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Sinnamon’s ‘Thanks To You’, D-Train’s ‘You’re The One For Me’ and The Peech Boys’ ‘Don’t Make Me Wait’, a record that’s been continually sampled over the last decade, took things in a different direction with their sparse, synthesized sounds that introduced dub effects and drop-outs that had never been heard before.īut it wasn’t just American music laying the groundwork for house. As Disco’s popularity began to fade the underground was beginning to develop a new style that was deeper, and rawer, but still designed to make people dance.ĭisco had already produced the first records to be aimed specifically at DJs with extended 12″ versions that included long percussion breaks for mixing purposes and the early eighties proved a vital turning point. For most people, these were the places that acted as breeding grounds for the music that eventually came to be named after the Warehouse club in Chicago shortened to “House”. In the Warehouse, music was as varied as the clienteles – R&B based Black dance music and disco peppered with things as diverse as The Clash’s ‘Magnificent Seven’. I had to reconstruct the records to work for my dancefloor, to keep the dancefloor happy, as there was no dance music coming out! I’d take the existing songs, change the tempo, layer different bits of percussion over them, to make them more conducive for the dancefloor.” Frankie made it clear the “music” was the focus and as the club sound grew in popularity the crowd became much more diverse. By ‘80/81, when that stuff was all over with, I started working a lot of the soul that was coming out. Levan passed on the role and continued to pave the way for Paradise Garage’s success and it’s place in history as the birthplace of the genre “Garage” in NYC.įrankie once said, “When we first opened in 1977, I was playing a lot of the East Coast records, the Philly stuff, Salsoul. He perfected an intimate setting built around the basics of sound, lighting, and music… Larry was initially asked to fill the role at the Warehouse but he refused to leave NY…and so the legacy of “House” music became Chicago’s through Frankie’s leadership.

DISCO CHICAGO HOW TO

Mancuso taught them how to create “a scene”. It was not only a place of joy but also a place where they became acquainted for the first time with the techniques of House music.

Larry and Frankie attended the Loft parties regularly.

They came to dance to disco music played by the club’s resident DJ, Frankie Knuckles.įrankie was originally from NY and he was friends with Larry Levan and they frequented “The Loft” parties given by David Mancuso for the NYC gay scene. Originally located at 206 South Jefferson Street in Chicago, the Warehouse was patronized by a black and Latino crowd that was largely gay. It is today most famous for being what many consider to be the birthplace “house music” under its first musical director, DJ Frankie Knuckles. The Warehouse (or the “House”) was a nightclub established in Chicago, Illinois in 1977 under the direction of Robert Williams.