The Chicago House Thread

[SlavikSvensk]

i miss going out and hearing dj sets that span both.

stuff like this:

Laurent Garnier - Laboratoire Mix (2xCD, Comp, Mixed) at Discogs

[markandrew]

i miss going out and hearing dj sets that span both.

stuff like this:

Laurent Garnier - Laboratoire Mix (2xCD, Comp, Mixed) at Discogs

trevor rockcliffe spans both sides coxy did it for a while is great for long sets so the crowd can her some diversity instead of bang bang bang for hours big fan of djs that play both house and techno in sets

[Little_Fella!]

Hey there are some good links here to have a nostalgic blast to >>> here is one of the best tracks for me back in the day ... propper dark House of which at the time will probably have scared quite a few folk as this was about as dark as it got then...

You tube - Master C & J 'When You Hold Me'

[Darkmode]

I wrote a track called Hit House which is on the Lost Time EP it's Techno with an old skool House vibe

Darkmode - Hit House - SoundCloud

[SlavikSvensk]

Hey there are some good links here to have a nostalgic blast to >>> here is one of the best tracks for me back in the day ... propper dark House of which at the time will probably have scared quite a few folk as this was about as dark as it got then...

You tube - Master C & J 'When You Hold Me'

oh man that's a great tune. "face it" is fantastic too

YouTube - Master C & J Face It

[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

[MARK ANXIOUS]

the masters:

YouTube - ADONIS - WE'RE ROCKIN' DOWN THE HOUSE

[MARK ANXIOUS]

I've just found this. Although there's alot of commercial crap on here in the beginning (stick with it), theres some interesting interviews with some of the old boys:

YouTube - History Of House Music Prt 1

[acidguru]

Farley Jackmaster Funk (1985):

http://www.dhpmixes.com/mixes/Farley...nk1985wbmx.mp3

[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?

[akuma]

all that early chicago stuff was great. it all had a sparse (plenty of reverb) and sometimes dark vibe to it. i think they were trying to make the disco that was around at the time (which was pretty psychedelic and spacious) using the Roland machines.
adonis was a master....mr fingers too!
Deep House Page has some great mixes on there. farley's are definitely worth checking out...

by the mid-90s the scene had blown up worldwide and there was so much shite that it was pretty damn impossible to find the good stuff. so many camp disco loops with a drum loop underneath....

[Little_Fella!]

oh man that's a great tune. "face it" is fantastic too

YouTube - Master C & J Face It

Yes that's a very good call... juss listened to it too .. loooove the wobbly synth -I had faved these two at the same time whenst was searching for the moody side of House ..

this was another classic musical piece really that gave us the deeper edge...

Jungle Wonz - The Jungle (stereo)

[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)

[MARK ANXIOUS]

just surfing about on a lazy sunday and NEVER EVER in my wildest imagination did I EVER expect kenny 'jammin' jason to look like this lol

Kenny Jason, Program Director, 1Club.FM on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

[MARK ANXIOUS]

actually whilst we're at it, look what a ladies man mickey oliver turned out to be hahaha

My Photos Photo Gallery - Photo 2 of 25 by Mickey "Mixin" Oliver of the Hot Mix 5 - MySpace Photos

[CTRLS]

It took me a while to 'get it' but i've really started digging some old house. i'm sorry to use a horrible cliche but the style is so pure that even when it gets cheesy i'm usually sold

but there's been a lot of retrospection (is that a word?) in this thread, how about the new guys? I quite like some motor city drum ensembe stuff (the rawcuts series for example) myself.

Motor City Drum Ensemble- Satellites | Feel my Bicep

[SlavikSvensk]

just surfing about on a lazy sunday and NEVER EVER in my wildest imagination did I EVER expect kenny 'jammin' jason to look like this lol

Kenny Jason, Program Director, 1Club.FM on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

:lol: yeah chicago is full of dudes like that