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The aggressive, drunk protests forced disco back underground where it evolved into house music. The phrase “progressive house” started to emerge somewhere around 1991 as a reaction against the increasing mania of hardcore/rave music. The mechanical, acidic take on house that Adonis perfected on ‘No Way Back’ in 1986 mixed retro-futurism with the spirit and soul of classic Chicago house, retaining more than enough funk in its lifeblood to fill any dancefloor. There are plenty of early ’90s tracks that mixed house and rave to great effect, but perhaps none more so than this impossibly energetic stomper. The manic piano stabs, rushing rhythm and commanding vocals provide a soundtrack for burning more calories than any exercise video ever did.
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Often in a major key, his music just immediately puts a smile on your face. His vocals will certainly get stuck in your head, and his production will keep you dancing all night. Harley Edward Streten, also known as Flume, is an Australian house music producer and DJ. In November of 2012, Flume released his self-titled album Flume and quickly topped the ARIA Albums Chart. Throughout his career, Flume has released countless remixes of Lorde, Disclosure, Arcade Fire and Sam Smith.
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Mark Kinchen, also known as MK, is an American DJ and producer, who has been active in the music industry since the 1990s. Hailing from Detroit, the mecca of American techno, MK has continued to push forward the culture and sound of the Motor City. Green Velvet formerly known as Cajmere is the stage name of American DJ and producer Curtis Jones. He has been active in the music industry since the early 1990s and is considered one of the pioneers of Chicago house music. One of the biggest names in lofi house and an artist that all house music lovers will appreciate.
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Yet today it’s clear that the music, which used affordable technology to rework disco, provided a much longer-lasting voice to queer, Black and marginalised musicians, DJs and club goers, first in the big cities of the American midwest, then across the world. Kenny Dixon Jr. alias Moodymann masterfully breaks up the traditional division between Chicago house and Detroit techno. From the mid 1990s the Detroit resident produced house tracks that stood out from the clean-cut competition from Chicago with distinctive vocals and a harsh groove. In contrast, artists like Larry Heard who was also a regular guest at Knuckles' Power Plant are responsible for deep house sounding like what it sounds like today. Tracks like Can You Feel it, Bring Down The Walls, and Washing Machine are milestones of the genre. The house alias of iconic Curtis Alan Jones, the Cajmere name predates his Green Velvet project.
Well, probably—other Chicago DJs, including the equally foundational Ron Hardy, were traveling a similar path back in the early ’80s, beginning the process of twisting the basslines and rhythms of disco, R&B, synthpop and more into something raw, fresh and exciting as hell. The resulting sound might not have been called “house,” though—the name comes from the Warehouse, the Windy City club where Knuckles, a transplanted New Yorker, worked his magic from the late ’70s through 1982. But Knuckles, who sadly passed away in spring of 2014, glowed with so much love for the music and for the scene that it’s doubtful house would have become the dominant sound of clubland so quickly, and so thoroughly, without him. Of course, broken beat and nu jazz artists like Berlin’s Jazzanova could overlap into deep house too, and perennially popular labels like Glasgow Underground and Aus Music sprung up in their wake. In late ‘90s and early ‘00s San Francisco, DJs like Mark Farina and Miguel Migs kept the deep groove alive on labels like Om and Naked Music.
Not Just a Chicago Thing
One of the most exciting house music artists of our generation, and a DJ who should be on everyone’s radar. Originally from South Korea, the artist now resides in Germany and brings the origins of Chicago house into her more contemporary, deep house groove. Her tracks are dark and mysterious which form abstract sets and intriguing new sound combinations.
And then the song fully emerges, the bass suddenly going like something stolen out from under Bernard Edwards’ fingertips, the hi-hat doing that bright, open chhh business on the offbeat. The up-from-underground stuff turns out to have been sort of poignantly appropriate. “Around the World” was an exhumation, disco as reworked in post-industrial Chicago and Detroit, then adapted anew by two blessed weirdos from Montmartre, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. Compared to the harmonic range of most of their soul-, jazz-, and gospel-tinged productions—their 1990 debut LP, in fact, came out on Motown—the 1996 single employs little more than a fistful of chords arrayed around a driving house groove. Filtered this way and that, morphing between strings, Rhodes, and synths, they move like mercury and glisten like opal; Steve Reich himself couldn’t have envisioned a more enveloping matrix of pulses.
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Kerri Chandler was born in New Jersey in 1969 and is living proof that the edges of deep house don't just have to be sharp in Chicago. He was particularly influenced by the music from the New York underground, creating hymns such as Rain and Mommy What's A Record. Accordingly, house is the sound that was played in the Warehouse, particularly during Frankie Knuckles' sets. However, some witnesses to the scene in no way attest to this version of events. While the levels of cheese in future house might be high for some, with people like Woolford and The Blessed Madonna working hard to connect the pop world to more underground house, it’s going to be fascinating to see where this goes next. To those who regard electronic music as being devoid of emotion, we give you this staggering 1986 masterpiece from the saintly Larry Heard (under his Mr Fingers alias).
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Becks is a music marketing specialist, who works with a portfolio of international artists. She writes for several music publications, regularly contributing her industry expertise at Pink Wafer. Hardy created a far more unhinged listening experience with a focus on tension and release techniques spurred on by an endless spiral of energy. His presence on the decks held less attention on the quality of the sound, but zoned more in on what you can do with the samples. He teamed with house legend Frankie Knuckles to produce ‘Tears,’ perhaps his most well known feature where he laid down an impressive vocal track.
One of Detroit techno don Kevin Saunderson’s housier, poppier moments – under his Inner City project with singer Paris Grey – also became his most well-known. With its unashamedly upbeat vocals and colourful ’80s synths all over the place, ‘Good Life’ showed that dance music wasn’t all about heads-down raving in a dark basement club – it could also be (whisper it) happy, for no damn reason at all. In recent years its joyous hooks have been sampled by modern house stalwarts Hercules and Love Affair and pop superstar Rihanna.
Between the mid-1980s through early 90s, clubs from New York City to Miami saw Tenaglia fill dance floors on a weekly basis. These residences gave him recognition not only among music fans but in the DJ circuit alike. Today he is one of the most recognizable and sought after names in house music. Many often say tech house is akin to the middle of techno and house- thus tech house. This form of music is often darker and grittier in feel and more aggressive than the standard house music; but not as much of a consistent drive like techno music.
In particular, Larry Levan and the legendary club Paradise Garage where he stood behind the decks from 1977 to 1987 were responsible for this growth. Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news, events, offers and partner promotions.
With imagery like that, it’s no wonder that people are flocking to see Anden in action ever since their breakthrough single, “Void,” hit the airwaves back in 2019 on Solomun’s DIYNAMIC. Kölsch is a Danish DJ and producer whose real name is Rune Reilly Kølsch. Kölsch started his career as a hip-hop producer in the 1990s before transitioning to techno. Specialising in tech house, Claptone creates highly danceable tracks that incorporate the fast BPMs familiar with house music, alongside electronic climbs and drops that create euphoric experiences. MixMag have described his tracks as “crisply produced and effortlessly infectious” and we have to agree.
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