Hosted & Edited by Chen Yinn
Recorded live at Waiting Room 16.07.08
Mixed by Ponchartrain
Ponchartrain
The underground music community is known for pushing limits, setting trends, and influencing people and art far beyond its initial reach. Detroit native and resident Pontchartrain has been fortunate enough to realize this and use it in developing his project from a unique vantage point, resulting in one of the most wide-ranging, yet refined sounds in the new generation of underground DJs. At a glance it’s no mystery that the music and style of the past form the basis for his eclectic sets.
But it’s how they are pieced together that makes his sound stand out. Pontchartrain takes the greatest things about all forms of independent and underground dance music across the past four decades and combines them together with the meticulous attention to detail of someone who not only loves the craft, but loves learning, researching, and doing it right. His sets are a collection of sounds that pushed boundaries throughout the years, and presented in a way that makes new audiences discover them for the first time, and old audiences rediscover them in brand new ways.
For about 10 years, Pontchartrain simply prided himself in his ability to learn and perfect, but in the last two years alone, his sets and productions have been catapulted by the recent rise in the resurgence of vinyl and a refocused attention directed at classic dance music. In addition to serving as A&R for the powerhouse edits label, Whiskey Disco, Pontchartrain has releases on Kolour Ltd, Editorial, Masterworks Music, Hot Digits and more.
Recently, he and Whiskey Disco boss, Sleazy McQueen’s newly formed label Lovedancing, earned him much acclamation with his initial Burnin’ EP, which has already been repressed. He is currently taking bookings worldwide and regularly tours North and South America, with plans for an Asian and European tour starting in early 2016.
Booking: [email protected]
Web: www.pontchartrain.us
Facebook: facebook.com/pontchartrainmusic
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/pontchartrain
Booking: [email protected]
Web: www.pontchartrain.us
Facebook: facebook.com/pontchartrainmusic
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/pontchartrain
