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"House" music was a more or less natural evolution of disco-music.
In fact, its two birth places were two of the historical clubs of disco-music,
Chicago's "Warehouse" and New York's "Paradise Garage". In the mid-1980s their
resident disc-jockeys (respectively
Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan)
began playing (or, better, "spinning") electronic dance music built around
drum-machines and soul vocals.
Knuckles himself had mastered the art in New York, between 1971 and 1976,
often next to Larry Levan.
When Knuckles moved to Chicago in 1977,
he started building tracks that used old soul records over electronic rhythms.
The kids who danced at his mixes at the "Warehouse" started calling his
music "'house".
In 1984 the Chicago record store "Imports Etc" began selling "house" records (as a contraction of "Warehouse"). One of the first house records was
Frankie Knuckles' own Your Love.
Knuckles got tired of the scene in 1987 and moved back to New York.
The explosion of the house scene, mainly in Europe, probably caught him by
surprise. He finally recorded his first album, Beyond The Mix (1991)
when house was already old news.
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