House

History
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The Paradise Garage nightclub in New York City



House music is the descendant of the 1970s dance style of disco, which blended soul, R&B, funk, salsa, rock and pop with a progressive, pro-diversity message. In the late 1970s, disco songs began incorporating electronic sounds, such as Giorgio Moroder's landmark production of Donna Summer's hit single "I Feel Love" from 1977. In the same year, Kraftwerk's albumTrans-Europe Express began being played in New York discos; this album contains a number of the elements that would later appear in techno and drum and bass. By the early 1980s, UK bands began updating the disco sound of the 1970s with a more electronic, post-punk dance music style, such as in the UK band New Order's song "Blue Monday" (1983) [1]
In 1984, Lime released an album with a style dubbed "HiNRG", which moulded the late 1970s sounds of Giorgio Moroder and Kraftwerk into a catchy club style with beatbox programming and "breakdown sections". M and M's club mixes and Jesse Saunders - "On and On" (1984/1985) had many elements of electronic dance music that developed into the "house music" sound, such as synths (including a 303 and minimal vocals). House music also incorporated other influences, such as New Wave, Reggae, European synthpop, industrial and punk as well as the emerging rap and hip-hop styles. House music DJs experimented with new editing techniques and electronic instruments, such as remixing, sampling, synthesizers, and sequencers.
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The origins of the term "house music" are disputed. The term may be derived from the name of a club called the The Warehouse, which was one of the nightclubs that became popular among the teenagers living in the Chicago area in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One of these nightclubs, The Warehouse was patronized primarily by gay black & Latino men [2], who came to dance to DJ Frankie Knuckles' mix of classic disco, European synthpop, new wave, industrial, and punk recordings. Knuckles released his dance tracks and mixes on the Traxx record label, which became known as house music.
Chip E.'s recording "It's House" may also have helped to define this new form of electronic music.[citation needed] Chip E. claims the name came from methods of labelling records at the Imports Etc record store, where he worked at in the early 1980s.[citation needed] Music that DJ Knuckles played at the Warehouse nightclub was labelled "As Heard At The Warehouse",[citation needed] which was shortened to simply "The House". Larry Heard, aka "Mr. Fingers", claims[citation needed] that the term "house" reflected the fact that many early DJs created music in their own homes, using synthesizers and drum machines, including the Roland TR-808, TR-909, and the TB 303 Bassline synthesizer-sequencer. These synthesizers were used to create a house music subgenre called Acid House.[3]
House music is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid-1980s.[citation needed] House music is strongly influenced by elements of the late 1970s soul- and funk-infused dance music style of disco. House music takes disco's use of a prominent bass drum on every beat and developed a new style by mixing in a heavy electronic synthesizer bassline, electronic drums, electronic effects, funk and pop samples, and reverb (or delay)-enhanced vocals.