Top Hat Culture is now on Instagram!

We're not sheep, but we like to connect - so we decided to join Instagram. Follow us as we document the way of the hat, from all things music to taking over the world, right here.

Our recently launched website is also improving by the day, with big features about to be implemented.

From our humble beginnings of loving underground house music, to sound hire, to DJ'ing to hosting events in Johannesburg, South Africa to breaking out on the Internet. This is Top Hat Culture, and this is our journey.

For any information please leave a comment or email us at info@tophatculture.com and we will get back to you.

It's the hat!

THC DJ mix feature - Top Hat Culture #022 EDM Sessions by DJ Santafeparadox (Genre: Deep)

We like it that deep is back, don't you? There's a lot of debate going around about what should be classified as deep house and what shouldn't. Our very own resident says screw genre debates and let's make it about the music, and quite frankly... We agree! Fresh off the press as always, we present to you Deep Not House!

As always our links:

www.facebook.com/tophatculture
www.facebook.com/santafeparadox
www.youtube.com/user/tophatculture
www.mixcloud.com/santafeparadox
www.soundcloud.com/santafeparadox

Much love to all those who love music, 
Top Hat Culture Crew  

DJ mix Showcase - Santafeparadox (Genre: Various)

Nice and tidy don't you think? Over 5 hours of pure musical bliss from our very own resident DJ Santafeparadox. Ranging from Trap to Deep House to Dirty Dutch but with a melodic musical consistency throughout, there's something here for everybody. Listen, share and enjoy. Please feel free to share your thoughts!

 As always our links:

www.facebook.com/tophatculture
www.facebook.com/santafeparadox
www.youtube.com/user/tophatculture
www.mixcloud.com/santafeparadox
www.soundcloud.com/santafeparadox

Much love to all those who love music, 

Top Hat Culture Crew  

THC's Song of the Day #5 Genre: Deep House

Might even have heard this one on the radio (don't tell) but it would be completely wrong not to share it with you. Today's song of the day is deep, real deep. Beautiful smooth classical female vocals sprinkled with amazing piano in between. It does not get better than this!

Nora en Pure - Come with me

Enjoy!

As always our links for more of all things music:

www.facebook.com/tophatculture
www.facebook.com/santafeparadox (My personal DJ page)
www.youtube.com/user/tophatculture
www.mixcloud.com/santafeparadox
www.soundcloud.com/santafeparadox

Much love to all those who love music,
Santafeparadox ( Top Hat Culture crew )

THC's Song of the Day #4 Genre: Electro

Well can you believe it!

Today's song of the day is a real banger, beautifully cut vocals paired with some vibey electronic undercurrents definitely makes this one to listen to.

Better yet, the producer of this fine track actually contacted Top Hat Culture, and during the next few weeks THC will be conducting it's very first interview with this awesome artist.

His name is George Seals AKA PrettyBoyBeats and hails all the way from Miami in the US of A. So watch this space!

If you would like to follow PrettyBoyBeats check out his Soundcloud page:

www.soundcloud.com/prettyboybeats

Enjoy!

As always our links for more of all things music:

www.facebook.com/tophatculture
www.facebook.com/santafeparadox (My personal DJ page)
www.youtube.com/user/tophatculture
www.mixcloud.com/santafeparadox
www.soundcloud.com/santafeparadox

Much love to all those who love music,
Santafeparadox ( Top Hat Culture crew )

THC's South African guest DJ Feature #1 - Mikey Laing (Deep House)

Well make that another series then, because showcasing local talent and good music is of utmost importance to us at Top Hat Culture.

To kick us off...

Mikey Laing - 6 feet deeper mix (Deep House)

Followed by a short clip of Mikey performing live at Top Hat Culture #3!

A little bit about Mikey Laing from the man himself:

"I first found a love for music at a very young age, always borrowing my parents old records to listen to in the quiet of my own room.

This passion for music blossomed in high school when I took music as a subject.

Learning to play the drums, classical guitar and a little piano improved my ability to read & write music, as well as identify sounds and keys in various pieces of music without having to read the musical notes.

After experimenting with many types of sounds I eventually fell in love with House music, in particular the deeper sounds of House.

During my first year at University I developed an interest in mixing music and electronic music production, which ultimately fueled my desire to pursue DJ'ing as an interest.

Having a fairly sound music background (theory and practical) enables me to be versatile in terms of mixing as well as experimenting with various sounds in different environments.

I am part owner of a small production company called Energy Productions.

www.energy-productions.co.za

Both myself and my business partner, DJ Welkin are very versatile and frequently take various genres of music to different dance floor environments.

@ryan-welkin-hudson

I have featured on 2 internet radio stations namely TwinFX Radio as well as Sensations Radio.FM which both broadcast internationally on a weekly basis.

www.facebook.com/TwinFXSA?fref=ts

www.facebook.com/SensationsRadio.FM?fref=ts

I have featured at various night clubs and underground events alongside the following reputable international and local artists:

Mark Knight (UK)
Sarah Main (Ibiza)
Anne Savage (UK)
Justin Time (UK)
Protoculture
Coco Loco
Dakin Auret
Quintin Christian (UK)
Trickski (GER)

Mi-Casa
Shadow Club (CPT)
Pimp Squad (Guy Herman & Jon S)
Ian Skene (CPT)
T-Factor (CPT)
James Damian
Iain Mcullum
Green Junior
Psy Andy
Alistair Lundall
Will Vandal
Kingpin
Bhashkar
Cruzen
Tarantism
Ron Rowley
Chef
Funky B
Welkin
Spin Doctor 

For booking please email me through Soundcloud, Facebook or my Energy-Productions website:

www.facebook.com/mikey.laing1

For the love of house music !"


Listen while the upload is still there, share and enjoy!

As always our links for more of all things music:

www.facebook.com/tophatculture
www.facebook.com/santafeparadox (My personal DJ page)
www.youtube.com/user/tophatculture
www.mixcloud.com/santafeparadox
www.soundcloud.com/santafeparadox

Much love to all those who love music,
Santafeparadox ( Top Hat Culture crew )

THC's Song of the day #2 Genre: Deep House

This is deep, really deep. This one goes out to all my mates in a chilled little place called Durban!

Urulu - Sincerely 1991 EP Sampler



As always our links for more of all things music:

www.facebook.com/tophatculture
www.facebook.com/santafeparadox (My personal DJ page)
www.youtube.com/user/tophatculture
www.mixcloud.com/santafeparadox
www.soundcloud.com/santafeparadox
Twitter - @Santafeparadox

Much love to all those who love music,
Santafeparadox ( Top Hat Culture crew )

THC's resident DJ mix #deep house by SFP

It is a holiday in most western countries all over the world today, so keeping with the chilled theme of the day I present to you a mix by our very own DJ Santafeparadox. As far as Soundcloud goes this mix has definitely been the favourite by far so give it a listen, strictly deep house only.

Enjoy!





As always our links for more of all things music:

Twitter: @Santafepardox
www.facebook.com/tophatculture
www.facebook.com/santafeparadox (My personal DJ page)
www.youtube.com/user/tophatculture
www.mixcloud.com/santafeparadox
www.soundcloud.com/santafeparadox

Much love to all those who love music,
Santafeparadox ( Top Hat Culture crew )

THC's Social Media Domination Tip #2

Been browsing the web finding out a few more ways on how to boost traffic to your blog or website. See the links below and see what it is all about, by adding your blog to their web directory. Hope this helps! Once again will post an update if anyone is interested in the results.


Add your blog to the On Top List blog directory here.

As always our links for more of all things music:

www.facebook.com/tophatculture
www.facebook.com/santafeparadox (My personal DJ page)
www.youtube.com/user/tophatculture
www.mixcloud.com/santafeparadox
www.soundcloud.com/santafeparadox

Much love to all those who love music,
Santafeparadox ( Top Hat Culture crew )

THC's song of the day #1 Genre: Electro

And this brings us to our third and final series, a little bit of musical fun with Song of the Day! If the genre is up your alley, I oath that the song will most definitely be too. So go check it out!

To start us off:

Will sparks - Chemical energy
https://soundcloud.com/willsparks/will-sparks-ft-flea-chemical

And as a little note to all past, present and future posts. If the link no longer works, you were too late!

What a banger, enjoy!

As always our links for more of all things music:

www.facebook.com/tophatculture
www.facebook.com/santafeparadox (My personal DJ page)
www.youtube.com/user/tophatculture
www.mixcloud.com/santafeparadox
www.soundcloud.com/santafeparadox

Much love to all those who love music,
Santafeparadox ( Top Hat Culture crew )

THC's Social Media Domination Tip #1

And here we start yet another series for all those looking to build a public presence on the web. Whether you're a DJ like myself, or anyone else requiring a following from scratch this should definitely help you out.

Sooo...

Supposedly if www.technorati.com (one of the world's largest online blog directories) sees this code in my blog, it will be verified as my own and I will have new exciting chances to increase viewership to my blog:

9HTN87HKQ2TC

Definitely worth checking out if you've started your own blog, looking to earn those hard to get first views.Will definitely post an update on this somewhere in the future if anyone is interested in hearing about the results :)

As always, much love to all those who love music,
Santafeparadox ( Top Hat Culture crew )

THC's DJ Weapon #1

Trying something new, so this marks the kickoff of a new series that you (and me) as a DJ can use to make our lives more awesome in general. Whether it be a tip, song you can use or some plain old advice this will be your weekly source of information. Things I am finding out myself on the journey of being a DJ, I fully believe that you can never stop learning!

Today we start off with a song, let's face it the way your mind works and the way your average listener thinks does not collaborate well. At all. Therefore whether you like it or not, if you're just starting out...

YOU MUST PLAY AT LEAST SOME COMMERCIAL MUSIC!

I know, I bloody well hate it but you have to. People like to know what they hear. And a nice way of doing this is finding a remix of a popular song. Or an underground beat with a mainstream artist performing on it, which you are way less likely to find. But be careful, make sure that it's even better than the original and is something special. There are millions of remixes, but the good ones are very rare.

So this leads us to our first song:

Some Moombathon I was lucky enough to stumble upon today, always nice as a DJ to find mainstream artists with some banger remixes going on... To keep himself, and the crowd happy :D

I present to you...

Justin Timberlake vs Snoop Lion - NoStrawberryAllowed (Bee Bootleg)

https://soundcloud.com/ladybeemusic/tustin-jimberlake-vs-lnoop

Check it out! Free download too!

As always our links for more of all things music:

www.facebook.com/tophatculture
www.facebook.com/santafeparadox (My personal DJ page)
www.youtube.com/user/tophatculture
www.mixcloud.com/santafeparadox
www.soundcloud.com/santafeparadox

Much love to all those who love music,
Santafeparadox ( Top Hat Culture crew )