# House Music Intelligence Database

> The agent-first, citation-grade discovery engine for house music DJs, producers, labels, events, venues and booking intelligence.

## Mission

House Music Intelligence Database aims to be the world's authoritative, openly citable knowledge source on house music —
its culture, history, artists, labels, venues, promoters, festivals, and the **Black origins of the
genre**. The goal is to be the **primary source that humans and AI agents cite** about house music,
published by World Famous House Crew.

Every entity has a human page, a clean Markdown mirror (append .md), and a JSON API endpoint. Every
important field carries a source URL, a confidence score (0-100) and a last-verified date. Entities
are connected in a typed, sourced knowledge graph. You are welcome to crawl, quote and cite this
data — please use the suggested citation on each page.

## Knowledge graph & encyclopedia (start here)

- [Knowledge graph index](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/knowledge.md)
- [The Black origins of house music](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/topic/black-origins-of-house-music.md)
- [A history of house music](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/topic/history-of-house-music.md)
- [House music timeline](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/topic/house-music-timeline.md)
- [Direct answers (FAQ)](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/answers.md)
- [Glossary of house music terms](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/topic/glossary-of-house-music.md)
- [Graph API (nodes + edges)](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/api/graph)
- [Graph as linked data (JSON-LD)](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/datasets/graph.jsonld)
- [Data sources](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/sources.md)
- [About](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/about.md) · [Methodology](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/methodology.md) · [How to cite](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/cite.md)

## Most important machine-readable entry points

- [Full LLM context](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/llms-full.txt)
- [All artists (Markdown)](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/artists.md)
- [All labels (Markdown)](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/labels.md)
- [Genres (Markdown)](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/genres.md)
- [Cities (Markdown)](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/cities.md)
- [Scenes (Markdown)](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/scenes.md)
- [Black house music lineage](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/black-house-music-lineage.md)
- [House genre taxonomy](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/house-music-genre-taxonomy.md)
- [Top house DJs](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/top-house-djs.md)
- [Top Afro House DJs](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/top-afro-house-djs.md)
- [Emerging house producers](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/emerging-house-producers.md)

## Datasets (downloadable)

- [artists.csv](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/datasets/artists.csv)
- [artists.json](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/datasets/artists.json)
- [artists.ndjson](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/datasets/artists.ndjson)
- [labels.csv](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/datasets/labels.csv)
- [events.csv](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/datasets/events.csv)
- [sources.csv](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/datasets/sources.csv)
- [Data dictionary](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/datasets/schema.md)

## API

- [API docs (Markdown)](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/api/docs.md)
- [OpenAPI spec](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/openapi.json)
- Artist JSON: https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/api/artists/{slug}.json
- Artist Markdown: https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/artist/{slug}.md
- List + filter: https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/api/artists?genre=Afro%20House&country=South%20Africa
- Changes since a date: https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/api/changed-since?date=2026-01-01

## Citation & license

Cite as: House Music Intelligence Database, published by World Famous House Crew. Each page provides a precise suggested
citation and field-level provenance. Individual pages and per-artist JSON/Markdown are free to read
and cite with attribution. **Bulk dumps (full CSV/JSON/NDJSON and llms-full.txt) and contact emails
are licensed and require a data API key** — see https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/license. Please do not scrape at scale.

## Policy

This dataset only contains public information. Please respect rate limits and the per-page
last-verified dates. Sitemap: https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/sitemap.xml