Pontchartrain
For the last 12 years, the way that Detroit-based DJ Pontchartrain has approached music, is centered around two things - learning and sharing. The result has been an interesting change up from the status quo of what comes out of the motor city. What started off as a project for edits and DJ tools has turned into a rediscovery of the roots of dance music. This shift in the last few years has pushed him into the new opportunities with some of the greatest labels in disco and house realm, and interesting achievements across the globe.
After joining up as A&R for the prolific label Whiskey Disco and its house subsidiary Lovedancing, his scouting of new talent has widened his musical scope even more, and his DJ style and productions have continued to advance. In addition to curating these two outlets, in the past few years alone he has released on well over a dozen labels, including Kolour LTD, Rocksteady Disco, Delusions of Grandeur, Toy-Tonics, Soul-Clap Records, Masterworks Music, Razor-N-Tape and many more. Output has been nothing short of consistent, hitting #1 chart positions on established outlets such as Juno, several times, in multiple genres.
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When it comes to performances, Pontchartrain believes in the overarching goal of community. From the time he brought the Detroit Children’s Choir on stage with him at Movement Festival to sing along, to the bold invocations of poetry and messages of love, the dancefloor is a place for everyone to come as they are, and enjoy the people they are with, centered around the ancient idea of the communal dance.
Like many of the great Detroit artists he looks up to, there’s a humble blue collar aspect to his background as well. Pontch still works as a social worker directly with drug addicts getting back on their feet right here in the motor city. He volunteers with groups such as Give A Beat, LRNG, Girls Rock Detroit, local public libraries, and is now a volunteer and teacher at Spin Inc music production school. Music is truly a way of life, part of the greater idea of lifting each other up. His actions, sounds, and personality encompass this idea.
For booking inquiries, e-mail: dustin@pontchartrain.us
Listen: SoundCloud.com/pontchartrain Like: Facebook.com/pontchartrainmusic
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Records out on Kolour Recordings, Delusions Of Grandeur, Razor-N-Tape, Toy Tonics, Rocksteady Disco, Whiskey Disco and Basics Recording. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
2025
- Fri 6 Jun 2025Jolene Sound Room Brooklynfirst time · Interlude
2024 — 2 nights
- Fri 26 Apr 2024Eavesdroptheir 6th night
- Fri 22 Mar 2024Eavesdroptheir 5th night
2023 — 6 nights
- Thu 21 Dec 2023Eavesdroptheir 4th night
- Thu 16 Nov 2023Eavesdroptheir 3rd night
- Sat 28 Oct 2023Moxy Williamsburgfirst time · Hot Honey Sundays, Jolene Brooklyn
- Fri 27 Oct 2023House of Yesfirst time
- Wed 18 Oct 2023Eavesdroptheir 2nd night
- Thu 21 Sep 2023Eavesdropfirst time
Their rooms
One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2023, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.
- Eavesdropwas a standing night · Sep 2023 – Apr 20246 nights
Once each: Jolene Sound Room Brooklyn, Moxy Williamsburg and House of Yes.
Who they play with
Four nights on the books, and no name on more than one of them.
- Fri 27 Oct 2023Heidi Lawden · Miss Alicia
- Sat 28 Oct 2023Deo'jorge · Anna Collecta · Justin Strauss · Will Buck
- Thu 16 Nov 2023The Silver Rider
- Fri 6 Jun 2025JKriv · Visen
Nine people have stood on one of these bills; none has stood on two.
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