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Frankie Knuckles Live @ The Warehouse - 28-08-1981 by R_Co on Mixcloud

Knuckles created a number of dance classics in his own right, notably Your Love (1986), Baby Wants to Ride (1987) and the famous remixes of Chaka Khan's Ain't Nobody (1989) and Sounds of Blackness's The Pressure (1992).

Knuckles began hitting legendary New York clubs The Loft, Sanctuary and Better Days as a teenager and by the mid-Seventies was DJ'ing himself. With his friend Larry Philpot, he worked at two of the most important early discos, the Gallery and the Continental Baths - a multi-room gay bathhouse on Manhattan's West Seventy-fourth street.

By 1977, Knuckles had moved to Chicago and opened his own club, The Warehouse. A unique building on South Jefferson St, the venue would be where Knuckles began honing his own signature style and sound.

At a time when tracks from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack were saturating the clubs, Knuckles was spinning tunes from independent labels like Salsoul and using reel-to-reel tape machines to re-edit his favorite tracks to extend grooves for the dance-floor.

Frankie Knuckles - WBMX Friday Night Jams 1986 by Sarah Davies on Mixcloud

Knuckles became so hugely popular at the Warehouse that - initially a members-only club for largely black gay man - it began attracting new crowds and the membership scheme was scrapped. Knuckles left in 1982 and opened the Power Plant a few months later.

In 1985, Knuckles made his first recording with singer-songwriter Byron Walford, aka Jamie Principle. The pair's early tracks were recorded in the Power Plant's DJ booth though they soon graduated to local studios. Several of their creations wound up at local label Trax Records, one of the most influential labels on the house music scene.

In the summer of 1987, British DJ's - including Paul Oakenfold - travelled to the open-air clubs of Ibiza and were turned onto a new style of DJ performance. It birthed the idea of the 'rave' in the UK, with the likes of Oakenfold and Danny Rampling typically playing in huge warehouses or open fields. Knuckles wasn't interested and instead took residency in New York clubs the World, the Roxy, the Sound Factory and Sound Factory Bar - teaming up with Judy Weinstein and fellow DJ David Morales to form Def Mix Productions.

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Ibiza rave tune

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Really great article in the NPR a few months ago (sorry we just caught it now) by Michaelangelo Matos about how the internet helped to shape the rave scene into what it is (or what it not is today). While the internet certainly made it easier to find out about parties, share information, and hook up with people you meet, it turned a culture that was once very underground into something much more public. Below is an excerpt from the article:

In 1989, a popular Brooklyn DJ named Frankie Bones went to England and played a party called Energy, going on at 6 a.m. in front of 25,000 people. Inspired, Bones decided to start throwing parties of his own, bringing raves to the warehouses of Brooklyn. Soon after, scenes in L.A. and San Francisco began to sprout. Once the coasts adapted the new party style, things went inland, as loose regional congregations began to make themselves into a unified scene. Like drops in a pond, eventually their ripples began to touch.

At first, the connections were done the old-fashioned way. By 1994, there was already kind of an established network of party-throwers and partygoers [in Detroit], says Rob Theakston, a Detroit rave veteran. At that point, the scene was maybe 200 kids max. Everything was very phone-based. [You'd] call the phone lines the day of to get directions, and even then, a lot of the direction lines would just give the vicinity because you would already know: Oh, Harper and Van Dyke thats the old theater. We know where the partys going to be. They wouldnt give you the exact address for the authorities to find out.

Many times, ravers had good reason for such secrecy. I worked so much overtime trying to talk about how the rave scene wasnt all about drugs, says Ariel Meadow Stallings, who published and edited the rave zine Lotus in Seattle during the late 90s. It was very noble of me, and I still do believe it wasnt all about drugs. But it is a drug culture. Even if youre not on drugs, the culture of the party is determined by the fact that there are people there who are.

Its quite a long article, but definitely worth the read. Check out the full article here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/07/17/137680680/how-the-internet-transformed-the-american-rave-scene

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In September 1987 four British lads went to the Balearic island of Ibiza to celebrate one of their numbers birthday. However, rather than indulge in the familiar trappings that San Antonio had to offer the chip shop and the boozer Paul Oakenfold, Johnny Walker, Nicky Holloway and Danny Rampling sampled the bountiful delights of the islands more exotic side.

At the islands celebrated Amnesia club, the four took a new drug called ecstasy for the first time. Its euphoric properties chimed with the playful strand of dance music that the DJ, Alfredo, was spinning. Unknown to Oakenfold and co, they had stumbled upon the ingredients that they turned into acid house, the UKs last great youth subculture and year zero musical movement. Upon their return to the UK the four revellers were determined to keep the party going. Oakenfold introduced the new music to his club The Project in Streatham, before opening Spektrum at Heaven; Rampling meanwhile began Shoom in a fitness centre near Southwark Bridge and Holloway went onto open Trip at the Astoria. By the following summer, acid house dominated clubland. In stark contrast to the dour music scene of the time, acid house was colourful, bold and fresh. A fascinating combination of Detroit techno, New York disco, Chicago house , European electro-pop and whatever other curious accoutrements it happened to pick up along the way, it was a complete break with what had gone before. At its heart it had a collectivist zeal that marked it apart from the snooty London West End club scene. It had its own fashions baggy, loose fitting clothing, perfect for dancing the night, and dawn, away, plus other key signifiers such as the iconic yellow smiley face. And in ecstasy it had its own drug. Originally used as an appetite suppressant during the First World War, ecstasy enabled people who wouldnt normally do so to hit the dance floor with unfettered abandon. To give some indication of how pop time has speeded up and how underground movements are seemingly born into the mainstream, acid house was afforded nearly a year away from the gaze of the media and straight society. By the October of 1988, however, it was being couched in Fleet Streets typically sensationalistic knee-jerk rhetoric of folk devils and moral panics, a la teddy boys, mods, hippies and punks before them. In todays media savvy days, its doubtful anything like acid house could happen on such a scale or cause such hand wringing again. The Daily Mail might have got its knickers in a twist over emo, but everyone else shrugged their shoulders with indifference. And while the spuriously titled new rave phenomenon makes for a neat cyclical accompaniment to acid houses big bang, can you see the the Sun decrying the likes of Klaxons and New Young Pony Club in the manner it did 20 years ago? Not likely.

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Joey Essex has signed a deal with Warner Music to release his own compilation album.

Essex Anthems will be a triple CD compilation of past and present dance tracks selected by the TOWIE star.

There will also be a host of classic tracks by the likes of Artful Dodger, Daniel Bedingfield, Corona and Eric Prydz.

Essex Anthems will be released to coincide with the reality TV star's new show Educating Joey Essex, which premieres on ITV2 in the spring.

"I'm really excited about this record deal", Essex said. "It's amazing to be making the ultimate dance album based on the tunes we play at Sugar Hut.

"Me and the label have spent loads of time choosing the tracks, mixing up new hits with classic dance floor bangers."

Joey Essex in a still from The Only Way Is Essex

CD1 1. Clean Bandit - 'Rather Be' 2. Breach - 'Everything You Never Had' 3. Storm Queen - 'Look Right Through' 4. Duke Dumont - 'Need U' 5. Bingo Players - 'Rattle' 6. David Guetta & Skylar Grey - 'Shot Me Down' 7. Fatboy Slim - 'Eat Sleep Rave Repeat' 8. Lana Del Ray vs Cedric Gervais - 'Summertime Sadness' 9. Avicii - 'Levels' 10. Martin Garrix - 'Animals' 11. Armin Van Buuren - 'This Is What It Feels Like' 12. Otto Knows - 'Million Voices' 13. Martin Solveig & Dragonette - 'Hello' 14. Calvin Harris feat. Ellie Goulding - 'I Need Your Love' 15. Icona Pop - 'I Love It' (Tisto Remix) 16. Wynter Gordon - 'Dirty Talk' (Laidback Luke Remix) 17. All About She - 'Higher' (Steve Smart Remix) 18. Coldplay - 'Paradise' (Fedde Le Grand Remix) 19. Bruno Mars - 'Locked Out Of Heaven' (Sultan & Ned Shepard Remix) 20. Swedish House Mafia - 'Miami To Ibiza'

CD2 1. Jason Derulo - 'Trumpets' 2. Tinie Tempah - 'Pass Out' 3. Rudimental - 'Waiting All Night' 4. Fuse ODG - 'Antenna' 5. Pitbull feat. TJR - 'Don't Stop The Party' 6. Chris Brown - 'Beautiful People' 7. Guru Josh Project - 'Infinity' (Klaas Remix) 8. Flo Rida - 'Good Feeling' 9. Sidney Samson - 'Riverside' 10. Chuckie & LMFAO - 'Let The Bass Kick In Miami' 11. Wiley - 'Heatwave' 12. Artful Dodger & Craig David - 'Rewind' 13. Daniel Bedingfield - 'Gotta Get Thru This' 14. Breach - 'Jack' 15. K-Klass - 'Let Me Show You' (Klub Mix) 16. Stevie V - 'Dirty Cash' (Sold Out Mix) 17. Corona - 'Rhythm Of The Night' 18. N-Joi - 'Anthem' 19. Strike - 'U Sure Do' 20. Felix 'Don't You Want Me'

CD3 1. Dcup & Yolanda - 'We No Speak Americano' 2. Duck Sauce - 'Barbara Streisand' 3. Fedde Le Grand - 'Put Your Hands Up For Detroit' 4. Kylie Minogue - 'Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head' 5. Steve Angello & Robin S - 'Show Me Love' 6. Everything But The Girl - 'Missing' (Todd Terry Remix) 7. Armand Van Helden - 'U Don't Know Me' 8. Bucketheads - 'The Bomb' 9. Living Joy - 'Dreamer' 10. Nightcrawlers - 'Push The Feeling On' 11. Alison Limerick - 'Where Love Lives' 12. Michael Gray - 'Weekend' 13. Phats & Small - 'Turn Around' 14. The Original - 'I Luv U Baby' 15. Bob Sinclair - 'Love Generation' 16. Freemasons - 'Love On My Mind' 17. Shades Of Rhythm - 'Sound Of Eden' 18. Baby D - 'Let Me Be Your Fantasy' 19. Ruff Driverz - 'Dreaming' 20. Eric Prydz - 'Call On Me'

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