Welcome to On The Record

On The Record is Abusia Radio’s dedicated editorial space — a soulful archive of house music stories, legacies, and voices that deserve to be heard. Here, the beats never fade and the culture never stops evolving.

This is more than a blog. It’s a living collection of reflections, interviews, essays, and tributes — all centered around the people, places, and moments that built house music from the ground up. If you’re searching for the stories behind the sound, you’re in the right place.

What You’ll Find Here

🎧 Abusia Backtrack
A chapter-based series that retraces the steps of house music’s evolution — featuring influential clubs, game-changing DJs, and powerful cultural shifts. From Paradise Garage to Zanzibar, from Larry Levan to the dancers who filled the floor, this is where we honor what came before us.

✨ The Spotlights
Focused features on the DJs, producers, dancers, and organizers shaping the soul of today’s scene. Whether you’re learning about pioneers or meeting fresh voices, this series shines a light on the people making a difference in house music culture.

📡 Other Frequencies
This is our experimental zone. Think interviews, critical essays, op-eds, and cultural explorations that don’t quite fit into a single beat. These pieces bring context, history, and humanity to the music we love. Sometimes it’s academic. Sometimes it’s personal. But it’s always real.

Why We Created On The Record

Abusia Radio plays music for your soul — but we also believe in preserving the soul of the music. Too often, the house music stories that shaped the genre go untold, undocumented, or disappear with time.

On The Record is our answer to that. It’s how we make sure dancers, DJs, producers, and promoters — especially Black, LGBTQ+, and underground voices — get the recognition and documentation they deserve.

This project is a love letter to our community. To everyone who ever lost themselves on a dance floor, who pressed a record to wax, who built a system from scratch, or who kept the party going against all odds — these pages are for you.