Saying Good Bye to Robert N. Griffith
Robert N. Griffith was a beautiful soul who was lost suddenly. He was very well know in the House Music Community and had many, many friends... He will be Missed
BLACK COFFEE WINS BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUM AT GRAMMYS
South African producer Black Coffee won his first award at the GRAMMY Awards’ 64th annual celebration over the weekend. The event marked the first in which the producer was nominated or selected as a winner for this award, which fell under the dance/electronic album category for his 2021-released album ‘Subconsciously’. The 12-tracker went up against other LPs such [...]
Opolopo Talks About New Album Opolopo Tweaks On Local Talk, Jean-Luc Ponty, Soulphiction and Musical Inspirations
Like what you hear? To help support LV Online buy us a coffee via Ko-FI. Click HERE An Interview with the Insider for Le Visiteur Local Talk are soon to release a seriously hot compilation with tracks from their vaults given a revamp by studio wizard Opolopo. He’s an artist who we love here at [...]
Twitch Warns Creators After Receiving 1,000 DMCA Claims From Record Labels
Another wave of copyright-related bans could be on the way. Twitch's copyright problem won't go away. In an email shared by esports consultant Rod Breslau, the company warns that it recently received a batch of approximately 1,000 individual DMCA takedown notices. All of the claims involve archived broadcasts, with most featuring streamers listening to music [...]
deadmau5 Launches New House Music Label, hau5trap (EDMTUNES)
deadmau5 Launches New House Music Label, hau5trap By Husam Alzgheibi March 1, 2021 Besides already having created a household name through his mau5trap imprint, deadmau5 is launching a brand new label that’s focused on house music: hau5trap. We’re already familiar with the mark mau5trap has made by providing a platform for a plethora of heavyweight names. Just [...]
House music producer dies of COVID a month before expected birth of son he always wanted
Matthew ‘Turk’ Agostini, 50, of Logan Square, and his partner Jessica Tapper already had the name picked out for their son-to-be: Matteo. He’ll have his father’s nose. By Mark Brown@MarkBrownCST Dec 4, 2020, 6:20pm CST Matthew “Turk” Agostini playing guitar with his 3-year-old daughter Violet. Provided Chicago house music producer Matthew Agostini’s first son is due to [...]
Amazon’s New Sylvester Mini-Documentary
https://youtu.be/o3q-cKZX2Og "When I saw Sylvester, my life was altered, my life was changed for the better," Porter attested. "As a Black queer gay man, any glimmer of seeing oneself reflected back at them, through our culture, changes lives." “He crossed over, he was a genderfluid Black man in mainstream music. That hasn’t happened since. There’s been [...]
Buying Your First Drum Machine (Drum Machine Basics)
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Shaya!
Exclusive: This Documentary Takes You Inside Amapiano, South Africa's Popular House Music Subgenre A new documentary titled 'SHAYA!' unpacks the incumbent subgenre. Sponsored content from Corona. SHAYA!, a 26-minute documentary which we are premiering here, unpacks amapiano's origins and profiles some of the subgenre's key players such as Kabza De Small, JazziDisciples, MFR Souls, Mark Khoza and others. Amapiano, [...]
VF Mix 172: Larry Heard by Stump Valley
A personal take on the soulful house pioneer’s discography. Larry Heard aka Mr Fingers has helped shape house music over the last thirty five years. From penning the genre’s early anthems like ‘Can You Feel It?’ to releasing the first full-length house LP with Fingers Inc., Heard had a formative influence on the music’s [...]
