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What happens when you stop chasing the young crowd and start making music for the audience everyone else ignores? Host Olivia Mancuso sits down with Party Pupils — the producer behind the Yacht House sound, newly signed to UTA and selling out rooms for the first time in a career that started back in 2001.

He's candid about the stretch where it wasn't working: time off the road, tickets that wouldn't sell, and getting bitter about social media instead of learning how it works. What turned it around was narrowing the scope — knowing exactly who his audience is, building a page people come to hang out on rather than be sold to, and finally getting years of unreleased work out into the world.

They also get into how sample clearing actually happens now, why labels want a ready-made package, and how to handle the hate that arrives with real reach. It's a grounded conversation about staying independent, aging in dance music, and defining success on your own terms.

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0:00 Introduction
1:45 Sponsor – Trackstack
2:32 Raised On Funk And Disco
3:58 Will Young Listeners Know The Originals?
4:41 He Stopped Chasing The Trends
5:12 The Miss Jackson Cover
6:02 Producer First, DJ Second
6:34 The Year He Stopped Touring
7:12 Everyone Is On These Platforms Now
7:44 The Audience Nobody Markets To
8:41 Why Older Fans Get Overlooked
9:58 It's Never Too Late
10:47 Stop Competing On Trends
11:24 Know Exactly Who Your Fan Is
12:30 The Cool Kids Club
13:06 Pick A Niche — With A Caveat
14:29 Coining "Yacht House"
15:58 Expect People To Think, Expect To Fail
16:56 Your Page Should Be A Place
17:59 Artists Who Treat Profiles Like Ads
19:40 Plateauing? Do The Work
20:44 The Work He Wasn't Doing
21:24 Learning From Levity
22:05 Be Your Own Biggest Fan
23:08 Signing With United Talent
23:29 A Viral Moment Is Fleeting
24:45 Three To Five Remixes A Week
25:12 Staying Consistent On The Road
26:40 Burner Services And Paid Levers
28:51 Third-Party Validation
29:15 More Reach Means More Haters
30:25 The Comments He Gets
32:46 The Long Island Hothead
33:53 A Store On The Busiest Street
34:54 Delete And Block
35:37 How Sample Clearing Really Works
36:22 Wookie And The Bootleg Route
37:02 When A Rights Holder Says No
39:08 Catalogs Are Opening Up
40:27 The Easy-Clear Playlists
42:24 The Remix That Went Viral Without Him
44:36 Promote It Before It Has A Home
46:02 Labels Want The Ready-Made Package
46:25 It's Never Been Easier To Be Independent
47:27 The Algorithm Isn't Your Enemy
48:58 What He Still Wants To Accomplish
49:30 His First Sellouts, After 25 Years
50:46 If This Is It, I'm Good
51:46 Give Yourself A Break