No Past. No Future.

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The first time house music really hit, everything stopped.

Not the room. Not the sound. Everything else. The weight of who you were supposed to be, the noise of where you'd been and where you were going — gone. Just sound moving through a body. Just this moment, exactly as it was.

That feeling became something IV spent years chasing. Not metaphorically. Literally — clubs across Chicago, EDC, rooms in Vegas. He was fully in the scene. And he loved the music with the kind of love that doesn't need a reason. It wasn't about being seen. It was the opposite: it was the only place he didn't have to be anyone.

But the environment was doing damage.

Alcohol. Substances. The artificiality of spaces that promised presence and delivered performance. He kept going back for the music — and kept leaving worse than he came.

The cost is his to carry. He won't detail it here. But there came a point, the way there always does, where something had to change.

 Getting his life together meant going back to the beginning. Not to the scene — before it. To who he was before the world handed him a script and he started reading from it. In that process, stripped of noise and performance, he found what was actually true about himself.

Music was one of the core things of his being. Not a hobby. Not a hustle. Something closer to a calling.

And then — the realization that changed everything:

The music was never the issue. It was always the environment.

On New Year's Eve 2025, IV committed to developing what God had entrusted to him — not just talent, but a vision. For spaces without the artificiality. For rooms where people could be fully present without needing a substance to get there. For a floor that wasn't a stage, and a night that didn't cost you your clarity the next morning.

That conviction became EDENHAÜS.

 We're an independent record label and creative collective, six months in, based in Chicago. We move in house music — melodic, Afro, deep — and we build around artists who take the craft seriously and live what they make.

We make records. We develop artists. We create experiences. And everything we do is substance-free — not as a rule, but as the point. When you take away the noise, you find out what the music actually does. What being in a room with other people actually feels like.

This is for the listener who knows that feeling — total, complete presence — and wants it without the cost it used to carry. And for the artist who wants to build something honest, something lasting, something worth building.

We're six months in. Early, grounded, and certain of what we're building. The foundation matters more than the pace.