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Definition of house music by Guy Styles:
"House is a feeling.
It is why house lovers love house music.
Like that words: "And when you enter my house, it then become our house"
I think the term "visual" is not what we are looking for. Describing
house visually is like video taping the wind. It doesn't really work
cause we can't see house. We have to feel it.
Description of the feeling:
When I know I am hearing good house, it is when I get the house
feeling. It is similar to love. When the house starts to get funky I
start to get a warm feeling in my chest, and I get that tingley rush
to my head like when you're about to see your girlfriend who you
havn't seen for 7 days. I forget about all my problems and worries
that have been troubling me. Then my body just has to start dancing.
In my life, I considered house music to be (almost) spiritual, and
dancing for hours on a friday or saturday night is (almost) like
church.
I know I am not the only one who feels this way, for I have spoken to
others about it who have finished my sentences with exactly what I
have said here."
Jak powstał house - tekst nieznanej autorki [POL]:
Podstawa do stworzenia house'u stalo sie powstajace we wczesnych latach siedemdziesiatych DISCO. Narodziny tej muzyki oznaczaly rownoczesnie pojawienie sie pierwszych dj'ow oraz klubow (Discoteque), w ktorych atmosfere tworzyly kolorowe migajace swiatla i głosna muzyka. Caly ruch zaczal sie rozwijac mniej - wiecej w latach 1974 - 75. Przelomowym momentem bylo pojawienie sie na rynku Technicsow 1500, ktore jako pierwsze gramofony z plynna regulacja obrotow daly poczatek nowej "erze dj'ow".
W tym momencie koniecznie wypada wymienic kilka nazwisk. Jednym z pierwszych, ktorzy nauczyli sie techniki miksowania byl klubowy promotor Nick Siano. Od niego wlasnie tajniki te poznali Larry Levan (gral w klubie Paradise Garage) oraz Frankie Knuckles, ktorzy stali sie wkrotce slynnymi dj'ami z okolic Nowego Jorku. Wlasnie Levan byl pierwszym, ktory zmiksowal dwie plyty dajac tym samym przyklad innym klubowym dj'om, dla ktorych miksowanie stawalo sie powoli nieodlacznym elementem kolejnych setow.
W ten sposob powstala nowa kultura. Swiat dj'ow i muzyki disco. Niestety ogromna popularyzacja stylu disco i co za tym idzie komercjalizacja, spowodowaly jego upadek. Do tego stopnia, ze w Chicago
w 1981 r. publicznie spalono tysiace plyt z ta muzyka (ludzie, pomyslcie ! Tyle vinyli ...) W Ameryce wlasciwie zaprzestano produkowania tego typu plyt, czasem pojawilo sie tylko cos w Europie.
Ale nie byl to koniec sceny w Chicago. Tam wlasnie narodzil sie house. Wiesz, co bylo tego przyczyna ?
W 1977 r. Knuckles przeniosl sie do Chicago, gdzie pracowal w klubie Warehouse. Gral wszystko, co wpadlo mu w reke, jednak nieciekawie zrobilo sie po roku 1980, kiedy zaprzestano produkcji plyt disco. Wtedy zaczal eksperymentowac, aby stworzyc nowe brzmienia ze starych plyt. Nie mozna bylo przeciez zawiesc spragnionych disco klubowiczow. Zastepowano glownie prawdziwa perkusje automatami (Roland 808, 909 - nie wypada nie znac brzmien, wiec odsylam np. do programu ReBirth 338 ver2.0), miksowano wokale, zmieniano tempo. I tak powstal nowy gatunek - HOUSE.
Za ojca pierwszej plyty house'owej uwaza sie Jesse'go Saundersa ("One seventeen", 1983). Warto wspomniec rowniez o pojawieniu sie (jestesmy w tej chwili gdzies okolo 1985) dj'a Pierre, ktory bedac
w posiadaniu mojej ukochanej 303-ki (odsylam ponownie do ReBirtha) stal sie tworca nowego gatunku, zwanego ACID HOUSE.
Skad nazwa HOUSE ? Tutaj mamy do wyboru dwie rownie dobre i bardzo prawdopodobne teorie. Pierwsza: nazwa pochodzi od miejsa powstawania pierwszych kawalkow house'owych - na poczatku dj'e miksowali przeciez w zaciszu domowym (house). Druga: wywodzi pochodzenie gatunku od nazwy klubu "Warehouse". Ktora wolisz ? Nie warto sie zastanawiac, lepiej posluchaj sobie dobrych house'owych numerkow.
Zanim to jednak zrobisz, jeszcze co nieco o samej muzyce, czyli jak ja rozpoznac.
Na pewno wiesz czym jest disco i masz pojecie, jak wygladala owa ogromna kultura, a jesli nie,
to mozesz poszukac filmu "Goraczka sobotniej nocy" ("Saturday Night Fever") z Travolta, ktory w 100% w pelni to wszystko obrazuje. Kolorowe, jasne swiatla, rownie kolorowe ciuchy, boa ze sztucznych pior, afro na glowie, wyszywane cekinami spodnie dzwony, migoczace kule pod sufitem, (ludzie na LSD), niezwykle charakterystyczna muzyka. Zeby zrozumiec, trzeba uslyszec i trzeba zobaczyc. Nie myl jednak pod zadnym wzgledem pojec DISCO i DANCE, jak to sie czesto wielu niewtajemniczonym zdarza. To nie to samo ! Slowem "dance" (jezeli mamy na mysli sam gatunek, a nie ogolnie muzyke taneczna), mozesz okreslac wspolczesna muzyke grana w dyskotekach (nie wypada wymieniac na tej stronie przedstawicieli). Chyba wszyscy wiedza o co chodzi ? Więc idziemy dalej...
Teraz wedrujac po gatunkach wypada wymienić GARAGE. Jest to styl posredniczacy pomiędzy disco
a house. Powstal w Nowym Jorku we wspomnianym juz wczesniej klubie Paradise Garage. Duzo w nim wokalu, przede wszystkim damskiego, pojawiaja sie tez często bardzo dziwne, momentami smieszne
a nawet kiczowate dzwieki (co nie znaczy, ze nie nadaja sie do sluchania). Garage czesto bywa popowy, ale istnieje rowniez jego bardzo popularna "mocniejsza" odmiana SPEED GARAGE, grana przez np. Pete'a Haywood'a, brytyjskiego dj'a specjalizujacego sie glownie w speed garage (o ile dobrze sobie przypominam, to goscil w 1997 r. w warszawskim klubie Ground Zero). Slawa speed garage jest Armand van Helden, ktory przyspieszyl tradycyjny garage, przefiltrowal wokale i nalozyl ambientowo-acidowe dzwieki na mocna linie basu. Mixował Tori Amos czy Sneakers Pimps i zdaniem samego Haywooda,
to jest wlasnie "czysty, piekny speed garage". Posluchaj ! Jesli nie jestes wielbicielem tego stylu,
to moze nim zostaniesz ?
Na koniec wedrowki po housowej krainie, warto wspomniec o samej idei, jaka kryje nazwa stylu. House, poczatkowo tylko dla czarnych, stal sie muzyka roznych nacji. House symbolizowal jeden wielki dom pelen ludzi o roznych kolorach skory, ktorych laczy jedno - muzyka.
WBMX 102.7 FM Chicago:
WBMX aka The "Black Music Experience"
Facts: WBMX was switched from WGLD around 1975 until switching to WVAZ (Oak Park) in the early 1990's
Five million people every Friday and Saturday was listening to WBMX 102.7 FM Chicago radio...
House Music Itself Was A Term Set To Music Back In Early 1983 When Steve "Silk" Hurley's "Music Is The Key" And Jesse Saunders' "On And On" Set The Planet On Fire With The "House" Sound.
WBMX Was The Setting Where The City's Best Club Jocks Were Heard On Weekend "Mix Shows", "Traffic Jamz" And "Hot Lunch Mixes" Years Before Any Other Station In The World Used Mixes To Enhance Their Programming.
The Era Captured Here Is From The Beginning Of The Movement (1981) Many People Don't Remember That WBMX Was Jammin' All The Way Back In '81!. To It's Last Year (1988) Of Greatness. Memories Of Armando Rivera's "Chicago Street Hits" ['a show that broke new music all other stations would be adding months later as "pop hits"] And More. You'll Hear A Special Focus On The Hot Mix Five - From It's First Incarnation To It's Last. The Hot Mix Five Were A Mix Team Formed By CyberRadio2000.com's CTO Lee Michaels (Then PD Of WBMX).
What Made WBMX So Special Was That It Was An Urban Radio Station That Had Great On Air Talent (Marco Spoon, Veronique, Doug Banks, Armando Rivera Etc) And Had An Urban Based Format That Included The Inclusion Of Music From Artists Like Heaven 17, The Talking Heads, Men With Hats, Tom Tom Club And Many Other "Non - Urban" Artists. You Heard The NYC Scene As Well With Musical Styles Ranging From Hip Hop To Freestyle To Breakin'. WBMX Was An Aggressively Programmed Radio Station In It's Heyday That You Could Liken To WKTU, GrooveRadio, CyberRadio And B96 All Put Together. To Give You An Idea Of How Good It Really Was; WBMX Was The Last MUSIC Station To Beat WGCI Out Of The #1 Music Station Slot Here In Chicago And That Was Back In 1984! Though WGCI Is Sagging Badly Now, It Still Is And Has Been The #1 Music Station In Chicago And Has Been Since About 1980 (except the one quarter that WBMX Beat them) It Should Be Noted That When Lee Michaels Was At WBMX And Dethroned WGCI, Lee Was Brought In By WGCI To Get The Throne Back. WBMX Was Eventually Sold In 1989 For 28 Million Dollars. It Is Now Known As V103... 102.7 FM (Not Too Confusing. Go Figure)
You'll Hear The House Music From Record Labels Like DJ International, Hot Mix Five And Traxx Records. You'll Get The Imports And The Great Variety Of Both Urban Old Skool And Dance Songs That Were Made Famous By This Radio Station In Both Regular Rotation And It's Mix Shows. We Actually Have Mixes As Aired With The DJs Who Were On Air Hosting The Mix Shows.
From The "Godfathers Of House Music" To Their Second Generation Masters, Their Mixes And The Hits From "Saturday Night Live, Ain't No Jive, Chicago's Number One Dance Party On 102.7 FM, WBMX FM, Oak Park/Chicago!"
Key Artists:
The Hot Mix Five: Original Members: Kenny "Jammin'" Jason, Mickey "Mixin'" Oliver, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Ralphie "The Razz" Rosario, Scott "Smokin'" Silz,
Second Generation:
Include Bad Boy Bill, Mario Smokin' Diaz, Julian "Jumpin'" Perez. Frankie "Hollywood" Rodriguez
Musical Artists:
Colonel Abrams, My Mine, Safire, Jellybean, Fast Eddie, Kool Rock Steady, Joe Smooth, Shalamar, Gazuzu, Bobby "O", D Train, Weeks And Co., Grandmaster Flash, New Order, Hazel Dean, I.R.T., Tracy Weber, Third World, Doctor's Cat, Jimmy Ross, Lime, Fun Fun And More
"Not everyone understands House Music. It's a spiritual thing, a body thing, a soul thing" -
Eddie Amador
House defines freedom...
"In the beginning, there was Jack. And Jack had a groove. And from this groove came the groove of all grooves. And while one day viciously throwing down on his box, Jack boldly declared, "Let there be House!" And House music was born. I am, you see. I am the creator. And this is my House. And in my House there is only House music. But I am not so selfish, because once you've entered my House, it then becomes our House, and our House music. And you see, no one man owns House, because house music is a universal language spoke and understood by all. You see, House is a feeling, that no one can understand really, unless you're deep into the vibe of House. House is an uncontrollable desire to Jack your body. And as I told ya before, this is our house, and our House music. And in every house you understand, there is a keeper. And in this house the keeper is Jack. Now some of you might wonder, "who is Jack and what is it that Jack does?" Jack is the one who gives you the power to Jack your body. Jack is the one who gives you the power to do the snake. Jack is the one who gives you the key to the wiggly worm. Jack is the one who learns you how to walk your body. Jack is the one that can bring nations and nations of all Jackers together under one house. You may be black, you may be white, you may be Jew, or Gentile. It don't make a difference in our house. And this is fresh!!!"
Chuck Roberts for Fingers Inc.
RadioFG: 24h live from Paris.
House, soulful, funk, soul etc.
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