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Some Of My Favorite House Artists

Frankie Knuckles an American DJ, record producer and remix artist born in the South Bronx of New York City  was the Dj from 1977 to 1982 at the Warehouse. He was a  record producer and remix artist who played an important role in the development of house music (an electronic, disco-influenced dance music). As a Chicago DJ in the 1980s he helped to popularize house music in the 1990s.  A member of the Dance Music Hall of Fame he's one of the worlds Greatest DJ's and Remixers.  He's known as The Godfather of House.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNje1dOMXBU

Lil Louis born Louis Burns is an internationally renowned artist. Originally from Chicago, Louis began his career at 12 years old as a DJ becoming one of the biggest DJs in the world. He is one of the founding fathers of House Music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-U-WiUZVlc&feature=related


Eddie Fowlkes a techno DJ from Detroit, Michigan, influential to the early Detroit techno scene. Fowlkes began his career as a DJ in high school, and attended business college briefly before turning full-time to a career in music. He's known as The Godfather of Techno Soul. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5OnjVeg6Y4


Blake Baxter an American techno musician, associated with the first wave of Detroit techno. Baxter first began DJing in the middle of the 1980s. His first release was issued by Chicago label DJ International, which was followed by several singles on KMS Records, run by Kevin Saunderson. He worked extensively with Underground Resistance in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and had several of his productions featured on the Techno: The New Dance Sound of Detroit compilation. Around 1990 he began recording for Incognito Records, who released his debut full-length, The Underground Lives. After moving to Berlin, he released "Brothers Gonna Work it Out", a track based on Willie Hutch's 1973 eponymous release, which was later sampled by The Chemical Brothers. Additionally, he worked with Orlando Voorn as The Ghetto Brothers. After returning to Detroit, he set up the labels Mix Records and Phat Joint. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JnKPYJuigg&feature=related

Juan Atkins born December 9, 1962 is an American musician. He is widely credited as the originator of techno music, specifically Detroit techno along with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. The three, sometimes called the Belleville Three, attended high school together in Belleville, Michigan, near Detroit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VQhBGbU6vM

David Morales born in New York City, he is of Puerto Rican ancestry Morales is an internationally acclaimed Grammy-winning house music DJ and producer. In addition to his production and DJ work, Morales is one of the most prolific remixers of all time, transforming many pop music songs into club-friendly dance tracks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T38waPCYsXU&feature=related

Jamie Principle born Byron Walton is a house music artist and producer born in Chicago, Illinois. He is one of the early pioneers of house music when the genre was first began in Chicago during the early 1980s. Principle later began having entries on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the early 1990s, including "Cold World," a #22 dance hit that is a collaboration with Steve "Silk" Hurley, and the classic "You're All I Waited For" on the Smash Records label. Principle's 1985 song Your Love (with Frankie Knuckles) is one of the earliest house songs and was played regularly at a Chicago dance club called the Warehouse for over a year before being released on vinyl LP. The track was a sensation in the city's underground clubs before being released on vinyl. Its success before an official release was entirely due to the song being played in Chicago house music clubs, then copied onto tape by fans, and eventually circulating throughout the underground scene. In 2004 Principle hit #1 on the US Dance Chart with "Back N Da Day," which is a collaboration with another house music legend, Frankie Knuckles.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1NzlSOn0_U&feature=related

THE ROOTS OF HOUSE MUSIC

Like it or not, house music was first and foremost a direct descendant of disco. Disco had already been going for ten years when the first electronic drum tracks began to appear out of Chicago, and in that time it had already suffered the slings and arrows of merciless commercial music exploitation, dilution and racial and sexual prejudice which culminated in the 'disco sucks' campaign. In one bizarrely extreme incident, people attending a baseball game in Chicago's Comiskey Park were invited to bring all their unwanted disco records and after the game they were tossed onto a massive bonfire. House Music is one of the most heard forms of electronic music around the world. It first appeared out of Chicago and New York, USA around 1984-85. According to the Hyperreal website, It was a direct descendent of disco but was deconstructed into a more "deeper" and "rawer" 4 on the floor type beat with little to no vocals.
But it wasn't just American music laying the groundwork for house. European music, spanning English electronic pop like Depeche Mode and Soft Cell and the earlier, more disco based sounds of Giorgio Moroder, Klein & MBO and a thousand Italian productions were immensely popular in urban areas like New York and Chicago. One of the reasons for their popularity was two clubs that had simultaneously broken the barriers of race and sexual preference, two clubs that were to pass on into dance music legend - Chicago's Warehouse and New York's Paradise Garage. Up until then, and after, the norm was for Black, Hispanic, White, straight and gay to segregate themselves, but with the Warehouse, opened in 1977 and presided over by Frankie Knuckles and the Garage where Larry Levan spun, the emphasis was on the music. (Ironically, Levan was first choice for the Warehouse, but he didn't want to leave New York). And the music was as varied as the clienteles - r'n'b based Black dance music and disco peppered with things as diverse as The Clash's 'Magnificent Seven'. For most people, these were the places that acted as breeding grounds for the music that eventually came to be known after the clubs - house and garage.
Such artists like Frankie Knuckles, Lil Louis, Eddie Fowlkes, Blake Baxter, Juan Atkins, David Morales and Jaime Principle have led the way to what house music is today and will continue to endure the sounds of time.

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D.J. Puppetmaster....In calibration with Bassworks Productions Arizona's newest premier DJ has arrived and open here to provide music for any event with the finest music tailored to your event. By way of Baltimore, Maryland Puppetmaster specializes in House, Urban Sole and Hip Hop. Watch for upcoming events and details on how you can secure Puppetmaster for your special day or event. If you wish to know more about Puppetmaster and/or Bassworks Productions please contact me via email at puppetmasterdj@gmail.com