The Chicago House Thread

[MARK ANXIOUS]

then you haven't been listening to the right stuff :)

that's exactly what i thought mate. house music really changed in the 90's and became so far removed from what it was originally about it wasnt even funny. that original chicago house vibe is something else. if youre into anything at all about techno that is funky or even soulful, you really need to be trying to understand early chicago house imho. if however you're only into the harder techno.. hmm... could be quite tough heheh

[SlavikSvensk]

that's exactly what i thought mate. house music really changed in the 90's and became so far removed from what it was originally about it wasnt even funny. that original chicago house vibe is something else. if youre into anything at all about techno that is funky or even soulful, you really need to be trying to understand early chicago house imho. if however you're only into the harder techno.. hmm... could be quite tough heheh

i'm a little unclear as to when you think this happened. there was a lot of great house in the 90s, particularly on the harder and deep side...dj sneak, green velvet, etc. some of it could basically be techno, but was coming out of the chicago tradition.

over in europe, there were some great labels, like svek, that sort of bridged deep house and minimal techno. e.g.

YouTube - Svek - Conceiled Pattern 4

YouTube - Jesper Dahlback - Untitled B2

YouTube - Cari Lekebusch aka Mr. James Barth - Pay me in love

or are you saying it changed after the 90s?

[Little_Fella!]

that's exactly what i thought mate. house music really changed in the 90's and became so far removed from what it was originally about it wasnt even funny. that original chicago house vibe is something else. if youre into anything at all about techno that is funky or even soulful, you really need to be trying to understand early chicago house imho. if however you're only into the harder techno.. hmm... could be quite tough heheh

I understand here what you are saying - also paying attention to Slavik's post regarding the Svek releases, which I have to say I really like the second link and have never heard it before.. unusual for 1997 coz that was Club mix hey day with Slacker - 'Scared' (Lonely Traveller) as mainstream moody offerings...

House music was a feeling that for me was represented best on the definitive House Sound of Chicago Vol 2 .. of which I had a tape copy at the tjme offa my mate >> so have just bought this as a consequence of this thread ...

Juuust as this release had been felt and the likes of House Master Boyz & Rude Boy Of House - House Nation brought madness as far as repetition n moodyness was combined, for the time, then Pete Waterman and his 'Hit Man & Her' series took hold and changed the scene forthwith...

I remember being one of hardly any at all in ma home town who was listening to House during the Jack Your Body 1985 - 1987 era of which the STEVE "SILK" HURLEY - JACK YOUR BODY (HOME MADE), was the coolest (for me), which we felt was seriously cool, and then BAMM .. off it went into the 1988 Summer of Love ...

(listen to all of House Nation - brilliant drum track of it's day)