GoodVibes - Frankie Knuckles 1st Anniversary

May his music live on forever!

Now with previously unreleased  and rare tracks.  A 3 hour Frankie tribute marathon.

"The Guardian"

Next Tuesday, 31 March, marks a year since the untimely passing of Knuckles, the godfather of house, at the age of 59. It’s impossible to overestimate what a pivotal figure he was in the evolution of dance music. Not only did he inadvertently give the genre its name, but for three decades he remained a leading light in the worldwide dance music community. He is to house what Little Richard and Chuck Berry are to rock’n’roll.

His story is also arguably dance music’s greatest tale. He started DJing at Better Days in Times Square when he was 16 at the start of the 1970s, before first making his name playing alongside his friend Larry Levan at New York’s Continental Baths, a subterranean club/sauna infamous for tales of legendary bacchanalian excess. When the Continental Baths closed in 1976, he moved to Chicago and a club called the Warehouse – which was to give house music its name – where he took a New York sensibility and developed a unique mix of leftfield disco re-edits, stripped-down early electronic records and oddball imports. Chicago record shops such as Imports Etc began to devote sections to what they referred to as “Warehouse music”, which was shortened to house music. One night in 1981, Knuckles was driving through the windy city’s suburbs with a friend when he saw a sign in a bar window that read: “We play house music.” “Now what’s that all about?” he asked. “It means music like you’re playing at the Warehouse,” his friend replied.

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