"HOUSE MUSIC WILL NEVER DIE!"
While main stream culture was trying to do away with disco, house music revived it. The term house music takes its name from an old Chicago night club called The Warehouse, where DJ Frankie Knuckles mixed old disco classics, new Eurobeat pop and synthesized beats into a frantic high-energy of recycled soul.
It first came to widespread attention in the summer of 1986 when a rash of records imported directly from Chicago began to dominate the playlist of Europe's most influential DJs. Within a matter of months, with virtually no support from the national radio networks, Britain's club scene voted with its feet, and three house records forced their way into the top ten…….Farley "Jackmaster" Funk "Love Can't Turn Around", Raze's "Jack The Groove", and Steve "Silk" Hurley "Jack Your Body". This wave of music gave the club scene a new buzz-word, jacking, the term used by Chicago dancers to describe the frantic body pace of the House Sound.
On Friday nights as a young kid growing up in Chicago, I along with other househeads would run in the house when I knew the DJ crew, Hot Mix 5 were about to come on Chicago radiostation WBMX so I could get my tape recorder (yep I said tape recorder) ready to press that “Play” and “Record” button.
Once I was old enough to sneak into the clubs and hear these DJs live, it was an experience to remember during that era. To be able to witness the sounds of legendary DJ Ron Hardy was unbelievable, where his signature style was mixing edited disco-classics with acid tracks and he also had a unique way of tweaking the EQ. So for all you househeads in Chicago and worldwide, house music will never die!
