens when a DJ formed in Chicago's underground is dropped onto a 70,000-capacity dance festival, and how much of the record collection survives the trip. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/198d24b4-9a3d-4406-919a-d9d2b9dd26cc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkRr3LuuCJM
- **2019-08-30**, A TR-808 in the Musical Instrument Museum. A TR-808 in the collection of the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, photographed in August 2019. It took under forty years for a discontinued consumer product to be catalogued as a musical instrument. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9b7581ed-c9fa-4687-b555-9b8c0dcdc2c6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TR-808_-_MIM,_Phoenix_(2019-08-30_14.59.26_by_Bryan_Pocius).jpg
- **2019-09-24**, Vinny Da Vinci - classic house set at The Roof, Fourways. A full classic house set from Vinny Da Vinci filmed at The Roof in Fourways, Johannesburg. Footage of a South African club night rather than a mix upload, which is rare for this scene at this length. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0801ff58-e1d2-426b-be08-ffbd7df29c82) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itd-mE-f0MQ
- **2019-09-27**, Thebe live at Kwa Ace, Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Thebe performing 'Bula Boot', 'Nomathemba' and 'Rea di Busa' in a Khayelitsha venue, shot on the floor rather than from a stage rig. Live kwaito footage of any kind is scarce, and this shows the music in the setting it was made for. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b6e736df-6800-40bb-ae90-24e4296b003d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLwWJTQPjh4
- **2019-10-11**, Marshall Jefferson x Solardo - Move Your Body. Jefferson rebuilds his own 1986 anthem with a contemporary UK duo for Ultra, thirty-three years on. It shows the record's continuing commercial life and that its author is still working rather than being merely sampled. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/689fa428-fec8-40e2-a0f8-d3cad71db4a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFdbueklpwY
- **2019-10-24**, MFR Souls - Love You Tonight (feat. Sha Sha & Kabza De Small). A key early amapiano record pulling together MFR Souls, DJ Maphorisa, Kabza De Small and Sha Sha in one credit line. Sha Sha's vocal is the link back to the gospel and soul lineage that vocal house has drawn on since the Paradise Garage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f5749801-12d9-498c-a535-59addd0575eb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23A5UkCRCWg
- **2019-10-25**, Ibiza: One Season Too Many?. A BBC documentary on what mass clubbing has done to the island that gave the Balearic sound its name, reported from San Antonio's West End. It is the counterweight to the 1987 origin story: the same island, forty years on, as an industry under strain. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8fedcde9-05cf-4035-8a24-673be4ae54f3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkiB0l2onqU
- **2019-11-21**, Shaya! Origins of Amapiano. An independent South African documentary on where amapiano came from, made and released while the genre was still a local concern rather than an export. It covers the music, the dance and the lifestyle around it from inside. Early, first-hand, and made by people in the scene. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e93fccfc-b757-4ce3-9897-4cdb35c2ff0a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B9frOKUwz0
- **2019-11-26**, Black Coffee on HomeGround. A short broadcast profile in which Nkosinathi Maphumulo looks back on herding his grandmother's cattle in the Eastern Cape before turning to music, and forward to his Music is King festival. It is a rare piece of South African broadcast footage that treats a house DJ as a national figure rather than a nightlife act. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4d987865-bc8b-4b29-a7b6-1b972871683a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sg5rRkbsWU
### 2020
- **2020-01-12**, Duane Powell at the Stony Island Arts Bank. The Chicago DJ and selector Duane Powell playing at the Stony Island Arts Bank on the city's South Side in January 2020. House is still played where it started, in rooms that treat it as local history rather than as nostalgia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b7a18427-3431-4ab4-bd77-eaf4a458d924) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DJ_Duane_Powell_at_Chicago's_Stony_Island_Arts_Bank.png
- **2020-01-13**, Larry's Garage - documentary trailer. Trailer for Corrado Rizza's feature on Larry Levan and the Paradise Garage, assembled from interviews with the people who were in the room. It is the most recent attempt to film a club that was demolished in April 2018. The trailer shows what footage the production could still find. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/555398b9-8be3-4712-a6eb-f46d29c407aa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O14MWhjXGr8
- **2020-04-02**, Scorpion Kings - Live Stream 2. The second of the Scorpion Kings' April 2020 lockdown streams. The series ran while gatherings were banned and did more to spread amapiano nationally than any single release. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ce034ed6-f894-4f41-acf2-d1f97a122b20) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lD2MWd9VCY
- **2020-04-08**, Black Coffee - lockdown home set, April 2020. Black Coffee playing a long set from home during the first weeks of South Africa's COVID lockdown, when the club circuit stopped worldwide. The lockdown streams kept the SA house economy visible while venues were shut. Re-posted by a third-party channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c43a9e05-a52c-4453-926e-434fd030cb0b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4GiA79Tdyg
- **2020-04-24**, Scorpion Kings - Exclusive Live Mix 3. A lockdown-era Scorpion Kings mix, streamed in April 2020 when South Africa's clubs were shut. Amapiano's national breakout happened during exactly this period, through streams and phone-shared files rather than dancefloors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/142688d1-ab59-4590-8167-1c3c0abdcdd0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgcbBWTnucU
- **2020-04-25**, Peggy Gou - Boiler Room: Streaming From Isolation, Seoul. Part of the series Boiler Room ran when every club on earth was shut, filmed from the highest point in Seoul as South Korea's first lockdown lifted. It is a direct record of what the pandemic did to dance music: the DJ, the city view and no crowd at all. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a2e1920a-2c5a-46c7-933c-d852ab284513) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxcK_wENFgo
- **2020-05-11**, David Morales in conversation on The House of Music. A talk-show interview with David Morales, the Brooklyn DJ who came up through the Paradise Garage and built Def Mix into the dominant remix house of the 1990s. Recorded during the lockdown shutdown, he talks about what reading a room actually involves and what happens when there is no room. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1737937b-69e2-487d-b96f-d130c12195e8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3jA5TL1Di4
- **2020-05-15**, Nightmares On Wax - Glitterbox Virtual Festival, Ibiza. An hour of disco and house from Ibiza for Glitterbox's Virtual Festival, staged by Defected during the 2020 lockdown with donations directed to the WHO Covid response fund. It is a record of the months when the club business had no clubs and moved wholesale onto livestreams. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c18a6c1b-b86e-41d4-b407-3bf9688b8d5d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdXLytSWWX4
- **2020-05-30**, DJ Cleo - Lockdown House Party finale set. DJ Cleo's set for the finale of Lockdown House Party, the South African broadcast series that ran DJ sets to a nationwide audience while clubs were closed in 2020. It made house the country's default television music for a season. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4f3fd8a9-828e-460c-9646-9db85bda6598) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL5OWN__qBw
- **2020**, REVIVAL: DJ lil'dave live from the drive-in, 2020. A filmed set from REVIVAL, the Philadelphia house and disco party, played to cars at a drive-in during the year clubs were shut. It is a small record of how the dancefloor survived 2020 by moving outdoors, and of the American city party circuit that keeps this music running between revivals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/21555448-f1af-4b48-bb2c-cc00aa05ab20) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtvktlDNELk
- **2020**, Masters At Work at the BPM Festival, Costa Rica. A two-and-a-half hour Masters At Work set filmed for Beatport at BPM Costa Rica, the festival's first year after it left Mexico. Shows the veterans of New York house working the present-day international festival circuit. Useful as a record of where the money and the audience for house sit now. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fd1ad407-6535-4f1e-840a-1bded7a97275) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cAFytccsFw
- **2020**, Green Velvet - live at a Melbourne day party. Curtis Jones performs live as Green Velvet in Melbourne, alongside Claptone and Michael Bibi. It shows how far the Chicago acid-house-and-attitude template had travelled by 2020: an Australian promoter's outdoor day party built around a Cajual Records veteran. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/50f311b8-70e1-4ea8-a3a4-1d4757e2b923) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFHeHLZpVlg
- **2020**, Danny Krivit interviewed for Dekmantel Selectors. Dekmantel's Selectors portrait of Krivit, covering five decades of New York DJing and the editing habits that shaped his sets. A compact statement of method from one of the last people still working who played those rooms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b39a9e79-f1e8-42ca-8798-02b73892a193) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGV6sQSilaE
- **2020**, Honey Dijon - NYC Downlow session, Glastonbury. Honey Dijon plays the NYC Downlow, the queer venue at Glastonbury built as a reconstruction of a 1980s New York meatpacking-district club. It is one of the few filmed places where the specifically Black and gay New York room that house came out of is recreated rather than described, and Honey Dijon, who came up through those clubs, is the right person in it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3679ba0c-bfd2-4697-b46f-59f4cb8e7125) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHgLMoP3HMA
- **2020**, Citizen Boy - Gqom Killa. A later Citizen Boy track, harder and cleaner than his early material, from the album We Are One. It shows gqom's core rhythm surviving intact into the amapiano years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4e8294f2-295b-45da-b5f3-cff07b3951b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46NNuljIeu0
- **2020-06-20**, Danny Tenaglia live from LIV Miami, 20 June 2020. An hour recorded at an empty LIV Miami for MDLBeast's twelve-hour Freqways live stream during the pandemic shutdown. It is a document of the year clubs closed and DJs played to cameras instead of rooms. Tenaglia works the same way regardless of whether anyone is in front of him. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c855fa6a-9bdb-4798-986c-c179331dc356) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmyqDbm_sF8
- **2020-07-11**, Oskido on the evolution of South African music. A news-channel interview in which Oscar Mdlongwa traces twenty-five years of South African music from kwaito through house to what came next. Broadcast interviews like this are effectively the only archive this scene has - Wikimedia Commons holds zero images of kwaito. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fcf113ea-4753-4105-9332-0d415c86ba51) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry6anyZD9ZM
- **2020-07-12**, Amnesia in 2020. Amnesia photographed in July 2020, the summer Ibiza's clubs stayed shut through the pandemic. The building is the constant across five decades of the island's music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9063c1ba-fd65-49bf-9a6a-f2a3797a9dc4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amnesia_Ibiza_2020.jpg
- **2020-07-17**, #GqomFridays Mix Vol.160, mixed by RudeBoyz. An episode of Durban's long-running weekly gqom mix series, mixed by RudeBoyz. The series is the scene's own distribution system and ran for hundreds of volumes, which is a better picture of the music's working life than any single release. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/38439656-fce3-4979-aa7a-11fb743003d6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRZWNk7P298
- **2020-07-30**, How Okmalumkoolkat and Dokta SpiZee remade kwaito. A short film on the new-age kwaito sound of the 2010s and the producers who rebuilt it after the genre's commercial decline. It places kwaito where it belongs, as township house that surfaced with democracy, and names Arthur Mafokate's generation as the start. The line from here to amapiano is the same line. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4e1efbd0-6a29-47b0-aea3-21016abbcc98) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02HwE7uqfCQ
- **2020-08-11**, Marshall Jefferson - True House Stories interview. A two-hour Lenny Fontana interview with Marshall Jefferson covering his whole working life: the Chicago clubs, the Trax sessions, 'Move Your Body', the acid records he produced and what happened when the money went elsewhere. Length is the value here, it is the closest thing to a full oral history with one of house's founding producers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/48be388c-6e39-44d6-ac91-dddf7f558aef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wz1Be3zZLs
- **2020-08-13**, MFR Souls - Amanikiniki (feat. Kamo Mphela & Major League DJz). One of amapiano's first genuine crossover videos, with Kamo Mphela's dancing as central to it as the record. It arrived as the genre was going from township circulation to national pop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5c774688-8666-46b3-840a-849228129e15) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3UVw_SZbMs
- **2020-08-15**, François K - The Roots of House, a set with commentary. A near two-hour DJ set of the disco and post-disco records that turned into house, with Kevorkian narrating the transition as he plays it. He was working in the rooms this music came out of, so the commentary is first-hand rather than reconstructed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2d59ab68-f578-4027-8c71-2166f2898c6c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wCo9M3kkxY
- **2020-09-09**, Mark Finkelstein on founding Strictly Rhythm. The co-founder of Strictly Rhythm on starting the label in 1989 and on Rock and Soul, the midtown record shop that supplied New York's DJs. Short, but it is first-hand testimony on the business side of the label that carried 1990s house worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9546f6c1-eda1-4894-8807-10c0d1763628) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l8uYoRaqTM
- **2020-09-24**, Jesse Saunders on making the first house record. A long interview with Jesse Saunders on the earliest days of Chicago club culture, the making of 'On and On' in 1984, and how the DJ went from a man behind a booth to a touring commodity. He also talks about playing for the Obamas, which is as good a marker as any of how far the music travelled. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/aadb9d29-5424-482f-92dc-9b6ae53ccd74) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfJxxPGcs0c
- **2020-10-22**, Todd Terry breaks down I'll House You in the studio. A track deconstruction of Royal House's 'Can You Party' and 'I'll House You' with Todd Terry explaining the sampler and drum-machine method that built them. It shows the actual technique behind the records that welded hip-hop to house. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f8bcc144-4d07-4e10-bb14-eafb1acf0511) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZevYqgALNE
- **2020-11-23**, Screamin Rachael on running Trax Records. Screamin Rachael, who has run Trax Records for decades, talks about the label's current operation and its artists. She is a contested figure, Trax's unpaid-royalty history is the subject of live litigation brought by Robert Owens and Larry Heard in 2020, and hearing the label's own account alongside the artists' is part of understanding the business of house. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0981c6c4-6543-406e-aec4-b1529d5fd3ed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Z4ir8IhLM
- **2020-12-08**, Searching for Spirit: The Rebel. Lianne Cox reflects on the ten years she spent filming the kwaito scene, cut from her own 1990s footage. The material inside is the archive; the essay around it was assembled during the 2020 lockdown. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/64a63fcd-9916-4989-8cdd-b4c7c87eeb20) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1QnDNlgYQs
- **2020-12-31**, Robert Owens - the stories behind the records. A two-hour Waat FM episode built around the stories behind individual Robert Owens tracks, with Jimbo Mack pushing for detail on the sessions themselves. Owens is one of the originators of the Chicago sound and the vocal thread connecting it to the New York gospel-house lineage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3ef3183d-329a-4f3b-8af9-efba2d3af642) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swvtE4bshZ4
- **2020-12-31**, Moodymann at The Music Locker, GTA Online. Moodymann plays a set through his own back catalogue, recorded for a nightclub inside Grand Theft Auto Online during the year real clubs were closed. Detroit's most house-facing figure appearing as a licensed in-game resident is a genuinely strange artefact of how the music kept circulating in 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/750fcc8a-a713-45d9-a819-92a2e13e48d3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6VtOjkWeR8
### 2021
- **2021-01-28**, David Morales oral history for True House Stories. A long interview in Lenny Fontana's oral-history series, tracing Morales from a Brooklyn childhood to the Paradise Garage and then Def Mix. Fontana is a peer from the same scene, and the questions go where a press interview would not. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/806df6de-8c02-426e-9513-64bcf27efa86) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLbdzhee5tg
- **2021-02-21**, Behringer TD-3. The Behringer TD-3, a cheap modern copy of the TB-303 released long after the original went out of production. The original is now a collector's instrument; the clone is what most people who want that sound actually play. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9f301462-93f5-479b-b871-61249ec8028e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Behringer_TD-3_8391.jpg
- **2021-02-26**, Balcony Mix Africa: Major League DJz b2b Josiah De Disciple, Tanzania. An episode of Major League DJz's Balcony Mix series, filmed at sunset in Tanzania with Josiah De Disciple. The series was the single most effective vehicle for taking amapiano to the rest of the continent and the diaspora. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/48261afd-c26a-4812-a91e-43865b50d48e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_uzP4yeKgE
- **2021-03-05**, DJ Maphorisa and Kabza de Small on how they met. The two producers sit together and tell the origin story of the Scorpion Kings project as amapiano was breaking beyond South Africa. Kabza de Small rarely gives interviews, so a recording with both of them in the room is unusually valuable. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/14bf8648-9f23-4a62-94b5-7972736c0ff2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVDbt_m2SR4
- **2021-03-11**, Black Coffee - Tiny Desk (Home) Concert. Black Coffee's NPR Tiny Desk (home) concert, playing his catalogue with live musicians rather than as a DJ. It arrived a year before he won the Grammy for Subconsciously on 3 April 2022, and stands as the clearest broadcast statement of what South African house sounds like unplugged. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/bb352a0c-d848-4922-80cc-cc4ffe23e8b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npORmybcPdk
- **2021-03-15**, Jesse Saunders on the Back In The Day Show. Chicago industry veteran Sal Amato spends an hour and three quarters with Jesse Saunders on the city's old-school scene, the parties, the record pools and the people who were around before house had a market. Local Chicago radio talking to a local Chicago originator, without the reverence of the international interviews. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/aee002ab-137b-4152-a9dd-16fc4b8bbd02) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzZ4-CT5WFs
- **2021-03-16**, Carl Cox on why Space Ibiza closed. Space's defining resident gives his own account of what ended the club in 2016. Short, but first-hand testimony from the DJ the final season was built around. From Lenny Fontana's True House Stories interview series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a604f29c-9fba-4cda-9a0d-f09b9416e109) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brYIAyhh5F8
- **2021-04-03**, V4 Visions on their Strictly Rhythm years. A UK production duo telling their own account of getting records out through Strictly Rhythm in New York. First-person material on how an outside act actually reached the label, which the usual label histories skip. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fe715a12-a597-4268-9c85-6fb3d8a9cd34) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPI09QRG654
- **2021-04-06**, What happened to tech house?. Resident Advisor traces how a hybrid of techno's austerity and house's swing turned into the most commercially dominant and most derided sound on Beatport. It is a clear-eyed piece about what happens to a genre when the charts and the festival circuit decide what it is worth. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/99b32dce-fb86-4f58-a8d9-d1c5a39e9d3d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74wlkDluLN0
- **2021-04-20**, Chicago Created House Music: Marshall Jefferson and Vince Lawrence. The Silver Room hosts Marshall Jefferson and Vince Lawrence in conversation with Duane Powell, arguing the case for Chicago's authorship of house against every later claim on it. Two originators from different sides of the story, the producer and the label man, in the same room, hosted by a Black South Side institution. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/62496114-de39-45ca-a021-15d90df087c7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itp-J9Y8Dzc
- **2021-05-29**, Josiah De Disciple - Groove Cartel amapiano mix, 2021. Josiah De Disciple's earlier Groove Cartel session, recorded as amapiano was peaking domestically. Set beside the 2024 one it shows three years of drift in the same producer's sound. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f19f2b42-0bc3-4e95-a8b3-4cad942c4656) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPoiP2_TQco
- **2021-06-02**, Honey Dijon on Chicago's Vintage House radio show. A Pride-week live set and conversation on WNUR's Vintage House with Lori Branch, one of Chicago's own first-generation DJs. Two Black queer Chicagoans talking about the city that made this music and what it cost to be in those rooms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4ec1cadb-abf3-41a6-b4bf-453eba744240) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtNn2SLRWvY
- **2021**, Fred again.. studio session, London, April 2021. A fly-on-the-wall studio session filmed in London in April 2021, around the Actual Life records: sampling, looping and building tracks in real time. It shows the working method behind a strand of house that is made largely from voice notes and borrowed fragments. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8b5957ae-4f02-4ce0-b23f-1edc7bfeae35) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2I6V0NlaHg
- **2021**, Louie Vega - Defected Croatia 2021. Louie Vega on the Defected Croatia bill in the first festival season after the shutdowns. It is the older New York vocal-house tradition placed inside the modern label-festival machinery. Full set as broadcast by Defected. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/03ef8b69-2c29-442b-a2a8-f9f4284f14e3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVjrHq_rga4
- **2021**, François K and Carl Craig on studio technique. An excerpt from a four-hour livestream in which Kevorkian and Carl Craig compare studio methods, outboard gear and what modern production changed. New York and Detroit talking shop about how the records are physically made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b009a33c-4fc1-450c-864c-2f39e0a711dd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co3fmktzVD4
- **2021**, Marcellus Pittman - Boiler Room at Beacon Festival, New Zealand. The Detroit selector and 3 Chairs member closing Boiler Room's first New Zealand broadcast with a two-hour set. New Zealand was one of the few places holding open-air festivals in this period, which is why a Detroit house DJ is playing there at all. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/75810938-1122-4cff-b2d6-ce1cd34a1b2f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piT0qHk_PFg
- **2021**, David Mancuso and Francis Grasso - documentary. An Italian-language documentary piece on Francis Grasso, who invented beatmatching at the Sanctuary, and David Mancuso, who invented the party. Together they are the two halves of what a DJ became. It is one of the few filmed treatments of the pre-house New York lineage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ad283943-96a6-4aff-a707-6cf46a48d093) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTGdq8jW5ws
- **2021-07-17**, E-mu SP-1200, the twelve-bit drum sampler. A working look at the E-mu SP-1200, released in 1987, whose twelve-bit converters and short sampling time forced a gritty, compressed sound that producers then chose deliberately. It sits in the archive as the other half of the sampling story alongside the MPC: the machine whose limitations became a texture, and whose crunch turns up across late-eighties club records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a0738e9a-2294-4585-a353-8783e03d5a70) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIRlV2tGgow
- **2021-07-20**, Why did house dancing leave the club?. A short film on house dance, lofting, jacking, footwork, a tradition as old as the music, born among the dancers of the Loft, the Paradise Garage and the Warehouse who took their craft as seriously as the DJs did. It asks why that skill migrated out of nightclubs and into studios and competitions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ec05b092-5bc6-49da-a00c-57b67548dee7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wXkcJDnJWE
- **2021-07-28**, DJ Maphorisa & Kabza De Small - Pretty Girls Love Amapiano, Zone 6. Over two hours from Zone 6 Venue in Soweto, the room most associated with amapiano's home crowd. Playing the sound where it was made, rather than at a festival, is what makes this worth keeping. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ec19810b-dcdc-45eb-a7eb-8ec702c6d617) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7HIFV73YII
- **2021-08-20**, Rebuilding Phuture's Acid Tracks patterns on a TB-303. A step-by-step reconstruction of the 303 sequences behind Acid Tracks, Phuture Jacks and Your Only Friend, played on the machine itself. It shows exactly which accent and slide settings produce the squelch that named a whole genre. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9984a3c8-1382-4cf3-8605-6426910126a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mX8wH6_IAA
- **2021-08-21**, The Archives of Frankie Knuckles at Gagosian. Footage from Social Works at Gagosian, where Theaster Gates installed the Frankie Knuckles record archive and people danced to it in a gallery. It is a rare look at what survives of Knuckles physically, the collection itself, at a moment when the art world was finally treating a South Side DJ's crates as a historical holding. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ada84bfd-fed3-4883-89ab-e32648ce3ccc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3mZkyC8GCY
- **2021-08-31**, Oskido - Back to the Future (feat. Spikiri, Professor, Lady Du). Kwaito veterans Oskido, Spikiri and Professor recording alongside Lady Du at the height of amapiano. The record makes the family resemblance explicit: the same Johannesburg lineage, the same walking tempo, thirty years apart. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6fe18ab4-7965-4805-a535-52fe04d921d7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpqFtz25b_A
- **2021-09-07**, The Blessed Madonna - Boiler Room London. Her return to Boiler Room in London under the city's Covid restrictions, staged with volumetric visuals rather than the usual bare room. The set marks the reopening period after eighteen months in which the entire club economy that produced this music was shut down. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/52615fd9-8d01-4809-9a7c-e8b6f24ea5cb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IyMTaEeHTM
- **2021-09-11**, Ron Trent - Boiler Room Festival New York: Underground & Black. Ron Trent plays Ash Lauryn's Underground & Black room at Boiler Room's New York festival, staged under the city's Covid restrictions. Lauryn built that platform to keep the credit for dance music with the Black people who made it, and Trent, Chicago deep house, co-founder of Prescription Records, is that lineage in person. Seventy-five minutes of the long, unhurried deep house he has played since the early 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ad49ee29-381a-48f7-b152-098f57ccb2ce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2S5tJzqEmY
- **2021-11-09**, Haçienda In Conversation: Graeme Park and David Morales. Graeme Park and David Morales trade stories from the Haçienda and New York in the first of the club's live interview series. Two DJs who worked opposite ends of the same transatlantic circuit through the late 1980s and 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/281c80f5-14f7-4c54-bdd9-9ea8533ebb99) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgaf_6z3Ack
- **2021-11-10**, Kerri Chandler - reel-to-reel live stream from his studio. An hour-long live stream of Kerri Chandler mixing from reel-to-reel tape in his own studio, broadcast by Defected. It shows the mechanics of his setup close up, which almost no club footage does. Chandler is the central figure of the New Jersey deep house lineage that runs directly out of the Paradise Garage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c6540a68-c2f7-493a-bf01-e42bf294c384) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4pdWOf93oo
- **2021-11-18**, The Roland CR-78, the first famous drum machine. A short hardware history of Roland's 1978 CompuRhythm CR-78, the preset box that made the company's name in rhythm machines two years before the TR-808. It sets up the lineage the archive cares about: Roland was already the drum machine company by the time it built the boxes house was made on. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/711e6bb0-a461-496f-a808-2c304ea02ea6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ1wBmhAbEc
### 2022
- **2022-01-06**, Kings of amapiano: DJ Maphorisa and Kabza De Small in conversation. A long sit-down interview with the Scorpion Kings, the producer pair at the centre of amapiano's rise, talking about how they work and how the sound came together. First-person testimony from the people who made it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e14c10a1-e12e-4a47-901a-8c10c1e22da3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD7-7ht7bwM
- **2022-01-13**, Oskido on building Kalawa Jazmee. Nearly three hours with Oscar Mdlongwa on the label he built: Bongo Maffin, Mafikizolo, the YFM years, and the generation of DJ Zinhle and DJ Maphorisa that followed. This is the business history of South African house told by the man who financed most of it, and the closest thing the genre has to a founder's oral record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/38422c4f-594c-48f1-b02c-82d39f58aa5a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-bTCSqvJj0
- **2022-01-17**, Oskido on the founding of Kalawa Jazmee. Oskido (Oscar Mdlongwa), DJ, producer and co-founder of Kalawa Jazmee, tells the story of the label's start-up years, from selling records and playing taxi ranks to running one of South Africa's biggest houses. First-hand testimony from the person who signed Boom Shaka and Bongo Maffin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4b7ca505-e975-414b-9516-f9b9a3fed1d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DILX0Kg-yjA
- **2022-01-17**, Oskido on how Kalawa merged with Jazmee. Oscar 'Oskido' Mdlongwa telling the founding story of Kalawa Jazmee first-hand - how his Kalawa label merged with Don Laka and Bruce Sebitlo's Jazmee to build the house that kwaito was made in. First-person testimony from someone who was in the room. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/92105142-ad48-4c8f-842a-ba7fe31631de) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdJA9YQIVZs
- **2022-01-20**, Teachers: the Chicago roots of Daft Punk's Homework. A short film running exactly 9:09, with a mix by CK303, built around the roll-call of Chicago names in Daft Punk's 'Teachers'. It makes the archive's central point in nine minutes: the most successful European dance record of its era is a list of Black American producers, credited by name. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/469ca08c-366d-40e5-959a-ae3386316858) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DytOQo_iQ9A
- **2022-02-04**, Todd Terry: interview and DJ set. Todd Terry talks and then plays, which is the right order for a producer whose records are best explained by hearing how he mixes them. Covers his Brooklyn beginnings and the sample-heavy New York house he defined. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/620a1454-92a1-498a-9164-62db2a184072) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zytKRFnHHVY
- **2022-03-10**, Nicky Siano on Studio 54 and running the Gallery. Siano on being hired as a resident when Steve Rubell opened Studio 54 while still running the Gallery at weekends. First-hand detail on how the New York club economy of the late 1970s actually worked, and who it worked for. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fd80c885-4375-4564-8f3f-35043be128cd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miHpWCcXD5s
- **2022-03-22**, Nicky Siano on the Gallery and New York's disco roots. Nicky Siano, who ran the Gallery and whom Larry Levan and Frankie Knuckles replaced at the Continental Baths, on the rooms house grew directly out of. The pre-history of the garage sound, told by one of the people who built it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/99870688-2302-476e-ba87-8d69c3997005) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0xfRKcM4TQ
- **2022-03-22**, Carolyn Byrd on Club Zanzibar, Body & Soul and the Shelter. A radio oral history with Carolyn Byrd, DJ and record-label executive, on Newark's Club Zanzibar and the New York rooms that carried the garage sound into the 1990s. A woman's first-hand account of a history almost always told through men. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/bb72f541-292a-40d0-a2d1-344ed53366e4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGt3pxk2UQY
- **2022-03-24**, DJ Pierre and DJ Traxman on the 303, Acid Trax and Ron Hardy. Pierre, who found the 303 pattern that became acid house, talks with DJ Traxman about the machine, Trax Records and Ron Hardy's Muzic Box. First-hand testimony from the man who made the record, including the label's treatment of its artists. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/86e4106c-5425-4023-b812-74ba4714e26d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEpnk_X13hE
- **2022-04-02**, DJ Maphorisa on discovering amapiano. A 43-minute conversation covering Maphorisa's Pretoria childhood, his gospel and afro-house grounding, and how he moved into amapiano and its business. There is no first amapiano record to point at - the genre condensed out of untitled, uncredited productions - so first-hand accounts like this are the primary evidence. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e77dde9d-aafd-4bdc-a6c2-1d467fed0137) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVj6mPVHSqg
- **2022-04-10**, Josiah De Disciple - Dala What You Must (feat. Amaroto). A Josiah De Disciple track with Amaroto, released on his own channel. It is the private-tape end of amapiano: released quietly, spread by dancers and DJs rather than radio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c4adcd7d-e847-49ac-9a28-5220e8a8f4a4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mMvn8UClTM
- **2022-05-22**, Mamba Negra at the Fabrica dos Brinquedos. A Mamba Negra party in the disused Fabrica dos Brinquedos in Sao Paulo on 22 May 2022. The collective runs queer-centred parties in industrial buildings, which is the same arrangement house started with and for much the same reasons. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/28479e42-a258-496e-8de9-b3035eb06de7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mamba_Negra_party,_Fábrica_dos_Brinquedos,_São_Paulo,_22-05-2022_(1).jpg
- **2022-06-09**, Jamie Jones for Cercle at the Pliva Waterfalls, Jajce. Cercle films Jamie Jones playing beside the Pliva waterfalls in Jajce, Bosnia-Herzegovina, with the landscape as the whole production. It is the clearest example of the format French producers Cercle invented in 2016, the DJ set as a location film, which has become one of the main ways house now reaches an audience that never enters a club. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/508a9e19-f607-43c3-b083-4875b1459609) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWVBoK4idas
- **2022**, Danny Tenaglia at Music On Festival, Amsterdam 2022. Danny Tenaglia's festival set at Music On in Amsterdam, filmed and released by the promoter. It is a rare look at a DJ formed by New York's all-night club culture working a daytime festival stage. Complete set rather than an aftermovie. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e772a60b-8a44-4404-87b0-ba617f89791c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joe0JyY-xBc
- **2022**, Danny Tenaglia - Disco Disco pool party, Miami Music Week 2022. Tenaglia playing the Disco Disco pool party during Miami Music Week, filmed by DJ Mag. Miami Music Week is the descendant of the Winter Music Conference, the week where the American dance industry does its business in public. The set leans on the disco and vocal end of his catalogue. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8a614b88-d392-4e98-a703-e5281785e96a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaOpLRRdQoQ
- **2022**, The Hacienda: Television Documentary with Noel Gallagher. A feature-length television documentary on the Hacienda, with Noel Gallagher among the interviewees and performance footage running from Joy Division and New Order through to Black Box. It covers the club Factory Records opened in 1982 and the point in 1986-88 when it became one of the first British clubs to play house. The Hacienda never made money in its fifteen years, and this is the long-form account of why. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/dffc20b9-82f8-4751-9ccd-c79369c632cd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqFAaKsly0A
- **2022**, Frankie Knuckles Way. The honorary street sign for Frankie Knuckles Way in Chicago, photographed in 2022. The city renamed the stretch of Jefferson Street and declared a Frankie Knuckles Day in August 2004, a decade before he died. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5636df0f-fa92-4007-94e5-91b2e73b7e55) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frankie_Knuckles_Way_-_June_2022_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg
- **2022**, Kerri Chandler reel-to-reel set at the Roundhouse, London. Two hours of Kerri Chandler playing from reel-to-reel tape at the Roundhouse in Camden, with a hologram staging. Chandler's records, cut in New Jersey out of gospel, soul and the Garage sound, are heard here in the analogue format he mixes them on. It is a rare filmed document of a DJ working tape rather than digital files. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b493900e-dc7b-478d-b32f-92b6a1d91442) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q8TXe-v9_U
- **2022**, Inside Africa: Amapiano. A broadcast report on amapiano as a township-born sound shaped by house, jazz and hip-hop, and on the culture and style that travel with it. Useful because it interviews the people making it rather than explaining them. The house lineage is stated on camera. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/627b1c80-b309-4f66-a45d-13475ac8f8ca) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HqTPXrgkHg
- **2022-07-07**, The making of Kerri Chandler's "Subbie". Chandler tells the story behind "Subbie", the track he named for Glasgow's Sub Club, as part of his practice of writing records about specific rooms and the people in them. It is a compact demonstration of how a deep house record gets its subject. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1b911263-8084-4548-bc9a-b893d9819599) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc2ZX3r2QJc
- **2022-07-19**, Scorpion Kings - Road to Scorpion Kings Live exclusive mix. A two-hour Kabza De Small and DJ Maphorisa mix released ahead of their Scorpion Kings Live show at SunBet Arena on 22 July 2022. The Scorpion Kings pairing is amapiano's equivalent of a house production duo running the label, the parties and the sound at once. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0eb291fb-0213-42ec-a355-8604ddb107fa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pjtl29z9uc
- **2022-07-24**, This Is Amapiano. A BBC film shot in South Africa on the genre's home ground, tracking amapiano from township parties to dancefloors abroad. It is the first substantial international broadcast treatment of the sound, and it correctly treats it as dance music with a South African lineage rather than an exotic novelty. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/067b0320-6f78-41a7-a739-f09b2aace8d9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDf7G9-ngA0
- **2022-08-09**, Nic Fanciulli - Defected Croatia main stage, 9 August 2022. A full main-stage recording from Defected's Croatia festival, filmed and streamed as part of the label's Broadcasting House series. It documents how a label built on classic house catalogue turned itself into a festival brand. Useful as a record of the modern label-as-festival model. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/25dae9d8-89be-4f2c-92d0-af82908dab60) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9GOhquz3PM
- **2022-08-15**, Larry Heard interview on Dreaming Live. An hour with Larry Heard on the Dreaming Live podcast, covering the Mr Fingers records, his working methods and his view of what deep house became after him. A second substantial interview with a producer who has spent decades avoiding them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e12bbd90-b361-4958-b4fa-0bb292550d23) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ppqTPcTYHg
- **2022-08-16**, A Brief History of the Roland TB-303 Bassline. A documentary short on the TB-303, the monophonic bass synth Roland made from 1981 to 1984 and gave up on. It covers the design under Tadao Kikumoto, the commercial failure, and the second life the machine found in Chicago. The squelch it produces is the single most recognisable sound in acid house. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/660f22d4-cb85-40d0-9a9b-c9ded1bdc9dd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nirWK2Btj40
- **2022-08-20**, This Is Amapiano - BBC Africa documentary. The BBC's documentary on amapiano's move from Gauteng townships to dancefloors worldwide, including the role of viral dance challenges in carrying it. Amapiano is house music: a South African descendant of it, running around 112 bpm, and this archive files it accordingly rather than as an offshoot of hip-hop. Director's cut. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7968bd85-1a71-4e08-864c-76c45ef8c6cb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou0luMrf1mU
- **2022-08-31**, The story of Afro house: from apartheid to amapiano. A documentary episode tracing South African dance music from the late-apartheid era through Afro house to amapiano. Useful as the connective tissue between the kwaito years and the current generation, and it treats the whole lineage as house. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/40db920d-f463-4843-ad4f-697682b41821) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfpCorgnXAU
- **2022-09-06**, DJ Christos - guest mix, Deeper Shades of House 790. DJ Christos returning to Deeper Shades of House nearly three hundred episodes after his first guest slot. The two shows together are a useful before-and-after of how the South African deep house selection changed across six years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/71054ba5-c752-4856-8e15-bc3de02f8a24) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW7aA3mEwgA
- **2022-09-13**, The Forgotten Black and Queer History of House Music. A Daily Show segment prompted by Beyonce's Renaissance and Drake's Honestly, Nevermind, explaining to a pop audience that house was built by Black and Latino people, many of them gay, in Chicago and New York. It is the clearest mainstream statement of the archive's own central fact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/900b0981-60d0-4fd8-bf60-6642df47cf3c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uToIOU-d6YU
- **2022-09-22**, Danny Tenaglia - four-hour set in Mexico City, 22 September 2022. Danny Tenaglia playing an open-ended four-hour set at Barbaro Club House in Mexico City. Tenaglia is the last of the New York marathon DJs still working at this length, and the format, not the record selection, is the point. Filmed straight through rather than edited to highlights. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/162e9116-83c1-4a27-92e2-fe4e1fcfe098) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew_HQfRtwMI
- **2022-10-02**, Black Coffee - The Diary of a CEO interview. A 68-minute interview covering Black Coffee's childhood in Mthatha, the accident on 11 February 1990 - the day Nelson Mandela walked free - in which a car with its headlights off struck him in the celebrating crowd and cost him the use of his left arm, and the economics of a DJ charging six figures a set. The commonly repeated 2005 bus-crash version of that story is wrong. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/86bfb0b4-ca01-4c72-ab85-7812c2ae5c1a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBhj5H93pI
- **2022-10-26**, Don Laka on the music business, Kalawa and amapiano. A long-form interview with keyboardist, producer and Kalawa co-founder Don Laka on how the South African record business actually pays, ownership, publishing and who ends up holding the masters. He traces the line from kwaito through to amapiano, which arrives at almost exactly the same walking tempo two decades later. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f4298f73-a4ae-4615-8a81-7c54ca14b5f2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM1ZoS50jY0
- **2022-11-25**, Marshall Jefferson in The Basement, Defected Records. A studio session from Marshall Jefferson in Defected's Basement room, tied to a takeover of the label's Best House & Club Tracks playlist. The pairing of a 1986 Trax originator with a streaming playlist promotion is the whole distance the business has travelled in one frame. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4197dca0-198b-4967-9c74-9f0993c5bf73) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To0cs7iMs-s
- **2022-12-01**, Spikiri, Eugene Knox & 2.5 - Tana La!. A kwaito founder recording with the amapiano generation, Reece Madlisa and Zuma alongside rapper Kwesta. It is the tempo rhyme made literal: kwaito slowed house to ~110 BPM in the 1990s, amapiano returned to ~112 BPM in the 2010s, and the same man is on both records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0080c208-af71-4f77-b506-b81fa7a9e905) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfliUF4Xmv4
### 2023
- **2023-01-10**, Roland TB-303 acid house demo. The Roland TB-303 producing the sound it is famous for: the resonant, sliding squelch that Phuture turned into acid house. Roland built it as a bass accompaniment for guitarists, sold it from 1981 to 1984, discontinued it as a failure, and it was rescued secondhand and used entirely wrong. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1a5fda8d-2ad7-4d62-b965-270a03acc1c4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ZCVFryo7g
- **2023-01-28**, The Global Rise of Afro House. A documentary tracing afro house across the African continent and into European clubs, with the producers and DJs driving it. It is direct evidence that house's centre of gravity has moved: the same music, made and claimed far from Chicago. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/60142bf5-725d-454d-a31d-cbd3ca34ff54) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm1EdeoIZ94
- **2023-02-02**, What's driving the rise of South Africa's amapiano?. A news report on amapiano's move from Gauteng townships to global streaming charts during and after the pandemic. Amapiano is a house music: roughly 112 BPM, descended from the same lineage that produced kwaito, and it belongs in this archive rather than in a hip-hop one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/63e1f20e-0fce-4142-84a0-bb7e071af766) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvWlkJgtAp4
- **2023-02-14**, Inception - the birth of the Roland TR-808. A mini-documentary on how the TR-808 came to be built, tracing the design decisions and the analogue circuitry that produced its booming kick. Roland launched it in 1980 at around $1,195, sold roughly twelve thousand and killed it by 1983, after which it became the cheap machine that Black American producers in Chicago, New York and Detroit rebuilt popular music with. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/74d67db0-62c2-4d7b-a563-0149f6636aee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTwWMju05Jk
- **2023-02-26**, TB-303 and TR-909 Acid Jam. A live hardware jam with a TB-303, TR-909 and TR-606 running together, showing exactly how an acid line is built and filtered in real time. No sequencer screen, no DAW: just the machines and the hands on them. Useful as a demonstration of the physical process the records were made by. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d678795a-cb3f-41f5-be13-a9823eb8fb60) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQIRrHToV1A
- **2023-03-02**, Black Coffee on the Grammy, Drake and Beyoncé. A very long South African podcast interview covering his Soulistic label, the Grammy for Subconsciously, and his work with Drake and Beyoncé. The most detailed account he has given of how a South African house producer ended up at the centre of American pop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cff2f2b6-89e0-41ad-9dcc-582f942ae756) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grgbt740W1E
- **2023-03-03**, Scorpion Kings - Exclusive Mix E3, live at Mahem Raceway. Kabza De Small and DJ Maphorisa playing for over two and a half hours at Mahem Raceway. The scale of the set - and of the crowd - is the measure of how far amapiano had moved from Soweto bedrooms by 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5631ed39-0be3-4964-9447-66343c97a319) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmkyfYSAIPU
- **2023-03-21**, The Warehouse building named among Chicago's most endangered. CBS 2 reports that the West Loop building where house music was born faces demolition after Preservation Chicago listed it as endangered. The report shows how close the genre's founding site came to being erased without a marker. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/49324bdd-7e56-46e4-a453-a5c55f135273) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbDzcwrs8H0
- **2023-04-14**, DJ Fresh (SA) - Journey To Africa. A recent single from Thato Sikwane, the radio DJ who has been one of the loudest voices for house in South Africa since the 1990s, released on his own Big Dawg Productions. Evidence that the founding generation is still releasing rather than only touring. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/746dbdbc-b4d3-453c-9c3b-3b824c2231f4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvktwhKbgq4
- **2023-04-18**, Lem Springsteen of Mood II Swing - Defected Broadcasting House set. Two hours of Lem Springsteen playing his own 1990s Mood II Swing catalogue in Defected's London basement. It is a rare case of the producer of the records selecting them himself, which makes it usable both as a set and as an annotated discography. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2a6cf97a-63e3-42ca-8935-5837376a9fa0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tHQAZ_NSug
- **2023-04-21**, Roy Davis Jr. at Djoon, Paris. A long night's set from Roy Davis Jr. at Djoon in Paris, a club whose programming is built on the deep, soulful and gospel side of house. French audiences kept that strain of the music commercially alive through periods when American clubs would not book it, and this is what the relationship looks like from the booth. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ffdbfa41-f619-4c03-9b99-54500790b3e2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zog0Gvfyvic
- **2023-05-12**, Two 303s on a porch in Somerville. A pair of Roland TB-303 Bass Line units driving a set for a street crowd at Somerville Porchfest in 2023. Roland made the 303 from 1981 to 1984 and dropped it as a failure; it has outlived that verdict by four decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/97042840-0256-41c3-a494-183775e8a166) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electronic_music_at_Somerville_Porchfest.png
- **2023-05-16**, Doug Smith on New York house versus Chicago house. The Jersey-born DJ and producer, half of 95 North, sets out plainly what separates the two cities: Chicago's raw drum-machine tracks against New York's song-based, gospel-trained vocal records out of the Paradise Garage and Zanzibar. Short, but it is a practitioner drawing the distinction the archive keeps having to explain. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/61a47b87-1285-4f88-9db8-48d910e43226) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn_601WDhHs
- **2023-05-29**, DJ Maphorisa on where amapiano actually started. Maphorisa gives his own account of when and where amapiano began, against the competing township claims from Pretoria, Soweto and the Vaal. There is no first amapiano record and the origin is genuinely disputed, so the participants' own testimony is the primary evidence. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0b27e2a8-3f91-42a7-ba09-9e4592f8e213) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4gJzFrRcDw
- **2023-06-02**, Nicky Siano: the Gallery, the full interview. A long radio oral history with Nicky Siano covering Brooklyn, the Gallery, and the 1970s New York club circuit out of which both disco and house came. He is one of the last first-hand witnesses to the rooms that made Levan and Knuckles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e7ba95bc-c3a7-4597-bbd2-9f4a8c7af6b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRSb18Xwqkg
- **2023-06-02**, Black House Black Joy: the New Jersey house community. WBGO's Come Sunday hosts a conversation on the Black House Black Joy podcast about New Jersey's house scene, the Newark and Jersey City lineage that runs through Club Zanzibar and Tony Humphries out of the Paradise Garage. It treats house as Black social history rather than a genre tag, which is exactly the frame this archive needs for the garage side of the story. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f4695caf-9833-4807-ad15-39c99ed7cf59) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8qYQAalfV0
- **2023-06-03**, Louie Vega - three-hour classic house and disco set at Jackies. An open-to-close set by Louie Vega at Jackies, held at La Terrrazza in Barcelona, running more than three hours through classic house and disco. The length lets him move through the whole New York lineage he came out of rather than a festival hour of peaks. Filmed as a continuous recording. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3c8a9226-db23-4363-9117-2f3a22abcb1c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0_WRdPXZNY
- **2023-06-03**, Ravekjavik, seventh edition. The seventh Ravekjavik festival, Iceland, June 2023. Four years on from the earlier frame in this archive the event is still running, which for a festival of that size is the achievement. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6909d8b2-b5ca-477c-95f2-1295cba439e3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ravekjavík_2023.jpg
- **2023**, Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce (2023). The concert film built around the Renaissance World Tour, the stadium-scale moment when house music returned to the centre of American pop. The album it documents was explicitly dedicated to the Black and queer originators of the music, and the film is the fullest statement of that argument the mainstream has produced. Included as the full documentary rather than its trailers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c8a0c9ca-d623-45a8-a2bd-f5e86f8aa9e2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1pUYRt_9mY
- **2023**, DJ Sneak live at West Coast Weekender, San Diego. Two hours of DJ Sneak at an underground West Coast Weekender event in San Diego, filmed properly rather than on a phone. It captures the American circuit that never went to the festival mainstage, small promoters, long sets and a crowd who came for the records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3419ac61-ceec-40a9-bf81-3d5dc73fa1e2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ydqka1KW6U
- **2023**, Who created house music? Chicago pioneers answer. The Vintage House Show crew put the genre's most contested question to the pioneers themselves, backstage at the Chicago House Music Conference. The answers do not agree, which is the point: the founding of house is a live dispute between Jesse Saunders, Chip E., Vince Lawrence, Frankie Knuckles' Warehouse crowd and the DJs who were simply there. A rare document of the originators contradicting each other on camera. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e92e78c6-ea2e-4fc6-9806-b5ef8e4d929f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pchV6kOOWyo
- **2023**, Marshall Jefferson on Move Your Body and Chicago house. A masterclass at the International Music Summit in Ibiza in which Jefferson breaks down 'Move Your Body' and the wider Chicago story for a room of producers. He is unusually blunt about how little the originators were paid and how much the genre's shape was set by what gear was affordable. Talk and demonstration rather than interview. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/06c23715-49a7-4fb3-b354-2e0ae0b19a68) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG9PfyeYN-c
- **2023**, Southport Weekender 2023 - weekend montage. A montage of DJs, live acts and dancers across a full Southport Weekender, the British soulful-house institution that ran for decades before moving to Bognor. It is one of the few pieces of footage that shows the crowd, not just the booth. Useful as evidence of how the New York and New Jersey vocal tradition was kept alive in the UK. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5acb5273-e467-4e72-b3f2-cbb3c8c8ab4c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL7WTE6g770
- **2023**, Robert Owens - Tears, live at the Jazz Cafe, London. Owens singing Tears in a London club nearly thirty-five years after cutting it with Frankie Knuckles and Satoshi Tomiie for Def Mix in New York. The vocal/gospel line that runs from the Paradise Garage into house is still a live, sung thing rather than an archive item, and this shows it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3aeb04f0-e0a3-4e10-9af9-883f3b0fcb12) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK9mCT5_AqU
- **2023**, Kerri Chandler - reel-to-reel set, Boiler Room New York. Kerri Chandler plays a set from reel-to-reel tape in New York, recorded in spatial audio. Chandler came out of New Jersey's Club Zanzibar orbit and ran Madhouse Records; the deep, keyboard-led sound he plays here is the direct descendant of the Paradise Garage and Zanzibar rooms that no longer exist on film. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9b48a78b-5d3b-4c8f-9140-bd7363411ce2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6XiDub2Wc4
- **2023-06-16**, The Blessed Madonna - 'Mercy' with Jacob Lusk at Sónar. A live performance of 'Mercy' at Sónar in Barcelona with Jacob Lusk singing, a gospel voice over four-to-the-floor. That combination is the oldest thread in the music, the vocal and gospel lineage that ran through the Paradise Garage and Club Zanzibar, being used on a European festival stage in 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2dcfc3f1-539b-4fea-90f7-3a676f641272) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuhch7HYyaw
- **2023-07-01**, Robert Owens of Fingers Inc. - interview. A thirty-minute interview in which Owens goes through his grandmother's records in Chicago, the formation of Fingers Inc. with Larry Heard, and what the business did to the people who made the music. Owens and Heard sued Trax in June 2020 over exactly that, so this is a first-hand account from a live dispute. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/df166898-bc16-4d7c-87cf-7b8de7557a37) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpIrwHPXoLc
- **2023-07-12**, Renaissance World Tour trailer. The official worldwide trailer for the tour behind Renaissance, the 2022 album that put house back at the centre of mainstream pop. The tour staged the record's debt to Black and queer dance culture in stadiums, which is what makes it part of this story rather than a footnote to it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a755c761-d259-421f-9345-701244c51672) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAzyYLsndCg
- **2023-07-27**, Folamour at Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, Geneva. Folamour playing a Cercle set inside a Geneva cathedral, disco-sampling French house in a building designed for organ music. Cercle's whole model, a DJ, a monument and a livestream, is one of the clearest examples of how house is packaged for audiences who will never be in the room. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d28166ca-1447-4d31-860d-1503dd80a7d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDJEo-rQrfw
- **2023-08-08**, Egyptian Lover programming the TR-808. Egyptian Lover, one of the few people who never stopped using the machine, working an original TR-808 and explaining how he builds a pattern on it. Filmed for 808 Day, it is a demonstration rather than a retrospective: the drums that West Coast electro and Chicago house were both built from, being made in front of the camera. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/43e447b6-7e7f-4cf2-a946-8db486545784) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf1H31D4uCs
- **2023-08-12**, News report: 'The Kalawa Jazmee Story' docu-series premieres. Broadcast report on the four-part Kalawa Jazmee docu-series going to air on Mzansi Magic, with co-founder Oskido explaining why the label wanted its own history on record. The label produced Boom Shaka and Bongo Maffin and is the commercial spine of kwaito. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6eafd6ed-8537-4ab8-909d-20893787cae9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw_psJ_PsfA
- **2023-08-29**, The Blessed Madonna - Boiler Room Bali at Potato Head. The Blessed Madonna plays Boiler Room's return to Potato Head in Bali, an hour of disco-leaning house for a Southeast Asian crowd. The booking is a straightforward illustration of the circuit that now carries the music: a Kentucky-born DJ, a British platform and an Indonesian beach club. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/81b07b33-79eb-4a64-9ed8-6d6857f67a6c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHgbZmVvqKI
- **2023-09-08**, Marshall Jefferson on the making of Chicago house. A long podcast interview with Marshall Jefferson, who wrote 'Move Your Body' and gave house its anthem. He explains that 'house music' began as a put-down aimed at what the DJs at the Warehouse were playing, and walks through the clubs, the cheap gear and the record-store economy that produced the first records. One of the fuller first-person accounts of the Chicago scene on video. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/306f6e13-4467-4330-9449-b0d698f2792a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpTmc_Y2Tiw
- **2023-11-05**, Theo Parrish - Club 77, Sydney. Four and a half hours of Theo Parrish recorded live in a small Sydney basement, long enough to show the drift and repetition that a festival slot never allows. Sets of this length from a Detroit deep-house player are rarely filmed in full. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/97f85a75-71b1-4d49-b3e2-c8cd95f3452c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArrbNxQ3EdI
- **2023-11-13**, Honey Dijon on house music's Black queer legacy. Honey Dijon states plainly that house was made by Black and queer people who built their own rooms because they were not welcome anywhere else, and that they remade European electronic music into something of their own. Short, filmed at the Southbank Centre, and completely unambiguous. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/06091b3c-ed0e-4c06-a1f4-cfca489cdffa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvzmjUo_lg8
- **2023-12-21**, DiY and the 72-hour rave that changed the law. A documentary on DiY Sound System, the Nottingham crew who put house music at the centre of the British free party scene and were on the common at Castlemorton. It traces the line from that week to Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, which defined the music it banned as 'repetitive beats'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b4133cf3-c64c-422c-94a3-7a5dd96ab60f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZRVQz7H73E
### 2024
- **2024-02-10**, Marshall Jefferson live at Mint Warehouse, Leeds. Marshall Jefferson, who wrote 'Move Your Body (The House Music Anthem)' for Trax in 1986 and slowed the Chicago tempo from around 130 to 120 BPM, playing a full ninety-minute club set in Leeds. Forty years on, one of the founding figures is still working the same rooms, a small warehouse floor rather than a festival stage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9ccaaf02-ba9c-408c-a76d-33793c238522) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC8UzMtVJLg
- **2024-02-11**, DJ Christos - five-hour house set at Babbi, Cape Town. Five uncut hours of DJ Christos at Babbi in Cape Town. Sets of this length are how house was originally played - one DJ, one room, all night - and full-length footage of it from South Africa is scarce. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/eb249d84-a80a-4a0b-b401-27e0e8be9e4e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkqvigWEDlQ
- **2024-02-19**, Amapiano: the South African house that moved the world. ARTE's Tracks report on amapiano, which states plainly what most coverage avoids: this is South African deep house, slower and more spacious, not a hip-hop subgenre. It follows the log-drum sound from the townships to TikTok without treating it as novelty. Good European broadcast reporting on a scene usually covered badly. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/68c53346-2014-41e0-b685-f3dfb09dd4eb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VEn_f3_ly0
- **2024-03-20**, Kalawa Jazmee Story, episode 1: The Legacy of Groove. The opening episode of 1 Magic's broadcast series on Kalawa Jazmee, tracing South African nightlife through the label that built kwaito. Broadcast documentary on a label whose own history is otherwise almost entirely undocumented on video. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/71d07eef-a375-4dba-bd51-bbedab6d27c0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTzNmpbUSdY
- **2024-04-20**, Josiah De Disciple - Groove Cartel amapiano mix, 2024. A 106-minute Josiah De Disciple mix for Groove Cartel, whose text credits him as one of the producers who birthed the genre. The length lets the tribal, ancestral rhythm side of his sound actually unfold. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/55fa84d2-ace1-414c-9766-1fb4e0f11078) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GdgUxlWtT0
- **2024-04-26**, Josiah De Disciple - Satori Experience live set. A 68-minute Josiah De Disciple set staged around his Satori release. His work sits at the darker, more spiritual edge of amapiano, closer to Black Coffee's Afro house than to the pop end. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f45ee792-3258-40de-ac58-6bf88b19f16d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMmN1A4x1NA
- **2024-05-01**, The Bastard Child: Exploring Chicago House Music. A 37-minute documentary short in which University of Chicago students go looking for the collective memory of Chicago house, and find how thinly the city has commemorated a music made by its Black and gay South Side. The interviews are recent oral history from people who were in those rooms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3ab5e47f-8c1a-4ef2-9c65-a544ef8763f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJkxcG_0NI
- **2024-05-19**, Marshall Jefferson - Move Your Body: the making of. DJ Mag's short film on how 'Move Your Body (The House Music Anthem)' was written in 1985 by a Chicago post-office worker who could not really play piano. Jefferson tells how the piano line arrived whole and how the record, released on Trax in 1986, put keyboards into a music built on drum machines. The song that gave the genre its slogan, explained by the man who wrote it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2bd3a29e-8775-44a3-b0e5-2b94b47871d1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieU1LQ8l-NQ
- **2024-05-29**, Marshall Jefferson - House Masters session for Defected. Defected films Marshall Jefferson playing an hour of classic Chicago material to launch his entry in the label's House Masters compilation series. It shows the modern economics of the music plainly: the catalogue is the asset, and a founder's session doubles as the marketing for a reissue package. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/526d665d-4caf-42cd-94fc-43a1d4016587) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67TkF6Nlgp0
- **2024-06-05**, Masters At Work - Boiler Room Johannesburg. The New York pair play the Allstars stage at Boiler Room x Ballantine's True Music 10 in Johannesburg. The pairing is the point: the founders of the American vocal-house tradition playing to a South African crowd that has spent thirty years building its own house culture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/75713dc1-367c-4e6e-bbcd-7882e6ca99cf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz5st4L8Zvc
- **2024-06-09**, Brown Dash: the rise and fall of a kwaito legend. A documentary episode on Siphiwe 'Brown Dash' Mampile, following his run of hits and his early death. Kwaito is South African house slowed to a walking tempo, not hip-hop, whatever the reference works say. This is one of the few sustained pieces of research on a single kwaito career. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8c91cf61-77c9-4acc-9ea4-18a0367d1742) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQVrBkBvDxo
- **2024-06-14**, Scorpion Kings - tour mix for New York and London. A long mix issued to trail Scorpion Kings shows at Central Park SummerStage in New York and Southwark Park in London. Amapiano headlining Central Park is the clearest marker of a South African house form completing the export route in reverse. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/15652223-0a67-42a4-8871-910d6d3cfb25) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8BPPYXF4cI
- **2024**, Fred again.. rooftop set, Arun's Roof, London. An hour of new material played to friends on a London rooftop, filmed in one take and posted to the artist's own channel. The format - small room, no stage, everyone close - is deliberately closer to a house party than a festival, and it is a large part of why this music reached a streaming-era audience. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ec03a30a-7a4a-4207-92f5-8a53b3d0d867) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MAzUT1YhWE
- **2024**, Body & Soul at Flow Festival, Helsinki. The New York party as a festival booking in Finland in 2024, nearly thirty years after it started. It shows what happened to this lineage in the present: the same three DJs, a European festival stage, a crowd with no connection to the rooms the music came from. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7c0bbb42-05f9-4597-8939-3d60d4826be7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73jmP8N9F1w
- **2024**, Dennis Ferrer b2b HoneyLuv - The Ditch, Defected Malta 2024. Dennis Ferrer and HoneyLuv trading records back to back at Defected's Malta weekender, with Nasser Baker guesting. The pairing puts a veteran New York house producer next to one of the American DJs who broke through in the streaming era. A clean document of the current festival circuit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d8a8fa1d-a60c-4e1e-b072-a45ccb4a2288) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9przWlVAR0
- **2024**, Ron Trent - Coloring Lessons Juneteenth Block Party, Brooklyn. Two hours from Ron Trent at The Lot Radio's Juneteenth block party in Brooklyn, a street celebration with dancers, dominoes and double dutch alongside the DJ booth. It is house doing the job it was invented for: a Black social occasion built around a sound system rather than a ticketed stage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f6f51a7f-e082-4dcd-a66e-5de4e47dcc48) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVBRNnStziA
- **2024**, Ron Trent live at The Bowl, We Out Here Festival. A three-hour Ron Trent set on The Bowl stage at We Out Here in Wimborne St Giles, the Dorset festival built out of the London jazz and broken-beat scene. The length is the point: Trent's sets are constructed as arcs rather than as sequences of peaks, which is what the deep house tradition means by a journey. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/53aba51c-6aa4-46a7-b3c5-d50d46595c02) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQjMx2bkNaE
- **2024**, Green Velvet - Defected Malta, The Ditch, Valletta. Green Velvet plays the third day of Defected's Malta festival, the first dance event ever staged in The Ditch below Valletta's fortifications. Defected is the label that turned vocal house into a durable business, and its festival arm is what superstar-DJ economics look like applied to a genre born in unlicensed rooms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3c400672-a0bf-4d6a-b9c3-33f60eaf42a3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlbMcaCYq-Q
- **2024**, Honey Dijon at the Amnesia opening party, Ibiza. Honey Dijon plays Amnesia's season opening, in the room where Alfredo's mixed programming turned into the Balearic template that British visitors carried home in 1987. A Black trans DJ from Chicago headlining that club is a fair measure of how far the music's own people have travelled inside an industry that long kept them off the main stages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2dfb0418-6deb-4b7c-8bd2-b1d5a1f61b9b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4VYrTKEBcI
- **2024**, Folamour - Boiler Room at Sugar Mountain, Melbourne. The French house producer plays Boiler Room's stage at Sugar Mountain in Melbourne, a set built on disco and soul samples in the Parisian filter-house tradition. It shows how completely the French reading of house had been absorbed into the global festival circuit by the mid-2020s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ab95d4e5-9de9-4289-a687-e1595f18541f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC5EOU0vZjw
- **2024**, Honey Dijon - Mixmag live set, Barcelona. Honey Dijon closing the Barcelona leg of a European tour filmed by Mixmag, a full house set from one of the genre's few genuine crossover stars. It shows the vocal, disco-rooted end of her playing rather than the harder Berlin material. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6ac49ae0-0db9-4022-8dfd-72b16e9d1a3f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l35ok-7n2IU
- **2024**, Marco Carola b2b Jamie Jones - KEEZY, Düsseldorf. Nearly four hours back to back between Marco Carola and Jamie Jones as the Kiesgrube open-air party moves to its new KEEZY site in Düsseldorf. The pairing is the Ibiza tech-house axis of the 2010s transplanted to a German gravel pit, and the running time shows how that style is built, slowly, on loops, over hours. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b1c5e1ec-a83d-4f0d-b471-2b50d5514eb0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qx0Reo4ztY
- **2024**, House Music: A Cultural Revolution. WTTW's Chicago Stories documentary on how house was made in the early 1980s by mostly Black, largely gay Chicagoans in rooms that existed because they were not welcome elsewhere. It traces the line from those closed doors to the festival stages that now headline the music worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d0fd515a-785a-4bc3-ab75-dc138f02814f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05hgPwaJFUc
- **2024**, Major League DJz and Distruction Boyz - Balcony Mix, Durban July. An hour of the Balcony Mix series recorded at Durban July, with the Distruction Boyz bringing gqom into an amapiano set. The series is South Africa's answer to the streamed-set format, and this edition shows the two Durban and Gauteng strains sharing a stage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2dcaf814-c5dd-4f43-aba4-2d228a92098c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJEMfR6MNZk
- **2024**, DJ Fresh - live band deep house set, EnoSoul birthday. DJ Fresh playing a deep house set with a live band at EnoSoul's twelfth annual birthday celebration, a fixture of the Gauteng house calendar. The billing around it - Vinny Da Vinci, Oskido, Christos, Ganyani - is effectively a roll call of the people who built the South African scene. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f329fcd1-bf43-4278-9298-de46f3bad1a8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuzmL3v87Zg
- **2024-07-11**, Armand Van Helden - Boiler Room: Miami. Armand Van Helden, whose 1990s New York remixes and filter-house records pushed house back into the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, playing in Miami thirty years on. The set is a working demonstration of the New York house canon he helped write. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7adaf218-e6b2-4586-a16c-34c496d10ec6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VflpW-6ezIQ
- **2024-07-12**, A short history of the TR-909 in sixteen songs. A pattern-by-pattern breakdown of the Roland TR-909, the 1983 machine that gave house and techno their kick and open hat, programmed live against the records that used it. Kept as a gear demonstration rather than a countdown: it shows what was actually played into the box. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ac0ee9ca-f789-4b8e-9265-4891de3cf4fa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06HcP6FnPZw
- **2024-07-31**, The Evolution of Ibiza. A feature-length documentary tracing Ibiza from hippy island to the world's dominant clubbing destination, and asking whether the commercial machine has cost it the thing that made it matter. It is the Balearic story told from the inside, by the people who run and play the island's rooms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/dfbc9b82-8e99-41cf-be82-6eeac0f36415) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEYb2uitPZA
- **2024-08-04**, Ron Trent at Dekmantel Ten, 4 August 2024. Ron Trent's set on the closing day of Dekmantel's tenth-anniversary festival in Amsterdam. Trent made 'Altered States' as a Chicago teenager and has spent thirty years pushing house toward live instrumentation and jazz, which is what a Dekmantel booking is for. Streamed and archived by the festival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6284cb24-c03d-4eca-9903-3c9af5dacd81) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d42GSJTBec
- **2024-08-24**, Mr JazziQ & Vigro Deep - Groove Cartel amapiano mix. Mr JazziQ and Vigro Deep back to back for Groove Cartel, two producers from different corners of amapiano reunited on one deck. Their split styles - JazziQ's harder bacardi lean against Vigro Deep's melodic side - are audible against each other. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/46bdf1c0-b15b-421c-a4ff-316253cd179c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjojnC9gxg4
- **2024-09-05**, Nightmares On Wax at Nectar Lounge, Seattle. A full ninety-minute DJ set at a small Seattle club, filmed by an audience member in 4K with an external recorder. Fan documentation like this is now a large part of the live record for touring DJs, and it captures a room size that the official channels almost never film. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/7d2c9e67-90cb-4c0e-8028-55608ce2911b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDCwxEmhoJQ
- **2024-10-07**, Cassius on three decades of the French touch. Boombass of Cassius interviewed about the arc of French house, from the mid-1990s Paris studios through the global success of the French touch to the present. A first-hand account from inside the scene that took Chicago's filtered disco and sent it back out. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2d2616e8-05a9-4403-831a-4204af8b3122) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zod_dvf-l8U
- **2024-11-06**, Vinny Da Vinci - South African deep house set for Defected. Vinny Da Vinci, co-founder of House Afrika and one of the people who first pressed and sold house records in South Africa, recording a set for Defected. A veteran of the Johannesburg scene inside the biggest British house institution, playing SA records on their terms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f51c1353-7bf6-490c-8825-cb3807599998) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzZzusxJcSI
- **2024-11-08**, Oskido reflects on thirty years of democracy. Part of SABC's Democracy 30 strand: Oskido sets his own career against the three decades since 1994 and announces his Big Day Out festival. It places kwaito and South African house where they belong, as the popular music of the post-apartheid era rather than a subculture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/6b60dd09-5252-4f93-ba69-dc654e6f14b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5zNtNlClnY
- **2024-11-11**, The Story of the TR-909. A short documentary on how Roland's TR-909 was designed, sold badly, and then became the backbone of house and techno. It traces the machine from its 1983 release through its discontinuation and resurrection on secondhand racks. The gear layer matters because the sound of house is inseparable from the boxes that made it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0f0b3e56-3396-415d-ba3b-e8452b3094da) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK8VezMRBmM
- **2024-11-14**, House Music Royalty: The Story of King Street Sounds. A full documentary on King Street Sounds, the New York label that carried soulful and vocal house through the 1990s and 2000s, made for the label's relaunch. It is a label history told from the business side: A&R, catalogue and the economics of keeping an independent house label alive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e00464f1-cccc-4049-9fb4-e7b20099309d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geY8hW8FTxw
- **2024-12-03**, A Short History of the TB-303 in Twelve Records. A history of the Roland TB-303 told through the records that defined its use, with the actual patterns played back on the machine. Roland built it as a bass accompaniment for guitarists and discontinued it as a failure in 1984; Chicago producers found it secondhand and made acid out of it. The playback of real patterns is what earns this a place over a talking-head explainer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8cbfb44c-491b-49ff-ad09-ee32ba7629ef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf2-WLK3gPA
- **2024-12-28**, DJ Christos at The Loft, Cape Town. DJ Christos playing The Loft in Cape Town at the end of 2024, introduced by the venue as the godfather of the local house scene. A long deep house set from a DJ who has been working since the early 1990s, filmed in full. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/79d92599-6840-4043-9c27-8472aafd9f65) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BT-yhQNKbI
### 2025
- **2025-01-31**, Free Party: A Folk History - trailer. The trailer for a feature documentary on Castlemorton Common, the 20,000-40,000-strong illegal festival of 22-29 May 1992 that provoked the Criminal Justice Act. It carries period footage of the largest free party Britain ever saw, an event the archive otherwise has almost nothing on. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/cb9e6976-6bb3-4fa0-ab64-9fa86507f695) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGy_lDDqO9E
- **2025-03-23**, David Morales on making Needin' U. Morales tells the story of 'Needin' U', the loop-built record that became an Ibiza anthem, and traces the line back to DJing at the Paradise Garage and remixing Whitney Houston in his twenties. A first-hand account of how a club record becomes an island's signature. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1c236683-da0c-429c-aff6-8ff921dfb703) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w15aguHPbVM
- **2025-04-17**, Chip E. on inventing the Chicago house record. Chip E. traces his path from sneaking into mid-1970s disco matinees as a child to working the bins at Importes Etc. the store whose 'house music' section may have named the genre, and on to 'Time to Jack' and the Jack Trax EP. He is one of the handful of people with a genuine claim to defining the form on record in 1985. A first-hand account from inside the argument about who made house first. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a9e47c93-3944-49a7-b2df-3f741625f742) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qDRa0ims54
- **2025-04-18**, Black Coffee live at Pirenopolis, Brazil. Black Coffee headlining the first Black Coffee Experience in the mountains of Goias, filmed as a full two-and-a-half-hour set. Evidence of how far South African house now travels under its own brand rather than as a guest slot. The current festival circuit as it actually looks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8a5e0363-7804-44ba-966b-9aebc6eca04d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_NZKKVfb8k
- **2025-04-30**, Theo Parrish on house music, Chicago and his legacy. Theo Parrish, raised in Chicago and long based in Detroit, on how brutally competitive the Chicago scene was, how he found his own sound, and what it took to stop protecting his ego. One of the most considered interviews with a DJ who treats the form as a discipline. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3980706f-1508-4028-a234-1bdf0f1bf2e7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz7Nik_egpM
- **2025-05-01**, Open-air party in the Nuthepark. An open-air electronic party in the Nuthepark in Potsdam on 1 May 2025. Four decades on from Chicago, a park, a rig and a public holiday is still the cheapest way to hold a dance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8ee47db1-3a8a-4bdb-b37f-309d28e523db) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elektro-Party_im_Potsdamer_Nuthe-Park_(2025).jpg
- **2025-05-12**, Honey Dijon on Chicago, the Grammys and Beyoncé. Honey Dijon over lunch in Manchester on discovering house at Chicago school dances and ending up with Grammy credits and work on Beyoncé's Renaissance. A good marker of how far the current revival has carried people who were there at the start. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/06796fe6-6a2c-424e-9af4-046fd0daf454) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UEGxBA_s6M
- **2025-05-25**, Riva Starr - Movement Detroit, 25 May 2025. Riva Starr's house set from Movement in Detroit, recorded on the festival's middle day. Starr is a house producer and label owner rather than a techno DJ, and the set is a good example of how house is programmed at a festival built on Detroit techno. Released by the artist as a full unedited recording. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a1f7f450-fe0f-47a4-9c83-705a4d09102e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-da_SpOylE
- **2025-05-25**, Alex Party at Durham Pride. The Italian house project Alex Party, whose mid-1990s singles carried Italo house onto British dancefloors, performing at Durham Pride in 2025. Italy's piano-house studios were one of the first places outside America to answer Chicago. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/bbb91f99-6025-449a-9525-4ce0dd6fcc9c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alex_Party_(1).jpg
- **2025-06-01**, Pedro Winter on thirty years of the French touch. The founder of Ed Banger and former Daft Punk manager on Daft Punk, Justice, Cassius and DJ Mehdi, and on how a Paris label economy grew around the music. It covers the business side of French house as much as the records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c1f01cdb-7696-4a1f-88a5-4a491eb296aa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwqYj_oG8BA
- **2025-06-06**, DJ Lag - Woza (feat. Sykes & Sir Trill). A late-period DJ Lag single that folds amapiano vocalists Sir Trill and Sykes into a gqom frame. It is evidence of the two South African house strains converging rather than competing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4708cc52-5055-4a81-942f-4ce435ee62e5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jdj-9KnOTk
- **2025-06-14**, The crowd at A-Town House Music Fest. The A-Town House Music Fest seen from the side of the PIAZZA stage in Aurora, Illinois. A free suburban street festival built entirely on Chicago house is a fair picture of where the music sits now. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/21c0cf5e-07ae-4963-9b51-64e9b0a640ef) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A-Town_House_Music_Fest_2025_Overview.jpg
- **2025-06-14**, Julian Jumpin Perez at A-Town. Julian "Jumpin" Perez, a fixture of Chicago house radio, DJing the A-Town House Music Fest. The festival programmes the city's veteran selectors rather than touring headliners. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2fa6746a-8672-4f0c-85cf-31bd9de0c585) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Julian_"Jumpin"_Perez.jpg
- **2025-06-14**, Mickey Mixin Oliver behind the decks. Mickey "Mixin" Oliver playing the A-Town House Music Fest in Aurora, Illinois. He was part of the Chicago radio mix crews that made house a local mass medium before it was an export. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/75cbca0b-daa5-4c45-b3c8-925ef8238164) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mickey_"Mixin"_Oliver_in_June_2025.jpg
- **2025-06-14**, Mike Hitman Wilson on stage in Aurora. Mike "Hitman" Wilson, one of the Chicago radio DJs who carried house onto daytime airwaves in the 1980s, playing the A-Town House Music Fest in Aurora, Illinois. Forty years on, the originators still work the same circuit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8edea76d-990d-4cae-9390-3d17ca1d4214) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mike_"Hitman"_Wilson_in_June_2025.jpg
- **2025-06-14**, Bad Boy Bill in 2025. Bad Boy Bill, who came up through Chicago's mix-tape and radio culture, at the A-Town House Music Fest. He is among the few Chicago DJs of that generation with an unbroken touring career. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f5b3dc05-3e01-4d76-9f53-f254c2e9d82a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Boy_Bill_in_June_2025.jpg
- **2025**, Fred again.. green room set, Rome. A set played in a venue's green room after a Rome show, with people invited back from the crowd, two speakers and no stage. It documents the small-room habit that runs alongside the arena tour, and the community the artist keeps building the records out of. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4cef875d-9294-49f5-af26-f6807f1037ac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_N5JQYHJXk
- **2025**, Fred again.. rooftop set, Fede's Roof, Naples. Another one-take rooftop set, this time in Naples, played to a few dozen people the night after a show. Kept alongside the London and Rome sets because each is a distinct performance in a different city rather than a re-upload of the same one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fb0d2bc3-8d7b-4e46-b2c4-e97ff9a4f0f8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yfyPeAEV3A
- **2025**, Dennis Ferrer with HoneyLuv - Defected Croatia 2025. A main-stage festival set from Defected's Croatia weekender, with HoneyLuv and Nasser Baker joining Dennis Ferrer. Ferrer came up in the New York/New Jersey deep and vocal house tradition and here works it for a festival crowd. It shows what the commercial end of the house circuit sounds like now. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/8a0a5d7b-0945-4263-8609-a5648ecd8619) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEMfEGGsE8I
- **2025**, Iglesias b2b Neverdogs - Off Sónar, Barcelona 2025. A hybrid live and DJ back-to-back at Barcelona's Off Sónar programme, Iglesias playing live hardware while Neverdogs work four CDJs. It captures the tech-house end of the contemporary European circuit and how live and DJ performance are now mixed on one stage. Filmed as a full set rather than a highlight reel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c3a75ef3-039e-4324-b1a6-e0778ffa6c49) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEwWbBzg8-A
- **2025**, Ron Trent - soulful deep house set, Los Angeles. Ron Trent playing deep and soulful house for the Stardust series in Los Angeles. A Chicago-raised producer who has been recording since the late 1980s, Trent is one of the clearest links between the city's first records and the current deep house circuit. Filmed as a complete set. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e045a191-e79d-425f-ad6f-9fa21d36f418) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gybzoxboK4
- **2025**, Marshall Jefferson - Love to be Festival, The Stray, Harrogate. An hour from Marshall Jefferson at the Love to be festival on The Stray in Harrogate, recorded from the desk by the promoters. The northern English club circuit has booked Chicago's originators continuously since the late 1980s, and this is what that long relationship looks like now, a founder on a main stage in a Yorkshire park. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4f1c89e3-a2e5-4999-868a-0487fe581966) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYWtZ7tYNFc
- **2025**, Roy Davis Jr. - house set at Mad Radio Miami, Wynwood. Nearly two and a half hours from Roy Davis Jr. in Mad Radio's booth in Wynwood, Miami. Small online radio stations have taken over the role that pirate and college radio used to play for this music, and they are one of the few places a Chicago originator still plays an unbroken two-hour selection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/0faf81e3-7e6d-45ab-8807-0e4fe52ac76e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk5GrX9vMQc
- **2025**, Etienne de Crecy b2b Cassius b2b DJ Falcon at Le Trabendo. Three of the surviving figures of the French touch playing back to back to back at ARTE Mix in Paris. Nearly three hours of the filter-house lineage handled by the people who invented it, thirty years on. A rare document of the style still being played live. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1c5cbd70-500b-4333-9f97-0d5c6a2216b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtuhqFFI150
- **2025**, Louie Vega - soulful classic house set, Los Angeles. Louie Vega playing classic soulful house for the Stardust series in Los Angeles. It shows the Nuyorican Soul and Masters At Work end of his catalogue in a club rather than festival setting. A straightforward, well-filmed record of a founding New York DJ still working. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9614b086-431e-4f4d-a3dc-964682a3aa09) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJPYB1Wy1_8
- **2025**, Joe Claussell b2b Ron Trent - Kappa FuturFestival, Turin. Two deep house lifers back to back on the KOSMO stage in Turin. Joe Claussell's Body & Soul parties carried the Paradise Garage's spiritual, percussive, gospel-inflected reading of house through 1990s New York, and Ron Trent brings the Chicago side of the same conversation. Seeing the New York garage lineage played by someone who was actually in those rooms is rare on video. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b29e5324-0e95-45d8-b10c-6d890bd84441) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7yQJA6Reyg
- **2025**, DJ Cleo with Stimela - Go On (Living Your Life), live. DJ Cleo, one of kwaito's most prolific producers, appearing on bass with Stimela for a live performance of 'Go On'. Kwaito is house slowed to about 110bpm, not hip-hop, and moments like this show how close its producers stayed to the older South African band tradition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/228e7571-1202-4304-a59a-44bb114fabc3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vTWDgZrYpA
- **2025**, Vigro Deep - amapiano DJ set, US debut in New York. Vigro Deep's first US show, billed by the promoter as the first amapiano headline set in its series. American bookings of South African house on their own terms, rather than as a guest feature, are recent enough to be worth marking. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/65298fe0-3835-4fa0-973b-24a46c1aa1ec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WBMg2rk0oM
- **2025**, Vigro Deep b2b Kwamzy - secret stage, Rocking the Daisies. Vigro Deep back to back with UK DJ Kwamzy on a secret stage at Rocking the Daisies, over 100 minutes long. The South Africa-UK pairing is the same two-way traffic that carried house between Chicago, New York and London forty years earlier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/78e460af-7154-4fa1-a023-11742dddc17e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWVdu_yblGE
- **2025**, Black Coffee - Mayan Warrior, Burning Man. Black Coffee's first Burning Man, playing a three-and-a-half hour set from the Mayan Warrior art car on the playa. It is a full document of where the Afro-house sound sits in the current festival economy, a long way from the Johannesburg clubs where he started. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d48fd2f8-f184-4562-b4b2-8cdc42051e58) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7lIOv1s3Q
- **2025**, DJ Lag - gqom DJ set, Amsterdam Dance Event. A 46-minute gqom set from Durban's DJ Lag at an Amsterdam Dance Event showcase, the genre's most exported artist playing to a European club-industry crowd. It documents gqom's arrival in the same rooms that book house from everywhere else. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/decbfa3b-e190-4180-a318-76e66953d57f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sjmQA8zxDM
- **2025**, DJ Lag live at Ultra South Africa, Johannesburg. An hour of DJ Lag on The Groove Room stage at Ultra South Africa, the festival's dedicated amapiano and Afrotech stage. It places gqom on the country's largest commercial electronic bill rather than in a specialist room. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e5f44ab9-7d66-44cd-ab2e-c3aae4839bd5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwYF7TUdrPU
- **2025-06-16**, Seth Troxler - Circoloco terrace set, DC-10 Ibiza. Two hours from Seth Troxler on the DC-10 terrace, recorded in June 2025 and released by Circoloco. Troxler is one of the American DJs who carried the Detroit and Chicago inheritance back into Ibiza's booths. A plain document of the current Monday party. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b52289b5-6f17-4cee-9f5f-b9f23744e156) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E59xecdOaKk
- **2025-07-14**, Alex P and Brandon Block on the Space terrace. The two DJs most associated with Space's morning terrace sessions explain how the room, and their double act, actually came about. Interviewed in 2025 about a 1990s residency, so the memories are retrospective. One of the few first-hand accounts of the terrace as a working gig. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b899c0c1-643e-4524-a442-2f89f5cf570e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cgi-0dD_o8
- **2025-07-18**, BLACKCLUB - Boiler Room: Chicago. A new-school Chicago selector on the same Boiler Room takeover that featured DJ Pierre, showing what the city's house scene sounds like in the 2020s. It is useful evidence against the idea that Chicago house is only a historical subject. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/1461d23b-236e-49a6-9180-636e9ecf4b5f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlgie10GE2U
- **2025-07-18**, DJ Pierre - Boiler Room: Chicago. DJ Pierre of Phuture, one of the three teenagers who found the acid sound in a second-hand TB-303, playing in Chicago nearly forty years later. Boiler Room's Chicago takeover deliberately paired him with new-school local artists, which makes this a rare filmed link between the men who made 'Acid Tracks' and the city's current DJs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/afc1b675-7cf7-4ae6-a1b8-38ed679bc7c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsR7kVgxFLs
- **2025-07-27**, Kabza De Small: amapiano DJ set in New York. The producer most responsible for amapiano's sound playing a full solo set in New York, filmed in July 2025. It documents the moment the genre stopped being an export and started being a circuit of its own. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9fb4de24-df3e-4b5b-afe4-1bd6402913dd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VoX7hMNTsQ
- **2025-07-30**, Sbu 'Malawyer' Nthsangase on kwaito's beginnings. A long conversation with a kwaito pioneer who met Arthur Mafokate at Blue Street Studios in the late 1980s, a room run by the engineer Julia Mabika. It reaches back before kwaito had a name, to the studios where imported house records were being remade for South African dancefloors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4477e4c5-2511-4165-8637-a8ca2d606c7f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAFpTYycTQ8
- **2025-07-31**, The Blessed Madonna - Lollapalooza, Chicago. A full festival hour from The Blessed Madonna at Lollapalooza in Chicago, house played on a rock festival's main circuit, in the city that invented it. It is a useful marker of how completely dance music has been absorbed into the general American festival bill in the 2020s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/58a49a5c-c9f5-4c81-b515-a90c42d9e564) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAAEWGIfzns
- **2025-08-13**, Robert Owens on a life in house music. A long conversation with Robert Owens, the voice on 'Can You Feel It', 'Tears' and 'Bring Down the Walls', recorded from his adopted home in Berlin. He covers Chicago, the Fingers Inc years with Larry Heard, and the long argument over what the originators were actually paid. The most complete Owens interview in this batch. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3b66fac7-befa-4682-bb34-2172968d1318) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be7647Fsd_A
- **2025-08-24**, Roger Linn and the sampled drum machine. The story of the Los Angeles guitarist whose LM-1 and LinnDrum put real recorded drums inside a programmable box, the other half of the drum machine story that runs alongside Roland's synthetic boxes. Linn took part in the film himself, which makes it first-hand rather than a compilation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/99e35647-1bd6-4deb-acc4-9c00b8e834d1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTek99yM6TA
- **2025-08-29**, The Scorpion Kings story - Kabza de Small and DJ Maphorisa. A short documentary on the duo who carried amapiano from Gauteng file-sharing networks to global streaming. Amapiano is kwaito's descendant and house's grandchild - it arrives at roughly the same walking tempo South African dance music has returned to for twenty-five years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/80d4b575-d514-4ab6-8efb-1b29ade3619a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT8iOVwaRSs
- **2025-10-05**, Nicky Siano disco set for Book Club Radio, New York. Nicky Siano, who opened the Gallery in 1972 and taught Larry Levan and Frankie Knuckles to DJ, playing an eighty-minute disco set in New York in 2025. The oldest link in this chain, still working a floor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4b1282e6-c5b6-47cf-b1de-bd1f6b8d3598) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gosLkBIGwzQ
- **2025-10-05**, Marshall Jefferson - Book Club Radio Festival: The Circus. Marshall Jefferson closes the first Book Club Radio festival from inside a circus ring, playing a classic Chicago set to a crowd raised on the platform's livestreams. It is a clear picture of how the founders now reach a younger audience: through a YouTube-native party brand rather than radio or a label. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d8aeaedb-b635-4a94-8743-28f610854064) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GIF0eUnzaA
- **2025-10-09**, DJ Maphorisa, Xduppy and Benzoo - studio session. Half an hour inside an amapiano session as a track is built. It is the modern equivalent of a gear demonstration: log drums, keys and vocal takes assembled in the room, showing how the sound is actually made rather than described. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/bac45204-7a5a-4d4f-a4b7-a50a82ded251) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_6TChtlt0
- **2025-10-16**, Josiah De Disciple live at Disciple Sundays. A long set from Josiah De Disciple's own Disciple Sundays party. Resident-night footage shows how the music works over hours rather than as a festival highlight reel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/158a4a97-4174-4934-9847-3f872f71198f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s85yjzzoeuI
- **2025-11-18**, DJ Lag - Southside Mixtape. A full-length mixtape of DJ Lag's own productions with a published tracklist, released on his own channel. It works as a snapshot of where Durban's sound sat in 2025, with collaborators from across South African dance music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/04b40dab-53d5-4453-8d49-08e134341d7e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whvF4nSLH30
- **2025-12-23**, DJ Lag & Zee Nxumalo - NgyaSindelwa (feat. K.C Driller). The lead cut from the Southside Mixtape, issued separately with a video. Zee Nxumalo's vocal pulls the track toward pop while the drums stay firmly gqom. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/21cb5a9f-4347-4973-b950-a3a5d3c166f2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmdvWry-9QI
- **2025-12-30**, Screamin' Rachael on Trax Records - Rhythm Republic Radio. A two-hour radio interview with Rachael Cain, the singer who became Trax Records' owner and the label's public voice. She works through the Chicago catalogue the label was built on and its long afterlife as a reissue business. The host opens with his own story of hearing house for the first time in a Tenerife club. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9f453f36-528b-45d4-a0eb-54c422c7cf6e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJKp3pBYnIo
### 2026
- **2026-01-14**, A playable 808 at SMEM. A TR-808 on display in the Playroom of the Swiss Museum and Centre for Electronic Music Instruments in January 2026. Keeping the machines out where people can reach them is a different argument about what they are than a vitrine makes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b68c0723-f568-4133-9b83-78db0d1d47ad) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roland_TR-808_Drum_Machine_at_SMEM_Playroom_07.jpg
- **2026-02-24**, Todd Terry on Brooklyn, hip-hop roots and house. A long conversation with Todd Terry about growing up in New York, coming up through hip-hop, and the moment house reached him. The clickbait title undersells a substantial oral history from one of the architects of the New York sound. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e6fa3c9a-c5b9-46a4-b249-6317b1db2284) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-1AHMPj8xo
- **2026-02-27**, Fred again.. and Thomas Bangalter, Alexandra Palace, 27 February 2026. The USB002 show at Alexandra Palace, with Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk on stage - the most direct public link in years between French house and the current British generation. The performance date is in the title, and the full set was posted by the artist afterwards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e66c2982-3bfd-427e-8ed5-4fa035bf6b59) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfF8jzBVWvM
- **2026-03-25**, Nick Curly - live from Defected HQ. A studio set by Nick Curly filmed at Defected's own headquarters and released alongside a label single. Defected has been the main commercial gatekeeper for house since the late 1990s, and its in-house broadcasts are how the label now sells records that once moved through specialist shops. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/87ae278b-907e-46a4-a302-f73780c2fcd2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpBWHG0nfr8
- **2026-04-01**, Paul Oakenfold on Ibiza, acid house and remixing U2. A long interview with Oakenfold about his first Ibiza residency, the Balearic sound he brought back to London, and the club nights that became the second summer of love. He is a primary witness, though his account should be heard against the fact that the 1987 trip's date, roster and birthday framing are contested folklore. It also covers his later work as a remixer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5c9d104e-c1cd-4829-9991-c1a81ef1792e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJxssWVEySY
- **2026-04-19**, AYYBO b2b Green Velvet - Yuma Tent, Coachella. A back-to-back in Coachella's Yuma tent, the dedicated house room that has become the festival's most reliable link to the genre's Chicago source. Green Velvet, thirty years into his career, plays alongside an artist half his age to a crowd that arrived through streaming rather than through record shops. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/77748f62-7776-4e31-80c2-a41b32401be9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4xNI8JSMDU
- **2026-04-21**, The NTS Guide to French Touch. A two-hour curated guide to the French house wave from the mid-90s to the early 2000s, assembled by NTS with an argument attached: these producers were openly indebted to Chicago house. Useful as a map of the records rather than as a period document. Dated to its own publication. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/20c10d1b-21d4-4cb9-afd9-2084f805dbbe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWH6sOCtd2A
- **2026-04-23**, Xplosion: inside South Africa's underground taxi raves. A reported documentary on the taxi-sound-system rave culture that grew out of apartheid-era influx-control laws, where Black drivers built an illegal transport network and then a party culture on top of it. A rare piece of journalism on a scene almost nothing else has filmed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ae9f7d3d-72c2-47f5-816e-ba187255d853) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmmxa4Z6Y7k
- **2026-05-01**, Derrick Carter - 6 Mix, BBC Radio 6 Music. Derrick Carter's guest hour for Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC Radio 6 Music's 6 Mix. National radio remains one of the few places a Chicago DJ reaches an audience that did not come looking for house, and Carter uses the hour the way he uses a club: hard, funny and heavily edited on the fly. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/ed119a3b-aad0-4eb6-950a-a46a045d0124) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO5J83luuek
- **2026-05-10**, Zanele 'Nestum' Nyakale on kwaito's roots. An hour-long episode of the Kwaito is Not Dead series in which Nestum recounts where the genre began and what Arthur Mafokate's involvement meant for her own career. Women's accounts of kwaito's formation are scarce, which makes this one worth keeping in full. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/de43cbc2-af49-4a09-a1a1-bb6e7093e68e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-uaRh94f4w
- **2026-05-13**, How acid house raves took over Britain in the late 1980s. ITN cuts its own late-1980s news archive into a single account of how acid house moved from small clubs to warehouses, aircraft hangars and the M25 orbital parties. The reporters' contemporaneous framing survives intact, which is the value of it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/81eda83a-2aff-495e-a0a3-3cc2f804afc6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ2GJ3VWheY
- **2026-05-15**, Lori Branch and Vitigrrl on House Music Chicago Testimony. DJ and historian Lori Branch, who was in the Chicago rooms from the start, talks about the oral-history project in which she sits down with the people who actually built the genre. Branch is one of the few women given the microphone in house's origin story, and the project's premise is that the founders should tell it themselves before they are gone. A public-radio conversation about how the record gets kept. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/fdf22c50-77e3-42f4-b776-52be6f7613ce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xz5qt_zbjo
- **2026-05-21**, Oskido pays homage to M'du Masilela. Oskido, co-founder of Kalawa Jazmee, salutes M'du Masilela, the producer most often called the godfather of kwaito. Masilela is the source of the testimony this archive files kwaito by: 'When house music got popular, people from the ghetto called it Kwaito.' Kwaito is house at a walking tempo, not hip-hop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/992c4cdb-64e0-4cbb-b5e6-24255c9b97f1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1uRWnDeSU
- **2026-06-11**, Rossi. - Boiler Room London. A London set from Rossi., one of the names carrying the minimal and tech-house end of the current UK scene. It is a snapshot of what a Boiler Room booking in the capital sounds like now, three decades on from the warehouse parties that made the format possible. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/19b9b967-1dd9-40cc-8561-46f9d465463c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrTjyNLJIkI
- **2026-06-11**, Akai MPC60, the sampler that changed the workflow. The most thorough of the MPC histories the scout returned: origins, Roger Linn's design, the sampling workflow and the swing that gave the machine its feel. The MPC60 arrived in 1988 and put sampling and sequencing in one box, which is how the sample-built side of house, the disco loop, the stolen string stab, became something one person could do alone in a bedroom. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/70dfd15b-ddc6-4d8f-bcaa-87dcc0a29c60) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx9uu-5rHx0
- **2026**, DJ Phaphane: Amapiano to the World, Paris. A South African DJ playing a filmed amapiano set in Paris, mixing it with three-step, gqom and afrobeats. Amapiano is house's South African descendant by way of kwaito, which the people who made it described plainly as house slowed down for the townships, whatever the reference works file it under; sets like this are how that lineage travelled back into European clubs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/f04960f2-ec01-4ff5-ac40-6e4ea76e4eba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1sU1F6dZNk
- **2026**, Carl Cox DJ set, We Belong Here, Brooklyn. A festival set from Carl Cox, who came up through the UK acid house and rave circuit of the late 1980s and has stayed on the circuit for nearly forty years. Kept as a document of what the surviving first-generation figures play now, and of the festival economy that absorbed the warehouse party. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/5c5a4c2c-5b87-4f85-a386-09fa40736020) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqZJUN1273A
- **2026**, Louie Vega live in Atlanta. Louie Vega playing a deep and vocal house set in Atlanta, filmed in full. Vega, half of Masters At Work and a Bronx-raised Puerto Rican DJ, is one of the few people still carrying the New York vocal tradition into current rooms. The set is built around songs and singers rather than tracks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/800d6b57-0689-4a3d-ba92-81d2f6c9f9c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ6LQn7Aqr8
- **2026**, DJ Lag - gqom DJ set live in Paris. An 82-minute DJ Lag set recorded in Paris, the longest continuous gqom document in this batch. Sets of this length show the genre as a functioning club music rather than a handful of exportable singles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/26ec2aa5-11b1-4749-8d09-a4fee58593fd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLDe7FdRq8M
- **2026**, DJ Fresh - deep and soulful house set at UltraMog. A long DJ Fresh set recorded at UltraMog's riverside event, showing the deep and soulful strain that South African crowds have kept in rotation while the rest of the world cycled through EDM and amapiano. A working record of the current SA club circuit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/591b2e6f-1270-4df4-97f4-5e8ce1b33b9e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5feH9Smo5ng
- **2026**, DJ Christos live at Rands, Cape Town. A long DJ Christos set filmed at Rands in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, a township venue that became one of the city's most important dance floors. The room is a reminder that South African house has always been played primarily in the townships, not in the tourist clubs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/b83e67af-61b9-4fb8-b89b-2efcd2ea1cb6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RuBI9hjAho
- **2026**, Vigro Deep - amapiano DJ set, DESCENDANTS New York return. Vigro Deep's return to the DESCENDANTS series in New York, close to 80 minutes of amapiano for a US crowd. He was one of the youngest producers in the genre's first wave and is now one of its most established touring names. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e2b1c886-b62f-4d72-94d4-5af542756f3f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM3p5q2i8gk
- **2026**, Vinny Da Vinci - sunset set, Somnyama Sunsets 013. Vinny Da Vinci playing a sunset set at Somnyama Sunsets, recorded at Tiger's Milk Waterfall Walk. Thirty years into the South African house scene, its founding DJs are still the headline acts, which is not true of most house scenes elsewhere. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e87274cc-76ef-4365-b6c0-3704498fb0c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRRWE51J3JM
- **2026-06-18**, Franky Rizardo at Music On, Destino, Ibiza, 18 June 2026. A filmed set from the Music On residency at Destino, part of the Ibiza season that has been the island's export industry since the 1987 trip that carried Balearic records back to London. Shot on the terrace in daylight, it shows the present-day commercial form of the thing Alfredo started at Amnesia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/d108ec0c-35e3-487d-a123-c34544e185e9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_JUBJ673mU
- **2026-06-29**, Rossi. - Circoloco terrace closing set, DC-10 Ibiza. A full terrace closing set from Circoloco's Monday at DC-10, the party that kept a raw, stripped-back house sound on the island while the superclubs went big. Released by the promoter within weeks of the night. This is what Ibiza's house circuit sounds like now. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/727f53db-aab1-4e8b-bac8-80c4d96b3deb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uqlS_etCXo
- **2026-07-01**, Arthur Mafokate on creating kwaito. The artist widely called the king of kwaito describes making the genre, three decades on from its first records. Mafokate's own framing - that this was dance music built for and by township audiences - is the counter-testimony to every reference work that files kwaito as South African hip-hop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3bb2bfe7-dcc2-4803-ade9-936f076397cd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Nsdk3cyY8
- **2026-07-09**, Goldmax - Boiler Room: Durban. Goldmax plays gqom in the city that invented it. Gqom is the Durban mutation of South African house, the same lineage that produced kwaito and amapiano, built on Zulu rhythm rather than imported four-to-the-floor. It is one of the clearest cases of house being remade completely outside the cities that started it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/2cc7230f-2bed-43f1-b251-d84cfdcd8c98) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XX1977QSok
- **2026-07-09**, DJKnator b2b K.C Driller - Boiler Room Durban. Boiler Room going to Durban itself rather than booking Durban artists abroad, with two of the scene's younger producers back to back. The accompanying text traces gqom to Zulu traditions and South Africa's longer electronic lineage, which is the correct genealogy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/9df155e6-f8ca-480c-9f1d-66da5480bc04) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_tWKZp5XuE
- **2026-07-16**, Ultra Naté - Movin' To The Sun (with HUGEL). Ultra Naté, the Baltimore vocalist whose 1997 anthem "Free" is one of house's permanent records, singing a new one thirty years on with French producer HUGEL. It is a clean measure of how the vocal house lineage still works commercially in the 2020s: a founding-era voice on a contemporary festival production. The performance clip is the record's own release material. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c281cdda-da1f-42a6-b9c6-6d84face36cf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ7yyX4Qic4
- **2026-07-19**, Soul'd Out Series at The Playground with Kabza De Small. An episode of a South African filmed-session series, recorded at The Playground with Kabza De Small on the decks. It shows amapiano as a live, room-based music at home rather than as a festival export. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/39f95014-613e-4cc5-930c-334affefa951) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwf2YZz-wEU
- **2026-07-23**, Vinny Da Vinci - Vinyl Thursdays at Fire & Ice, Menlyn. A recording of Vinny Da Vinci's vinyl residency night in Menlyn, Pretoria. A weekly all-vinyl house night run by a founder of the scene is a direct continuation of how house was played before digital, and the residency format itself comes from the Warehouse and the Paradise Garage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/e0978e78-bb6c-4e69-96dd-4f6876bcf65e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rM1TMhWfoA
- **2026-07-28**, Giles Smith on Larry Heard, the alpha and omega of deep house. A listening session and talk at 180 Studios devoted to Larry Heard, the Chicago producer who as Mr Fingers effectively invented deep house from 1985 onwards. Smith plays the records through a high-end system and argues for Heard as the genre's most complete musician rather than one more pioneer name. A close reading of the catalogue rather than a biography. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/c894446e-e3bf-446d-b912-4940085dd520) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=631fmDWN33o
- **2026-08-01**, For The Culture: I Am... An Amapiano Story. SABC's announcement of a South African documentary series on amapiano, premiering on SABC1. Public-broadcaster treatment of the genre as a cultural movement rather than a passing chart trend. The most recent point on this archive's South African line. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/4402c12f-4d42-4a8e-ad92-6f15bde9f013) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP17pjCN4FA
- **2026-08-03**, Vinny da Vinci and Glenzito, South African house pioneers. Two of the DJs who built South African house on radio and on the decks meet on camera. South Africa took house and made it a national popular music through kwaito and later amapiano, both of them house by lineage and by the testimony of the people who made them, whatever the reference books file them under. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/a48e77e9-d355-4ab8-817f-6ed68826dc94) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6UWono7X5c
- **2026-08-06**, Roland Juno-106 - the analogue pad sound. A no-talking demonstration of an original Roland Juno-106, running through the warm pads, strings and basses that ran under a great deal of late-eighties house. The Juno family is the counterweight to the drum machines in this archive: Larry Heard built "Can You Feel It" on a Juno bassline over a TR-909, and that pairing is most of the deep house template. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/house-music/scene/3ee4c49b-ab7c-4739-8094-8b710050ddc5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyj74WHwrf0

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