Portuguese Sound Database: White Haus

Bio:

João Vieira's career as a dj started 15 years ago in East London, promoting club kitten (weekly) for 3 years with a couple of dj friends. Back to his hometown (Porto, Portugal) in 2001, his career took off as a dj, selling out 2000 people capacity venues in Porto, and revolutionizing the club night by mixing punk records with disco, suicide, add n to x and 80's electro. In less than 3 years he played all the major festivals, which led to a 5 year residence at Lux club in Lisbon. João has shared the dj booth with names like 2 many djs, Boys noize, Sebastian, Felix da housecat, Rory Phillips and others. In the past 10 years he released 4 albums with his band x-wife, where he sings, plays guitar and co-writes all the music. His band was praised by James Murphy from lcd soundsystem.

In 2013 he releases the "White Haus ep" :his first work as a music producer, writing, performing and producing all the music (he even used his skills as a graphic designer to do all the artwork)."White haus" is a mix of genres, heavily influenced by the New York leftfield disco, the West coast ‘80s electro and no wave. João is currently working on a full length "White Haus" LP to be released by the end of this year.