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DJ Pierre’s music can be identified by the signature squelchy sound of acid techno. He incorporates a swathe of instruments including 70s disco-style synthesisers and eclectic guitars, making the tracks feel both classic and modern. Odell’s music plays between serenity and attitude and has found fans globally, playing in infamous clubs around the world including Output in New York, Womb in Tokyo, and Watergate in Berlin. Odell’s formative 1999 LP Messages From The Hub paved the way for future releases both by himself and other house artists.
Frankie Knuckles
These Chicago based djs such as Knuckles, would take these live mixing loop techniques to another level. Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy and others, would record their live disco loops and splice in different genres as well as add in drum machines such as the Roland 808 and 909 at their home (which is also another possible source of the name, house music). This created a much more repetitive and aggressive sound that the club patrons in Chicago loved. The sound of house music continues to permeate the scene in Los Angeles, and HoneyLuv is helping keep the vibes alive with her impressive range of sounds to groove to. This former basketball player and sailor in the Navy made her transition to producing and playing dance music and hasn’t looked back since.
The Pre History of House Music
Farley first found his musical footing in 1981 as one of the original members of the Hot Mix 5, a DJ team in Illinois who broadcast on local radio. This team of spinners helped bring house music to a much wider audience. In his 2002 debut album Sirround Sound, you can hear the influences bouncing through every beat of the record. There are elements of hip-hop taken from his home roots, latin rhythms to drive the tracks, as well as more traditional house techniques.
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Since then, he’s crafted up some tasty tunes that have landed on labels such as Kolme Records, Indeep, Chichi Music, Conceptual, and Taika Records, to name a few. Nick van de Wall, better known as Afrojack, is a Dutch record producer, songwriter and DJ. At the young age of five years old, Afrojack began to grow a liking for the piano.
This year is the 25th anniversary of the release of Free but I’ve just released my 10th album. The next generation will suddenly pick up things and repackage it and resell it to a new community of people. When it comes to Beyoncé, it’s so polarising when you hear people talk about the album. I was still in high school, and I went to a club in Baltimore, where I lived, called Odell’s – its tagline was “You know if you belong” – and it had this amazing sound system.
Detroit’s Derrick May (working under the name Strings of Life here) might be a techno pioneer, but he arrived there by feeding Chicago house through a futuristic, funky shredder, epitomised by this timeless track. Back in 1987, it heralded the era of rave, it accelerated house, it sounded sublime then and still does now. Also important for the development of house were audio mixing and editing techniques earlier explored by disco, garage music and post-disco DJs, record producers, and audio engineers such as Walter Gibbons, Tom Moulton, Jim Burgess, Larry Levan, M & M, and others.
Chicago House
Techno second-wavers Carl Craig, Stacey Pullen, Kelli K-Hand and Blake Baxter all had a jackin’ house groove at the heart of what they did from early on. Even Underground Resistance began with vocal house, in their still-glorious tracks with singer Yolanda like “Your Time is Up”. It’s impossible to overstate how huge house music was to Chicago at this point. As 1987 and 1988 went on, tracks like Joe Smooth’s “The Promised Land,” Jamie Principles’s “Baby Wants to Ride” and Mr Fingers’ “Can You Feel It” quickly became international club anthems. But in Chicago alone, 12-inches were selling by the tens of thousands. Radio audiences for house across the city and the Midwest were in the millions.
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As acid hit, so the charts were flooded with the likes of Coldcut, D-Mob, Adamski, Orbital, 808 State and Moore’s S’Express project with “Theme From S’Express”. Which helped lay the groundwork for the UK’s unique proliferation of genres as the 90s dawned. First recorded by Jamie Principle (hailing from – you've guessed it – Chicago), the ‘Godfather of House’ Frankie Knuckles made the track famous with his slightly punchier version, still featuring Principle. It’s been covered and reworked by many different DJs and producers over the years, but Knuckles and Principle’s version is the one that has rightly gone down in dance music history. That "genre" is house music, and it was indeed invented by Black and primarily gay DJs in Chicago in the late 1970s and 80s. Since that time, house has evolved; it has gotten bigger, it has gotten whiter, it has made a lot of people a lot of money.
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Deadmau5's music career began in the late 1990s when chiptune was the main influence of electronic dance music. Throughout his illustrious career, deadmau5 has received six Grammy Award nominations and has worked alongside artists such as Rob Swire, Kaskade and Wolfgang Gartner. The album is built on the familiarity of samples, stories and sounds that we grew up on and created in those early days. She can make any album she wants, and it’s already going to be winning. No one’s in love with the idea that she’s saving house music or whatever. From its 1980s roots in Black, Latinx, and queer communities in cities like Chicago, Detroit, and New York, electronic dance music exploded in the 1990s, taking techno, rave, jungle, and other permutations around the globe.
The percussive rhythms, wandering bass, occasional synth hits and whispery vocals are all beautifully simple, making for a laid-back, funky gem when mixed together. In the late 1980s, Nu Groove Records launched and nurtured the careers of Rheji Burrell and Rhano Burrell, collectively known as Burrell (after a brief stay on Virgin America via Timmy Regisford and Frank Mendez). The Burrells created the "New York Underground" sound of house, and they did more than 30 releases on this label featuring this sound. Rachel Cain, better known as Screamin' Rachael, co-founder of the highly influential house label Trax Records, was previously involved in the burgeoning punk scene.
Born and raised in the Bronx, he cut his teeth as a DJ in New York City’s clubs and gay bathhouses. But he moved to Chicago in 1977, specifically to become Saturday night resident at The Warehouse, a club that his friend Robert Williams was opening. In fact he was only there for five years, during which time the phrase “house music” was used by local record stores to refer to the mostly disco records (often older disco), which he was extending with tape edits and double copies at the club. Other DJs in clubs and radio were following suit, and notably the Hot Mix 5 team (featuring DJs like Ralphi Rosario and Farley “Jackmaster” Funk) on WBMX helped cement this as the sound of Chicago.
From the underground clubs of Chicago to being played at massive festivals house music has made an epic evolution and created an even more epic musical revolution. Just like Marshall Jefferson sang in his house music anthem… With that house music… you can’t go wrong. An infectious, kind and loving character, Paul Johnson is best known for his self-taught DJ style of house music and his 1999 single “Get Get Down”, which became a worldwide hit. Johnson first began DJing in Chicago in 1984 when he was 13, and started working as a producer in 1987, doing tracks for Chicago house labels Dance Mania, Relief, Cajual, Nite Life, Undaground Therapy, Defected, DJax Up Beats, Peacefrog, and Moody. Unfortunately Paul Johnson has passed recently due to COVID, but the impact of his music still goes on.
From taking the stage at clubs to eventually catching the ear of Desert Hearts early on to her massive growth in 2021, HoneyLuv quickly stole our own heart and solidified her place as an artist to watch out for in 2022. His music immaculately blends hip-hop and R&B with house music in a way we’ve never heard before. He producers and does his own vocals, and has an irresistible swagger and charm that pours out of his tracks. Marshmello's identity remains unknown, but it is believed to be American DJ Chris Comstock also known as Dotcom. Marshmello first gained attention from fans when he released remixes of Zedd, Jack U and created a unique sound unlike any other.
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