True House Stories interview podcast hosted by Lenny Fontana

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...

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 s...

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 cr...

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...

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...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ PEDRO MONDESIR # 065 - PART 2 In this episode Petro Mondesir explains the beginnings of creating the party. Pedro is the head of Hot Stepper Productions with his brother and partner Carlos. Pedro also DJ’s under the pseudonym Moreno. Hot Stepper Productions is one of Toronto's premier club event companies operating for over 20 years. Currently Hot Stepper organizes Toronto's...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ ERIC MARTIN (TECHNOTRONIC) # 064 - PART 1 Eric Martin one of the co-founders of Technotronic ( Pump Up The Jam ) shares with us in this episode what life in the UK was like in the 1980’s and 90’s. He speaks candid about surviving on the streets of London and his quest to make a better life for himself through music. He would spend countless early mornings talking to bouncers,...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ ERIC MARTIN (TECHNOTRONIC) # 064 - PART 2 Eric Martin in this part talks about the deep underground sound that lived on the streets. He shares what is work ethic was like with in the beginning of his career and the huge influences by DJ’s Femi Fem, Ion Irving, Matt White, Kenny Dope and Todd Terry . Technotronic changes pop music forever and from that fame Eric is then pigeon...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ FREDDY BASTONE # 063 - PART 1 Freddy Bastone in part 1 shares his beginning from playing a flying V Guitar and the true admiration of rock music and sharing the appreciation of all types music with his mom and dad. His DJ career begins back in 1979 with his first vinyl purchase of Herb Albert’s “Rise” and he begins to play at parties and the move to clubs starts to takes off...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ FREDDY BASTONE # 063 - PART 2 Danceteria legend DJ Freddy Bastone shares what the NYC Club life was like back in the 1980s. His work in the studio remixing during the day earns him the gold and platinum awards for his special Bastone remixes. Freddy also gets to work on one of the greatest bands of all time Queen and meets his hero Freddie Mercury . He talks candid about his...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ JAZZY M # 062 - PART 1 Jazzy M the DJ, Record Label Owner and Record Shop retailer shares his history from the beginning of hearing the neighborhood DJ at his local wine bar to making his way as a dancer on the floor. His next steps are making his way to working at the shop and making his way to pirate radio. He gained a huge following due to pirate radio and breaking all the...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ JAZZY M # 062 - PART 2 Jazzy M talks about his record shop called OHZone Records and the beginning days of his record label. He also shares the background story of Richie Rich "Salsa House" and the signing of Orbital "Chimes" to his label OhZone. Jazzy shares the background story of Ministry of Sound and him being a big part of the start of it all. He sets the record straight...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ TIM LAWRENCE # 061 - PART 1 Tim Lawrence the writer, DJ, professor and journalist sits with True House Stories and explains when his path crossed with house music and how he found the soundtrack that would change his life forever during The Summer of Love in 1988. The Hacienda was the first club he ventured too and loved the pulsating sounds coming from the speakers and from...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ TIM LAWRENCE # 061 - PART 2 Tim Lawrence lays out in this part how he begins to work towards writing his first official book “Love Saves The Day”. Listen to Tim explain how he has no real interest in writing a Disco Book, and since he wanted to write about electronic music, he had to find out what came before. In time he becomes good friends with the men who owned the record...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ DANNY TENAGLIA SPECIAL SHOW 006 Danny Tenaglia starts his beginnings in Williamsburg Brooklyn listening to Motown, Rock and Philly International sounds that was being played on the radio during that era. Born in the 1960’s and one of the younger of his siblings he lived through the musical changes of the1970s and music to him was everything. With his aunt inspiring him with h...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ NICK HALKES # 059 - PART 1 Nick Halkes, if anyone has the luck of the Irish or just making the right decisions, this man made his way from listening to disco music as a teen to becoming such an important part of the music industry. Listen to him explain how his phone call to WBLS changes it all. 👕OUR NEW MERCHANDISE SHOP: https://truehousestories.com/shop-merchandise/#!/

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ NICK HALKES # 059 - PART 2 Nick Halkes in this part explains his beginnings from visiting the Paradise Garage in 1987 to his internship at WBLS in New York under the program director BJ Kirkland. He learns the radio business as an intern and moves his way to his first job at Easy Street Records and all the way to Founding XL Recordings. His journey leads him to EMI’s Positiva...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ MOUSSE T. # 058 - PART 1 Mousse T. the super German Dance Music producer, talks about his beginnings in music from learning to play the organ as well to being inspired by Donna Summer and Giorgio Morder 's " I Feel Love " which was a totally new electronic sound in the late 1970's. Mousse T shares what family life was like growing up and his father dreams that he had planned...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ MOUSSE T. # 058 - PART 2 Mousse T forms a band with long time business partner from the UK Erroll Rennalls. As they have moderate success with Pop House Music, this is the beginning of them forming the label Peppermint Jam. As the label unfolds and Mousse T sound grows in popularity, he is summoned more and more to remix many A List Pop Stars such as Quincy Jones , Jovanotti...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ BOB BLANK # 057 - PART 1 Bob Blank , known as the producer, musician, engineer and owner of Blank Tapes Studios NYC, talks about his humble beginnings working his way up from being a full-fledged engineer working for other studio owners around New York City and as well-being a session guitarist. He is pushed into a situation where he needed to fill a void and decided to open...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ BOB BLANK # 057 - PART 2 Bob Blank is growing with the Salsa Community and now is being sort out as a hot engineer producer. As the disco explosion begins Dan Rather from 60 Minutes recorded a video clip at Bobs Studio Blank Tapes which becomes an important segment for CBS Television based around the excitement of Studio 54 and the Saturday Night Fever Explosion. At the time...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ KYM MAZELLE # 056 - PART 1 Kym Mazelle shares with the viewers on True House Stories her humble beginnings that start as a young girl from Gary, Indiana. The same place as Michael Jackson and the The Jackson 5 lived and started their careers as well. We find out that she grew up on the same street where Steeltown Records had the recording studio and rehearsal space. So, she...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ KYM MAZELLE # 056 - PART 2 Kym Mazelle thru all the internships at all different record labels and working in press and being an intern for Music Attorneys decides to set up her own label called Police Records. In 1987, she worked with record producer Marshall Jefferson on the single " Taste My Love ” which she funded and released on her label. The single takes off in the UK...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ DJ FELIPE ROSE [FORMER ORIGINAL NATIVE OF VILLAGE PEOPLE] # 055 - PART 1 Felipe Rose the native from the original Village People sits with us and shares his humble beginnings on how the music found him. His father is from the original Indian tribes of South Dakota and his mother is of Puerto Rican and Italian descent. With that mix caused fire and Felipe was born. His mother...

TRUE HOUSE STORIES™ W/ DJ FELIPE ROSE [FORMER ORIGINAL NATIVE OF VILLAGE PEOPLE] # 055 - PART 2 Felipe Rose comes to a real audition all in his full Native Gear and Jacques Morali at the moment decides that he will get other men to fit the roles to create the new group called The Village People . Well to the say the least the first group was a disaster and everyone was fired except Felipe and new...