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One of the primary elements in house dancing is "the jack" or "jacking" — a style created in the early days of Chicago house that left its trace in numerous record titles such as "Time to Jack" by Chip E. from the "Jack Trax" EP (1985), "Jack’n the House" (1985) by Farley "Jackmaster" Funk (1985) or "Jack Your Body" by Steve "Silk" Hurley ...
Admission was five dollars and the club offered free juice and water to dancers. In the middle floor is where DJ Knuckles began to experiment with editing disco breaks on a reel-to-tape recorder. This mixing would soon become the beginnings of the house music genre. [5] The Warehouse became a hub for the people of Chicago, specifically black ...
Disco Demolition Night was a Major League Baseball (MLB) promotion on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, that ended in a riot.At the climax of the event, a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field between games of the twi-night doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers.
Chicago 13 is the first Chicago album to bear no significant hit singles. Despite negative reviews, Chicago 13 reached No. 21 and went gold, although it was the band's first album to miss the Top 20 and was then the lowest charting release since their debut album. Shortly after the tour to support the album ended, Dacus was fired from the band ...
Derrick Carter, born on October 21, 1969, in Compton, California, and later becoming a pivotal figure in Chicago's music scene, embarked on his DJing journey at the tender age of 10. Growing up amidst the diverse influences of punk, R&B, disco and house, Carter developed a unique sound that would later define his career.
Chicago 16 was the first album in a decade-long association with their new label Warner Bros. Records; [7] the band's first project to be produced by David Foster, who has been called the "key" to their comeback; [7] their first album to include some songs exclusively by composers outside of the group; [8] and is also the first album since ...
Hot Streets is the tenth studio album (and twelfth overall album) by the American rock band Chicago, released on October 2, 1978, by Columbia Records.This was the band's first album with all-new material released since their second that did not have a numbered title.
The term post-disco is a referral to the early to late 1980s era movement of disco music into more stripped-down electronic funk influenced sounds; post-disco was also predecessor to house music. This chronological list contains examples of artists described as post-disco .