Dymphna's Archive·Sep 13The Corridor: How Chicago and Detroit Built Two Genres Out of One CircuitIn the mid-1980s, a young Detroit DJ named Derrick May drove to Chicago with a Roland TR-909 drum machine in his car. He was short on rent…
Jordan “J.Ro” Ordoñez 🇵🇭🇺🇸✊🏾🏳️🌈·Apr 2, 20232018 CHOSEN FEW PICNIC & FESTIVAL Report – The Woodstock of HouseIt is a nearly perfect day near the beaches of Lake Michigan, on the south side of Chicago. The sun is shining, and a lake-cooled breeze…
Darell Murray·Oct 11, 2018New Album Release: Music Is My Life by Matt WarrenMatt Warren is one of the people who were there at ground zero for the Big Bang of the birth of house music in Chicago in the 1980’s. His…
Black Widow·Jan 18, 2017And we Danced…It was the end of a busy work week and the beginning of an extended holiday weekend. My house-filled weekend started at the Mid on Friday…
Black Widow·Dec 1, 2016CHOSEN FEW DJ’S PRESENT...THE SAUERS REUNION PARTY November 29, 2016House music became a definitive sound for Chicago’s youth in the 1980s. During that time, teenagers and young adults had safe spaces to…A response icon1
