From the Garage to the Warehouse
How New York's disco DJs taught Chicago to build a night, and how Chicago's records reached Detroit.
- 11970-1983 · New York City, USA
New York Disco
At the Loft, the Gallery and Paradise Garage, David Mancuso, Nicky Siano and Larry Levan turned DJing into a craft of long, programmed nights. Levan and Frankie Knuckles learned it side by side at the Continental Baths.
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Chicago House
Knuckles took that New York party to Chicago's Warehouse in 1977. Record store clerks started fielding requests for "that Warehouse music," later just "house."
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Detroit Techno
Juan Atkins's Model 500 records found their first real audience in Chicago, and it was a Chicago house producer who put Paris Grey on Inner City's "Big Fun."
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