There, house and Detroit techno - basically an offshoot of Chicago house - merged with a new drug culture and became a straight-up mainstream pop phenomenon. House music spread through underground scenes in the Midwest, but it really caught on in the UK in the late ’80s. That’s the nutshell version of how house music - short for Warehouse music - was born in the ’80s. Instead, Knuckles played hard records, driven by drum machines and keyboards, and local producers eventually started making music that fed into that style. Knuckles wasn’t playing commercial disco records, so the whole backlash didn’t matter to him. At the Warehouse, Disco Demolition Night didn’t mean shit. Frankie Knuckles, a club DJ from New York, moved to Chicago in 1977 and started spinning records at a gay Black club called the Warehouse. It’s also the same city where house music started. Chicago is city where the infamous Disco Demolition Night provided a symbol and catalyst for the big backlash. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.ĭisco didn’t die it just went (back) underground.
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