True House Stories interview podcast hosted by Lenny Fontana – Details, episodes & analysis

TRUE HOUSE STORIES® W/ MARK KNIGHT (TOOLROOM) # 137 INTERVIEWED BY LENNY FONTANA

Mark Knight from Toolroom Records sits and shares his story from the beginning of his musical career. The international DJ Producer Remixer worked his way up from the construction business into his present position with the help of other producers in the beginning.  He shares some of his secrets on what drives him to the level of success he has achieved. He has two huge loves music andsoccer and it does not stop there. A true family man through and through. This is an episode not to be missed.

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TRUE HOUSE STORIES® W/ ANDY VAN & JOHN COURSE (VICIOUS MUSIC) # 136 INTERVIEWED BY LENNY FONTANA
True House Stories brings you 30 Plus Years of Vicious Music and the direct impact the Vicious collective has made upon club music culture, not only in Australia, but all across the globe. Andy Van and Jon Coarse both being world class DJ’s have a huge passion for the music.

The label with its impressive 30-year history and its artist’s releases having reached the peak of global music charts, and in the record boxes of legendary DJs and been played across radio stations globally, from Australia’s JJJ to the UK’s mighty Radio One. In the process, some artists have become house-hold names such as Avicii conquering the world with his EDM sound, but most of all, the label’s releases have proved how an Australian label has made the world dance for over 30 years!

TRUE HOUSE STORIES® W/ LEROY GOMEZ (SANTA ESMERALDA) # 127 INTERVIEWED BY LENNY FONTANA
Santa Esmeralda is a French-American disco group formed in the 1970s. The group had hits with its remake of the 1960s hits "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" and "House of the Rising Sun". Santa Esmeralda featured original lead singer Leroy Gómez in 1977-1978 and singer Jimmy Goings from late 1978 until 1983. Gómez rejoined the group in the 1990s.

The band was formed in 1977 by French producers Nicolas Skorsky and Jean Manuel de Scarano, singer-songwriters who launched a label with the aim of producing artists who would record their compositions. Upon meeting singer Leroy Gómez in Paris, the duo recruited him for the group's first record, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", which debuted on the independent French label, Fauves Puma. A sudden success in Europe, the record was picked up for worldwide distribution by Casablanca Records and the rest is history. Leroy will come on True House Stories and share it all. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ © 2020-2024 True House Stories ® is a registered tradmark by LCS Productions INC. – All rights reserved. 

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ JENS LISSAT # 068 - PART 1
Jens Lissat explains his young life as a child in Hamburg Germany. His mom was a DJ who played at a afternoon tea dance with one Gramophone.
His older sister has a huge influence on him and since she was seven years older she was already up on the new sounds of disco.
She was bringing home new music that he was listening to and Jens personally was more into Glam Rock.
His sister takes him to a new club and he sees an American DJ for the first time from New York at the Trinity Club.
He has to find out what exactly the DJ was doing with the slip cueing and all.
This sets him on his journey to learn how to beat match and make his way into becoming a resident DJ. Listen to him explain it all in detail.

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TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ JENS LISSAT # 068 - PART 2
Jens Lissat in this part talks about his life in the music business. He picks it up from Disco and how he works his way into getting different residencies in other cities in Germany.
He also self learns editing with the cassette pause button. The next phase of his life will be “The Megamix”.
His first professional job comes from WEA and they ask him to work on Phil Collins with three of his songs to make a Jens Lissat Megamix.
This is when he meets his first studio partner and learns the principals of the music business. Here he now begins to work on productions of which a few go to the main charts.
He decides to take another turn in the early 1990s and start producing techno. His fame grows and grows.
Jens eventually meets his last production partner Voltax and until 2006 they work together on joint projects. There is so much inside this legendary DJ watch his whole story it is interesting and captivating.

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TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ RON CARROLL # 067 - PART 1
Ron Carroll joins us on True House Stories for a special tell all no holds bar deep interview.
He is a true Chicago native and a huge contributor to the house music scene. His humble beginnings start with school dances and throwing house basement parties.
He even creates a house basement party that becomes huge in the South Side of Chicago where he was inviting guests DJ's such as Lil Louis and Gene Hunt. Ron was destined from day one for success and you will learn how he makes it become his destiny.

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TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ RON CARROLL # 067 - PART 2
Ron Carroll’s DJ Career in the late 1980s is cut short and you can hear why in this part of the interview.
The Poster Wars Begin and Ron is blackballed from being able to promote or DJ at any parties in Chicago. Because he is shut out this now forces him to find another way to earn money in the music business. He discovers music production as his saving grace.
In the productions world he hooks up with Ed Matthews and they together start to write songs. In the early 1990’s he ventures out to take a trip to Miami to go to the Winter Music Conference and meets NYC DJ Louie Vega.
He asks Louie if he can write lyrics for any upcoming projects and Louie gives him the new demo music for the upcoming single with Barbara Tucker. In this part also Ron talks deeply about battling depression and trying to find himself in the years that follow after he has his first initial commercial success.
As with all great life stories there is a happy and sad moments and you can listen to him talk about one of his biggest records that he wrote and sang on back in 1999 with the group Funkstar from France. This interview is deep and real.

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TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ DARRYL PAYNE # 066 - PART 1
Darryl Payne with his six decades of music tells it all right from his start in 1976 and helps tell a story how he battled the beast of the music industry.
A true David and Goliath story in the real life.
He began his career working for the discos in New York as a promoter and with his experience as a drummer he started to go into the studio and create demos in the beginning of the disco era.
Come listen to him lift the hood and tell it all.

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TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ DARRYL PAYNE # 066 - PART 2
Darryl Payne pound for pound one of the best dance producers to come out of New York City.
He gives the inside scoop to what it takes to make it. He dealt with it all the biggest powers in the music business and dealing with the mafia and all.
The story is a life lesson.
He still doing it today making new songs and pushing his streaming service.
He is a true legend and that is why he is the staying power.

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TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ PEDRO MONDESIR # 065 - PART 1
Pedro Mondesir the promoter behind the successful brands of Garage 416 and Break 4 Love shares with his life before being a club promoter.
His humble beginnings are influenced by his older brothers and his parents music selection.
In the late 1980s he is invited to a few parties and the life long career would begin because of the first moments of experience clubland and loving it.

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