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MUSIC - What is House Music? |
It seems as if everyone at this period
of time wanted to become a producer, to push under the
noses of these Dj's.
2 x Local Chicago Dj/producers were to
go that one step further then the others in getting their
stuff produced and made onto Vinyl however.
- Bryon Walters - Better known
to the World as "Jamie Principle"
- Jesse Saunders.
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| These were the first 2 Home grown Chicago
House producers. However, it was Jesse Saunders
that first got the claim, of having the first commercial
House track to be put to vinyl. It was with the track called
On and One which was released on his own
label called "Jez say yes" during
on January, 1984. This track takes all
the accolades as being the first House track on vinyl. |
Farley Jack Master Funk,
states, "Jesse was first. He put out records
before anyone else conceived of doing it, got the girls,
and all the fame. Jesse wanted to be the next Motown".
- Source taken from the Book called "Last Night
a Dj saved my life" - Headline Press - London
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However, Marshall Jefferson,
explains that even though Jesse was the first
(Jesse Saunders!!) to release a House track on
vinyl there was still some short comings.
Jamie Principle House music
tracks were heard in all of the clubs in Chicago at least
a year before, before ever getting to be released on vinyl.
But his work was too good to spark an interest for him to
release his records to vinyl. Many people within Chicago
thought that his releases were not from him. But made in
Europe instead!!
But it took Jesse
Saunders track - "On and On"
that was put on vinyl as the first House music track
to really open the possibilites of House music making
money for producers!!
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Marshall Jefferson,
another legendary House Music Producer explains...
"That's what
inspired everybody. It gave us hope, man. When Jamie was
doing it, nobody thought of making a record. His shit
was too good. It was like seeing John Holmes (*The One
of the worlds famous pornographic film star) in a pornographic
movie. You know you can't do better"."But
if you saw a guy in a pornographic movie with a 3 inch
"peter" ( Penis) , and all the women are swooning
( rushing him) all over him and he's a millionaire, you
would seriously consider having a go yourself, wouldn't
you?" "That's
what inspired everybody about Jesse. They saw some one
make it big. But not that great. When Jesse did his stuff,
everybody said "Fuck! I could do better than that!"-
Source taken from the Book called "Last Night a Dj
saved my life" -
Headline Press - London
Almost overnight there was a frenzy within
the City of would be producers trying to make House records.
Dj's such as Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy,
and others in city who only a few months beforehand were
racking their brains on how they were going to make the
latest Reel to Reel tape mixes that would last all night
long for their respective Dance floors. Were now being
handied tapes from would be producers ( i.eyoung clubbers
to play their mixes) in their club nights!!
"Our sound was so different because
we can just make a bassline and a Rhythm track and we
can sell 10,000 copies of that in the city. All you
need was a feeel for the music. There are people that
who have been to college to study music and they can't
make a simple rhythm track. let alone a hit record.
Its weird. And it seems like a waste of time to learn
that, because now a little kid can pick up a computer,
get lucky with it, and write a hit" - - Source taken
from the Book called "Last Night a Dj saved my life"
- Headline Press - London
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