fbpx
Wikipedia

House music

February 06, 2023

For the album, see House Music (album).
Not to be confused with House band.

House is a music genre characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 120 beats per minute.[10] It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago's underground club culture in the late 1970s, as DJs began altering disco songs to give them a more mechanical beat.[1]

House was pioneered by African American DJs and producers in Chicago such as Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy, Jesse Saunders, Chip E., Steve "Silk" Hurley, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Marshall Jefferson, Phuture, and others. House music expanded to other American cities such as New York City and became a worldwide phenomenon.[11]

House has had a large effect on pop music, especially dance music. It was incorporated by major international pop artists including Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson ("Together Again"), Kylie Minogue, Pet Shop Boys and Madonna ("Vogue"), but also produced some mainstream hits on its own, such as "French Kiss" by Lil Louis, "Show Me Love" by Robin S. or "Push the Feeling On" by the Nightcrawlers. Many house DJs also did and continue to do remixes for pop artists. House music has remained popular on radio and in clubs while retaining a foothold on the underground scenes across the globe.

Characteristics

 
House Music Demo
A full house music track.
Problems playing this file? See media help.
 
 
The TR-909 drum machine (top) and TB-303 synthesizer, instruments often used in house music
A house rhythm played on a Roland TR-909 drum machine, featuring a four-on-the-floor bass drum plus cymbal, claps, hi-hats and rimshots

In its most typical form, the genre is characterized by repetitive 4/4 rhythms including bass drums, off-beat hi-hats, snare drums, claps, and/or snaps at a tempo of between 115 and 125 beats per minute (bpm), synthesizer riffs, deep basslines, and often, but not necessarily, sung, spoken or sampled vocals. In house, the bass drum is usually sounded on beats one, two, three, and four, and the snare drum, claps, or other higher-pitched percussion on beats two and four. The drum beats in house music are almost always provided by an electronic drum machine, often a Roland TR-808, TR-909,[12] or a TR-707. Claps, shakers, snare drum, or hi-hat sounds are used to add syncopation.[13] One of the signature rhythm riffs, especially in early (Chicago) house, is built on the clave pattern.[14] Congas and bongos may be added for an African sound, or metallic percussion for a Latin feel.[13]

Sometimes, the drum sounds are "saturated" by boosting the gain to create a more aggressive edge.[13] One classic subgenre, acid house, is defined through the squelchy sounds created by the Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer. House music could be produced on "cheap and consumer-friendly electronic equipment" and used sound gear, which made it easier for independent labels and DJs to create tracks.[15] The electronic drum machines and other gear used by house DJs and producers were formerly considered "too cheap-sounding" by "proper" musicians.[16] House music producers typically use sampled instruments, rather than bringing in session musicians into a recording studio.[17] Even though a key element of house production is layering sounds, such as drum machine beats, samples, synth basslines, and so on, the overall "texture...is relatively sparse".[18] Unlike pop songs, which emphasize higher-pitched sounds, such as melody, in house music, the lower-pitched bass register is most important.[18]

House tracks typically involve an intro, a chorus, various verse sections, a midsection and a brief outro. Some tracks do not have a verse, taking a vocal part from the chorus and repeating the same cycle. House music tracks are often based on eight-bar sections which are repeated.[18] They are often built around bass-heavy loops or basslines produced by a synthesizer and/or around samples of disco, soul,[19] jazz-funk[8] or funk[19] songs. DJs and producers creating a house track to be played in clubs edit a "seven or eight-minute 12-inch mix"; if the track is intended to be played on radio, a "three-and-a-half-minute" radio edit is used.[20] House tracks build up slowly, by adding layers of sound and texture, and by increasing the volume.[18]

House tracks may have vocals like a pop song, but some are "completely minimal instrumental music".[18] If a house track does have vocals, the vocal lines may also be simple "words or phrases" that are repeated.[18]

Origins of the term "house"

 
House music pioneers Alan King, Robert Williams and Derrick Carter.

One 2009 book states the name house music originated from a Chicago club called the Warehouse, which existed from 1977 to 1983.[21] Clubbers to the Warehouse were primarily black, gay men,[22] who came to dance to music played by the club's resident DJ Frankie Knuckles, who fans refer to as the "godfather of house". Frankie began the trend of splicing together different records when he found that the records he had were not long enough to satisfy his audience of dancers.[23] After the Warehouse closed in 1983, the crowds went to Knuckles' new club, The Power Plant,[21] while the club was renamed into Music Box with Ron Hardy being resident DJ.[24]

In the Channel 4 documentary Pump Up the Volume, Knuckles remarks that the first time he heard the term "house music" was upon seeing "we play house music" on a sign in the window of a bar on Chicago's South Side. One of the people in the car with him joked, "you know that's the kind of music you play down at the Warehouse!".[25] South-Side Chicago DJ Leonard "Remix" Rroy, in self-published statements, claims he put such a sign in a tavern window because it was where he played music that one might find in one's home; in his case, it referred to his mother's soul and disco records, which he worked into his sets.[26] The documentary also explored how house music was something that anyone could do. Mostly the documentary looks at some of the DJs from that genre, and how they stumbled into the music.[24]

Farley "Jackmaster" Funk was quoted as saying "In 1982, I was DJing at a club called The Playground and there was this kid named Leonard 'Remix' Rroy who was a DJ at a rival club called The Rink. He came over to my club one night, and into the DJ booth and said to me, 'I've got the gimmick that's gonna take all the people out of your club and into mine – it's called House music.' Now, where he got that name from or what made him think of it I don't know, so the answer lies with him."[27]

Chip E.'s 1985 recording "It's House" may also have helped to define this new form of electronic music.[28] However, Chip E. himself lends credence to the Knuckles association, claiming the name came from methods of labeling records at the Importes Etc. record store, where he worked in the early 1980s: bins of music that DJ Knuckles played at the Warehouse nightclub were labelled in the store "As Heard at the Warehouse", which was shortened to simply "House". Patrons later asked for new music for the bins, which Chip E. implies was a demand the shop tried to meet by stocking newer local club hits.[29]

In a 1986 interview, when Rocky Jones, the club DJ who ran the D.J. International record label, was asked about the "house" moniker, he did not mention Importes Etc., Frankie Knuckles, or the Warehouse by name. However, he agreed that "house" was a regional catch-all term for dance music, and that it was once synonymous with older disco music, before it became a way to refer to "new" dance music.[30]

Larry Heard, a.k.a. "Mr. Fingers", claims that the term "house" came from DJs creating music in home studios using affordable synthesizers and drum machines, such as the Roland TB-303,[31] Roland TR-808, and TR-909.[32] These synthesizers were used to create the acid house subgenre.[33] Juan Atkins, an originator of Detroit techno, claims the term "house" reflected the association of particular tracks with particular clubs and DJs, considered their "house" records.[34]

House dance

Main article: House dance

At least three styles of dancing are associated with house music: jacking, footwork, and lofting.[35] These styles include a variety of techniques and sub-styles, including skating, stomping, vosho, pouting cat and shuffle steps (also see Melbourne shuffle).[36][37] House music dancing styles can include movements from many other forms of dance, such as waacking, voguing, capoeira, jazz dance, Lindy Hop, tap dance, and even modern dance.[38][37] House dancing is associated with a complete freedom of expression.[39]

One of the primary elements in house dancing is "the jack" or "jacking" — a style created in the early days of Chicago house that left its trace in numerous record titles such as "Time to Jack" by Chip E. from the Jack Trax EP (1985), "Jack’n the House" (1985) by Farley "Jackmaster" Funk (1985) or "Jack Your Body" by Steve "Silk" Hurley (1986). It involves moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion matching the beat of the music, as if a wave were passing through it.[39]

Social and political aspects

Early house lyrics contained positive, uplifting messages for all people, from every different walk of life but spoke especially to those who were considered to be outsiders, especially African-Americans, Latinos, and the gay subculture. The house music dance scene was one of the most integrated and progressive spaces in the 1980s; the black and gay populations, as well as other minority groups, were able to dance together in a positive environment.[40]

House music DJs aimed to create a "dream world of emotions" with "stories, keywords and sounds", which helped to "glue" communities together.[15] Many house tracks encourage the audience to "release yourself" or "let yourself go", which is further encouraged by the continuous dancing, "incessant beat", and use of club drugs, which can create a trance-like effect on dancers.[15] Frankie Knuckles once said that the Warehouse club in Chicago was like "church for people who have fallen from grace". House record producer Marshall Jefferson compared it to "old-time religion in the way that people just get happy and screamin'".[39] The role of a house DJ has been compared to a "secular type of priest".[15]

Some house lyrics contained messages calling for equality, unity and freedom of expression beyond racial or sexual differences (e.g. "Can You Feel It" by Fingers Inc., 1987, or "Follow Me" by Aly-Us, 1992). Later on in the 1990s, but autonomous from the Chicago scene, the idea of Peace, Love, Unity & Respect (PLUR) became a widespread set of principles for the rave culture.[citation needed]

History

Influences and precursors

One of the main influences of house was disco; house music having been defined as a genre which "...picked up where disco left off in the late 1970's."[41][42] Like disco DJs, house DJs used a "slow mix" to "lin[k] records together" into a mix.[15] In the post-disco club culture during the early 1980s, DJs from the gay scene made their tracks "less pop-oriented", with a more mechanical, repetitive beat and deeper basslines, and many tracks were made without vocals, or with wordless melodies.[43] Disco became so popular by the late 1970s that record companies pushed even non-disco artists (R&B bands, for example) to produce disco songs. When the backlash against disco started, known as "Disco Demolition Night", dance music went from being produced by major label studios to being created by DJs in the underground club scene.[15]

While disco was associated with lush orchestration, with string orchestra, flutes and horn sections, various disco songs incorporated sounds produced with synthesizers and electronic drum machines, and some compositions were entirely electronic; examples include Italian composer Giorgio Moroder's late 1970s productions such as Donna Summer's hit single "I Feel Love" from 1977, Kraftwerk's "'The Man-Machine" album from 1978,[44] Cerrone's "Supernature" (1977),[45] Yellow Magic Orchestra's synth-disco-pop productions from Yellow Magic Orchestra (1978) or Solid State Survivor (1979),[46][47] and several early 1980s productions by hi-NRG groups like Lime, Trans-X and Bobby O.

 
Frankie Knuckles (pictured in 2012) played an important role in developing house music in Chicago during the 1980s.

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.

While most post-disco disc jockeys primarily stuck to playing their conventional ensemble and playlist of dance records, Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy, two influential DJs of house music, were known for their unusual and non-mainstream playlists and mixing. Knuckles was influenced by and worked with New York City club Paradise Garage resident Larry Levan. Knuckles, often credited as "the Godfather of House" and resident DJ at the Warehouse from 1977 to 1982, worked primarily with early disco music with a hint of new and different music (whether it was post-punk or post-disco).[48] Knuckles started out as a disco DJ, but when he moved from New York City to Chicago, he changed from the typical disco mixing style of playing records one after another; instead, he mixed different songs together, including Philadelphia soul, New York club tracks, and Euro disco.[18] He also explored adding a drum machine and a reel-to-reel tape player so he could create new tracks, often with a boosted deep register and faster tempos. Knuckles said: "Kraftwerk were main components in the creation of house music in Chicago. Back in the early 80s, I mixed our 80s Philly sound with the electro beats of Kraftwerk and the Electronic body music bands of Europe."[18][49]

Ron Hardy produced unconventional DIY mixtapes which he later played straight-on in the successor of the Warehouse, the Music Box (reopened and renamed in 1983 after Knuckles left). Like Frankie Knuckles, Hardy "combined certain sounds, remixing tracks with added synths and drum machines", all "refracted through the futurist lens of European music."[16] Marshall Jefferson, who would later appear with the 1986 house classic "Move Your Body (The House Music Anthem)" (originally released on Trax Records), describes how he got involved in house music after hearing Ron Hardy's music in the Music Box:

"I wasn't even into dance music before I went to the Music Box [...]. I was into rock and roll. We would get drunk and listen to rock and roll. We didn't give a fuck, we were like 'Disco Sucks!' and all that. I hated dance music 'cos I couldn't dance. I thought dance music was kind of wimpy, until I heard it at like Music Box volume."

— Marshall Jefferson[50]

A precursor to house music is the Colonel Abrams hit song "Trapped", produced by Richard James Burgess in 1984,[51] referred to as a proto-house track and a precursor to garage house.[52]

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. Cain cites industrial music (another genre pioneered in Chicago) and post-punk record store Wax Trax! Records (later a record label) as an important connection between the ever-changing underground sounds of Chicago.

The electronic instrumentation and minimal arrangement of Charanjit Singh's Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat (1982), an album of Indian ragas performed in a disco style, anticipated the sounds of acid house music, but it is not known to have had any influence on the genre prior to the album's rediscovery in the 21st century.[53][54][55] According to Hillegonda C. Rietveld, "elements of hip hop and rap can be found in contemporary house tracks", with hip hop acting as an "accent or inflection" that is inserted into the house sound.[15]

The constant bass drum in house music may have arisen from DJs experimenting with adding drum machines to their live mixes at clubs, underneath the records they were playing.[56]

1980s: Chicago house, acid house and deep house

Main articles: Chicago house, acid house, and deep house
 
An honorary street name sign in Chicago for house music and the seminal DJ Frankie Knuckles.

In the early 1980s, Chicago radio jocks Hot Mix 5 from WBMX radio station (among them Farley "Jackmaster" Funk), and club DJs Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles played a range of styles of dance music, including older disco records (mostly Philly disco and Salsoul[57] tracks), electro funk tracks by artists such as Afrika Bambaataa,[8] newer Italo disco, Arthur Baker, and John Robie, and electronic pop.[1] Some DJs made and played their own edits of their favorite songs on reel-to-reel tape, and sometimes mixed in electronic effects, drum machines, synthesizers and other rhythmic electronic instrumentation.

The hypnotic electronic dance song "On and On", produced in 1984 by Chicago DJ Jesse Saunders and co-written by Vince Lawrence, had typical elements of the early house sound, such as the Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer and minimal vocals as well as a Roland TR-808 drum machine and a Korg Poly-61 synthesizer. It also utilized the bassline from Player One's disco record "Space Invaders" (1979).[58] "On and On" is sometimes cited as the 'first house record',[59][60] even though it was a remake of a Disco Bootleg "On and On" by Florida producer Mach. Other examples from around that time, such as J.M. Silk's "Music is the Key" (1985), have also been cited to be the first house tracks.[61][62]

Starting in 1985 and 1986, more and more Chicago DJs began producing and releasing original compositions. These compositions used newly affordable electronic instruments and enhanced styles of disco and other dance music they already favored. These homegrown productions were played on Chicago radio stations and in local clubs catering mainly to Black, Mexican Americans, and gay audiences.[63][64][65][66][67][68] By 1985, house music encompassed these locally produced recordings. Subgenres of house, including deep house and acid house, quickly emerged and gained traction.[24]

 
Phuture – "Acid Tracks" (1987)
Phuture's "Acid Tracks" is often regarded as the first acid house record. It was released in 1987 on Trax Records, but is said to have been already played out in 1985 by DJ Ron Hardy at the Music Box nightclub.[69]
Problems playing this file? See media help.

Deep house's origins can be traced to Chicago producer Mr Fingers's relatively jazzy, soulful recordings "Mystery of Love" (1985) and "Can You Feel It?" (1986).[70] According to author Richie Unterberger, it moved house music away from its "posthuman tendencies back towards the lush" soulful sound of early disco music.[71]

Acid house, a rougher and more abstract subgenre, arose from Chicago artists' experiments with the squelchy sounds of the Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer that define the genre. Its origin on vinyl is generally cited as Phuture's "Acid Tracks" (Trax Records, 1987). Phuture, a group founded by Nathan "DJ Pierre" Jones, Earl "Spanky" Smith Jr., and Herbert "Herb J" Jackson, is credited with having been the first to use the TB-303 in the house music context.[72] The group's 12-minute "Acid Tracks" was recorded to tape and played by DJ Ron Hardy at the Music Box,[73] supposedly already in 1985.[74] Hardy once played it four times over the course of an evening until the crowd responded favorably.[75]

Club play of house tracks by pioneering Chicago DJs such as Ron Hardy and Lil Louis, local dance music record shops such as Importes Etc., State Street Records, Loop Records, Gramaphone Records and the popular Hot Mix 5 shows on radio station WBMX-FM helped popularize house music in Chicago. Later, visiting DJs and producers from Detroit fell into the genre. Trax Records and DJ International Records, Chicago labels with wider distribution, helped popularize house music inside and outside of Chicago.

The first major success of house music outside the U.S. is considered to be Farley "Jackmaster" Funk's "Love Can't Turn Around" (feat. Jesse Saunders and performed by Darryl Pandy), which peaked at #10 in the UK singles chart in 1986. Around that time, UK record labels started releasing house music by Chicago acts, but as the genre grew popular, the UK itself became one of the new hot spots for house, acid house and techno music, experiencing the so-called second summer of love between 1988 and 1989.[24]

Detroit and techno

Main articles: Detroit techno and techno

In Detroit during the early and mid-1980s, a new kind of electronic dance music began to emerge around Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, known as the Belleville Three. The artists fused eclectic, futuristic sounds into a signature Detroit dance sound that was a main influence for the later techno genre. Their music included strong influences from Chicago house, although the term "house" played a less important role in Detroit than in Chicago, and the term "techno" was established instead.[76] One of their most successful hits was a vocal house track named "Big Fun" by Inner City, a group produced by Kevin Saunderson, in 1988.

Another important and even earlier influence on the Detroit artists was electronic music in the tradition of Germany's Kraftwerk.[77] Atkins had released electro music in that style with his group Cybotron as early as 1981. Cybotron's best known songs are "Cosmic Cars" (1982) and "Clear" (1983); a 1984 release was titled "Techno City". In 1988, Atkins produced the track "Techno Music" that was featured on an influential compilation initially planned to be named "The House Sound of Detroit", but renamed into "Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit" after Atkins' song.[78]

The 1987 song "Strings of Life" by Derrick May (under the name Rhythm Is Rhythm) represented a darker, more intellectual strain of early Detroit electronic dance music. It is considered a classic in both the house and techno genre and shows the connection[79] as well as the "boundary between house and techno."[80] It made way to what was later known as "techno" in the internationally known sense of the word, referring to a harder, faster, colder, more machine-driven and minimal sound than house, as played by Detroit's Underground Resistance and Jeff Mills.

UK: Acid house, rave culture and the Second Summer of Love

See also: Second Summer of Love and rave
 
A badge bearing a smiley, a symbol of the 1980s acid house scene in the UK[81]

With house music already important in the 1980s dance club scene, eventually house penetrated the UK singles chart. London DJ "Evil" Eddie Richards spun at dance parties as resident at the Clink Street club. Richards' approach to house focuses on the deep basslines. Nicknamed the UK's "Godfather of House", he and Clink co-residents Kid Batchelor and Mr. C played a key role in early UK house. House first charted in the UK in Wolverhampton following the success of the Northern Soul scene. The record generally credited as the first house hit in the UK was Farley "Jackmaster" Funk's "Love Can't Turn Around", which reached #10 in the UK singles chart in September 1986.[82]

In January 1987, Chicago DJ/artist Steve "Silk" Hurley's "Jack Your Body" reached number one in the UK, showing it was possible for house music to achieve crossover success in the main singles chart. The same month also saw Raze enter the top 20 with "Jack the Groove", and several further house hits reached the top ten that year. Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) expensively-produced productions for Mel and Kim, including the number-one hit "Respectable", added elements of house to their previous Europop sound. SAW session group Mirage scored top-ten hits with "Jack Mix II" and "Jack Mix IV", medleys of previous electro and Europop hits rearranged in a house music style. Key labels in the rise of house music in the UK included:[citation needed]

  • Jack Trax, which specialized in licensing US club hits for the British market (and released an influential series of compilation albums)
  • Rhythm King, which was set up as a hip hop label but also issued house records
  • Jive Records' Club Records imprint

In March 1987, the UK tour of influential US DJs such as Knuckles, Jefferson, Fingers Inc. (Heard) and Adonis, on the DJ International Tour boosted house's popularity in the UK. Following the number-one success of MARRS' "Pump Up The Volume" in October, in 1987 to 1989, UK acts such as The Beatmasters, Krush, Coldcut, Yazz, Bomb The Bass, S-Express, and Italy's Black Box opened the doors to house music success on the UK charts. Early British house music quickly set itself apart from the original Chicago house sound. Many of the early hits were based on sample montage, and unlike the US soulful vocals, in UK house, rap was often used for vocals (far more than in the US), and humor and wit was an important element.[citation needed]

The second best-selling British single of 1988 was an acid house record, the Coldcut-produced "The Only Way Is Up" by Yazz.[83][84] One of the early club anthems, "Promised Land" by Joe Smooth, was covered and charted within a week by UK band The Style Council. Europeans embraced house, and began booking important American house DJs to play at the big clubs, such as Ministry of Sound, whose resident, Justin Berkmann brought in US pioneer Larry Levan.[85]

The house music club scene in cities such as Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Wolverhampton and London were provided with dance tracks by many underground Pirate Radio stations. Club DJs also brought in new house styles, which helped bolster this music genre. The earliest UK house and techno record labels such as Warp Records and Network Records (otherwise known as Kool Kat records) helped introduce American and later Italian dance music to Britain. These labels also promoted UK dance music acts. By the end of the 1980s, UK DJs Jenö, Thomas, Markie and Garth moved to San Francisco, and called their group the Wicked Crew. The Wicked Crew's dance sound transmitted UK styles to the US, which helped to trigger the birth of the US west coast's rave scene.[86]

The manager of Manchester's Factory nightclub and co-owner of The Haçienda, Tony Wilson, also promoted acid house culture on his weekly TV show. The UK midlands also embraced the late 1980s house scene with illegal parties and raves and more legal dance clubs such as The Hummingbird.[87]

Chicago's second wave: Hip house and ghetto house

Main articles: Hip house and ghetto house

While the acid house hype spawned to the UK and Europe, in Chicago itself it reached its peak around 1988 and then declined in popularity.[citation needed] Instead, a crossover of house and hip-hop music, known as hip house, became popular. Tyree Cooper's single "Turn Up the Bass" featuring Kool Rock Steady from 1988 was an influential breakthrough for this subgenre, although the British trio the Beatmasters claimed having invented the genre with their 1986 release "Rok da House".[88] Another notable figure in the hip house scene was Fast Eddie with "Hip House" and "Yo Yo Get Funky!" (both 1988). Even Farley "Jackmaster" Funk engaged himself in the genre, releasing "Free at Last", a song to free James Brown from jail, featuring The Hip House Syndicate, in 1989, and producing a Real Hip House compilation on his label House Records in 1990.[89]

The early 1990s saw new Chicago house artists emerge, such as Armando Gallop, who had released seminal acid house records since 1987, but became even more influential by co-founding the new Warehouse nightclub in Chicago (on 738 W. Randolph Street[90]) in which he also was resident DJ from 1992 until 1994, and founding Warehouse Records in 1988.[91]

Another important figure during the early to mid-1990s (until the 2000s) was DJ and producer Paul Johnson, who released the Warehouse-anthem "Welcome to the Warehouse" on Armando's label in 1994 in collaboration with Armando himself.[92] He also had part in the development of an entirely new kind of Chicago house sound, "ghetto house", which was prominently released and popularized through the Dance Mania record label. It was originally founded by Jesse Saunders in 1985 but passed on to Raymond Barney in 1988. It featured notable ghetto house artists like DJ Funk, DJ Deeon, DJ Milton, Paul Johnson and others. The label is regarded as hugely influential in the history of Chicago house music, and has been described as "ghetto house's Motown".[93]

One of the prototypes for Dance Mania's new ghetto house sound was the single "(It's Time for the) Percolator" by Cajmere, also known as Green Velvet, from 1992.[94] Cajmere started the labels Cajual Records and Relief Records, the latter combining the sound of Chicago, acid and ghetto house with the harder sound of techno. By the early 1990s, artists of note on those two labels included Dajae, DJ Sneak, Derrick Carter, DJ Rush, Paul Johnson, Joe Lewis, and Glenn Underground.

New York and New Jersey: Garage house and the "Jersey sound"

Main articles: Garage house and New Jersey house
 
Building in New York City where the Paradise Garage nightclub was located

While house conquered UK and continental Europe, the scene in the U.S. had still not progressed beyond a small number of clubs in Chicago, Detroit, New York City, and Newark. In New York and Newark, the terms "garage house", "garage music", or simply "garage", and "Jersey sound", or "New Jersey house", were coined for a deeper, more soulful, R&B-derived subgenre of house that was developed in the Paradise Garage nightclub in New York City and Club Zanzibar in Newark, New Jersey, during the early-to-mid 1980s. It is argued that garage house predates the development of Chicago house, as it is relatively closer to disco than other dance styles.[95] As Chicago house gained international popularity, New York's and New Jersey's music scene was distinguished from the "house" umbrella.[95][96]

In comparison to other forms of house music, garage house and Jersey sound include more gospel-influenced piano riffs and female vocals.[97] The genre was popular in the 1980s in the United States and the 1990s in the United Kingdom.[97] DJs playing it include Tony Humphries at Club Zanzibar, Larry Levan, who was resident DJ at the Paradise Garage from 1977 to 1987, Todd Terry, Kerri Chandler, Masters at Work, Junior Vasquez and others.[98]

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). Nu Groove also had a stable of other NYC underground scene DJs. The Burrell's created the "New York Underground" sound of house, and they did more than 30 releases on this label featuring this sound.

The emergence of New York's DJ and producer Todd Terry in 1988 demonstrated the continuum from the underground disco approach to a new and commercially successful house sound. Terry's cover of Class Action's "Weekend" (mixed by Larry Levan) shows how Terry drew on newer hip-hop influences, such as the quicker sampling and the more rugged basslines.[99][citation needed]

Ibiza

See also: Balearic beat

House was also being developed by DJs and record producers in the booming dance club scene in Ibiza notably when DJ Alfredo, the father of Balearic house, began his residency at Amnesia in 1983.[when?] While no house artists or labels came from this tiny island at the time, mixing experiments and innovations done by Ibiza DJs helped to influence the house style. By the mid-1980s a distinct Balearic mix of house was discernible. Several influential clubs in Ibiza, such as Amnesia, with DJ Alfredo at the decks, were playing a mix of rock, pop, disco and house. These clubs, fuelled by their distinctive sound and copious consumption of the club drug Ecstasy (MDMA), began to influence the British scene. By late 1987, DJs such as Trevor Fung, Paul Oakenfold and Danny Rampling were bringing the Ibiza sound to key UK clubs such as the Haçienda in Manchester. Ibiza influences also spread to DJs working London clubs such as Shoom in Southwark, Heaven, Future and Spectrum.[100]

Other regional scenes

 
This photo of a deep house DJ shows the pair of turntables and the DJ mixer in between.

By the late 1980s, house DJing and production had moved to the US's west coast, particularly to San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Fresno, San Diego and Seattle. Los Angeles saw an explosion of underground raves, where DJs mixed dance tracks. L.A. DJs Marques Wyatt and Billy Long spun at Jewel's Catch One. In 1989, the L.A.-based, former EBN-OZN singer/rapper Robert Ozn started indie house label One Voice Records. Ozn released the Mike "Hitman" Wilson remix of Dada Nada's "Haunted House", which garnered club and mix show radio play in Chicago, Detroit and New York as well as in the UK and France. The record went up to number five on the Billboard Club Chart, marking it as the first house record by a white (Caucasian) artist to chart in the U.S. Dada Nada, the moniker for Ozn's solo act, did his first releases in 1990, using a jazz-based deep house style. The Frankie Knuckles and David Morales remix of Dada Nada's "Deep Love" (One Voice Records in the US, Polydor in the UK), featuring Ozn's lush, crooning vocals and jazzy improvisational solos by muted trumpet, underscored deep house's progression into a genre that integrated jazz and pop songwriting and song forms (unlike acid house and techno).[citation needed] The Twilight Zone (1980–89) located on Richmond Street in Toronto's entertainment district was the first after hours club to regularly feature New York and Chicago DJs that first spun house music in Canada.[101] The venue would prove to be the first international gig destination for both Frankie Knuckles and David Morales. One of the club's owners, Tony Assoon, would make regular trips to New York in order to purchase funk, underground disco and house records to dish out on his regular Saturday night slot.[102]

1990s

See also: Eurodance, French House, ambient house, and tech house

In 1990, Italo house group Black Box gained big hit "Everybody Everybody" on US Billboard Hot 100.[103] In Britain, further experiments in the genre boosted its appeal. House and rave clubs such as Lakota and Cream emerged across Britain, hosting house and dance scene events. The 'chilling out' concept developed in Britain with ambient house albums such as The KLF's Chill Out and Analogue Bubblebath by Aphex Twin. The Godskitchen superclub brand also began in the midst of the early 1990s rave scene. After initially hosting small nights in Cambridge and Northampton, the associated events scaled up at the Sanctuary Music Arena in Milton Keynes, in Birmingham and in Leeds. A new indie dance scene also emerged in the 1990s. In New York, bands such as Deee-Lite, with Bootsy Collins, furthered house's international influence.

In England, one of the few licensed venues was the Eclipse, which attracted people from up and down the country as it was open until the early hours. Due to the lack of licensed, legal dance event venues, house music promoters began organising illegal events in unused warehouses, aeroplane hangars and in the countryside. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 was a government attempt to ban large rave dance events featuring music with "repetitive beats", due to law enforcement allegations that these events were associated with illegal club drugs. There were a number of "Kill the Bill" demonstrations by rave and electronic dance music fans. The Spiral Tribe dance event at Castle Morten was the last of these illegal raves, as the bill, which became law, in November 1994, made unauthorised house music dance events illegal in the UK. Despite the new law, the music continued to grow and change, as typified by Leftfield with "Release the Pressure", which introduced dub and reggae into the house sound.

A new generation of clubs such as Liverpool's Cream and the Ministry of Sound were opened to provide a venue for more commercial house sounds. Major record companies began to open "superclubs" promoting their own groups and acts. These superclubs entered into sponsorship deals initially with fast food, soft drink, and clothing companies. Flyers in clubs in Ibiza often sported many corporate logos from sponsors. A new subgenre, Chicago hard house, was developed by DJs such as Bad Boy Bill, DJ Lynnwood, and DJ Irene, Richard "Humpty" Vission, mixing elements of Chicago house, funky house and hard house. Additionally, producers such as George Centeno, Darren Ramirez, and Martin O. Cairo developed the Los Angeles Hard House sound. Similar to gabber or hardcore techno from the Netherlands, this was associated with the "rebel", underground club subculture of the time.

Towards the end of the 1990s and into the 2000s, French DJ/producers such as Daft Punk, Bob Sinclar, Stardust, Cassius, St. Germain and DJ Falcon began producing a new sound in Paris' club scene. Together, they laid the groundwork for what would be known as the French house movement. They combined the harder-edged-yet-soulful philosophy of Chicago house with the melodies of obscure funk records. By using state-of-the-art digital production techniques blended with the retro sound of old-school analog synthesizers, they created a new sound and style which influenced house music around the world.[104]

2000s

See also: Electroclash and electro house

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley proclaimed 10 August 2005 to be "House Unity Day" in Chicago, in celebration of the "21st anniversary of house music" (actually the 21st anniversary of the founding of Trax Records, an independent Chicago-based house label). The proclamation recognized Chicago as the original home of house music and that the music's original creators "were inspired by the love of their city, with the dream that someday their music would spread a message of peace and unity throughout the world". DJs such as Frankie Knuckles, Marshall Jefferson, Paul Johnson and Mickey Oliver celebrated the proclamation at the Summer Dance Series, an event organized by Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs.[105]

It was during this decade that vocal house became firmly established, both in the underground and as part of the pop market, and labels such as Defected Records, Roulé and Om were at the forefront of championing the emerging sound. In the mid-2000s, fusion genres such as electro house and fidget house emerged.[citation needed] This fusion is apparent in the crossover of musical styles by artists such as Dennis Ferrer and Booka Shade, with the former's production style having evolved from the New York soulful house scene and the latter's roots in techno. Numerous live performance events dedicated to house music were founded during the course of the decade, including Shambhala Music Festival and major industry sponsored events like Miami's Winter Music Conference. The genre even gained popularity through events like Creamfields. In the late 2000s, house style witnessed renewed chart success thanks to acts such as Daft Punk, Deadmau5, Fedde Le Grand, David Guetta, and Calvin Harris.[citation needed]

2010s

See also: Big room house, future house, bass house, and tropical house
 
Swedish House Mafia and Italian DJ Benny Benassi performing in 2011.

During the 2010s multiple new sounds in house music were developed by DJs, producers and artists. Sweden pioneered the "Festival progressive house" genre with the emergence of Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, and Steve Angello. While all three artists had solo careers, when they formed a trio called Swedish House Mafia, it showed that house could still produce chart-topping hits, such as their 2012 single "Don't You Worry Child", which cracked the Billboard top 10. Avicii was a Swedish DJ/artist known for his hits such as "Hey Brother", "Wake Me Up", "Addicted to You", "The Days", "The Nights", "Levels", "Waiting for Love", "Without You", and "I Could Be the One" with Nicky Romero. Fellow Swedish DJ/artist Alesso collaborated with Calvin Harris, Usher, and David Guetta.[106] In France, Justice blended garage and alternative rock influences into their pop-infused house tracks, creating a big and funky sound.

During the 2010s, in the UK and in the US, many records labels stayed true to the original house music sound from the 1980s. It includes labels like Dynamic Music, Defected Records, Dirtybird, Fuse London, Exploited, Pampa, Cajual Records, Hot Creations, Get Physical, and Pets Recordings.[107]

Netherlands brought together a concept of "Dirty Dutch", an electro house subgenre characterized by abrasive lead synths and darker arpeggios, with prominent DJs being Chuckie, Hardwell, Laidback Luke, Afrojack, R3hab, Bingo Players, Quintino and Alvaro. Elsewhere, fusion genres derivative of 2000s progressive house returned, especially with the help of DJs/artists Calvin Harris, Eric Prydz, Mat Zo, Above & Beyond and Fonzerelli in Europe.[citation needed]

 
Avicii in 2011 in Paris

Diplo, a DJ/producer from Tupelo, Mississippi, was able to blend underground sounds with mainstream styles. As he came from the Southern US, Diplo fused house music with rap and dance/pop, while also integrating more obscure Southern US genres. Other North Americans playing house music include the Canadian Deadmau5 (known for his unusual mask and unique musical style), Kaskade, Steve Aoki, Porter Robinson and Wolfgang Gartner. The growing popularity of such artists led to the emergence of electro house and progressive house sounds in popular music, such as singles like David Guetta feat. Avicii "Sunshine" [108] and Axwell's remix of "In The Air".[109][110]

Big room house was increasingly popular since 2010, through international dance music festivals such as Tomorrowland, Ultra Music Festival, and Electric Daisy Carnival. In addition to these popular examples of house, there has also been a reunification of contemporary house and its roots. Many hip hop and R&B artists also turned to house music to add a mass appeal and dance floor energy to the music they produce. Tropical house went onto the top 40 on the UK Singles Chart in 2015 with artists such as Kygo and Jonas Blue. In the mid-2010s, the influences of house began to also be seen in Korean K-pop music, examples of this being f(x)'s single "4 Walls" and SHINee's title track "View".

Later in the 2010s, a more traditional house sound came to the forefront of the mainstream in the UK, with Calvin Harris's singles "One Kiss" and "Promises", with the latter also incorporating elements of nu-disco and Italo house. These singles both went to No.1 in the UK.[111][112]

2020s

See also: Amapiano, Brazilian bass, and slap house
 
Drake (pictured in 2016) released a house album Honestly, Nevermind in 2022.

In the late 2010s and early 2020s, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic,[113][114] the South African offshoot of house music, called amapiano became popular first in South Africa, and then later spread to London and elsewhere worldwide, largely due to online music distribution.[115] Amapiano draws heavily from earlier kwaito house music of South Africa and from jazz and chill-out music.[116] In 2022, the music portal Beatport added "amapiano" genre to its catalogue.[117]

During the late 2010s and early 2020s and partially due to YouTube music channels, closely related house subgenres Brazilian bass and slap house became popular worldwide, drawing from deep house and menacing basslines of tech house.[118][119]

In 2020, American singer Lady Gaga released Chromatica, which was her return to her dance roots towards deep house, french house, electro house and disco house[120][121]

In 2022, Canadian rapper Drake released Honestly, Nevermind, which was a surprise departure from his signature hip hop, R&B & trap music sound towards house music and its derivativates: Jersey club, amapiano[122][123] and ballroom.[124] American singer Beyoncé's album Renaissance, also released in 2022, incorporated ballroom house.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "House Music Genre Overview - AllMusic". AllMusic. from the original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  2. ^ Fritz, Jimi (2000). Rave Culture: An Insider'sOverview. SmallFry Press. p. 94. ISBN 9780968572108.
  3. ^ "Explore music ... Genre: Hi-NRG". AllMusic. from the original on 17 June 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  4. ^ Gilbert, Jeremy; Pearson, Ewan (2002). Discographies: Dance, Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound. Routledge. p. ??. ISBN 9781134698929.
  5. ^ Langford, Simon (2014). The Remix Manual: The Art and Science of Dance Music Remixing with Logic. CRC Press. p. 99. ISBN 9781136114625.
  6. ^ Walters, Barry (1986): Burning Down the House 5 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine. SPIN magazine. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  7. ^ Malnig, Julie (2009). Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader. University of Illinois Press. p. 213. ISBN 9780252075650.
  8. ^ a b c Vincent, Rickey (4 November 2014). Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 9781466884526. from the original on 25 December 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ "Jesse Saunders - On And On". Discogs. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  10. ^ "Tempo and genre | Learning Music (Beta)". learningmusic.ableton.com. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  11. ^ Fikentscher, Kai (July–August 2000). (PDF). UNESCO Courier. UNESCO: 47. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2012. Around 1986/7, after the initial explosion of house music in Chicago, it became clear that the major recording companies and media institutions were reluctant to market this genre of music, associated with gay African Americans, on a mainstream level. House artists turned to Europe, chiefly London but also cities such as Amsterdam, Berlin, Manchester, Milan, Zurich, and Tel Aviv. ... A third axis leads to Japan where, since the late 1980s, New York club DJs have had the opportunity to play guest-spots.
  12. ^ Rick Snoman, Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys, and Techniques, page 267 26 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine, CRC Press
  13. ^ a b c Hydlide (12 October 2016). "Basic Elements: House Music". www.reasonexperts.com. Reason. from the original on 19 May 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2020. Reasonexperts Propellerhead Reason tutorials made by Hydlide
  14. ^ Acland, Charles R. (2007). Residual Media . Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816644728. Quote: "The legacy of musical adventures with Latin dance music can still be heard in, for example, the dominance of salsa clave rhythms in the riffs of house music."
  15. ^ a b c d e f g Rietveld, Hillegonda C. (1998). This is our House: House Music, Cultural Spaces and Technologies, Aldershot Ashgate. Reissue: London/New York: Routledge 2018/2020. ISBN 036713411X. Cited from online book preview 8 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine, 20 January 2020.
  16. ^ a b Warwick, Oli (2 April 2019). "House music changed clubbing forever. From disco to footwork, via Frankie Knuckles, Mr Fingers and techno, here are the basics you need to know before stepping onto the dancefloor". www.redbull.com. Red Bull. from the original on 8 October 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  17. ^ Kernodle, Tammy Lynn; Maxile, Horace Joseph. Encyclopedia of African American Music, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO, 2011. p. 406
  18. ^ a b c d e f g h Kernodle, Tammy Lynn; Maxile, Horace Joseph. Encyclopedia of African American Music, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO, 2011. p. 405
  19. ^ a b Gerstner, David A. (2012). Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture. Routledge. p. 154. ISBN 9781136761812.
  20. ^ Inglis, Sam (November 2004). "Secrets Of House & Trance Darren Tate's Production Tips". /soundonsound.com. Sound on Sound. from the original on 11 May 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  21. ^ a b Snoman, Rick (2009). The Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys, and Techniques — Second Edition. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Press. p.233
  22. ^ "House". Encyclopædia Britannica. from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 1 May 2007.
  23. ^ Rule, Greg (August 1997). "The Father of Chicago House". Keyboard. 23 (8): 65.
  24. ^ a b c d Horn, David, ed. (2012). Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Genres: North America. The Continuum International Publishing Group. doi:10.5040/9781501329203-0014040. ISBN 978-1-5013-2920-3.
  25. ^ Frankie Knuckles (featured subject); Hindmarch, Carl (director) (2001). Pump Up The Volume (Television production). Channel Four.
  26. ^ Arnold, Jacob (7 January 2010). "Leonard "Remix" Rroy, Chicago's Unsung House DJ". gridface. from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
  27. ^ Fleming, Jonathan (1995). What Kind Of House Party Is This. London: MIY Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-0-9523932-1-4.
  28. ^ Bidder, Sean (2001). Pump Up the Volume: A History of House. London: Channel 4. ISBN 978-0-7522-1986-8.
  29. ^ Chip E. (interviewee); Hindmarch, Carl (director) (2001). Pump Up The Volume (Television production). Channel Four. If you were a DJ in Chicago, if you wanted to have 'the' records, there was only one place to go and that was Importes. This is where Importes was. People come in, they're looking for 'Warehouse music', and we would put, you know, 'As heard at the Warehouse' or 'As played at the Warehouse', and then eventually we just shortened that down to – because people also just in the vernacular, they started saying 'yeah, what's up with that 'House music' – now at this time they were talkin' about the old, old classics, the Salsoul, the Philly classics and such – so we put on the labels for the bins, we'd say 'House music'. And people would start comin' in eventually and just start askin', 'yeah, where's the new House music?'
  30. ^ George, Nelson (21 June 1986). "House Music: Will It Join Rap And Go-Go?". Billboard. Vol. 99, no. 25. p. 27. from the original on 28 December 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2011. The term 'house music' has become a generic phrase for modern dance-oriented music," says Jones. "At one time the phrase 'old house music' was used to refer to old disco music. Now 'house' is used to describe the new music.
  31. ^ Bainbridge, Luke (22 February 2014). "Acid house and the dawn of a rave new world". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. from the original on 16 February 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
  32. ^ . www.oldschooldaw.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  33. ^ Cowen, Andrew (30 October 1999). "Sounds Amazing!; Music Live Andrew Cowen previews the giant show at the NEC which offers great new ideas for musicians of all styles and all levels". The Birmingham Post (UK). from the original on 8 October 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2007.
  34. ^ Trask, Simon (December 1988). . Music Technology Magazine. Archived from the original on 15 March 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2008. The word 'house' comes from a record that you only hear in a certain club. The DJs would search out an import that was as obscure as possible, and that would be a house record. You'd hear a certain record only at the Powerplant, and that was Frankie Knuckles' house record. But you couldn't really be guaranteed an exclusive on an import, 'cos even if there were only 10 or 15 copies in the country, another DJ would track one down. So the DJs came up with the concept of making their own house records. It was like 'hey, I know I've got an exclusive because I made the record. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  35. ^ "House Dance". mywaydance.com. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  36. ^ Apolonia and Ofilio (7 June 2011). "What is HOUSE DANCE - House Dancing roots, history and key dancers". GADFLY. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  37. ^ a b "🥁 House — slurp documentation". slurp.readthedocs.io. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  38. ^ Turtoga, Jomarie. "Dance.docx". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  39. ^ a b c Reynolds, Simon (1999) [1998]. Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of House Music and Rave Culture. Routledge. pp. 27–31.
  40. ^ "A Brief History of House Music". complex.com. from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  41. ^ (C) (4 October 2007). . laist.com. LAist. Archived from the original on 6 November 2017. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  42. ^ Caswell, Estelle (16 July 2019). "How Chicago built house music from the ashes of disco". Vox. from the original on 7 December 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  43. ^ "House". www.allmusic.com. AllMusic. from the original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  44. ^ Rogers, Jude. "Why Kraftwerk are still the world's most influential band". The Observer. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  45. ^ . Beatport. Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  46. ^ Yellow Magic Orchestra at AllMusic
  47. ^ Solid State Survivor at AllMusic
  48. ^ RBMA (2011): Frankie Knuckles: A journey to the roots of house music. Red Bull Music Academy. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  49. ^ "House Roots". 2021.
  50. ^ Brewster, Bill (2014). "Ron Hardy, Chicago Legend—If Frankie Knuckles is the Godfather of House, Ron Hardy was its Baron Frankenstein", Djhistory.com, 2014-06-01. . Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  51. ^ . Housegroove.net. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
  52. ^ Burgess, Richard James (17 August 2014). The History of Music Production. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199357178. from the original on 8 October 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020 – via Google Books.
  53. ^ Pattison, Louis (10 April 2010). "Charanjit Singh, acid house pioneer". The Guardian. from the original on 2 December 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  54. ^ Aitken, Stuart (10 May 2011). "Charanjit Singh on how he invented acid house ... by mistake". The Guardian. from the original on 2 December 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  55. ^ William Rauscher (12 May 2010). "Charanjit Singh – Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat". Resident Advisor. from the original on 12 January 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
  56. ^ Manzo, V. J.; Kuhn, Will. Interactive Composition: Strategies Using Ableton Live and Max for Live. Oxford University Press, 23 January 2014. p. 134.
  57. ^ Roy, Ron; Borthwick, Stuart (2004). Popular Music Genres: An Introduction. Edinburgh University Press. p. 255. ISBN 9780748617456.
  58. ^ Church, Terry (9 February 2010). "Black History Month: Jesse Saunders and house music". BeatPortal. Archived from the original on 24 April 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
  59. ^ Mitchell, Euan. Interviews: Marshall Jefferson www.4clubbers.net[dead link]
  60. ^ . Fly Global Music Culture. 25 October 2004. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  61. ^ Paoletta, Michael (16 December 1989). "Back To Basics". Dance Music Report: 12.
  62. ^ Graves, Richard (23 April 2015). "History of House: What Was The First HOUSE MUSIC SONG Released in Chicago?". The History of House. from the original on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  63. ^ "house". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  64. ^ Fikentscher, Kai (July–August 2000). (PDF). UNESCO Courier. UNESCO: 28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2012. House music, in particular, is often held up as a kind of banner of cultural diversity owing to its origins in black and Latin discos, where it first found its audience. One could point to the 1980s, when African American producers / DJs, like Frankie Knuckles, Marshall Jefferson or DJ Pierre, began refining the all night dance floor workouts at underground gay and mixed clubs like the legendary Warehouse club in Chicago from which house music derives its name. Or there is DJ Larry Levan, whose residence at New York's Paradise Garage not only defined a distinct subgenre of its own ("garage" is slower and more gospel oriented than "house") but set the tone for today's raves—no alcohol, heavy drug use, a mixed, "up for it crowd" and loud, pulsating music for 15-hour stretches without a break.
  65. ^ Melville, Caspar (July–August 2000). (PDF). UNESCO Courier. UNESCO: 40. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2012. house music was born in the black-latino urban gay clubs of the U.S.
  66. ^ Fikentscher, Kai (July–August 2000). (PDF). UNESCO Courier. UNESCO: 46. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2012. Another New York DJ, Frankie Knuckles, moved to Chicago, following an invitation to become the resident DJ at the Warehouse, a gay black club.
  67. ^ George, Nelson (21 June 1986). "House Music: Will It Join Rap And Go-Go?". Billboard. Vol. 99, no. 25. p. 27. from the original on 28 December 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2011. The initial audience started out black and gay in Chicago, but the genre has since attracted Mexicans and whites as well.
  68. ^ Creekmur, Corey; Doty, Alexander (1995). Out in Culture. Duke University Press. pp. 440–442. ISBN 978-0-8223-1541-4.
  69. ^ Review by Alain_Patrick on Discogs; Interview with DJ Pierre 8 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine in Fader magazine, 4 August 2014.
  70. ^ Iqbal, Mohson (31 January 2008). "Larry Heard: Soul survivor". Resident Advisor. from the original on 12 November 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  71. ^ Unterberger, Richie (1999). Music USA: The Rough Guide. London: Rough Guides. p. 265. ISBN 978-1-85828-421-7. from the original on 1 January 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  72. ^ Shapiro, Peter (2000). Modulations: A History of Electronic Music. Caipirinha Productions Inc. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-8195-6498-6.
  73. ^ Interview with Phuture's DJ Pierre 29 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine in DJ mag, 2014.
  74. ^ Review by Alain_Patrick 8 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine on Discogs; Interview with DJ Pierre 8 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine in Fader Magazine, 4 August 2014.
  75. ^ Cheeseman, Phil. "The History Of House 2013-09-06 at the Wayback Machine".
  76. ^ Jacob Arnold (2017). "When Techno Was House: Jacob Arnold looks at Chicago's impact on the birth of techno". Red Bull Music Academy Daily. from the original on 14 January 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  77. ^ Juan Atkins on Kraftwerk 30 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine, on Electronic Beats, 2012 (retrieved on 26 July 2020).
  78. ^ Bishop, Marlon; Glasspiegel, Wills (14 June 2011). . World Music Productions. Archived from the original on 23 June 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2011. "Neil Rushton came up with the idea to do a compilation for Virgin and call it The House Sound of Detroit. And my track that I put on this record was called 'Techno Music.' And they were like 'wait a minute, if he's deeming this record 'Techno Music' and all the rest of this stuff is similar sounding, let's call it Techno: The New Dance Sound of Detroit.' And hence, that album was released and the name stuck."
  79. ^ On the influence of Chicago house on Derrick May, who says to have been musically "baptised by Ron Hardy", see . Mixmag. 1997. Archived from the original on 30 April 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) The connection was two-sided, as Chicago's house DJ Frankie Knuckles played the song in his club and even suggested its title (see also there).
  80. ^ Derrick May - Strings of Life 26 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine on Attack Magazine, 2018 (retrieved on 26 July 2020).
  81. ^ Savage, Jon (21 February 2009). "The history of the smiley face symbol". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
  82. ^ "love can't turn around | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  83. ^ "Best selling singles of the 80s". Pure80spop.co.uk. from the original on 20 December 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  84. ^ "Chart Archive – 1980s Singles". EveryHit.com. from the original on 22 August 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  85. ^ Matos, Michaelangelo (6 December 2011). "Remembering Larry Levan, 'The Jimi Hendrix Of Dance Music'". NPR. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  86. ^ Magnetic. "The Rave Pioneers: Catching Up With San Francisco's Wicked Sound System". Magnetic Magazine. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  87. ^ "Clubbing and raving back in the day | The Voice Online". archive.voice-online.co.uk. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  88. ^ Duthel, C. Pitbull - Mr. Worldwide. ISBN 9781471090356. from the original on 8 October 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020 – via Google Books.
  89. ^ Farley Jackmaster Funk: Artist page 19 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine on Discogs.
  90. ^ Armando Gallop: Live at the Warehouse DJ Mix 26 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine on 5mag.com.
  91. ^ Biography of Armando 26 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine on AllMusic, retrieved on 27 Juli 2020.
  92. ^ Paul Johnson: Scene #001, release page 13 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine on Discogs.
  93. ^ Arnold, Jacob (15 May 2013). "Dance Mania: Ghetto House's Motown". Resident Advisor. from the original on 9 September 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  94. ^ "Cajmere "Percolator" | Insomniac". Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  95. ^ a b "Garage". AllMusic. from the original on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  96. ^ Saunders, Jesse (2007). House Music: The Real Story. Publish America Baltimore. p. 118. ISBN 9781604740011. New York did not truly develop a recognized House music scene of its own until 1988 with the success of DJ Todd Terry—not until then did they understand what House music truly was all about. They did, though, have Garage.
  97. ^ a b Verderosa, Tony (2002). The techno primer: the essential reference for loop-based music styles. U.S.: Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002. p. 36. ISBN 0634017888.
  98. ^ Sylvan, Robin (2002). Traces of the spirit: the religious dimensions of popular music. U.S.: NYU Press. p. 120. ISBN 0814798098.
  99. ^ "hip hop music: Hip-Hop Archives". www.hiphopmusic.com. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  100. ^ "Acid house and the dawn of a rave new world". the Guardian. 23 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  101. ^ "Phantom on The Dance Floor: A Brief History on Toronto's Twilight Zone Club & How It Transformed a City Forever". 6 September 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  102. ^ "Then & Now: Twilight Zone". Then and Now: Toronto Nightlife History. 16 September 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  103. ^ "Hot 100 – Year-End 1990". Billboard. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  104. ^ Prato, Paolo; Horn, David, eds. (2017). Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Genres: Europe. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. doi:10.5040/9781501326110-0186. ISBN 978-1-5013-2611-0.
  105. ^ . Remix. Penton Media, Inc. 3 August 2005. Archived from the original on 17 September 2009.
  106. ^ . HMV. 18 November 2014. Archived from the original on 24 November 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  107. ^ "13 OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL HOUSE LABELS OF THE LAST DECADE". mixmag. 19 April 2017. from the original on 16 January 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  108. ^ "David Guetta, Deadmau5 Get EDM Some Grammy Shine". MTV. 2 October 2012. from the original on 21 October 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  109. ^ "Dirty South Teams Up With Axwell, Rudy For 'Dreams'". MTV. 22 March 2017. from the original on 20 December 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  110. ^ "Axwell's Iconic Remix Of "In The Air" Turns 8 Years Old". We Rave You. 29 June 2017. from the original on 21 October 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  111. ^ McIntyre, Hugh. "Calvin Harris And Dua Lipa Rocket To No. 1 In The U.K. With 'One Kiss'". Forbes. from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  112. ^ McIntyre, Hugh. "Sam Smith And Calvin Harris Grab Yet Another No. 1 Hit In The U.K. With 'Promises'". Forbes. from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  113. ^ "South Africa: Amapiano, the dance soundtrack to Covid".
  114. ^ Brown, Daryl (15 February 2022). "Amapiano: How this South African sound has become one of the hottest new music genres - CNN". Edition.cnn.com. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  115. ^ Machaieie, Mario (21 October 2019). "2019 The Year Of The Yanos, How Amapiano Blow up". Online Youth Magazine | Zkhiphani.com. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  116. ^ Prspct (21 November 2018). . Archived from the original on 4 March 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  117. ^ "Amapiano added as genre on Beatport". 11 May 2022.
  118. ^ By: admin (8 July 2020). "The rise of slap house". Melodicnation.co.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  119. ^ "Como surgiu o Slap House? Entenda melhor a vertente".
  120. ^ Spanos, Brittany (30 May 2020). "Welcome to 'Chromatica': Inside Lady Gaga's Triumphant Dance Floor Return". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  121. ^ Alessandra Armano (27 May 2020). "Was Lady Gaga Inspired by House Music on Her New Album 'Chromatica'?". HOUSE of Frankie. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  122. ^ "Drake: Honestly, Nevermind Album Review". Pitchfork. 22 June 2022. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  123. ^ Joshi, Tara (17 June 2022). "Drake's Honestly, Nevermind: best served tepid". New Statesman. from the original on 17 June 2022. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  124. ^ Caramanica, Jon (19 June 2022). "Drake Rebuilt Hip-Hop in His Image. Now He Wants You to Dance". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. from the original on 20 June 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.

Further reading

  • Bidder, Sean (2002). Pump Up the Volume: A History of House Music, London: MacMillan. ISBN 0-7522-1986-3
  • Bidder, Sean (1999). The Rough Guide to House Music, Rough Guides. ISBN 1-85828-432-5
  • Brewster, Bill/Frank Broughton (2000). Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey, Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3688-5. UK edition: Headline 1999/2006.
  • Fikentscher, Kai (2000). 'You Better Work!' Underground Dance Music in New York City. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0-8195-6404-4
  • Hewitt, Michael (2008). Music Theory for Computer Musicians. 1st Ed. U.S. Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-1-59863-503-4
  • Kempster, Chris (Ed) (1996). History of House, Castle Communications. ISBN 1-86074-134-7 (A reprinting of magazine articles from the 1980s and 90s)
  • Mireille, Silcott (1999). Rave America: New School Dancescapes, ECW Press. ISBN 1-55022-383-6
  • Reynolds, Simon (1998). Energy Flash: a Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture, (UK title, Pan Macmillan. ISBN 0-330-35056-0), also released in U.S. as Generation Ecstasy : Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, London/New York: Routledge 1999. ISBN 0-415-92373-5
  • Rietveld, Hillegonda C. (1998). This is our House: House Music, Cultural Spaces and Technologies, Aldershot Ashgate. Reissue: London/New York: Routledge 2018/2020. ISBN 036713411X
  • Shapiro, Peter (2000). Modulations: A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound. ISBN 1-891024-06-X.
  • Snoman, Rick (2009). The Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys, and Techniques — Second Edition: Chapter 11: House. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Press. p. 231–249.

External links

  • Barry Walters: Burning Down the House. SPIN magazine, November 1986.
  • Phil Cheeseman: The History of House. DJ Magazine (28 December 2003)
  • – Liner notes on the early history of house (2005)

February 06, 2023
house, music, album, house, music, album, confused, with, house, band, house, music, genre, characterized, repetitive, four, floor, beat, typical, tempo, beats, minute, created, music, producers, from, chicago, underground, club, culture, late, 1970s, began, a. For the album see House Music album Not to be confused with House band House is a music genre characterized by a repetitive four on the floor beat and a typical tempo of 120 beats per minute 10 It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago s underground club culture in the late 1970s as DJs began altering disco songs to give them a more mechanical beat 1 House musicStylistic originsDisco 1 post disco 1 Hi NRG 2 3 4 5 boogie 6 7 electro 8 synth pop 1 dub 1 jazz 1 Cultural originsLate 1970s Chicago Illinois United States 9 Derivative formsAlternative dancebudotsfootworktechnotranceSubgenresAcid housedeep housebig room houseelectro houseghetto househip houseprogressive house complete list Regional scenesCancunChicagoFranceIbizaItalyRussiaSouth AfricaUgandaVenezuelaWestern AsiaOther topicsList of house artistsHouse was pioneered by African American DJs and producers in Chicago such as Frankie Knuckles Ron Hardy Jesse Saunders Chip E Steve Silk Hurley Farley Jackmaster Funk Marshall Jefferson Phuture and others House music expanded to other American cities such as New York City and became a worldwide phenomenon 11 House has had a large effect on pop music especially dance music It was incorporated by major international pop artists including Whitney Houston Janet Jackson Together Again Kylie Minogue Pet Shop Boys and Madonna Vogue but also produced some mainstream hits on its own such as French Kiss by Lil Louis Show Me Love by Robin S or Push the Feeling On by the Nightcrawlers Many house DJs also did and continue to do remixes for pop artists House music has remained popular on radio and in clubs while retaining a foothold on the underground scenes across the globe Contents 1 Characteristics 2 Origins of the term house 3 House dance 4 Social and political aspects 5 History 5 1 Influences and precursors 5 2 1980s Chicago house acid house and deep house 5 2 1 Detroit and techno 5 2 2 UK Acid house rave culture and the Second Summer of Love 5 2 3 Chicago s second wave Hip house and ghetto house 5 2 4 New York and New Jersey Garage house and the Jersey sound 5 2 5 Ibiza 5 2 6 Other regional scenes 5 3 1990s 5 4 2000s 5 5 2010s 5 6 2020s 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksCharacteristics Edit House Music Demo source source A full house music track Problems playing this file See media help The TR 909 drum machine top and TB 303 synthesizer instruments often used in house music source A house rhythm played on a Roland TR 909 drum machine featuring a four on the floor bass drum plus cymbal claps hi hats and rimshots In its most typical form the genre is characterized by repetitive 4 4 rhythms including bass drums off beat hi hats snare drums claps and or snaps at a tempo of between 115 and 125 beats per minute bpm synthesizer riffs deep basslines and often but not necessarily sung spoken or sampled vocals In house the bass drum is usually sounded on beats one two three and four and the snare drum claps or other higher pitched percussion on beats two and four The drum beats in house music are almost always provided by an electronic drum machine often a Roland TR 808 TR 909 12 or a TR 707 Claps shakers snare drum or hi hat sounds are used to add syncopation 13 One of the signature rhythm riffs especially in early Chicago house is built on the clave pattern 14 Congas and bongos may be added for an African sound or metallic percussion for a Latin feel 13 Sometimes the drum sounds are saturated by boosting the gain to create a more aggressive edge 13 One classic subgenre acid house is defined through the squelchy sounds created by the Roland TB 303 bass synthesizer House music could be produced on cheap and consumer friendly electronic equipment and used sound gear which made it easier for independent labels and DJs to create tracks 15 The electronic drum machines and other gear used by house DJs and producers were formerly considered too cheap sounding by proper musicians 16 House music producers typically use sampled instruments rather than bringing in session musicians into a recording studio 17 Even though a key element of house production is layering sounds such as drum machine beats samples synth basslines and so on the overall texture is relatively sparse 18 Unlike pop songs which emphasize higher pitched sounds such as melody in house music the lower pitched bass register is most important 18 House tracks typically involve an intro a chorus various verse sections a midsection and a brief outro Some tracks do not have a verse taking a vocal part from the chorus and repeating the same cycle House music tracks are often based on eight bar sections which are repeated 18 They are often built around bass heavy loops or basslines produced by a synthesizer and or around samples of disco soul 19 jazz funk 8 or funk 19 songs DJs and producers creating a house track to be played in clubs edit a seven or eight minute 12 inch mix if the track is intended to be played on radio a three and a half minute radio edit is used 20 House tracks build up slowly by adding layers of sound and texture and by increasing the volume 18 House tracks may have vocals like a pop song but some are completely minimal instrumental music 18 If a house track does have vocals the vocal lines may also be simple words or phrases that are repeated 18 Origins of the term house Edit House music pioneers Alan King Robert Williams and Derrick Carter One 2009 book states the name house music originated from a Chicago club called the Warehouse which existed from 1977 to 1983 21 Clubbers to the Warehouse were primarily black gay men 22 who came to dance to music played by the club s resident DJ Frankie Knuckles who fans refer to as the godfather of house Frankie began the trend of splicing together different records when he found that the records he had were not long enough to satisfy his audience of dancers 23 After the Warehouse closed in 1983 the crowds went to Knuckles new club The Power Plant 21 while the club was renamed into Music Box with Ron Hardy being resident DJ 24 In the Channel 4 documentary Pump Up the Volume Knuckles remarks that the first time he heard the term house music was upon seeing we play house music on a sign in the window of a bar on Chicago s South Side One of the people in the car with him joked you know that s the kind of music you play down at the Warehouse 25 South Side Chicago DJ Leonard Remix Rroy in self published statements claims he put such a sign in a tavern window because it was where he played music that one might find in one s home in his case it referred to his mother s soul and disco records which he worked into his sets 26 The documentary also explored how house music was something that anyone could do Mostly the documentary looks at some of the DJs from that genre and how they stumbled into the music 24 Farley Jackmaster Funk was quoted as saying In 1982 I was DJing at a club called The Playground and there was this kid named Leonard Remix Rroy who was a DJ at a rival club called The Rink He came over to my club one night and into the DJ booth and said to me I ve got the gimmick that s gonna take all the people out of your club and into mine it s called House music Now where he got that name from or what made him think of it I don t know so the answer lies with him 27 Chip E s 1985 recording It s House may also have helped to define this new form of electronic music 28 However Chip E himself lends credence to the Knuckles association claiming the name came from methods of labeling records at the Importes Etc record store where he worked in the early 1980s bins of music that DJ Knuckles played at the Warehouse nightclub were labelled in the store As Heard at the Warehouse which was shortened to simply House Patrons later asked for new music for the bins which Chip E implies was a demand the shop tried to meet by stocking newer local club hits 29 In a 1986 interview when Rocky Jones the club DJ who ran the D J International record label was asked about the house moniker he did not mention Importes Etc Frankie Knuckles or the Warehouse by name However he agreed that house was a regional catch all term for dance music and that it was once synonymous with older disco music before it became a way to refer to new dance music 30 Larry Heard a k a Mr Fingers claims that the term house came from DJs creating music in home studios using affordable synthesizers and drum machines such as the Roland TB 303 31 Roland TR 808 and TR 909 32 These synthesizers were used to create the acid house subgenre 33 Juan Atkins an originator of Detroit techno claims the term house reflected the association of particular tracks with particular clubs and DJs considered their house records 34 House dance EditMain article House dance At least three styles of dancing are associated with house music jacking footwork and lofting 35 These styles include a variety of techniques and sub styles including skating stomping vosho pouting cat and shuffle steps also see Melbourne shuffle 36 37 House music dancing styles can include movements from many other forms of dance such as waacking voguing capoeira jazz dance Lindy Hop tap dance and even modern dance 38 37 House dancing is associated with a complete freedom of expression 39 One of the primary elements in house dancing is the jack or jacking a style created in the early days of Chicago house that left its trace in numerous record titles such as Time to Jack by Chip E from the Jack Trax EP 1985 Jack n the House 1985 by Farley Jackmaster Funk 1985 or Jack Your Body by Steve Silk Hurley 1986 It involves moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion matching the beat of the music as if a wave were passing through it 39 Social and political aspects EditEarly house lyrics contained positive uplifting messages for all people from every different walk of life but spoke especially to those who were considered to be outsiders especially African Americans Latinos and the gay subculture The house music dance scene was one of the most integrated and progressive spaces in the 1980s the black and gay populations as well as other minority groups were able to dance together in a positive environment 40 House music DJs aimed to create a dream world of emotions with stories keywords and sounds which helped to glue communities together 15 Many house tracks encourage the audience to release yourself or let yourself go which is further encouraged by the continuous dancing incessant beat and use of club drugs which can create a trance like effect on dancers 15 Frankie Knuckles once said that the Warehouse club in Chicago was like church for people who have fallen from grace House record producer Marshall Jefferson compared it to old time religion in the way that people just get happy and screamin 39 The role of a house DJ has been compared to a secular type of priest 15 Some house lyrics contained messages calling for equality unity and freedom of expression beyond racial or sexual differences e g Can You Feel It by Fingers Inc 1987 or Follow Me by Aly Us 1992 Later on in the 1990s but autonomous from the Chicago scene the idea of Peace Love Unity amp Respect PLUR became a widespread set of principles for the rave culture citation needed History EditInfluences and precursors Edit One of the main influences of house was disco house music having been defined as a genre which picked up where disco left off in the late 1970 s 41 42 Like disco DJs house DJs used a slow mix to lin k records together into a mix 15 In the post disco club culture during the early 1980s DJs from the gay scene made their tracks less pop oriented with a more mechanical repetitive beat and deeper basslines and many tracks were made without vocals or with wordless melodies 43 Disco became so popular by the late 1970s that record companies pushed even non disco artists R amp B bands for example to produce disco songs When the backlash against disco started known as Disco Demolition Night dance music went from being produced by major label studios to being created by DJs in the underground club scene 15 While disco was associated with lush orchestration with string orchestra flutes and horn sections various disco songs incorporated sounds produced with synthesizers and electronic drum machines and some compositions were entirely electronic examples include Italian composer Giorgio Moroder s late 1970s productions such as Donna Summer s hit single I Feel Love from 1977 Kraftwerk s The Man Machine album from 1978 44 Cerrone s Supernature 1977 45 Yellow Magic Orchestra s synth disco pop productions from Yellow Magic Orchestra 1978 or Solid State Survivor 1979 46 47 and several early 1980s productions by hi NRG groups like Lime Trans X and Bobby O Frankie Knuckles pictured in 2012 played an important role in developing house music in Chicago during the 1980s 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 amp M and others While most post disco disc jockeys primarily stuck to playing their conventional ensemble and playlist of dance records Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy two influential DJs of house music were known for their unusual and non mainstream playlists and mixing Knuckles was influenced by and worked with New York City club Paradise Garage resident Larry Levan Knuckles often credited as the Godfather of House and resident DJ at the Warehouse from 1977 to 1982 worked primarily with early disco music with a hint of new and different music whether it was post punk or post disco 48 Knuckles started out as a disco DJ but when he moved from New York City to Chicago he changed from the typical disco mixing style of playing records one after another instead he mixed different songs together including Philadelphia soul New York club tracks and Euro disco 18 He also explored adding a drum machine and a reel to reel tape player so he could create new tracks often with a boosted deep register and faster tempos Knuckles said Kraftwerk were main components in the creation of house music in Chicago Back in the early 80s I mixed our 80s Philly sound with the electro beats of Kraftwerk and the Electronic body music bands of Europe 18 49 Ron Hardy produced unconventional DIY mixtapes which he later played straight on in the successor of the Warehouse the Music Box reopened and renamed in 1983 after Knuckles left Like Frankie Knuckles Hardy combined certain sounds remixing tracks with added synths and drum machines all refracted through the futurist lens of European music 16 Marshall Jefferson who would later appear with the 1986 house classic Move Your Body The House Music Anthem originally released on Trax Records describes how he got involved in house music after hearing Ron Hardy s music in the Music Box I wasn t even into dance music before I went to the Music Box I was into rock and roll We would get drunk and listen to rock and roll We didn t give a fuck we were like Disco Sucks and all that I hated dance music cos I couldn t dance I thought dance music was kind of wimpy until I heard it at like Music Box volume Marshall Jefferson 50 A precursor to house music is the Colonel Abrams hit song Trapped produced by Richard James Burgess in 1984 51 referred to as a proto house track and a precursor to garage house 52 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 Cain cites industrial music another genre pioneered in Chicago and post punk record store Wax Trax Records later a record label as an important connection between the ever changing underground sounds of Chicago The electronic instrumentation and minimal arrangement of Charanjit Singh s Synthesizing Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat 1982 an album of Indian ragas performed in a disco style anticipated the sounds of acid house music but it is not known to have had any influence on the genre prior to the album s rediscovery in the 21st century 53 54 55 According to Hillegonda C Rietveld elements of hip hop and rap can be found in contemporary house tracks with hip hop acting as an accent or inflection that is inserted into the house sound 15 The constant bass drum in house music may have arisen from DJs experimenting with adding drum machines to their live mixes at clubs underneath the records they were playing 56 1980s Chicago house acid house and deep house Edit Main articles Chicago house acid house and deep house An honorary street name sign in Chicago for house music and the seminal DJ Frankie Knuckles In the early 1980s Chicago radio jocks Hot Mix 5 from WBMX radio station among them Farley Jackmaster Funk and club DJs Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles played a range of styles of dance music including older disco records mostly Philly disco and Salsoul 57 tracks electro funk tracks by artists such as Afrika Bambaataa 8 newer Italo disco Arthur Baker and John Robie and electronic pop 1 Some DJs made and played their own edits of their favorite songs on reel to reel tape and sometimes mixed in electronic effects drum machines synthesizers and other rhythmic electronic instrumentation The hypnotic electronic dance song On and On produced in 1984 by Chicago DJ Jesse Saunders and co written by Vince Lawrence had typical elements of the early house sound such as the Roland TB 303 bass synthesizer and minimal vocals as well as a Roland TR 808 drum machine and a Korg Poly 61 synthesizer It also utilized the bassline from Player One s disco record Space Invaders 1979 58 On and On is sometimes cited as the first house record 59 60 even though it was a remake of a Disco Bootleg On and On by Florida producer Mach Other examples from around that time such as J M Silk s Music is the Key 1985 have also been cited to be the first house tracks 61 62 Starting in 1985 and 1986 more and more Chicago DJs began producing and releasing original compositions These compositions used newly affordable electronic instruments and enhanced styles of disco and other dance music they already favored These homegrown productions were played on Chicago radio stations and in local clubs catering mainly to Black Mexican Americans and gay audiences 63 64 65 66 67 68 By 1985 house music encompassed these locally produced recordings Subgenres of house including deep house and acid house quickly emerged and gained traction 24 Phuture Acid Tracks 1987 source source Phuture s Acid Tracks is often regarded as the first acid house record It was released in 1987 on Trax Records but is said to have been already played out in 1985 by DJ Ron Hardy at the Music Box nightclub 69 Problems playing this file See media help Deep house s origins can be traced to Chicago producer Mr Fingers s relatively jazzy soulful recordings Mystery of Love 1985 and Can You Feel It 1986 70 According to author Richie Unterberger it moved house music away from its posthuman tendencies back towards the lush soulful sound of early disco music 71 Acid house a rougher and more abstract subgenre arose from Chicago artists experiments with the squelchy sounds of the Roland TB 303 bass synthesizer that define the genre Its origin on vinyl is generally cited as Phuture s Acid Tracks Trax Records 1987 Phuture a group founded by Nathan DJ Pierre Jones Earl Spanky Smith Jr and Herbert Herb J Jackson is credited with having been the first to use the TB 303 in the house music context 72 The group s 12 minute Acid Tracks was recorded to tape and played by DJ Ron Hardy at the Music Box 73 supposedly already in 1985 74 Hardy once played it four times over the course of an evening until the crowd responded favorably 75 Club play of house tracks by pioneering Chicago DJs such as Ron Hardy and Lil Louis local dance music record shops such as Importes Etc State Street Records Loop Records Gramaphone Records and the popular Hot Mix 5 shows on radio station WBMX FM helped popularize house music in Chicago Later visiting DJs and producers from Detroit fell into the genre Trax Records and DJ International Records Chicago labels with wider distribution helped popularize house music inside and outside of Chicago The first major success of house music outside the U S is considered to be Farley Jackmaster Funk s Love Can t Turn Around feat Jesse Saunders and performed by Darryl Pandy which peaked at 10 in the UK singles chart in 1986 Around that time UK record labels started releasing house music by Chicago acts but as the genre grew popular the UK itself became one of the new hot spots for house acid house and techno music experiencing the so called second summer of love between 1988 and 1989 24 Detroit and techno Edit Main articles Detroit techno and techno In Detroit during the early and mid 1980s a new kind of electronic dance music began to emerge around Juan Atkins Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson known as the Belleville Three The artists fused eclectic futuristic sounds into a signature Detroit dance sound that was a main influence for the later techno genre Their music included strong influences from Chicago house although the term house played a less important role in Detroit than in Chicago and the term techno was established instead 76 One of their most successful hits was a vocal house track named Big Fun by Inner City a group produced by Kevin Saunderson in 1988 Another important and even earlier influence on the Detroit artists was electronic music in the tradition of Germany s Kraftwerk 77 Atkins had released electro music in that style with his group Cybotron as early as 1981 Cybotron s best known songs are Cosmic Cars 1982 and Clear 1983 a 1984 release was titled Techno City In 1988 Atkins produced the track Techno Music that was featured on an influential compilation initially planned to be named The House Sound of Detroit but renamed into Techno The New Dance Sound of Detroit after Atkins song 78 The 1987 song Strings of Life by Derrick May under the name Rhythm Is Rhythm represented a darker more intellectual strain of early Detroit electronic dance music It is considered a classic in both the house and techno genre and shows the connection 79 as well as the boundary between house and techno 80 It made way to what was later known as techno in the internationally known sense of the word referring to a harder faster colder more machine driven and minimal sound than house as played by Detroit s Underground Resistance and Jeff Mills UK Acid house rave culture and the Second Summer of Love Edit See also Second Summer of Love and rave A badge bearing a smiley a symbol of the 1980s acid house scene in the UK 81 With house music already important in the 1980s dance club scene eventually house penetrated the UK singles chart London DJ Evil Eddie Richards spun at dance parties as resident at the Clink Street club Richards approach to house focuses on the deep basslines Nicknamed the UK s Godfather of House he and Clink co residents Kid Batchelor and Mr C played a key role in early UK house House first charted in the UK in Wolverhampton following the success of the Northern Soul scene The record generally credited as the first house hit in the UK was Farley Jackmaster Funk s Love Can t Turn Around which reached 10 in the UK singles chart in September 1986 82 In January 1987 Chicago DJ artist Steve Silk Hurley s Jack Your Body reached number one in the UK showing it was possible for house music to achieve crossover success in the main singles chart The same month also saw Raze enter the top 20 with Jack the Groove and several further house hits reached the top ten that year Stock Aitken Waterman SAW expensively produced productions for Mel and Kim including the number one hit Respectable added elements of house to their previous Europop sound SAW session group Mirage scored top ten hits with Jack Mix II and Jack Mix IV medleys of previous electro and Europop hits rearranged in a house music style Key labels in the rise of house music in the UK included citation needed Jack Trax which specialized in licensing US club hits for the British market and released an influential series of compilation albums Rhythm King which was set up as a hip hop label but also issued house records Jive Records Club Records imprintIn March 1987 the UK tour of influential US DJs such as Knuckles Jefferson Fingers Inc Heard and Adonis on the DJ International Tour boosted house s popularity in the UK Following the number one success of MARRS Pump Up The Volume in October in 1987 to 1989 UK acts such as The Beatmasters Krush Coldcut Yazz Bomb The Bass S Express and Italy s Black Box opened the doors to house music success on the UK charts Early British house music quickly set itself apart from the original Chicago house sound Many of the early hits were based on sample montage and unlike the US soulful vocals in UK house rap was often used for vocals far more than in the US and humor and wit was an important element citation needed The second best selling British single of 1988 was an acid house record the Coldcut produced The Only Way Is Up by Yazz 83 84 One of the early club anthems Promised Land by Joe Smooth was covered and charted within a week by UK band The Style Council Europeans embraced house and began booking important American house DJs to play at the big clubs such as Ministry of Sound whose resident Justin Berkmann brought in US pioneer Larry Levan 85 The house music club scene in cities such as Birmingham Leeds Sheffield Wolverhampton and London were provided with dance tracks by many underground Pirate Radio stations Club DJs also brought in new house styles which helped bolster this music genre The earliest UK house and techno record labels such as Warp Records and Network Records otherwise known as Kool Kat records helped introduce American and later Italian dance music to Britain These labels also promoted UK dance music acts By the end of the 1980s UK DJs Jeno Thomas Markie and Garth moved to San Francisco and called their group the Wicked Crew The Wicked Crew s dance sound transmitted UK styles to the US which helped to trigger the birth of the US west coast s rave scene 86 The manager of Manchester s Factory nightclub and co owner of The Hacienda Tony Wilson also promoted acid house culture on his weekly TV show The UK midlands also embraced the late 1980s house scene with illegal parties and raves and more legal dance clubs such as The Hummingbird 87 Chicago s second wave Hip house and ghetto house Edit Main articles Hip house and ghetto house While the acid house hype spawned to the UK and Europe in Chicago itself it reached its peak around 1988 and then declined in popularity citation needed Instead a crossover of house and hip hop music known as hip house became popular Tyree Cooper s single Turn Up the Bass featuring Kool Rock Steady from 1988 was an influential breakthrough for this subgenre although the British trio the Beatmasters claimed having invented the genre with their 1986 release Rok da House 88 Another notable figure in the hip house scene was Fast Eddie with Hip House and Yo Yo Get Funky both 1988 Even Farley Jackmaster Funk engaged himself in the genre releasing Free at Last a song to free James Brown from jail featuring The Hip House Syndicate in 1989 and producing a Real Hip House compilation on his label House Records in 1990 89 The early 1990s saw new Chicago house artists emerge such as Armando Gallop who had released seminal acid house records since 1987 but became even more influential by co founding the new Warehouse nightclub in Chicago on 738 W Randolph Street 90 in which he also was resident DJ from 1992 until 1994 and founding Warehouse Records in 1988 91 Another important figure during the early to mid 1990s until the 2000s was DJ and producer Paul Johnson who released the Warehouse anthem Welcome to the Warehouse on Armando s label in 1994 in collaboration with Armando himself 92 He also had part in the development of an entirely new kind of Chicago house sound ghetto house which was prominently released and popularized through the Dance Mania record label It was originally founded by Jesse Saunders in 1985 but passed on to Raymond Barney in 1988 It featured notable ghetto house artists like DJ Funk DJ Deeon DJ Milton Paul Johnson and others The label is regarded as hugely influential in the history of Chicago house music and has been described as ghetto house s Motown 93 One of the prototypes for Dance Mania s new ghetto house sound was the single It s Time for the Percolator by Cajmere also known as Green Velvet from 1992 94 Cajmere started the labels Cajual Records and Relief Records the latter combining the sound of Chicago acid and ghetto house with the harder sound of techno By the early 1990s artists of note on those two labels included Dajae DJ Sneak Derrick Carter DJ Rush Paul Johnson Joe Lewis and Glenn Underground New York and New Jersey Garage house and the Jersey sound Edit Main articles Garage house and New Jersey house Building in New York City where the Paradise Garage nightclub was located While house conquered UK and continental Europe the scene in the U S had still not progressed beyond a small number of clubs in Chicago Detroit New York City and Newark In New York and Newark the terms garage house garage music or simply garage and Jersey sound or New Jersey house were coined for a deeper more soulful R amp B derived subgenre of house that was developed in the Paradise Garage nightclub in New York City and Club Zanzibar in Newark New Jersey during the early to mid 1980s It is argued that garage house predates the development of Chicago house as it is relatively closer to disco than other dance styles 95 As Chicago house gained international popularity New York s and New Jersey s music scene was distinguished from the house umbrella 95 96 In comparison to other forms of house music garage house and Jersey sound include more gospel influenced piano riffs and female vocals 97 The genre was popular in the 1980s in the United States and the 1990s in the United Kingdom 97 DJs playing it include Tony Humphries at Club Zanzibar Larry Levan who was resident DJ at the Paradise Garage from 1977 to 1987 Todd Terry Kerri Chandler Masters at Work Junior Vasquez and others 98 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 Nu Groove also had a stable of other NYC underground scene DJs The Burrell s created the New York Underground sound of house and they did more than 30 releases on this label featuring this sound The emergence of New York s DJ and producer Todd Terry in 1988 demonstrated the continuum from the underground disco approach to a new and commercially successful house sound Terry s cover of Class Action s Weekend mixed by Larry Levan shows how Terry drew on newer hip hop influences such as the quicker sampling and the more rugged basslines 99 citation needed Ibiza Edit See also Balearic beat House was also being developed by DJs and record producers in the booming dance club scene in Ibiza notably when DJ Alfredo the father of Balearic house began his residency at Amnesia in 1983 when While no house artists or labels came from this tiny island at the time mixing experiments and innovations done by Ibiza DJs helped to influence the house style By the mid 1980s a distinct Balearic mix of house was discernible Several influential clubs in Ibiza such as Amnesia with DJ Alfredo at the decks were playing a mix of rock pop disco and house These clubs fuelled by their distinctive sound and copious consumption of the club drug Ecstasy MDMA began to influence the British scene By late 1987 DJs such as Trevor Fung Paul Oakenfold and Danny Rampling were bringing the Ibiza sound to key UK clubs such as the Hacienda in Manchester Ibiza influences also spread to DJs working London clubs such as Shoom in Southwark Heaven Future and Spectrum 100 Other regional scenes Edit This photo of a deep house DJ shows the pair of turntables and the DJ mixer in between By the late 1980s house DJing and production had moved to the US s west coast particularly to San Francisco Oakland Los Angeles Fresno San Diego and Seattle Los Angeles saw an explosion of underground raves where DJs mixed dance tracks L A DJs Marques Wyatt and Billy Long spun at Jewel s Catch One In 1989 the L A based former EBN OZN singer rapper Robert Ozn started indie house label One Voice Records Ozn released the Mike Hitman Wilson remix of Dada Nada s Haunted House which garnered club and mix show radio play in Chicago Detroit and New York as well as in the UK and France The record went up to number five on the Billboard Club Chart marking it as the first house record by a white Caucasian artist to chart in the U S Dada Nada the moniker for Ozn s solo act did his first releases in 1990 using a jazz based deep house style The Frankie Knuckles and David Morales remix of Dada Nada s Deep Love One Voice Records in the US Polydor in the UK featuring Ozn s lush crooning vocals and jazzy improvisational solos by muted trumpet underscored deep house s progression into a genre that integrated jazz and pop songwriting and song forms unlike acid house and techno citation needed The Twilight Zone 1980 89 located on Richmond Street in Toronto s entertainment district was the first after hours club to regularly feature New York and Chicago DJs that first spun house music in Canada 101 The venue would prove to be the first international gig destination for both Frankie Knuckles and David Morales One of the club s owners Tony Assoon would make regular trips to New York in order to purchase funk underground disco and house records to dish out on his regular Saturday night slot 102 1990s Edit See also Eurodance French House ambient house and tech house In 1990 Italo house group Black Box gained big hit Everybody Everybody on US Billboard Hot 100 103 In Britain further experiments in the genre boosted its appeal House and rave clubs such as Lakota and Cream emerged across Britain hosting house and dance scene events The chilling out concept developed in Britain with ambient house albums such as The KLF s Chill Out and Analogue Bubblebath by Aphex Twin The Godskitchen superclub brand also began in the midst of the early 1990s rave scene After initially hosting small nights in Cambridge and Northampton the associated events scaled up at the Sanctuary Music Arena in Milton Keynes in Birmingham and in Leeds A new indie dance scene also emerged in the 1990s In New York bands such as Deee Lite with Bootsy Collins furthered house s international influence In England one of the few licensed venues was the Eclipse which attracted people from up and down the country as it was open until the early hours Due to the lack of licensed legal dance event venues house music promoters began organising illegal events in unused warehouses aeroplane hangars and in the countryside The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 was a government attempt to ban large rave dance events featuring music with repetitive beats due to law enforcement allegations that these events were associated with illegal club drugs There were a number of Kill the Bill demonstrations by rave and electronic dance music fans The Spiral Tribe dance event at Castle Morten was the last of these illegal raves as the bill which became law in November 1994 made unauthorised house music dance events illegal in the UK Despite the new law the music continued to grow and change as typified by Leftfield with Release the Pressure which introduced dub and reggae into the house sound A new generation of clubs such as Liverpool s Cream and the Ministry of Sound were opened to provide a venue for more commercial house sounds Major record companies began to open superclubs promoting their own groups and acts These superclubs entered into sponsorship deals initially with fast food soft drink and clothing companies Flyers in clubs in Ibiza often sported many corporate logos from sponsors A new subgenre Chicago hard house was developed by DJs such as Bad Boy Bill DJ Lynnwood and DJ Irene Richard Humpty Vission mixing elements of Chicago house funky house and hard house Additionally producers such as George Centeno Darren Ramirez and Martin O Cairo developed the Los Angeles Hard House sound Similar to gabber or hardcore techno from the Netherlands this was associated with the rebel underground club subculture of the time Towards the end of the 1990s and into the 2000s French DJ producers such as Daft Punk Bob Sinclar Stardust Cassius St Germain and DJ Falcon began producing a new sound in Paris club scene Together they laid the groundwork for what would be known as the French house movement They combined the harder edged yet soulful philosophy of Chicago house with the melodies of obscure funk records By using state of the art digital production techniques blended with the retro sound of old school analog synthesizers they created a new sound and style which influenced house music around the world 104 2000s Edit See also Electroclash and electro house Chicago Mayor Richard M Daley proclaimed 10 August 2005 to be House Unity Day in Chicago in celebration of the 21st anniversary of house music actually the 21st anniversary of the founding of Trax Records an independent Chicago based house label The proclamation recognized Chicago as the original home of house music and that the music s original creators were inspired by the love of their city with the dream that someday their music would spread a message of peace and unity throughout the world DJs such as Frankie Knuckles Marshall Jefferson Paul Johnson and Mickey Oliver celebrated the proclamation at the Summer Dance Series an event organized by Chicago s Department of Cultural Affairs 105 It was during this decade that vocal house became firmly established both in the underground and as part of the pop market and labels such as Defected Records Roule and Om were at the forefront of championing the emerging sound In the mid 2000s fusion genres such as electro house and fidget house emerged citation needed This fusion is apparent in the crossover of musical styles by artists such as Dennis Ferrer and Booka Shade with the former s production style having evolved from the New York soulful house scene and the latter s roots in techno Numerous live performance events dedicated to house music were founded during the course of the decade including Shambhala Music Festival and major industry sponsored events like Miami s Winter Music Conference The genre even gained popularity through events like Creamfields In the late 2000s house style witnessed renewed chart success thanks to acts such as Daft Punk Deadmau5 Fedde Le Grand David Guetta and Calvin Harris citation needed 2010s Edit See also Big room house future house bass house and tropical house Swedish House Mafia and Italian DJ Benny Benassi performing in 2011 During the 2010s multiple new sounds in house music were developed by DJs producers and artists Sweden pioneered the Festival progressive house genre with the emergence of Sebastian Ingrosso Axwell and Steve Angello While all three artists had solo careers when they formed a trio called Swedish House Mafia it showed that house could still produce chart topping hits such as their 2012 single Don t You Worry Child which cracked the Billboard top 10 Avicii was a Swedish DJ artist known for his hits such as Hey Brother Wake Me Up Addicted to You The Days The Nights Levels Waiting for Love Without You and I Could Be the One with Nicky Romero Fellow Swedish DJ artist Alesso collaborated with Calvin Harris Usher and David Guetta 106 In France Justice blended garage and alternative rock influences into their pop infused house tracks creating a big and funky sound During the 2010s in the UK and in the US many records labels stayed true to the original house music sound from the 1980s It includes labels like Dynamic Music Defected Records Dirtybird Fuse London Exploited Pampa Cajual Records Hot Creations Get Physical and Pets Recordings 107 Netherlands brought together a concept of Dirty Dutch an electro house subgenre characterized by abrasive lead synths and darker arpeggios with prominent DJs being Chuckie Hardwell Laidback Luke Afrojack R3hab Bingo Players Quintino and Alvaro Elsewhere fusion genres derivative of 2000s progressive house returned especially with the help of DJs artists Calvin Harris Eric Prydz Mat Zo Above amp Beyond and Fonzerelli in Europe citation needed Avicii in 2011 in ParisDiplo a DJ producer from Tupelo Mississippi was able to blend underground sounds with mainstream styles As he came from the Southern US Diplo fused house music with rap and dance pop while also integrating more obscure Southern US genres Other North Americans playing house music include the Canadian Deadmau5 known for his unusual mask and unique musical style Kaskade Steve Aoki Porter Robinson and Wolfgang Gartner The growing popularity of such artists led to the emergence of electro house and progressive house sounds in popular music such as singles like David Guetta feat Avicii Sunshine 108 and Axwell s remix of In The Air 109 110 Big room house was increasingly popular since 2010 through international dance music festivals such as Tomorrowland Ultra Music Festival and Electric Daisy Carnival In addition to these popular examples of house there has also been a reunification of contemporary house and its roots Many hip hop and R amp B artists also turned to house music to add a mass appeal and dance floor energy to the music they produce Tropical house went onto the top 40 on the UK Singles Chart in 2015 with artists such as Kygo and Jonas Blue In the mid 2010s the influences of house began to also be seen in Korean K pop music examples of this being f x s single 4 Walls and SHINee s title track View Later in the 2010s a more traditional house sound came to the forefront of the mainstream in the UK with Calvin Harris s singles One Kiss and Promises with the latter also incorporating elements of nu disco and Italo house These singles both went to No 1 in the UK 111 112 2020s Edit See also Amapiano Brazilian bass and slap house Drake pictured in 2016 released a house album Honestly Nevermind in 2022 In the late 2010s and early 2020s exacerbated by the COVID 19 pandemic 113 114 the South African offshoot of house music called amapiano became popular first in South Africa and then later spread to London and elsewhere worldwide largely due to online music distribution 115 Amapiano draws heavily from earlier kwaito house music of South Africa and from jazz and chill out music 116 In 2022 the music portal Beatport added amapiano genre to its catalogue 117 During the late 2010s and early 2020s and partially due to YouTube music channels closely related house subgenres Brazilian bass and slap house became popular worldwide drawing from deep house and menacing basslines of tech house 118 119 In 2020 American singer Lady Gaga released Chromatica which was her return to her dance roots towards deep house french house electro house and disco house 120 121 In 2022 Canadian rapper Drake released Honestly Nevermind which was a surprise departure from his signature hip hop R amp B amp trap music sound towards house music and its derivativates Jersey club amapiano 122 123 and ballroom 124 American singer Beyonce s album Renaissance also released in 2022 incorporated ballroom house See also EditList of electronic music genres List of house music artists Styles of house music Music of the United StatesReferences Edit a b c d e f g House Music Genre Overview AllMusic AllMusic Archived from the original on 6 October 2012 Retrieved 5 September 2016 Fritz Jimi 2000 Rave Culture An Insider sOverview SmallFry Press p 94 ISBN 9780968572108 Explore music Genre Hi NRG AllMusic Archived from the original on 17 June 2012 Retrieved 20 July 2009 Gilbert Jeremy Pearson Ewan 2002 Discographies Dance Music Culture and the Politics of Sound Routledge p ISBN 9781134698929 Langford Simon 2014 The Remix Manual The Art and Science of Dance Music Remixing with Logic CRC Press p 99 ISBN 9781136114625 Walters Barry 1986 Burning Down the House Archived 5 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine SPIN magazine Retrieved 25 April 2014 Malnig Julie 2009 Ballroom Boogie Shimmy Sham Shake A Social and Popular Dance Reader University of Illinois Press p 213 ISBN 9780252075650 a b c Vincent Rickey 4 November 2014 Funk The Music The People and The Rhythm of The One St Martin s Griffin ISBN 9781466884526 Archived from the original on 25 December 2016 Retrieved 5 September 2016 via Google Books Jesse Saunders On And On Discogs Retrieved 28 March 2021 Tempo and genre Learning Music Beta learningmusic ableton com Retrieved 23 February 2022 Fikentscher Kai July August 2000 The Club DJ A Brief History of a Cultural Icon PDF UNESCO Courier UNESCO 47 Archived from the original PDF on 3 March 2016 Retrieved 27 March 2012 Around 1986 7 after the initial explosion of house music in Chicago it became clear that the major recording companies and media institutions were reluctant to market this genre of music associated with gay African Americans on a mainstream level House artists turned to Europe chiefly London but also cities such as Amsterdam Berlin Manchester Milan Zurich and Tel Aviv A third axis leads to Japan where since the late 1980s New York club DJs have had the opportunity to play guest spots Rick Snoman Dance Music Manual Tools Toys and Techniques page 267 Archived 26 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine CRC Press a b c Hydlide 12 October 2016 Basic Elements House Music www reasonexperts com Reason Archived from the original on 19 May 2020 Retrieved 7 January 2020 Reasonexperts Propellerhead Reason tutorials made by Hydlide Acland Charles R 2007 Residual Media Minnesota Press ISBN 9780816644728 Quote The legacy of musical adventures with Latin dance music can still be heard in for example the dominance of salsa clave rhythms in the riffs of house music a b c d e f g Rietveld Hillegonda C 1998 This is our House House Music Cultural Spaces and Technologies Aldershot Ashgate Reissue London New York Routledge 2018 2020 ISBN 036713411X Cited from online book preview Archived 8 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine 20 January 2020 a b Warwick Oli 2 April 2019 House music changed clubbing forever From disco to footwork via Frankie Knuckles Mr Fingers and techno here are the basics you need to know before stepping onto the dancefloor www redbull com Red Bull Archived from the original on 8 October 2020 Retrieved 18 January 2020 Kernodle Tammy Lynn Maxile Horace Joseph Encyclopedia of African American Music Volume 1 ABC CLIO 2011 p 406 a b c d e f g h Kernodle Tammy Lynn Maxile Horace Joseph Encyclopedia of African American Music Volume 1 ABC CLIO 2011 p 405 a b Gerstner David A 2012 Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture Routledge p 154 ISBN 9781136761812 Inglis Sam November 2004 Secrets Of House amp Trance Darren Tate s Production Tips soundonsound com Sound on Sound Archived from the original on 11 May 2020 Retrieved 7 January 2020 a b Snoman Rick 2009 The Dance Music Manual Tools Toys and Techniques Second Edition Oxford UK Elsevier Press p 233 House Encyclopaedia Britannica Archived from the original on 29 September 2007 Retrieved 1 May 2007 Rule Greg August 1997 The Father of Chicago House Keyboard 23 8 65 a b c d Horn David ed 2012 Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Genres North America The Continuum International Publishing Group doi 10 5040 9781501329203 0014040 ISBN 978 1 5013 2920 3 Frankie Knuckles featured subject Hindmarch Carl director 2001 Pump Up The Volume Television production Channel Four Arnold Jacob 7 January 2010 Leonard Remix Rroy Chicago s Unsung House DJ gridface Archived from the original on 18 July 2011 Retrieved 12 January 2011 Fleming Jonathan 1995 What Kind Of House Party Is This London MIY Publishing Ltd ISBN 978 0 9523932 1 4 Bidder Sean 2001 Pump Up the Volume A History of House London Channel 4 ISBN 978 0 7522 1986 8 Chip E interviewee Hindmarch Carl director 2001 Pump Up The Volume Television production Channel Four If you were a DJ in Chicago if you wanted to have the records there was only one place to go and that was Importes This is where Importes was People come in they re looking for Warehouse music and we would put you know As heard at the Warehouse or As played at the Warehouse and then eventually we just shortened that down to because people also just in the vernacular they started saying yeah what s up with that House music now at this time they were talkin about the old old classics the Salsoul the Philly classics and such so we put on the labels for the bins we d say House music And people would start comin in eventually and just start askin yeah where s the new House music George Nelson 21 June 1986 House Music Will It Join Rap And Go Go Billboard Vol 99 no 25 p 27 Archived from the original on 28 December 2011 Retrieved 14 April 2011 The term house music has become a generic phrase for modern dance oriented music says Jones At one time the phrase old house music was used to refer to old disco music Now house is used to describe the new music Bainbridge Luke 22 February 2014 Acid house and the dawn of a rave new world The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Archived from the original on 16 February 2017 Retrieved 24 January 2017 larry heard equipment from 1992 www oldschooldaw com Archived from the original on 10 October 2016 Retrieved 8 October 2016 Cowen Andrew 30 October 1999 Sounds Amazing Music Live Andrew Cowen previews the giant show at the NEC which offers great new ideas for musicians of all styles and all levels The Birmingham Post UK Archived from the original on 8 October 2020 Retrieved 11 August 2007 Trask Simon December 1988 Future Shock Juan Atkins Interview Music Technology Magazine Archived from the original on 15 March 2008 Retrieved 5 April 2008 The word house comes from a record that you only hear in a certain club The DJs would search out an import that was as obscure as possible and that would be a house record You d hear a certain record only at the Powerplant and that was Frankie Knuckles house record But you couldn t really be guaranteed an exclusive on an import cos even if there were only 10 or 15 copies in the country another DJ would track one down So the DJs came up with the concept of making their own house records It was like hey I know I ve got an exclusive because I made the record a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help House Dance mywaydance com Retrieved 29 April 2021 Apolonia and Ofilio 7 June 2011 What is HOUSE DANCE House Dancing roots history and key dancers GADFLY Retrieved 21 May 2021 a b House slurp documentation slurp readthedocs io Retrieved 17 June 2022 Turtoga Jomarie Dance docx a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help a b c Reynolds Simon 1999 1998 Generation Ecstasy Into the World of House Music and Rave Culture Routledge pp 27 31 A Brief History of House Music complex com Archived from the original on 6 October 2020 Retrieved 12 January 2020 C 4 October 2007 Understanding House Music laist com LAist Archived from the original on 6 November 2017 Retrieved 7 January 2020 Caswell Estelle 16 July 2019 How Chicago built house music from the ashes of disco Vox Archived from the original on 7 December 2019 Retrieved 12 January 2020 House www allmusic com AllMusic Archived from the original on 6 October 2012 Retrieved 7 January 2020 Rogers Jude Why Kraftwerk are still the world s most influential band The Observer Retrieved 30 June 2022 Cerrone Bio Beatport Archived from the original on 4 June 2012 Retrieved 27 August 2012 Yellow Magic Orchestra at AllMusic Solid State Survivor at AllMusic RBMA 2011 Frankie Knuckles A journey to the roots of house music Red Bull Music Academy Retrieved 1 June 2014 House Roots 2021 Brewster Bill 2014 Ron Hardy Chicago Legend If Frankie Knuckles is the Godfather of House Ron Hardy was its Baron Frankenstein Djhistory com 2014 06 01 Ron Hardy Chicago Legend DJhistory com Archived from the original on 23 February 2014 Retrieved 17 May 2014 History of House Music Housegroove net Archived from the original on 7 October 2011 Retrieved 8 October 2011 Burgess Richard James 17 August 2014 The History of Music Production Oxford University Press ISBN 9780199357178 Archived from the original on 8 October 2020 Retrieved 14 September 2020 via Google Books Pattison Louis 10 April 2010 Charanjit Singh acid house pioneer The Guardian Archived from the original on 2 December 2016 Retrieved 14 December 2016 Aitken Stuart 10 May 2011 Charanjit Singh on how he invented acid house by mistake The Guardian Archived from the original on 2 December 2016 Retrieved 14 December 2016 William Rauscher 12 May 2010 Charanjit Singh Synthesizing Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat Resident Advisor Archived from the original on 12 January 2012 Retrieved 3 June 2011 Manzo V J Kuhn Will Interactive Composition Strategies Using Ableton Live and Max for Live Oxford University Press 23 January 2014 p 134 Roy Ron Borthwick Stuart 2004 Popular Music Genres An Introduction Edinburgh University Press p 255 ISBN 9780748617456 Church Terry 9 February 2010 Black History Month Jesse Saunders and house music BeatPortal Archived from the original on 24 April 2015 Retrieved 10 April 2010 Mitchell Euan Interviews Marshall Jefferson www 4clubbers net dead link Finding Jesse The Discovery of Jesse Saunders As the Founder of House Fly Global Music Culture 25 October 2004 Archived from the original on 22 March 2012 Retrieved 14 August 2012 Paoletta Michael 16 December 1989 Back To Basics Dance Music Report 12 Graves Richard 23 April 2015 History of House What Was The First HOUSE MUSIC SONG Released in Chicago The History of House Archived from the original on 4 August 2016 Retrieved 25 May 2016 house Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc Archived from the original on 19 March 2012 Retrieved 5 June 2012 Fikentscher Kai July August 2000 Youth s sonic forces The club DJ a brief history of a cultural icon PDF UNESCO Courier UNESCO 28 Archived from the original PDF on 3 March 2016 Retrieved 27 March 2012 House music in particular is often held up as a kind of banner of cultural diversity owing to its origins in black and Latin discos where it first found its audience One could point to the 1980s when African American producers DJs like Frankie Knuckles Marshall Jefferson or DJ Pierre began refining the all night dance floor workouts at underground gay and mixed clubs like the legendary Warehouse club in Chicago from which house music derives its name Or there is DJ Larry Levan whose residence at New York s Paradise Garage not only defined a distinct subgenre of its own garage is slower and more gospel oriented than house but set the tone for today s raves no alcohol heavy drug use a mixed up for it crowd and loud pulsating music for 15 hour stretches without a break Melville Caspar July August 2000 Mapping the meanings of dance music PDF UNESCO Courier UNESCO 40 Archived from the original PDF on 3 March 2016 Retrieved 27 March 2012 house music was born in the black latino urban gay clubs of the U S Fikentscher Kai July August 2000 The club DJ a brief history of a cultural icon PDF UNESCO Courier UNESCO 46 Archived from the original PDF on 3 March 2016 Retrieved 27 March 2012 Another New York DJ Frankie Knuckles moved to Chicago following an invitation to become the resident DJ at the Warehouse a gay black club George Nelson 21 June 1986 House Music Will It Join Rap And Go Go Billboard Vol 99 no 25 p 27 Archived from the original on 28 December 2011 Retrieved 14 April 2011 The initial audience started out black and gay in Chicago but the genre has since attracted Mexicans and whites as well Creekmur Corey Doty Alexander 1995 Out in Culture Duke University Press pp 440 442 ISBN 978 0 8223 1541 4 Review by Alain Patrick on Discogs Interview with DJ Pierre Archived 8 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine in Fader magazine 4 August 2014 Iqbal Mohson 31 January 2008 Larry Heard Soul survivor Resident Advisor Archived from the original on 12 November 2012 Retrieved 23 July 2012 Unterberger Richie 1999 Music USA The Rough Guide London Rough Guides p 265 ISBN 978 1 85828 421 7 Archived from the original on 1 January 2016 Retrieved 23 July 2012 Shapiro Peter 2000 Modulations A History of Electronic Music Caipirinha Productions Inc p 32 ISBN 978 0 8195 6498 6 Interview with Phuture s DJ Pierre Archived 29 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine in DJ mag 2014 Review by Alain Patrick Archived 8 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine on Discogs Interview with DJ Pierre Archived 8 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine in Fader Magazine 4 August 2014 Cheeseman Phil The History Of House Archived 2013 09 06 at the Wayback Machine Jacob Arnold 2017 When Techno Was House Jacob Arnold looks at Chicago s impact on the birth of techno Red Bull Music Academy Daily Archived from the original on 14 January 2019 Retrieved 14 January 2019 Juan Atkins on Kraftwerk Archived 30 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine on Electronic Beats 2012 retrieved on 26 July 2020 Bishop Marlon Glasspiegel Wills 14 June 2011 Juan Atkins interview for Afropop Worldwide World Music Productions Archived from the original on 23 June 2011 Retrieved 17 June 2011 Neil Rushton came up with the idea to do a compilation for Virgin and call it The House Sound of Detroit And my track that I put on this record was called Techno Music And they were like wait a minute if he s deeming this record Techno Music and all the rest of this stuff is similar sounding let s call it Techno The New Dance Sound of Detroit And hence that album was released and the name stuck On the influence of Chicago house on Derrick May who says to have been musically baptised by Ron Hardy see Interview Derrick May The Secret of Techno archived Mixmag 1997 Archived from the original on 30 April 2013 Retrieved 25 July 2012 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link The connection was two sided as Chicago s house DJ Frankie Knuckles played the song in his club and even suggested its title see also there Derrick May Strings of Life Archived 26 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine on Attack Magazine 2018 retrieved on 26 July 2020 Savage Jon 21 February 2009 The history of the smiley face symbol The Guardian Retrieved 28 June 2016 love can t turn around full Official Chart History Official Charts Company www officialcharts com Retrieved 2 February 2021 Best selling singles of the 80s Pure80spop co uk Archived from the original on 20 December 2008 Retrieved 14 August 2012 Chart Archive 1980s Singles EveryHit com Archived from the original on 22 August 2012 Retrieved 4 August 2012 Matos Michaelangelo 6 December 2011 Remembering Larry Levan The Jimi Hendrix Of Dance Music NPR Retrieved 2 February 2021 Magnetic The Rave Pioneers Catching Up With San Francisco s Wicked Sound System Magnetic Magazine Retrieved 2 February 2021 Clubbing and raving back in the day The Voice Online archive voice online co uk Retrieved 2 February 2021 Duthel C Pitbull Mr Worldwide ISBN 9781471090356 Archived from the original on 8 October 2020 Retrieved 14 September 2020 via Google Books Farley Jackmaster Funk Artist page Archived 19 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine on Discogs Armando Gallop Live at the Warehouse DJ Mix Archived 26 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine on 5mag com Biography of Armando Archived 26 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine on AllMusic retrieved on 27 Juli 2020 Paul Johnson Scene 001 release page Archived 13 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine on Discogs Arnold Jacob 15 May 2013 Dance Mania Ghetto House s Motown Resident Advisor Archived from the original on 9 September 2018 Retrieved 8 September 2018 Cajmere Percolator Insomniac Retrieved 4 June 2021 a b Garage AllMusic Archived from the original on 4 April 2015 Retrieved 27 August 2011 Saunders Jesse 2007 House Music The Real Story Publish America Baltimore p 118 ISBN 9781604740011 New York did not truly develop a recognized House music scene of its own until 1988 with the success of DJ Todd Terry not until then did they understand what House music truly was all about They did though have Garage a b Verderosa Tony 2002 The techno primer the essential reference for loop based music styles U S Hal Leonard Corporation 2002 p 36 ISBN 0634017888 Sylvan Robin 2002 Traces of the spirit the religious dimensions of popular music U S NYU Press p 120 ISBN 0814798098 hip hop music Hip Hop Archives www hiphopmusic com Retrieved 21 May 2021 Acid house and the dawn of a rave new world the Guardian 23 February 2014 Retrieved 17 February 2022 Phantom on The Dance Floor A Brief History on Toronto s Twilight Zone Club amp How It Transformed a City Forever 6 September 2015 Retrieved 12 February 2021 Then amp Now Twilight Zone Then and Now Toronto Nightlife History 16 September 2014 Retrieved 12 February 2021 Hot 100 Year End 1990 Billboard Retrieved 28 June 2022 Prato Paolo Horn David eds 2017 Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Genres Europe Bloomsbury Publishing Plc doi 10 5040 9781501326110 0186 ISBN 978 1 5013 2611 0 Chicago Mayor Declares House Unity Day Remix Penton Media Inc 3 August 2005 Archived from the original on 17 September 2009 My album is coming in the first quarter of 2015 hmv com talks to Alesso HMV 18 November 2014 Archived from the original on 24 November 2014 Retrieved 2 December 2014 13 OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL HOUSE LABELS OF THE LAST DECADE mixmag 19 April 2017 Archived from the original on 16 January 2019 Retrieved 11 January 2019 David Guetta Deadmau5 Get EDM Some Grammy Shine MTV 2 October 2012 Archived from the original on 21 October 2017 Retrieved 21 October 2017 Dirty South Teams Up With Axwell Rudy For Dreams MTV 22 March 2017 Archived from the original on 20 December 2017 Retrieved 21 October 2017 Axwell s Iconic Remix Of In The Air Turns 8 Years Old We Rave You 29 June 2017 Archived from the original on 21 October 2017 Retrieved 21 October 2017 McIntyre Hugh Calvin Harris And Dua Lipa Rocket To No 1 In The U K With One Kiss Forbes Archived from the original on 24 July 2019 Retrieved 22 November 2019 McIntyre Hugh Sam Smith And Calvin Harris Grab Yet Another No 1 Hit In The U K With Promises Forbes Archived from the original on 24 July 2019 Retrieved 22 November 2019 South Africa Amapiano the dance soundtrack to Covid Brown Daryl 15 February 2022 Amapiano How this South African sound has become one of the hottest new music genres CNN Edition cnn com Retrieved 3 July 2022 Machaieie Mario 21 October 2019 2019 The Year Of The Yanos How Amapiano Blow up Online Youth Magazine Zkhiphani com Retrieved 29 October 2019 Prspct 21 November 2018 New age house music the rise of amapiano Archived from the original on 4 March 2020 Retrieved 29 October 2019 Amapiano added as genre on Beatport 11 May 2022 By admin 8 July 2020 The rise of slap house Melodicnation co uk Retrieved 3 July 2022 Como surgiu o Slap House Entenda melhor a vertente Spanos Brittany 30 May 2020 Welcome to Chromatica Inside Lady Gaga s Triumphant Dance Floor Return Rolling Stone Retrieved 12 December 2022 Alessandra Armano 27 May 2020 Was Lady Gaga Inspired by House Music on Her New Album Chromatica HOUSE of Frankie Retrieved 12 December 2022 Drake Honestly Nevermind Album Review Pitchfork 22 June 2022 Retrieved 3 July 2022 Joshi Tara 17 June 2022 Drake s Honestly Nevermind best served tepid New Statesman Archived from the original on 17 June 2022 Retrieved 17 June 2022 Caramanica Jon 19 June 2022 Drake Rebuilt Hip Hop in His Image Now He Wants You to Dance The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on 20 June 2022 Retrieved 20 June 2022 Further reading EditBidder Sean 2002 Pump Up the Volume A History of House Music London MacMillan ISBN 0 7522 1986 3 Bidder Sean 1999 The Rough Guide to House Music Rough Guides ISBN 1 85828 432 5 Brewster Bill Frank Broughton 2000 Last Night a DJ Saved My Life The History of the Disc Jockey Grove Press ISBN 0 8021 3688 5 UK edition Headline 1999 2006 Fikentscher Kai 2000 You Better Work Underground Dance Music in New York City Middletown Connecticut Wesleyan University Press ISBN 0 8195 6404 4 Hewitt Michael 2008 Music Theory for Computer Musicians 1st Ed U S Cengage Learning ISBN 978 1 59863 503 4 Kempster Chris Ed 1996 History of House Castle Communications ISBN 1 86074 134 7 A reprinting of magazine articles from the 1980s and 90s Mireille Silcott 1999 Rave America New School Dancescapes ECW Press ISBN 1 55022 383 6 Reynolds Simon 1998 Energy Flash a Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture UK title Pan Macmillan ISBN 0 330 35056 0 also released in U S as Generation Ecstasy Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture London New York Routledge 1999 ISBN 0 415 92373 5 Rietveld Hillegonda C 1998 This is our House House Music Cultural Spaces and Technologies Aldershot Ashgate Reissue London New York Routledge 2018 2020 ISBN 036713411X Shapiro Peter 2000 Modulations A History of Electronic Music Throbbing Words on Sound ISBN 1 891024 06 X Snoman Rick 2009 The Dance Music Manual Tools Toys and Techniques Second Edition Chapter 11 House Oxford UK Elsevier Press p 231 249 External links EditBarry Walters Burning Down the House SPIN magazine November 1986 Phil Cheeseman The History of House DJ Magazine 28 December 2003 Tim Lawrence Acid Can You Jack Liner notes on the early history of house 2005 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title House music amp oldid 1137677053, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

article

, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, movie, book, game, games.