History of House Music concert...one week away!

[Harv Roman]

History of House Music Chicago LP/CD/DVD Concert-September 15th, 2007 at the Congress Theatre
30 of the Biggest Artists and DJ's performing live-for the first time ever!

15 Sep 2007, 07:00 PM
2135 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, Illinois
Cost : $20.00 Presale/$35.00

"History Of House" The Chicago LP/DVD Concert featuring Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Fast Eddie, Joe Smooth, DJ Pierre, CZR, White Knight, Shawn Christopher, Steve "Silk" Hurley, Mike Dunn, Maurice Joshua, Gene Hunt, DJ Lego, DJ Slugo, Terry Hunter and a couple of dozen more. Hosted by Donnie Devoe of Power 92 FM (former WCYC jock) and including a live on-site broadcast by Power 92 FM's Hot Boyz...

I (Harv Roman) will be there to help kick off this extraordinary event. Keep checking www.wakeupdancing.com for an all new show featuring the artists from THE HISTORY OF HOUSE MUSIC SUPERSTARS!

Chicago can also listen to WCEV 1450 AM on Sundays from 4pm to 5pm for interviews and more!

I guess "House Ain't Giving Up"!

Harv Roman

 

[Kenny Guido]

if you support freestyle, then go and check this show out! freestyle and house went hand in hand back in the day. gotta have house!

 

[Kid Heartbreak]

House music and Freestyle are like cousins even though technically speaking the two have no direct relation. House came a couple years earlier from disco while freestyle was rap's first born. This house music concert should do well as they've been promoting the f*ck out of it on the black radio station. No one knows house music like we do here in Chicago. It's a whole different thing out here than anywhere else. I still remember the last Power 92 concert at the Congress back in October and that was goin' on. They had freestyle at that concert also, believe it or not. It was a trip seeing so many morenos at a freestyle event. Whenever the freestyle would go on, they'd leave the dance floor and I'd find myself surrounded by nothing but latinas. Freestyle event goin' on also this Saturday on the south side. It's a double header for the Heartbreak Kid.

 

[oneangel]

House music and freestyle went hand and hand back in the day. I remember going to 1018,that club brought different people together. That is where I first saw Marshall Jeferson, Noel and countless others.

 

[cArLiToS WaY]

What's the difference between Chicago House & New York House?

House is the shit. What's up with the girls of Jomanda, Adeva, Sybil, and Shawn Christopher. I'd love to see that bitch perform "Another Sleepless Night".

And, being that this show is in Chicago, why the f**k isn't Loleatta Holloway a part of the line-up? I would fly from Boston to see this LEGEND perform!

C.

 

[JONPITO]

House and Latinhiphop/Freestyle are counterparts. One tried to continue where "disco left off" the other developed itself and rose out of Electrofunk and Hi NRG era records of the early 80's.That period between 80-82 were very grey and primitive. By 82-83 the FREESTYLE's scenes sound Of Electro funk/Latinhiphop and Hi-NRG/Italo disco records out numbered House records at a global scale in the early and mid 80's. In many cases both Freestyle and House were played on the same dance floors along with Disco, due to the HEAVY usage of latin percusion. Liz Torrez "I cant get enough" is a example of an early primitive (some will say freestyle/house) due to both its House music elements and early 80's freestyle trademark handclaps and Puerto Recan vocal tensions. Ralphie Rosarios "You Used to Hold me" used Freestyle vocal edits in its extended version as did others.

One can say two diferent lines and two diferent scenes. But not saythat they have no Direct relation. especially when the NEW YORK House scene comes in. Frankie Knuckles came from New York. TODD TERRY, FRANKIE BONES, C&C Music (David Cole & Robert Clivilles), Shep Pettibone, mac Quayle and the list goese on, not only had a hand in HOUSE MUSIC and its development and rise up to global popularity.........but many of the New Yorkers ALL HAD A HAND IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF FREESTYLEMUSIC AS WELL.THEY ALSO HAD FREESTYLE RELEASES OUT. A fact some would wash thier hands of later on.

Little Louie vega and Jellybean, India also taking the House path and then the large Latin House/freestyle House migration from Freestyle in the turn of the decade.Safires "taste The Bass" Sandee's "Notice me" casa version. 2 in a room, 3 without hats.All the HIPHOP/House and Acid House.Later the Chicago camp of S.O.S. 20 fingers, Rochelle, Isac, JJ flores who put out both House and Freestyle.

Chicago was first, but Chicago always was traditional. New York took back Detroits Techno (which came form electro funk) back from Europe and gave NEW YORK HOUSE the revival it needed to survive. New York was harder and darker and ruled as a capital for House for many years.

Miami Freestyle was always side by side with Hi-Nrg and Italo disco more than House. But when it comes to Freestyle/House realeses like Company B's "You Took My Heart" ,it helped put that sound on radio as well. The trip hopfreestyle/house sound of the mid 90's (i.e. Planet soul, Torres brothers etc) would focus on another relation between the two genres dominating the Miami underground and post rave scene. also responsible for giving a new life to the Freestyle sound. (Irony: New York is too traditional and darker, Miami took back the electro and rave from Europe and gave FREESTYLE the revival it needed to survive for years to come.some call it "progressive". we call it Neo).

That HOUSE event is going to be BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD.
I wish I could go.
It is good to see the core of Chicago House do an event like this, at a time when the mainstream world forgot where House really comes from and also at a time when the global House scene is starting to bridge back to ELECTRO and FREESTYLE. although they at the moment "market" it simply as "electro".

I.E. Ferry Corsten "Its Time"
Armand van Helden "I want Your Soul" & "All Night"
Chromeo "Needy Girl"
and a hundred others.
Even tribal House gods ALTAR feat Jeanie Tracy going back to Miami Freestyle bass samples on "Party People".

 

[JONPITO]

Oh and i Forgot to mention all the Disco and House vocalist Loleata Holloway, Jeanie Tracy,Elenior Mills the list goese on; who put their vocals on a FREESTYLE & HI NRG RECORD before a house record.

but thats another story.

 

[Kid Heartbreak]

That concert was goin' on. I never seen that many people at the Congress. That crowd was literally overflow. George Lamond wound up performing. That was a nice surprise. It was a trip to see him performing for a crowd that was 80% black.