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Chicago house music was being licensed to UK Labels by DJ International, Trax, KMS and the Transmat record labels, and with that the music began to expand throughout Europe. Especially the "Jack Trax" compilations, starting in 1987, helped to make rare house records from the U.S. available cheaply in Europe.
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute. [11] It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago's Black gay underground club culture and evolved slowly in the early/mid 1980s as DJs began altering disco songs to give them a more mechanical beat.
Frankie Knuckles. Francis Warren Nicholls Jr. (January 18, 1955 [1] [2] – March 31, 2014), known professionally as Frankie Knuckles, was an American DJ, record producer, and remixer. [3] He played an important role in developing and popularizing house music, a genre of music that began in Chicago during the early 1980s and subsequently spread ...
Carl Cox, Martin Garrix, Chip E. in Miami at the red carpet premier of What We Started. Irwin Larry Eberhart II, better known by his stage name Chip E. (born 1966), is an American DJ and record producer. He is one of the early artists of the then-burgeoning house music movement that began in 1980s Chicago .
List of house music artists. This is a list of artists who have been involved with house music, a genre of electronic dance music. This includes artists who have either been very important to the house music genre or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as in the case of one who has been on a major label).
Paul Johnson (producer) Paul Leighton Johnson (January 11, 1971 – August 4, 2021) was an American house disc jockey and record producer. He was known for his self-taught DJ style of house music, mentoring and inspiring younger producers, and for a series of singles, including his 1999 worldwide hit single "Get Get Down". [2]
Music of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois is a major center for music [ 1] in the midwestern United States where distinctive forms of blues (greatly responsible for the future creation of rock and roll ), and house music, a genre of electronic dance music, were developed. The "Great Migration" of poor black workers from the South into the industrial ...
Disc jockey, composer, music producer, remixer. Years active. 1981–present. Labels. Trax Records, House Records. Website. twitter .com /FARLEYJMF. Farley "Jackmaster" Funk (born Farley Keith Williams; January 25, 1962) is an American musician, DJ and record producer of Chicago house and acid house music. He is notable for writing and ...