Some of the great records in house music come from the Prescription label. Courtesy of Resident Adviser, check out this great interview with house legend Chez Damier (KMS, Prescription, Balance) right here. Be sure to check the section on the Music Institute in Detroit!
Home Sweet House from John Pappas on Vimeo.
The international phenomenon of house music owes its existence to the basement clubs of 1980’s Chicago, but many Chicagoans are unaware of their city’s underground legacy…
UR speaks their mind…
27 minute radio interview between Drexciya and Liz Copeland in Detroit…
ron hardy – live at the music box chicago
Ron Hardy (born 1958, died 1991) was an instrumental figure and DJ in the development of house music. An innovator and originator of the genre, he is highly regarded not only for his iconic performances at the legendary Music Box in Chicago but also for his pioneering [...]
July 12, 1979. The Chicago White Sox were scheduled to the play the Detroit Tigers in a doubleheader at Comiskey Park. Admission was a mere $0.98 and a disco record…
I’ve just come to the point where if I had to compare between making some music and having someone dance or listen to it, which was more important, it would be listening to it. And I think that the how I’m approaching music now, my goal is to put the music in more of a journey, it really takes the listeners mind on a journey. And I realised that one way to be able to achieve that is basically to make it so interesting and unique that it’s not something that I’m saying, it’s something that’s between the person that’s making it and the person that’s listening to it. It’s like the sun in the sky, it has nothing to do with me or you, but it’s just there. And it’s very important, but it’s doing something while we’re doing something else. It’s a third aspect to the way music has always been.
