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LP Giobbi and DJ Tennis Tour US in Airstream That Doubles as Mobile Studio

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LP Giobbi: Queen of Piano House

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United Kingdom

Bklava

LP Giobbi Captivates With Powerful New Single 'All In A Dream'

United States

Kaleena Zanders

LP Giobbi Curates Mix of The Week: DJ Tennis

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Get Ready for Another Bumping OCHO on Diplo's Revolution

On the Spot: LP Giobbi

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LP Giobbi, born Leah Chisholm hailing from Oregon, is a multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and producer known for her unique blend of piano house grooves and club beats.

Chisholm's journey started when she relentlessly begged her parents for piano lessons in the second grade. Considering her parents strong appreciation for music, it didn’t take long for them to cave and get her in front of Caroline, her piano teacher.

It was the start of a long road that would strengthen her understanding of music far deeper than most. She continued to pursue her passion by studying as a classical jazz major at UC Berkeley. As a talented multi-instrumentalist, she boasts a degree in Jazz Piano Performance from UC Berkeley and uses her improvisational training to incorporate live piano into her performances.

Despite being known as “the piano house queen,” the Austin-based producer didn’t discover electronic music until after college thanks to what she calls a “freak accident.” One day, when she was playing a solo jazz gig in a bar, audio engineer Peter Franco approached her. The industry veteran who worked on Daft Punk’s game-changing 

 album wanted to recruit her for an electronic girl band. That project didn’t pan out, but it did inspire her to DJ.

Forever And A Day

Soon after that, Chisholm DJed an afterparty for 

. The Grammy-nominated electronic duo invited her to join them on tour, and singer Sophie Hawley-Weld has been one of her biggest supporters since. This opportunity led her to with them on their artist initiative, Animal Talk.

Her “one-woman jam band” DJ sets blending CDJs with live piano have graced top festival stages like Coachella, EDC, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, Tomorrowland, Electric Forest, and Creamfields. She has supported iconic artists like 

 invited her out as support for his massive O2 Arena show in London, which was a landmark moment in her career.

All In A Dream

In 2019, she co-founded Femme House, a non-profit that organizes femme-centric Ableton workshops to teach new voices to express themselves through music. In 2022, Femme House teamed with major dance label Insomniac to release an 11-track compilation that put those voices into the world before getting them onstage during one of the biggest events of the year, 

In April 2023, The Grateful Dead, now Dead & Company, a band that holds a special place in her family's heart, asked her to join them for their last tour ever, where she will be hosting her own shows called Dead House After Parties, which she considers one of the biggest moments of her life.

LP Giobbi Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1

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LP Giobbi - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix by LP Giobbi

A month later, the long-awaited and highly anticipated full-length debut album, 

, was released on the highly respected label Ninja Tune. With a catalog of over 50 tracks released in the last two years, Giobbi has a rare ability to produce high quality music at an insane level .

In a short time, LP Giobbi has carved a unique niche in the house music community. She has earned over 102M streams across platforms, been nominated for the Breakthrough Producer in DJ Mag’s Best of North America Awards, and landed on the cover of Spotify's Best of Electronic Music 2022. Having been included in Spotify RADAR’s Artist to Watch, Amazon’s Artists to Watch and TIDAL's Artist to Watch 2023, she continues to make massive strides.

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Martin Ikin

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John Summit

Eden Ibiza

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Daizy

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Chile

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Türkiye

Carlita

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Skream

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Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

Gray Area is pioneering the "Doubleheader" event series, drawing inspiration from back-to-back baseball games to showcase artists with similar styles but unique fan bases. By having one artist follow another and culminating in a collaborative back-to-back (B2B) set, Doubleheader aims to create a powerful platform for musical discovery and cross-pollination. Embracing the "B2B" spirit, the initiative seeks to introduce audiences to new sounds while strengthening the dance music ecosystem.

Doubleheader

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Jax Jones

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Camden Cox

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BBC Radio 1 Dance Live

France

Dombresky

Will Clarke

HoneyLuv

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Kyle Walker

Cristoph

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MK Presents: Miami Music Week Pool Party 2022

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Gray Area's new venture, "Debut," aims to bridge the international house music community by bringing established and emerging artists to cities they've never performed in. This initiative seeks to expand artists' fan bases and provide fans with fresh, exhilarating musical experiences. Having played a role in introducing major artists and brands like elrow and Awakenings to new audiences in the past, Gray Area believes in the magic of first-time experiences. By promoting artists in new venues and cities, they hope to cultivate a thriving, unified house music ecosystem. Debut is not merely a marketing strategy but embodies Gray Area's commitment to fostering collaboration, unity, and musical discovery.

Debut

The Roof at Superior Ingredients

Debut: LP Giobbi

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Boys Noize

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Sidney Charles

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Woo York

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Mink

There are few in dance music who combine their musical past and present as effectively as LP Giobbi. The classically trained jazz pianist injects her multi-platform DJ sets with syncopated notes hinting at the roots of house music every time she lays a rhythmic keyboard improv over a looped 4/4 beat. She’s exuberant and charismatic as she twists and glides from piano to CDJs and back, never for a moment allowing the music to stop flowing through every inch of her body. She's harnessed an authentic activist mindset that reminds us of the mere act of getting out there on the dance floor, listening to a diva sing over a 4/4 beat with an acid-squelching baseline, that's fucking activism, man.

“The only time I feel completely present as a human—and that sounds so cheesy, but it's true—is when I'm on stage playing music. “ She explains this as she tries to rationalize the constant struggle of the modern musician. Doing hundreds of things that aren't making music and still finding time for music.

Mon Cheri - LP Giobbi Remix

“I'm not thinking about what I have to do on my to-do list. I'm just thinking about getting to connect with the people that I can see in the audience and see their joy. This is where I'm actually living my life.”

Giobbi was always indelibly connected to the stage. Her first big break as a performer came when Peter Franco, Daft Punk's studio engineer, discovered her playing jazz in San Francisco. To have those moments ripped away was devastating. On the eve of joining her best friends Sofi Tukker on their European tour in March of 2020, her manager told her that the next 52 weeks of shows are canceled and it was time to start streaming. She reluctantly took the show to Twitch.

Move Your Body

“I remember thinking standing on the other side of this tiny web camera is going to be pretty soul sucking, but I don't know what else to do.”

She realigned with the joy of performance as the community affectionately referred to as the Freak Fam coalesced around her and Sofi Tukker, who spent nearly every day of the pandemic on Twitch. She soon realized how liberating it was to be free of one-hour set times.

“It also allowed me to get a little bit weirder, like sort of see myself more as like a one-person jam band.” It's an important point to note for a woman raised by two Dead Heads. 

The world of dance music united across borders as fans from around the world hopped from stream to stream on Twitch. Giobbi was a huge part of that. “I've never felt more connected in a year where I thought I was not going to be connected at all.” 

With the increased visibility, Giobbi uncovered a larger platform for her 501(c)(3) Femme House, an artist collective and educational platform that is giving more visibility to women in music. 

, and GRAMMY-winning studio engineer Emily Lazar’s 

. With the support of music software giant Ableton, Giobbi’s organization gave 3,000 women around the world access to music production software and classes to get started.

It was an emotional moment to scroll through the massive Zoom chat for the first class and see greetings from Mexico, Canada, Australia, and Brazil. It’s remarkable to think how many lives were changed she says. 

“I oftentimes think, ‘Okay, having more female producers. Is that going to change the world?’ And maybe that in of itself isn't, but what it does is it makes you see yourself in a role you didn't think you could be in before. It changes your general concept of yourself.”

With a year of reconning with the social failings of our system, I ask Giobbi if the needle is moving in the right direction. She feels headway is being made, but when she is still the only female DJ across two days of DJing major music festivals, there’s still much improvement to make.

“I understand that as a promoter, you need to book acts that will sell tickets. This is your livelihood, I totally respect that and get that. That being said, only the headliners are actually selling the tickets. That means that there's usually an entire lineup of you know, 40 other acts, below the headliners that people are excited to see but maybe they're not gonna' actually sell the ticket. So, just be aware and make sure that that area is diverse… the bookers and the agents just need to be finally more conscious on how diverse that bottom half looks.”

She does her part by sending notes to promoters on who they should book when she signs a contract to play. She makes sure that talent buyers have contact info for diverse talent in each area.

Meet Again

“Whenever I get booked, we send out a spreadsheet. I'm gonna make your job as easy as possible. Here's a list of artists. Here's their contacts. Here's their social numbers. Here's their Spotify numbers. Here's all the information that you would need to know before you book them, here it is, please reach out if you can.”

Shortly before our call, she's told that she hit the career milestone of having 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Just a year ago she hovered around 10,000, so she's understandably elated at the news. She has more festival bookings than she can shake a fist at, including what she reveals is a special set at Bonnaroo. However, her selfless spirit shows when she discusses how her success relates to her ultimate goal.

She explains how she plans to demand more inclusion and equity in music. “The reason that I keep grinding in the studio and trying to build this platform is not for money. It is because I'm hoping that the more power and leverage that my team and I build, that I can then do that. I'm not there yet. But I do think that, you know, as this builds, that's what I'm going to use my power for 1,000%.”

There are few in dance music who combine their musical past and present as effectively as LP Giobbi. The classically trained jazz pianist injects her multi-platform DJ sets with syncopated notes hinting at the roots of house music every time she lays a rhythmic keyboard improv over a looped 4/4 beat. She’s exuberant and charismatic as she twists and glides from piano to CDJs and back, never for a moment allowing the music to stop flowing through every inch of her body. She's harnessed an authentic activist mindset that reminds us of the mere act of getting out there on the dance floor, listening to a diva sing over a 4/4 beat with an acid-squelching baseline, that's fucking activism, man.

“The only time I feel completely present as a human—and that sounds so cheesy, but it's true—is when I'm on stage playing music. “ She explains this as she tries to rationalize the constant struggle of the modern musician. Doing hundreds of things that aren't making music and still finding time for music.

“I'm not thinking about what I have to do on my to-do list. I'm just thinking about getting to connect with the people that I can see in the audience and see their joy. This is where I'm actually living my life.”

Giobbi was always indelibly connected to the stage. Her first big break as a performer came when Peter Franco, Daft Punk's studio engineer, discovered her playing jazz in San Francisco. To have those moments ripped away was devastating. On the eve of joining her best friends Sofi Tukker on their European tour in March of 2020, her manager told her that the next 52 weeks of shows are canceled and it was time to start streaming. She reluctantly took the show to Twitch.

“I remember thinking standing on the other side of this tiny web camera is going to be pretty soul sucking, but I don't know what else to do.”

She realigned with the joy of performance as the community affectionately referred to as the Freak Fam coalesced around her and Sofi Tukker, who spent nearly every day of the pandemic on Twitch. She soon realized how liberating it was to be free of one-hour set times.

“It also allowed me to get a little bit weirder, like sort of see myself more as like a one-person jam band.” It's an important point to note for a woman raised by two Dead Heads. 

The world of dance music united across borders as fans from around the world hopped from stream to stream on Twitch. Giobbi was a huge part of that. “I've never felt more connected in a year where I thought I was not going to be connected at all.” 

With the increased visibility, Giobbi uncovered a larger platform for her 501(c)(3) Femme House, an artist collective and educational platform that is giving more visibility to women in music. She launched She Is The Producer in partnership with Alicia Keys’ She Is the Music, and GRAMMY-winning studio engineer Emily Lazar’s We Are Moving the Needle. With the support of music software giant Ableton, Giobbi’s organization gave 3,000 women around the world access to music production software and classes to get started.

It was an emotional moment to scroll through the massive Zoom chat for the first class and see greetings from Mexico, Canada, Australia, and Brazil. It’s remarkable to think how many lives were changed she says. 

“I oftentimes think, ‘Okay, having more female producers. Is that going to change the world?’ And maybe that in of itself isn't, but what it does is it makes you see yourself in a role you didn't think you could be in before. It changes your general concept of yourself.”

With a year of reconning with the social failings of our system, I ask Giobbi if the needle is moving in the right direction. She feels headway is being made, but when she is still the only female DJ across two days of DJing major music festivals, there’s still much improvement to make.

“I understand that as a promoter, you need to book acts that will sell tickets. This is your livelihood, I totally respect that and get that. That being said, only the headliners are actually selling the tickets. That means that there's usually an entire lineup of you know, 40 other acts, below the headliners that people are excited to see but maybe they're not gonna' actually sell the ticket. So, just be aware and make sure that that area is diverse… the bookers and the agents just need to be finally more conscious on how diverse that bottom half looks.”

She does her part by sending notes to promoters on who they should book when she signs a contract to play. She makes sure that talent buyers have contact info for diverse talent in each area.

“Whenever I get booked, we send out a spreadsheet. I'm gonna make your job as easy as possible. Here's a list of artists. Here's their contacts. Here's their social numbers. Here's their Spotify numbers. Here's all the information that you would need to know before you book them, here it is, please reach out if you can.”

Shortly before our call, she's told that she hit the career milestone of having 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Just a year ago she hovered around 10,000, so she's understandably elated at the news. She has more festival bookings than she can shake a fist at, including what she reveals is a special set at Bonnaroo. However, her selfless spirit shows when she discusses how her success relates to her ultimate goal.

She explains how she plans to demand more inclusion and equity in music. “The reason that I keep grinding in the studio and trying to build this platform is not for money. It is because I'm hoping that the more power and leverage that my team and I build, that I can then do that. I'm not there yet. But I do think that, you know, as this builds, that's what I'm going to use my power for 1,000%.”

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