House Purist
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The name house ‘House Purist’ is by no means an elitist thing or a form of snobbery. It refers to the fact that I spent countless hours studying and immersing myself in the genre. In the words of Terry Hunter ‘You have to study the greats to be great’. House Purist aka Arths is a South East London native. He was introduced to music from a young age, with his mother being a music junkie with a love for 80's and 90's RnB/soul. As he entered his early teens, garage and grime took over the radio airwaves which allowed him to diversify his music taste further. Then came the 'funky/soulful house era' of the late noughties which brought all of the aforementioned genres together into what he describes at the time as 'musical heaven', crediting the likes of Dennis Ferrrer, Crazy Cousins, Karizma, Black Coffee, Atjazz and DJ spen. Arths became obsessed with house from there and became the go to guy for music amongst his friendship group. In 2013 he decided to begin his journey on exploring the origins of house and how to differentiate between 'pure house' and the commercial rubbish, starting his first vinyl later that year. Fast forwarding to the present day Arths has refined his taste with a collection spanning throughout numerous sub genres of house, as well as Disco, Rnb, Funk and Soul. His biggest influences musically are Glenn Underground and Larry Heard, who he claims are the godfathers of 'refined' House music. He has numerous DJing influences but his favorite is Marcellus Pittman, just for how well he balances song choice, mixing and crowd interaction. He is a regular DJ at Goods Way, Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes and Brixton Radio Live to name a few.
Music style
Minimal House