Talk:Chicago house

incomplete?
where's all the info for chicago house after the mid eighties? it's like stopping and article on rock and roll at 1972!! can someone fill us in please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Btxtsf (talk • contribs) 03:24, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

definition
is it me or does this article only describe and talk about house music in general rather than the chicago house style? --MilkMiruku 04:17, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

yeah it doesn't get into chicago house, it also says acid house was a subgenre, which it wasn't, acid house was the creation of house, with the track "acid trax" by "phuture".--Kledsky 03:39, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Referring to the beat as "4/4" is also misleading, as virtually all electronic dance music is in 4/4 time. "Four to the floor" is the correct term.


 * Pretty much all popular music (not just electronic) is 4/4, but for some reason everyone uses that phrase when they actually mean Four on the Floor, as you said. --Andylindsay (talk) 00:23, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

WBMX Radio and the Hot Mix 5???
How is this relevent to the Article? I see where the writer is going, however I do not understand how this section is important to the topic. --Mickey 12:07, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

WBMX and the HOT MIX 5 were instrumental to the genre of House Music in Chicago, that is known prima facie to anyone familiar with Chicago. DJ Black Adam (talk) 12:45, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Deleted the Mr. Lee section
The Mr. lee paragraph was deleted. Mr. Lee did some decent songs and is a great producer, but if there is no Steve Hurley, Farley Keith nor Ron Hardy sections, a Mr. Lee section is not even on the radar. So far the article at least presents the basics for the genre in Chicago. DJ Black Adam (talk) 12:44, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Hip Hop
I have removed a reference to Hip Hop being a "stylistic origin" of Chicago house as no early house producer has stated this and hip hop was still so new when house was forming. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.122.77.189 (talk) 01:35, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

I will be re ADDING B-Boy Hip Hop as a source for the GENRE of Chicago House Music as the music of Man Parrish, Afrika Bambatta, and specifically their use of the 808 Drum Machine the Linn Drum, etc. helped set a format for electronic music INCLUDING House. Song's like "Hip Hop Be Bop" by Man Parrish, Hip Hop remixes done by Arthur Baker such as "I.O.U" by Freeze, "I Want it to be Real" by John Rocca "Confusion" by New Order, and songs like "Girls - Aha Hi" by Solo produced by John Robie, the fact is they were using the Roland 808, Linn Drum, etc. in ways that were emulated by Jesse Sanders, Farley Jack Master Funk and Steve Silk Hurley for tracks they made in the ORIGINAL genre of Chicago House Music DJ Black Adam (talk)

Influence of Dub
I added dub as an influence. Most if not all original house productions featured dub b-sides and were often heavily drenched in dub effects and samples commonly featured in dub and reggae. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.120.194.67 (talk) 23:51, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

This is interesting, but we really need reliable sources for it. This article is a study of the beginnings of Chicago House and whether "dub" was an influence on the new genre from the beginning is worthy of study and further research. Certainly at the time of house's first appearances in popular culture, I do not recall "dub" being a recognized genre in itself. Limitations imposed by the technology of the time (the early 1980s) must also be taken into account.

(Etheldavis (talk) 22:40, 28 March 2015 (UTC))

It may have not been seen as a genre but it definitely was on one. The b-side to Chop E's "It's House" original 12-inch was "It's Dub". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.120.194.67 (talk) 00:28, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Please write something that is reliably verifiable into the text. As you say "dub" was not seen as a genre in the early 1980s and because we are dealing with how Chicago house came about here, what influenced its formation, this is most important. We will then see what other editors think of this addition. Also, please stop removing "electro" as a stylistic influence as this appears to have been agreed by consensus.

(Etheldavis (talk) 01:02, 31 March 2015 (UTC))


 * This article must be based on a summary of published sources, not the assertions of individual editors. If anyone here makes assertions about the topic, they must be verifiable, found in published sources. So let's start talking about sources. Binksternet (talk) 02:06, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Garage and House
I have corrected a recent edit here which claimed that the term "Chicago house" was coined to differentiate between the house music produced in that city and the "garage house" produced in New York. That is not so as any brief glance around the web will tell you. Garage house was originally called garage music (and still is by myself and my peers) and "house" and "garage", which developed separately but within the same time period, were regarded as being distinct dance music styles in their early years. The term 'Chicago house' was coined to refer to the earliest house music productions, which originated in Chicago.

(Solidsandie (talk) 18:08, 4 March 2017 (UTC))