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House music's roots lie in the spontaneous combustion that was a handful of Chicago clubs in the early 1980s. In the days when clubs only needed one DJ, that DJ was in a position to make waves. And in a city where the clubs were usually soundtracked by jukeboxes, those waves could become a storm.

In 1979, disco was pronounced dead by the media and it moved underground. Electronic music instruments and studio equipment had made their introduction and what I refer to as proto-house was born.

The defining phase of house has its roots firmly in Chicago where DJ Frankie Knuckles had introduced New York styled clubbing and musical selection at the Warehouse.

Cheap and small musical electronic equipment flooded the market. Instruments which made those old Trax records records we love. A footnote in house's history perhaps, but it is DJ Ron Hardy and his residency at hte Music Box which are often associated with the rawer, sleazier sounds which would become house music.

The eighties: While Electronic sounds had been in the European music scene since the mid to late seventies, the cheaper and more widely available Japanese electronic gear set off a musical revolution in Detroit, Chicago and New York. The music that this revolution set off was called techno, house or garage, depending in which of the previously mentioned cities you partied in.

In the nineties, house is still the preferred name for a global style of music, like disco had been in the past, a catch-all phrase for a very eclectic style of music, centered around having a good time and most of all, having a great party.

But it wasn't just American music laying the groundwork for house. European music, spanning English electronic pop like Gary Numan and Soft Cell, sparse German proto-techno by Kraftwerk, the more disco based sounds of Giorgio Moroder and Klein & MBO and Belgium's Telex were immensely popular in urban areas like New York and Chicago.

Roy Davis Jr MP3s Masters At Work -- good set of links to contemporary house music.

Categories in this cat are:

--People (Bands_and_Artists)

--Shopping (end-user selling of recordings, tickets, online music)

--Radio (for house sites geared for audio or listening)

--Magazines or E-zines

--Festivals and Events

--Record Labels

--Clubs (both real-life venues and virtual communities)

--History

--Business (recording studios, business to business
services)
--Personal Homepages

--Instruments (instruments which define the house genre)

Sites in House

House Nation
Interviews, reviews, charts, Ibiza section, chat room, and directories of links to labels, stores, clubs, artists, and mix shows.
The Home of Latin House
Dedicated to the latin house music market including record reviews, biographies and links to similar pages.
Anthems
British resource for dance music and clubbing news, DJ mixes, reviews, and message board.
Freestyle music
House, funk and underground music. With a special page on Glenn Underground.
HouseMusic.com
Message board, charts, mailing list, reviews, and links to streaming audio and labels.
Milk 'n'2 Sugars
UK based label and DJ management agency. Recordings, MP3s, DJ biographies, and club information. [Flash required]
Gotta Have House
Real Audio house and dance music mixes, message board, and merchandise.
House Foundation
Supporting underground dance music and culture. Real Audio mixes, new releases, reviews, and charts from around the world.
D.J. Rhythms
A guide to dance music, including BPM listings for many tracks.
Deep House Network
News, interviews, articles, reviews, mixes, forums, and links.
BASSics Productions
Reviews, charts, top 20, articles and interviews, and mailorder.
Spirit of House
House and garage reviews and Real Audio mixes.
Deep House Music Organisation
Based in NZ, provides information, news, reviews and streaming audio to lovers of deep funky soulful house music from around the world.
Underground Files
Monthly e-zine about underground house music.
Diva Delight
House music history and culture with a focus on house divas.
Undergroundhouse.net
Real Audio mixes and tracks, and a message board.
Jackhouse, The Canadian House Music Movement
E-zine with reviews. [Flash required]
Intrafunk
A series of nights, with focus on the fusion of house, soul, funk and jazz. Based in Athens.
Deep Vibes
Soulful house and garage music reviews, clubbing news from Montreal.
New City Movement
Internet deep house. Broadcasting music of Salt Lake's top jocks.
The Deep House Archives
Project devoted to contemporary underground house. MP3s, DJ sets and profiles, and charts.

sub categories in House

Bands and Artists Bands and Artists
Clubs Clubs
Online Listening Online Listening
Chats and Forums Chats and Forums
Garage Garage
Record Labels Record Labels

other references

Shopping : Entertainment : Recordings : Audio : Music : Specialty : Urban, Dance, and Electronica Shopping : Entertainment : Recordings : Audio : Music : Specialty : Urban, Dance, and Electronica

this category in other languages

House Dutch : House
House et Deep House French : House et Deep House
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