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4 articles on House Cartel from Loopliner, the English-language voice of Asian electronic music: news, releases, club nights and festival coverage across Southeast Asia and beyond.
4 articles
Lil Louis, House Music's Founding Father, Plays His First Jakarta Show on October 10
Lil Louis slowed 'French Kiss' down to a near dead stop and the BBC banned it anyway. The track still hit number two in the UK. On October 10, house music's founding father plays Jakarta for the first time, headlining Le Cirque's first anniversary in SCBD.
House Cartel Jakarta Gives Sunmantra's Jonathan Pardede a Solo Live Debut as Ugomo
Jonathan Pardede has spent a decade behind a wall of hardware as one third of Sunmantra. On October 2 at Le Cirque, House Cartel gives him the room alone, under a new name.
The Rise of Indonesian House Music: From Jakarta's Underground to Bali's Booths
A British label put Bali on a house compilation in 2010. The scene it captured was actually built in Jakarta, by a DJ crew that spent a decade playing to rooms nobody outside Indonesia was watching.
Jakarta's House Cartel Turn Their Decade-Old DJ Crew Into a Record Label
House Cartel spent over a decade as outsiders fighting Jakarta's big room dominance from the DJ booth. Now the collective has quietly turned itself into a label, House Cartel Records, two EPs deep and counting.