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bringing down the wall between black and white: between funk and electronic music
and introducing the sampling techniques that will change the music in the next years
Electro,at first the soundtrack for the break dance,
will be the precursor of techno music
In the mid 80s, in Chicago
the memories of local disco, giorgio moroder's european electronic dance and spaghetti disco
will be reformulated in a simple and dry sound, with a strong rythmic component
this new genere will be called..
..house..
the origin of the name, before the meaning of homemade
is due the name of the storical club of chicago at that time
the Warehouse
where the house phenomena is forming
and where a dj like Frankie Knuckles mixes the firsts homemade house tracks
among the artist who made house we surely remember Larry Heard, Marshall Jefferson
but the most significative figure remains Lil' Louis
his works will be the most influent not only in the city of chicago
but in the whole electronic music scene
among the singles that made his work a legend we surely remember "French Kiss"
Hypnotic stomp dance, that slows down, with the voice of a female ***
...an then speeding up again...'til exploding...
...at the end...