I am 40 years old. I still listen to my house music *DAILY* Im not even lying! House music is played in my home allllll the time! It helps me when I'm down. It gives me motivation to cook and clean when im not feeling good. My kids get sick of it but oh well, they dont pay the bills 'round here 👁️♥️🏡🎶
@@markdavison8602 what do they do now in re: to dance...the Shuffle? I'm 50 and I really want to go out and just have fun...the scene seems so robotic and commercialized now. We used to have a great club scene in Dallas...there are still some good spots...but alot of clubs are too commercial and many have been wiped out by covid...
@@caseybc6342 I heard a song earlier today at work. I asked the kids to identify it because I was busy. Some chick sampled a house song but it was too noisy I couldn't really hear it but my brain said that's old house from like 97-2000. The new song is : my head & my heart by ava max. She sampled one of my old favorites: all around the world by atc (not daft punk). That song has such a feel good vibe. Maybe it was the beginning of happy house. Idk. I was more into progressive hard house, but that atc song was the shit. It was huge and I did always like it.
I'm 21, from France, and Ive decided I will dedicate my whole life to house music. The flame never fades away it just moves from generation to generation
I really enjoyed this documentary. I heard house music for the first time at a party, the summer of 1989, in Milwaukee. I did all my clubbing scene in the 90's. I also tried ecstasy for the first time at a after hours club. Then it was rave parties at random abandoned warehouses and buildings. Then acid house, then techno, the tech house, then drum and bass, then trance. But house music will always hold a special place in my heart. Those were great times, and it was great to see it all evolved, but I'm 58 years old now. Its sad that I feel like a creepy old white guy when I go to a dance club these days. I'll get some weird looks from some the kids, but I'm just taking a walk down memory lane. Best times of my life. And we owe all these true pioneers, a nod for creating a special culture that millions of people worldwide enjoy. Thank you very much
I'm a white guy from a small town in the South and this music always spoke to me. Growing up in the 90's though I could only ever sometimes hear 90's house music (or music with elements of house) on MTV and VH1. Then came Napster, then came Limewire, then came CZcams and Spotify. I discovered 80s house music that way and continue to listen to it to this day (and 90s house too). For my childhood I only mainly had access to pop, hard rock, metal and country but having these newer music platforms really helped me find music that fit my vibe and 80s/90s house will always occupy my heart.
I have to post my house music story, it's a favourite memory... My great friend Phil got me to Ibiza in 2000, we stayed in Ibiza Town, on the beach. I can't remember the name of the hotel, but we came home one morning, after being at a massive night. We started at the pink hotel, then went to manumission at Privilege. When we left the club at dawn, soaked and sweaty (cab drivers gave us a towel, they hate messy clubbers sorry man) and headed home. When we got back Phil went right to the room and Iwent to the breakfast buffet :). Besides me, there was one other, a gentleman in a wheelchair. I loaded my plate, and since it would be rude not to, I asked if I could join him. Charming and gracious, he gestured for me to sit and asked about me, where I'd been, what I thought of Ibiza. I was happy to blather on (it was all a bit pete tong). Eventually he let me know who he was, a DJ named Paul Johnson. Of course I had never heard of him, in 2000 i was a dance music newby. He told me he was playing that night in Ibiza Town at a place called El Divino, and that he would be happy to give me and my mate free passes. Totally unexpected! He asked my room # and said he would have someone stick the tix under the door. Sure enough, when I woke up in the late afternoon, planning to head to our afternoon spot, a short walk to a slightly well known beach club, u know the one :). There they were, passes to El Divino. What a class act I thought, still with no idea who this fella was, but I did know he was from Chicago, and that meant house. Paul did not disappoint, he was spinning vinyl on 3 decks, the place went mad. A free night, and Paul Johnson at El Divino. El Divino is fancy, with a lovely patio right on the docks in San Antonio, with gleaming yachts and beautiful people. What an experience for a fella from British Columbia. Thanks Paul :)
I was raised in Chicago...my life was going a different direction into gangs...my older brother introduced me to house music I was 13 ...done I was in love ,started to DJ and in 86 I moved to California wer I was one or the 1st one to play house music in clubs ...ill be 50 this yr and ill live with the best memories tnx to these guys ....
Same here. I was in a gang and then I moved to San Francisco for college and got immersed in the house and rave scene. Never looked back. 1015 Folsom forever!!!
Ron Hardy...music box power plant Frankie knuckles. Playground candy store. Grew up in chicago in the 80's. House head 4 life. Met my husband at the candy store he and his brother were DJ s. I remember guys getting together in his basement playing house music & mix tapes. "Jack your body" was my joint & "it's house" the party's on Michigan ave in chicago was of the chain back then. House music kept a lot of kids off the Street in the 80's. I miss those day!💃💃
Mid 1980’s club scene in New York City and House Music... The Palladium, The Limelight, The Tunnel, The Saint... Dancing to the point I thought I could fly, and even on a natural high... Glad I lived it.
In the 80's my mom couldn't sleep until I came home on the weekends. So I would set up my cassette for record on my stereo and have her start recording at midnight. KISS, WBLS Saturday nights. Classic music.
I can't believe there are no comments. I'm a 46 year old club head. Thank you so much for this doc. I'm from Newark. Disco,/classic club and house music is all I'll ever need in life.
In the UK Marshall Jefferson's - The house music anthem was beyond massive it was humungous, probably the tune that got us Brits hooked on house. Respect to you Marshall.
Born and raised in Chicago. I remember when the Hot Mix Five introduced House Music and mixing to the city via radio stations WBMX and WGCI. Good times and good music. 😎👍
This documentary makes me so proud to be from Chicago and to now be a part of the new generation of black house DJs that are coming up in the city! I've had the pleasure of meeting a lot of the people interviewed in this doc at the most random times. Like Lori Branch still spins around the city and I feel really blessed to be able to experience music from the old school house heads
I was born in '93 so was a bit late to the party but I swear house was playing as I came out of the womb. Nothing else gives me that feeling of nostalgia, but also freshness.
I was in my teens when the 90s started but I do remember the novelty and freshness when first hearing House Music. But it was the mood it was able to put me in that captured me: I didn't choose to listen to house music (and its derivatives) because it was the most popular music genre (it wasn't) or because it was a novelty, no... I chose to listen to house music because of how it makes me feel! And nothing has changed about that since then.
house music came to South Africa too and our house scene was OUT OF THIS WORLD! I was lucky to experience it in my twenties (during the nineties) Best time of my life! This documentary is wonderful because it it good to learn where my favourite type of music originated. Thanks guys! You have had an impact on many lives. What's amazing is that everything you describe that you guys experienced, we experienced the same even though it was years later. The power of house music!
I'm born and raised in Chicago and I'm a true House Head! We go to the Chosen Few House Picnic every year and it has grown tremendously! I love ya'll!!
Between Chicago, Detroit and New York - a worldwide cultural phenomenon was born. This documentary is fantastic. You rarely see coverage before 1979 - and this video has it in droves. Thank you and long live house music!
I grew up in Chicago. The loft parties from the late 80’s into and threw the 90’s were the stuff of legends. Thinking back I’m especially missing it this year with everyone on lockdown. Am so glad however that I was here, then. It was a blessing to be a part of it!
Man, amazing memories to have. I grew up to acid, but my era was just a few years after, when rave and hardcore hit the UK. That was MY time, and as precious, but I LOVE acid house. It speaks to my soul. x
@@JackAcid love the hardcore scene. My dad was the total opposite, he liked the slow rhythms at places like legends in Warrington up north which played much slower songs. Inherited all his vinyls, but I love the hardcore sound too!
@@silasthedon2264 I like the.slower, hiphouse kinda tempo too, mind! Any break under 130 BPM is sweet as to dance to, especially if you do the Running Man!
The foundation of dance and pop is HOUSE. Without you legends, none would have the examples they needed to make the music now. Thanks for the video and all the artist I interviewed.
It would be an honor to shake Frankie Knuckles hand for what he, and those around him, has gifted us with. I LOVE HOUSE MUSIC !!!!!! A forever househead pays homage.........
Thank you for putting this documentary together . I was a young kid in NYC aspiring to a dj in the early 80s. I was 16 going the Fun house every weekend. Later a friend took me to Loft the garabge. I always loved Chicago house. I had a massive Chicogo house collection of vinyl. That been been part my life ever since. I did become a dj playing in nightclubs until the early 2000. I still listen to house and all types of variations of it. Long live HOUSE !!
Great documentary. I'm glad I have met Marshall Jefferson, Farley Jackmaster Funk & Robert Owens. I have been a bedroom DJ for 19 years, ran a House music channel on CZcams for 13 years and done mixes on Mixcloud for 7 years. I keep the music alive, even when no one listens to it anymore.
Hey man. I'm a bedroom DJ myself, for about 15 years now. I taught myself in high school. I still put my mixes on soundcloud and mixcloud. Do people listen? I don't know. But it still is my favorite thing to do in the world.
me too guys...i started buying all the vinyl records i heard in the clubs and never got a chance to buy these tracks on vioyl back than...i do live streams on youtube and the videos gets around 1000 of play, live there are around 20 people BUT i dont care. i love it so much to play records...
@@ga0425 Here is my mixcloud page mixcloud.com/SmokinSoulGrooves/ I usually play deep house and Soulful House, but I also do Oldskool mixes and some of my own music projects in a mix are on there too.
Nile Rodgers looking spry with Daft Punk. Thank you gentlemen for creating house music. It's still a huge part of my life. Bad Boy Bill is one of my favorite Chi-town d.j.'s. House music forever.....
I’m 17 and I’m just getting this music after coming from The UK Hardcore, Jungle & Drum’n’Bass scenes among others, and I can’t put to words how amazing this is to watch and to listen too. Honestly I’ve enjoyed every minute of this video and it’s helped me greatly to understand where the music was coming from and how that’s shaped the music that came after and the music we have in the modern day and age. Much love from the United Kingdom, keeping the sounds alive.
I love house music. I grew up in Chicago in the 90- until now. I loved all the warehouse parties! My kids love listening to house and freestyle now. I remember once my son was about 12 and he was humming a beat that we hadn’t listen to in a decade. It was a house music song! Ha ha ha. I couldn’t believe he remembered it.
House Music is a bridge which connects you to the spiritual realm. The modern day drugs are the equivalent to the tribal medicine. The beat of the music is the Shamans drum. When you hit the dancefloor after taking your medicine you connected to this magical realm of LOVE and UNITY, an energy so powerful that everyone in the place could feel its power and that power connected each and everyone one of us as one Universal Force of Love. We didn't realise at the time but we were all in a deep spiritual meditation. As George Harrison once said, Its not often you feel pure BLISS in life, but this was one of them. It was immense! You were in the moment they call ''now''. I feel so blessed i was there at the right time and place to feel this magical energy which shown me the Light.. Peace and Love to all beings.
Wowwwww. Maybe one of the BEST histories of house I’ve ever heard. Not whitewashed, not sanitized, from the makers’ own mouths. Thank you , thank you .
This is amazing, I came of age and started spinning vinyl in the early '90s in Pittsburgh ... and I'm happy to see the roots of scene I was given to work within. I threw tunnel parties, bridge renegades, rented lobbies of vacant malls and set up massive sound in warehouses all over the place. Frankie knuckles was amazing, DJ Micro... DJ Ani from Deee-Lite all spun at our parties... I still have all my crates, but live out on the west coast... maybe time to bust out the decks and make a comeback... this video is inspirational!
Yeah, me visiting from Louisiana to chicago in 1986. I didn’t like it when I first heard it, but by summers end I couldn’t get enough of it. That was a good time to be in Chicago.
Thanks to these guys. They changed the world and gave me some of the best years of my life. And to all those jerks who burned Disco...you were the reason the phoenix of dance music rose from the flames. 😊
The OG house is one of the best things that ever happened in music, and it's alive to this day, and the whole evolution is just the proof, that the disco never really died it just keep evolving and lives in house, rave scene, the edm, it's still there ❤️
I was there from the start, and and it still lives on in me. My body may give up and my mind may fade, but when I hear these tunes, I'll always remember my weekends, off my tits, with the people that are still dear to me, to this day.
I produced the Los Angeles club; Flammable Liquid, in the early 90s, that featured House, disco and funk. This is something brilliant and beautiful. The world needs to see this. Thank Franky & Scar, for sharing this with me
2020 still singin' it out loud! Pandemic and locked up in my house with the Marshall Jefferson's House Music Anthem blasting in the other room. "GOTTA HAVE HOUSE MUSIC....ALL NIGHT LONG!!!🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
The world needs house music. Especially these days where you go to a club and nobody’s fucken dancing. Time to stop being so serious and let your body be free.
Awesome documentary. I was blessed to be a part of the NY scene, from the Funhouse in 1982 to the Palladium, 1018 and the Limelight through 1989. And there were so many smaller lesser-known clubs as well. Long Live House Music! All Night Long!
It’s simply amazing how high stress and pressure at the right time creates diamonds. House music is the diamond created by high stress and pressure. And all these time, I thought House music was European. Little did I know that my black brothers, here in the USA, were the creators. It’s like Rock N’ Roll. It was expropriated by whites and they made it popular because that’s how systemic racism works. It pisses me off to learn how little credit has been given to my black brothers and sisters that have hugely contributed to our society. It’s time for reparations and to recognize that BLM ✊🏾 matter!
You wouldn't have known who'd created it-- irrespective of race--as that's how the music business operates. I am not diminishing the racial aspect. It's just that there is an additional hierarchy of power involved here which is maintained by economic inequality itself.
I got to hear Frankie a year before he died. I knew he was one of the creators of house but I had never heard any of his music. It was at Metro and it was transcendent. I finally got it at that point. We didn't want to go home.
Music tears down borders, religions, and all fears....nothing any government could do! We need more of this energy to survive - this was a good doc....Loved these tunes in the day....nothing today's music could reproduce
Wow, how fortunate. I got to dance at The Garage ( NYC), The Warehouse ( Chi) Music Box (Chi) Odells ( Balto) Fire/Ice ( MIA). Saw the birth of house, hip hop, punk. Very fortunate to have experienced the begining.
There's a three part series on CZcams about dance music. Starts off like this one, about the early scene in Chicago and Detroit, and it takes you through a journey to the modern day.
They should make a series from Disco to the genres it helped create from Trance to modern EDM. It would be a good docu series. But Netflix is too busy raising prices and creating shows glorifying serial killers.
@@MrQuadro83 They do. Making a documentary on killers and giving them any spotlight is glorifying them. Look at what happened during their Ted Bundy series. People on social media were saying how attractive he was and Netflix had to do damage control. These series on psychopaths and serial killers only glorifies them by giving them what they want: media attention.
I'm a home grown Chicago House Head from back in those days. And I LOVE this documentary. I've seen a lot but this has been my favorite! I mean, MAJOR PROPS TO THE EDITOR(S)!!!!! Because editing is what makes or breaks any video one is watching. And this is pro level!!!!!
Marshall Jefferson's Move your body will always be one of the best house songs. I like house songs that have the piano in it. Those are the kind of songs that really get me moving.
I got into house around 95-97 it started by me buying a couple CDs from a thrift store and then I went and say in the parking lot for club paradise I Jacksonville and I was hooked... that simple break or straight beat with some horns or piano just made you bounce... thanks to these guys !
@@MrQuadro83 Yeah I meant in the US well at least in my area in the east coast. I know it's always been popular in Chicago though since that's where house is originally from.
@@Hypnotic_Horizon I live in the east coast too. House music is coming back more today. If you've been to coney island u will see DJs playing house music and then on the other side u will hear salsa. Throughout quarantine I've been playing house music.
@@lizarrington3636 I haven't been to Coney Island. I've cousins in NY I'll probably check it out when I see them. Subscribe to my channel I'll be DJing live house sets in a week or 2.
Wow. I had no idea that house emerged from the disco scene. No clue. If anything, I thought it was an outgrowth of electronic music and maybe the punk scene. Boy was I wrong. Thank you for this. It was really enlightening!
Didn't grow up on house music but the piano beats were everywhere in the early 2000's, when I was growing up. Going to raves as an adult, I always get hype when I hear the DJ's throw in a couple of these golden age tracks!
I first started listening to House in 1986, was into Electro for a couple of year before that, I was 17. Darn I'm 52 now but House has defined my musical life, and I'll love it until the day I die.
Can you write any lyrics for Soulful or Gospel House tracks? I'm a dj and producer from Chicago. I have a group of three young ladies around 26-27 years old I'm producing now for a 2022 release.
I started listening to, and producing electronic music (what we call trance and techno nowadays) in the 90's. Early 90's, we had something called New Beat here in Belgium, which was of course also based on the Chicago sound of the late 80's. Wish I could have been there when it all started, but I'm glad that I became a small part of it in the 90's :) To the founders of house music: thank you very much for your creativity and perseverance. Generations of producers, DJ's and whole genres have spawned because of you. With love, from Belgium!
No Chicago created what they thought house was. Remember it was not called house. It all came from NYC to Chicago. Y'all just speed disco music up. 808 is a Chicago thang with Chicago. NYC house is way more smoother that that Chicago Jack beat.
Depressing how old we all are now! Great docu, good to hear these pioneers in their own words. In the early 90’s house partying (House music), or raving (House, Tecnho, Ragga, Jungle), to us, in the UK, it felt like a revolution. Seriously. Something really big was going down and it is going to take over! I was one o them caucasians hah. I grew up listening to Kraftwerk, ELO, Jean Michelle Jarre. But also this thing called Soul music that was very much separate. For me it was about the instrumentation and the experimentation. It was a revelation hearing that Chicago House for the first time. It was like here’s black people that got hold of the instruments and using them how they were meant to be used, but crucially bringing soul into the mix. We love innovation in the UK and the repression we all felt under the Thatcher years, and the engineered divisions in society, and probably the boring ass idea of a party that our parents had (lots of chairs out) gave us this need to break out, learn to dance (‘ecstasy gives white man rhythm’ was what we jokingly told each other) and go express ourselves in a uniquely mixed crowd, if you Lived in a city like London. I moved there specifically as I wanted that mix and find out where that music was coming from. I guess I’m trying to explain why this had such a big effect on us, as he seemed so surprised in the documentary. It happened before with Northern Soul. You could now dance to a song about love and it wasn’t weird, it was like a church. But only in the spiritual sense. No boring hymns hah. Some of us bought begged or borrowed drum machines, sequencers, 4 track tape recorders and tried to figure out this alchemy. Thanks to all these pioneers and fk the label guy. A lot of us have these tunes seared into the fabric of our brains, there’s a physical reaction hearing them again. 53 here.. thanks for the good times and the love. Cheers 👍🏼
@DVNFLX Clearly, we need a FULL track listing. Please, pretty please, with old school house music on top?!! Yeah, this was posted 6 years ago, but it's never too late, HOUSE is still alive! We still dancing!
I played so much HOUSE in Montreal back in those days. Don’t ask me how it got up here but you KNOW it set the dance floors on FIRE 🔥 and still warms our hearts today ❤️
i learned how to spin in the fall of 1980 from college room-mate, D.J. Disco Dee (Bronx, NY). I was strictly east coast flava HIP HOP . Around 92, I started getting all these 'i dunno?' records from my record pool . THAT BOOM, BOOM, BOOM,..... them hi-hats..... tich, tich, tich, double tich, tich,.... and then THEM..... Diva's melodramatic lyrics . I was like.... i don't know what the phuck this "disco" shit is.... but it is the complete bomb ! HOUSE MUSIC ! Hooked every since.... : ) OFNM aka Amazing D.J. Frank Flash
Guys, i'm soooo sorry but i missed the "comment check" function, me stupid! ;) Solved it and will release all your beautiful comments a.s.a.p. ❤️
It happens bro..House rules
absolutly brilliant stuff, thank You for uploading
House music 💜💜💜 rap hip hop 👎👎👎
@Rosternumber377 open.spotify.com/playlist/1KHbcr9lRlkUsJimsA08tV
Big Thanks to Pavel Gorin!! ;)
We all know why it ended the way they wanted, cause of power and control. From the top .
I am 40 years old. I still listen to my house music *DAILY* Im not even lying! House music is played in my home allllll the time! It helps me when I'm down. It gives me motivation to cook and clean when im not feeling good. My kids get sick of it but oh well, they dont pay the bills 'round here 👁️♥️🏡🎶
@@markdavison8602 what do they do now in re: to dance...the Shuffle? I'm 50 and I really want to go out and just have fun...the scene seems so robotic and commercialized now. We used to have a great club scene in Dallas...there are still some good spots...but alot of clubs are too commercial and many have been wiped out by covid...
DITTO!!!
It’s like a natural antidepressant. Crave it and love it
@@caseybc6342
I heard a song earlier today at work. I asked the kids to identify it because I was busy. Some chick sampled a house song but it was too noisy I couldn't really hear it but my brain said that's old house from like 97-2000.
The new song is : my head & my heart by ava max.
She sampled one of my old favorites: all around the world by atc (not daft punk). That song has such a feel good vibe. Maybe it was the beginning of happy house. Idk. I was more into progressive hard house, but that atc song was the shit. It was huge and I did always like it.
@@familysmith3820 I’m thinking of doing the same... my kids will never understand the power of house... it changes your mood like switch x
Not everyone understands house music, it's a spiritual thing, a body thing, a soul thing 😎
Gotta have HOUSE
Music
All night 🤘😁🤘
This better be a top comment.
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Thanks
@@sunstardrummer
Woohoo
"A Vibe Called Blessed!"
HouseNation 🌍
house ..deep.. hard house music is still in my heart at 47yrs old never gets old sounds better in time when you play it
I'm 21, from France, and Ive decided I will dedicate my whole life to house music. The flame never fades away it just moves from generation to generation
I still love house and EDM. I was in the rave scene and am going to a Halloween/90s party dressed how I was back then. Soooo excited 😂😂😃
I really enjoyed this documentary. I heard house music for the first time at a party, the summer of 1989, in Milwaukee. I did all my clubbing scene in the 90's. I also tried ecstasy for the first time at a after hours club. Then it was rave parties at random abandoned warehouses and buildings. Then acid house, then techno, the tech house, then drum and bass, then trance. But house music will always hold a special place in my heart. Those were great times, and it was great to see it all evolved, but I'm 58 years old now. Its sad that I feel like a creepy old white guy when I go to a dance club these days. I'll get some weird looks from some the kids, but I'm just taking a walk down memory lane. Best times of my life. And we owe all these true pioneers, a nod for creating a special culture that millions of people worldwide enjoy. Thank you very much
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I'll go to a club on House night with other 50+ coworkers from Detroit, Chicago and Tri-State NYC areas.
Yes I’m so grateful for this music and these times. And yeah, I feel like a weirdo for still wanting to go to house night in my late 50s.
“House is a feeling, you feel it in your soul.”
This is a beautiful thing. This music came to London and changed our lives.
and then it went to nigeria and aided in today's art from called afrobeats.
I'm a white guy from a small town in the South and this music always spoke to me. Growing up in the 90's though I could only ever sometimes hear 90's house music (or music with elements of house) on MTV and VH1. Then came Napster, then came Limewire, then came CZcams and Spotify. I discovered 80s house music that way and continue to listen to it to this day (and 90s house too). For my childhood I only mainly had access to pop, hard rock, metal and country but having these newer music platforms really helped me find music that fit my vibe and 80s/90s house will always occupy my heart.
I really like your comment 😊 and maaaaan, totally forgot about Napster and Limewire 🙀. Thanks for giving me nostalgia 😲🎵💕
50-year old white guy from Mississippi right here. Spoke to me since 1983. 💪❤️🔥👍
Same!
I have to post my house music story, it's a favourite memory... My great friend Phil got me to Ibiza in 2000, we stayed in Ibiza Town, on the beach. I can't remember the name of the hotel, but we came home one morning, after being at a massive night. We started at the pink hotel, then went to manumission at Privilege. When we left the club at dawn, soaked and sweaty (cab drivers gave us a towel, they hate messy clubbers sorry man) and headed home. When we got back Phil went right to the room and Iwent to the breakfast buffet :). Besides me, there was one other, a gentleman in a wheelchair. I loaded my plate, and since it would be rude not to, I asked if I could join him. Charming and gracious, he gestured for me to sit and asked about me, where I'd been, what I thought of Ibiza. I was happy to blather on (it was all a bit pete tong). Eventually he let me know who he was, a DJ named Paul Johnson. Of course I had never heard of him, in 2000 i was a dance music newby. He told me he was playing that night in Ibiza Town at a place called El Divino, and that he would be happy to give me and my mate free passes. Totally unexpected! He asked my room # and said he would have someone stick the tix under the door. Sure enough, when I woke up in the late afternoon, planning to head to our afternoon spot, a short walk to a slightly well known beach club, u know the one :). There they were, passes to El Divino. What a class act I thought, still with no idea who this fella was, but I did know he was from Chicago, and that meant house. Paul did not disappoint, he was spinning vinyl on 3 decks, the place went mad. A free night, and Paul Johnson at El Divino. El Divino is fancy, with a lovely patio right on the docks in San Antonio, with gleaming yachts and beautiful people. What an experience for a fella from British Columbia. Thanks Paul :)
59 and still listening to house. Thanks for the trip down memory lane 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
57 years young, and I still get “my house on”. Period!!!!
I'm 57 and still spin/produce & do live sessions every so often. Just had a bank holiday weekend gig in London this past autumn. Music is my therapy.
I'm 59 and house is my Lifestyle,
Lot's of love from Germany !
I was raised in Chicago...my life was going a different direction into gangs...my older brother introduced me to house music I was 13 ...done I was in love ,started to DJ and in 86 I moved to California wer I was one or the 1st one to play house music in clubs ...ill be 50 this yr and ill live with the best memories tnx to these guys ....
Same here. I was in a gang and then I moved to San Francisco for college and got immersed in the house and rave scene. Never looked back. 1015 Folsom forever!!!
Ron Hardy...music box power plant Frankie knuckles. Playground candy store. Grew up in chicago in the 80's. House head 4 life. Met my husband at the candy store he and his brother were DJ s. I remember guys getting together in his basement playing house music & mix tapes. "Jack your body" was my joint & "it's house" the party's on Michigan ave in chicago was of the chain back then. House music kept a lot of kids off the Street in the 80's. I miss those day!💃💃
Mid 1980’s club scene in New York City and House Music... The Palladium, The Limelight, The Tunnel, The Saint... Dancing to the point I thought I could fly, and even on a natural high... Glad I lived it.
House Music to me is timeless
In the 80's my mom couldn't sleep until I came home on the weekends. So I would set up my cassette for record on my stereo and have her start recording at midnight. KISS, WBLS Saturday nights. Classic music.
Ha ha love it xxxx
I can't believe there are no comments. I'm a 46 year old club head. Thank you so much for this doc. I'm from Newark. Disco,/classic club and house music is all I'll ever need in life.
In the UK Marshall Jefferson's - The house music anthem was beyond massive it was humungous, probably the tune that got us Brits hooked on house. Respect to you Marshall.
They weren’t just ‘dj/producers’ they were HEALERS. R.I.p to the god fathers of house 🙏 ❤️
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Bang on brother
Born and raised in Chicago. I remember when the Hot Mix Five introduced House Music and mixing to the city via radio stations WBMX and WGCI. Good times and good music. 😎👍
This documentary makes me so proud to be from Chicago and to now be a part of the new generation of black house DJs that are coming up in the city! I've had the pleasure of meeting a lot of the people interviewed in this doc at the most random times. Like Lori Branch still spins around the city and I feel really blessed to be able to experience music from the old school house heads
Yes 🙌🏽
I was born in '93 so was a bit late to the party but I swear house was playing as I came out of the womb. Nothing else gives me that feeling of nostalgia, but also freshness.
I was in my teens when the 90s started but I do remember the novelty and freshness when first hearing House Music.
But it was the mood it was able to put me in that captured me: I didn't choose to listen to house music (and its derivatives) because it was the most popular music genre (it wasn't) or because it was a novelty, no... I chose to listen to house music because of how it makes me feel!
And nothing has changed about that since then.
Great documentary! House will always be the mother of electronic & never gets old. House music all night long 🎶
We can’t forget about Kraftwerk
house music came to South Africa too and our house scene was OUT OF THIS WORLD! I was lucky to experience it in my twenties (during the nineties) Best time of my life! This documentary is wonderful because it it good to learn where my favourite type of music originated. Thanks guys! You have had an impact on many lives. What's amazing is that everything you describe that you guys experienced, we experienced the same even though it was years later. The power of house music!
i had the privilege to leave in chicago in 1986 till 1995 and met the only extraordinaire Mr Frankie Knuckles(R.I.P) at fabulous The Warehuse/
I'm born and raised in Chicago and I'm a true House Head! We go to the Chosen Few House Picnic every year and it has grown tremendously! I love ya'll!!
R.I.P Franky Knuckles
Between Chicago, Detroit and New York - a worldwide cultural phenomenon was born. This documentary is fantastic. You rarely see coverage before 1979 - and this video has it in droves. Thank you and long live house music!
And it was raised by Europe.
@@user-nd1so7bx2d how?
Great documentary. This changed the UK and it was never the same again.
House music all night long!
Say what?!?!
“With that House Music you can’t go wrong!!”🙂
@@ms.t281 coz it set u free
Finally a documentary that links NYC to the beginning of house music
NYC had that deep disco
These masters influenced the world including Brazil where I live .... Eternally grateful !!!!
I grew up in Chicago. The loft parties from the late 80’s into and threw the 90’s were the stuff of legends. Thinking back I’m especially missing it this year with everyone on lockdown. Am so glad however that I was here, then. It was a blessing to be a part of it!
Man, amazing memories to have. I grew up to acid, but my era was just a few years after, when rave and hardcore hit the UK. That was MY time, and as precious, but I LOVE acid house. It speaks to my soul. x
@@JackAcid love the hardcore scene. My dad was the total opposite, he liked the slow rhythms at places like legends in Warrington up north which played much slower songs. Inherited all his vinyls, but I love the hardcore sound too!
@@silasthedon2264 I like the.slower, hiphouse kinda tempo too, mind! Any break under 130 BPM is sweet as to dance to, especially if you do the Running Man!
Chi Town in tha house
Chosen Few babyyyy
@@JackAcid check out : the tramp - say no dope. A cult classic for legends!!!!
The foundation of dance and pop is HOUSE. Without you legends, none would have the examples they needed to make the music now. Thanks for the video and all the artist I interviewed.
Man, what I would give to go to a old school classic house jam right now
Codaaaaaa
Right?!
I danced @ loft in to 80's - Larry broke up with David and went to the Garage, We partyed.... I saw Grace Jones, babe
It would be an honor to shake Frankie Knuckles hand for what he, and those around him, has gifted us with. I LOVE HOUSE MUSIC !!!!!! A forever househead pays homage.........
This made me cry. 1996 in Kansas City MO was pure house rave PLUR. memories are a hell of a drug 🤯😭
Gets me too .. like hearing the last track of the night .. when the party's over 😢
Thank you for putting this documentary together . I was a young kid in NYC aspiring to a dj in the early 80s. I was 16 going the Fun house every weekend. Later a friend took me to Loft the garabge. I always loved Chicago house. I had a massive Chicogo house collection of vinyl. That been been part my life ever since. I did become a dj playing in nightclubs until the early 2000. I still listen to house and all types of variations of it. Long live HOUSE !!
Have you heard South African "Deep House" before from the liked of DJ Black Coffee.?
Great documentary. I'm glad I have met Marshall Jefferson, Farley Jackmaster Funk & Robert Owens. I have been a bedroom DJ for 19 years, ran a House music channel on CZcams for 13 years and done mixes on Mixcloud for 7 years. I keep the music alive, even when no one listens to it anymore.
Hey man. I'm a bedroom DJ myself, for about 15 years now. I taught myself in high school. I still put my mixes on soundcloud and mixcloud. Do people listen? I don't know. But it still is my favorite thing to do in the world.
Jay Gonzales add on the link! I’ll listen!
me too guys...i started buying all the vinyl records i heard in the clubs and never got a chance to buy these tracks on vioyl back than...i do live streams on youtube and the videos gets around 1000 of play, live there are around 20 people BUT i dont care. i love it so much to play records...
How do I find your guys work? I want to check it out!
@@ga0425 Here is my mixcloud page mixcloud.com/SmokinSoulGrooves/
I usually play deep house and Soulful House, but I also do Oldskool mixes and some of my own music projects in a mix are on there too.
Nile Rodgers looking spry with Daft Punk. Thank you gentlemen for creating house music. It's still a huge part of my life. Bad Boy Bill is one of my favorite Chi-town d.j.'s. House music forever.....
I’m 17 and I’m just getting this music after coming from The UK Hardcore, Jungle & Drum’n’Bass scenes among others, and I can’t put to words how amazing this is to watch and to listen too.
Honestly I’ve enjoyed every minute of this video and it’s helped me greatly to understand where the music was coming from and how that’s shaped the music that came after and the music we have in the modern day and age.
Much love from the United Kingdom, keeping the sounds alive.
Seeing the Chicago club transformed into some basic office space was kinda depressing tbh :/
Same with the Haçienda in Manchester. It's a block of flats now.
That happened to club vertigo in Costa Rica
I started clubbing when I was 14 in 1987.
New Wave was dying and House was being born.
I wish I was back in 1987 again.
I'd kill to experience that. Must've been so magical and revolutionary
Remember The Cover Girls and Nocera.? And that song "Baby Love" by Regina?
@@stephenkovaz7318 why is your generation styled like how we grew up ?
I love house music. I grew up in Chicago in the 90- until now. I loved all the warehouse parties! My kids love listening to house and freestyle now. I remember once my son was about 12 and he was humming a beat that we hadn’t listen to in a decade. It was a house music song! Ha ha ha. I couldn’t believe he remembered it.
I remember.
House Music is a bridge which connects you to the spiritual realm. The modern day drugs are the equivalent to the tribal medicine. The beat of the music is the Shamans drum. When you hit the dancefloor after taking your medicine you connected to this magical realm of LOVE and UNITY, an energy so powerful that everyone in the place could feel its power and that power connected each and everyone one of us as one Universal Force of Love. We didn't realise at the time but we were all in a deep spiritual meditation. As George Harrison once said, Its not often you feel pure BLISS in life, but this was one of them. It was immense! You were in the moment they call ''now''. I feel so blessed i was there at the right time and place to feel this magical energy which shown me the Light.. Peace and Love to all beings.
Wowwwww. Maybe one of the BEST histories of house I’ve ever heard. Not whitewashed, not sanitized, from the makers’ own mouths. Thank you , thank you .
This is amazing, I came of age and started spinning vinyl in the early '90s in Pittsburgh ... and I'm happy to see the roots of scene I was given to work within. I threw tunnel parties, bridge renegades, rented lobbies of vacant malls and set up massive sound in warehouses all over the place. Frankie knuckles was amazing, DJ Micro... DJ Ani from Deee-Lite all spun at our parties... I still have all my crates, but live out on the west coast... maybe time to bust out the decks and make a comeback... this video is inspirational!
Yeah, me visiting from Louisiana to chicago in 1986. I didn’t like it when I first heard it, but by summers end I couldn’t get enough of it. That was a good time to be in Chicago.
Thanks to these guys.
They changed the world and gave me some of the best years of my life.
And to all those jerks who burned Disco...you were the reason the phoenix of dance music rose from the flames. 😊
The OG house is one of the best things that ever happened in music, and it's alive to this day, and the whole evolution is just the proof, that the disco never really died it just keep evolving and lives in house, rave scene, the edm, it's still there ❤️
"Disco never died. It simply changed its name to protect the innocent."
I was there from the start, and and it still lives on in me. My body may give up and my mind may fade, but when I hear these tunes, I'll always remember my weekends, off my tits, with the people that are still dear to me, to this day.
A late start.
House music is just something else man. So flexible and diverse, I swear anyone can find something for themselves.
Beautiful documentary, thank You!
I produced the Los Angeles club; Flammable Liquid, in the early 90s, that featured House, disco and funk. This is something brilliant and beautiful. The world needs to see this. Thank Franky & Scar, for sharing this with me
2020 still singin' it out loud! Pandemic and locked up in my house with the Marshall Jefferson's House Music Anthem blasting in the other room. "GOTTA HAVE HOUSE MUSIC....ALL NIGHT LONG!!!🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
I'm 55 from Newark N.J. and grew up listening to WBLS ,98.7KISS FM AND KTU, and live to love and listen to house, club and soul for ever.
The world needs house music. Especially these days where you go to a club and nobody’s fucken dancing. Time to stop being so serious and let your body be free.
THANK YOU ALL DJS/CREWS EVERYWHERE!!!
BIG UP TO CHICAGO!
BAY AREA 2020.
Awesome documentary.
I was blessed to be a part of the NY scene, from the Funhouse in 1982 to the Palladium, 1018 and the Limelight through 1989. And there were so many smaller lesser-known clubs as well.
Long Live House Music!
All Night Long!
Yup, I was there too brother !! NYC Baby !
Just awesome. I'm 44, I listen to House all the time, and I just had my first track signed a couple weeks ago. House has inspired me for life!
The groove is what house music is all about.
It’s simply amazing how high stress and pressure at the right time creates diamonds. House music is the diamond created by high stress and pressure. And all these time, I thought House music was European. Little did I know that my black brothers, here in the USA, were the creators. It’s like Rock N’ Roll. It was expropriated by whites and they made it popular because that’s how systemic racism works. It pisses me off to learn how little credit has been given to my black brothers and sisters that have hugely contributed to our society. It’s time for reparations and to recognize that BLM ✊🏾 matter!
shocked me too...no black credits.
You wouldn't have known who'd created it-- irrespective of race--as that's how the music business operates. I am not diminishing the racial aspect. It's just that there is an additional hierarchy of power involved here which is maintained by economic inequality itself.
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@@bsadewitz Thanks! That’s also a very good point!
I got to hear Frankie a year before he died. I knew he was one of the creators of house but I had never heard any of his music. It was at Metro and it was transcendent. I finally got it at that point. We didn't want to go home.
Music tears down borders, religions, and all fears....nothing any government could do! We need more of this energy to survive - this was a good doc....Loved these tunes in the day....nothing today's music could reproduce
Just watched this myself. And your comment is spot on. Thankyou...for the love of house
Frankie Knuckles was the man... he ended up playing liverpool cream in 93/94 and it was mad !!!!
Wow, how fortunate. I got to dance at The Garage ( NYC), The Warehouse ( Chi) Music Box (Chi) Odells ( Balto) Fire/Ice ( MIA). Saw the birth of house, hip hop, punk. Very fortunate to have experienced the begining.
Fred's king st parking garage was my church
I wish they made a series of this in Netflix
There's a three part series on CZcams about dance music. Starts off like this one, about the early scene in Chicago and Detroit, and it takes you through a journey to the modern day.
They should make a series from Disco to the genres it helped create from Trance to modern EDM. It would be a good docu series. But Netflix is too busy raising prices and creating shows glorifying serial killers.
@@MidNiteR32 Hardly glorifying them. They're more documentaries from the police and victims point of view. Showing how they managed to catch them.
@@MrQuadro83 They do. Making a documentary on killers and giving them any spotlight is glorifying them. Look at what happened during their Ted Bundy series. People on social media were saying how attractive he was and Netflix had to do damage control. These series on psychopaths and serial killers only glorifies them by giving them what they want: media attention.
@@MidNiteR32 How are they getting the attention they want? They're both dead.
I'm a home grown Chicago House Head from back in those days. And I LOVE this documentary. I've seen a lot but this has been my favorite! I mean, MAJOR PROPS TO THE EDITOR(S)!!!!! Because editing is what makes or breaks any video one is watching. And this is pro level!!!!!
Marshall Jefferson's Move your body will always be one of the best house songs. I like house songs that have the piano in it. Those are the kind of songs that really get me moving.
I miss the glory days but I really wanna get out and dance again. I got good at dancing when I practiced. I miss that so bad!
Frankie Knuckles, the godfather, the king, the creator of house music
RIP ❤️🌟
Someone loved me enough to give me a mixtape from Chicago club scene in the early 90's. The music saved my soul at the time.
I got into house around 95-97 it started by me buying a couple CDs from a thrift store and then I went and say in the parking lot for club paradise I Jacksonville and I was hooked... that simple break or straight beat with some horns or piano just made you bounce... thanks to these guys !
Great documentary. Loved learning about the origins of the music I've loved for 30+ years.
Such an amazing documentary! This is history! Those buildings that used to be clubs that still exist should become protected historic buildings!!!
I definitely agree.
I've been noticing House music is growing in popularity once again!
It never went away. It's always been around in one form or another. In the UK at least.
@@MrQuadro83 Yeah I meant in the US well at least in my area in the east coast. I know it's always been popular in Chicago though since that's where house is originally from.
@@Hypnotic_Horizon I live in the east coast too. House music is coming back more today. If you've been to coney island u will see DJs playing house music and then on the other side u will hear salsa. Throughout quarantine I've been playing house music.
Where you been homie? I grew up in Miami and even in 2000-2010 house music was huge
@@lizarrington3636 I haven't been to Coney Island. I've cousins in NY I'll probably check it out when I see them. Subscribe to my channel I'll be DJing live house sets in a week or 2.
Wow. I had no idea that house emerged from the disco scene. No clue. If anything, I thought it was an outgrowth of electronic music and maybe the punk scene. Boy was I wrong.
Thank you for this. It was really enlightening!
Thank god for house music!! And thank all these amazing people who got it started...house music is a beautiful part of my life!!
Can I get an AMEN up in here? 👌❤😍
Didn't grow up on house music but the piano beats were everywhere in the early 2000's, when I was growing up. Going to raves as an adult, I always get hype when I hear the DJ's throw in a couple of these golden age tracks!
House Music is the reason to live!
It's 2020 ND Im listening to house music all night long🎵💃🏽♥️👍🏾
I could watch a full 10 episode series about house music!
This Documentary beautifully painted the beginnings of house music, giving love to Chicago and acknowledge the roots and spread of it.
I first started listening to House in 1986, was into Electro for a couple of year before that, I was 17. Darn I'm 52 now but House has defined my musical life, and I'll love it until the day I die.
Late 80s early 90s best days of my life 💜
Ditto m8 ..
I’m a black 23 year old singer-songwriter and I promise to be part of the revamping of House Music 🥺🥺🥺🥺
Can you write any lyrics for Soulful or Gospel House tracks? I'm a dj and producer from Chicago. I have a group of three young ladies around 26-27 years old I'm producing now for a 2022 release.
"This sound... this PERFECT sound. I knew in my soul..." HELL YEAH YOU DID.
My big brother introduced me to house music. it's kinda how we bonded. Love you Aaron.
Love the guy at the start. "Lets see if we can find some old house music" Pulls out an anthem and gets his boogie on :)
I started listening to, and producing electronic music (what we call trance and techno nowadays) in the 90's. Early 90's, we had something called New Beat here in Belgium, which was of course also based on the Chicago sound of the late 80's. Wish I could have been there when it all started, but I'm glad that I became a small part of it in the 90's :)
To the founders of house music: thank you very much for your creativity and perseverance. Generations of producers, DJ's and whole genres have spawned because of you.
With love, from Belgium!
Chicago will always be the house music Capitol of the world! I was there to see it all!
It is not only the house music Capitol, Chicago created the term House.
ChicagoDeepHouseHead capital of the creation because of the developing maybe Ibiza has something to tell ... i can explain i am from Ibiza
Miguel Ferrer Ibiza is a fan of the culture..Chicago remains the Capital :)
No Chicago created what they thought house was. Remember it was not called house. It all came from NYC to Chicago. Y'all just speed disco music up. 808 is a Chicago thang with Chicago. NYC house is way more smoother that that Chicago Jack beat.
U betta know it!!!
House & trance…forever. Still have my reel to real.😁
Depressing how old we all are now! Great docu, good to hear these pioneers in their own words. In the early 90’s house partying (House music), or raving (House, Tecnho, Ragga, Jungle), to us, in the UK, it felt like a revolution. Seriously. Something really big was going down and it is going to take over! I was one o them caucasians hah. I grew up listening to Kraftwerk, ELO, Jean Michelle Jarre. But also this thing called Soul music that was very much separate. For me it was about the instrumentation and the experimentation. It was a revelation hearing that Chicago House for the first time. It was like here’s black people that got hold of the instruments and using them how they were meant to be used, but crucially bringing soul into the mix. We love innovation in the UK and the repression we all felt under the Thatcher years, and the engineered divisions in society, and probably the boring ass idea of a party that our parents had (lots of chairs out) gave us this need to break out, learn to dance (‘ecstasy gives white man rhythm’ was what we jokingly told each other) and go express ourselves in a uniquely mixed crowd, if you Lived in a city like London. I moved there specifically as I wanted that mix and find out where that music was coming from. I guess I’m trying to explain why this had such a big effect on us, as he seemed so surprised in the documentary. It happened before with Northern Soul. You could now dance to a song about love and it wasn’t weird, it was like a church. But only in the spiritual sense. No boring hymns hah. Some of us bought begged or borrowed drum machines, sequencers, 4 track tape recorders and tried to figure out this alchemy. Thanks to all these pioneers and fk the label guy. A lot of us have these tunes seared into the fabric of our brains, there’s a physical reaction hearing them again. 53 here.. thanks for the good times and the love. Cheers 👍🏼
@DVNFLX Clearly, we need a FULL track listing. Please, pretty please, with old school house music on top?!! Yeah, this was posted 6 years ago, but it's never too late, HOUSE is still alive! We still dancing!
My hometown of Manchester UK 🇬🇧 took house music to a whole new level! Still listen to house to this day!
Y’all could never touch Chicago please.
@@samron7298 didn't say that
house music was already at another level when it left chicago, UK just made it global. And i thank the uk house scene for that.
Sorry pal but Manchester took and gave no credit!!
I agree the chicago stuff too funky sounding for me
Very good documentary.I am a house head.I played the music in the 80s...still love it
I was born in '95 but I love house music brings so much joy to my soul
‘95 unite! Alcatraz - give me luv (1995) should be the anthem of that year!
I was there in the middle of all that! Thank God for this house.
Lucky you...I found house music in 2017. This documentary gave me a nostalgic feeling and I wasn't even there. Much Respect💪💯
Music saved my life, and changed my life. Had no idea about this, but I'm thankful for those contribution.
Watched this doc over 5 times now, will never get enough
Nope❤
I played so much HOUSE in Montreal back in those days. Don’t ask me how it got up here but you KNOW it set the dance floors on FIRE 🔥 and still warms our hearts today ❤️
i learned how to spin in the fall of 1980 from college room-mate, D.J. Disco Dee (Bronx, NY). I was strictly east coast flava HIP HOP . Around 92, I started getting all these 'i dunno?' records from my record pool . THAT BOOM, BOOM, BOOM,..... them hi-hats..... tich, tich, tich, double tich, tich,.... and then THEM..... Diva's melodramatic lyrics . I was like.... i don't know what the phuck this "disco" shit is.... but it is the complete bomb ! HOUSE MUSIC ! Hooked every since.... : )
OFNM aka Amazing D.J. Frank Flash
House was THE music of my undergrad days, it literally would have us in a trance for hours on end