Soulful House Muzic Scene

House music or underground dance music as it was referred to at it's onsite was and still is a strong influence world wide. This kind of music is more of an achievement TODAY throughout the modernized European nations than here at home in the US. Henceforth, house music is a direct decendant of disco.

The turning point for disco/house was in the early to mid-eighties. House began to take on a sound of it's own with songs such as "Thanks to you" by Sinnamon, "You're the One for Me" by D-Train, and "Don't Make me Wait" by The Peech Boys. These songs , in particular, have been sampled extensively due to the sparse, synthesized sounds and drop-outs that defined the early stages of house on the North East American scene. There was also English electronic pop with groups such as Depeche Mode and Soft Cell as well as the earlier more disco based sounds of Giorgio Moroder, Klein and MBO and other Italian works which became poplular on the NYC/Chicago scene too.

This music was not only growing but bringing people together that would never, in the late 70's and eighties, party in the same building let alone TOGETHER with the opening of the Paradise Garage in NYC in 1977. There was black, white, hispanic, gay and straight all partying in the same room, on the same stage, together.

The late DJ Larry Levan was an immediate hit with his mix of R-n-B based Black dance music with a smattering of disco and a variety of other types of music. Thus soulfful house music was born . . .

MUSIC IS THE KEY...."The beat won't stop with the JM Jock. If he jacks the box and the partyrocks. The clock tick tocks and the place gets hot. So ease your mind and set yourself free. To that mystifying music they call the key".