When did the term HOUSE, come into existence?

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MezzaninE said:
cool i'll send someone off to get them... makes no sense doing a music based programme without the history of Ibiza!
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First 2 are by Wayne Anthony and Adventures...... is Sheryl Garratt.
 
fusion said:
Babs, Where can i purchase those books online on the net (if at all)?
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I've had mine years, you can't seem to pick them up in 'normal' book shops but I'd try Amazon.
 
Barbie said:
MezzaninE said:
upon reading that now i know why we edited it :S
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Interesting read and yay I do recognise bits of it from Last Night a DJ Saved my Life ;)
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thats an excellent book. read that last year just after i come home from ibiza. highlights all the powerful moments in clubbing history :P
 
Jack actually came AFTER house and more to do with the music box club in chicago, it was when the crowd were sh@@ging etc on the dancefloor they termed it as 'jacking'. Than all the dj's started making records with the word Jack in them.
 
I got bought that book by my ex, ex , ex... yeah you get the picture, but threw it into the corner when i split up with her...

so i'm clearing out my rubbish and find it.

most enlighting and suprising read sonce crossroads (eric clapton biography) by michael schumacher (not the f1 chump.. sorry champ)

loved it...
 
matt collins said:
Jack actually came AFTER house and more to do with the music box club in chicago, it was when the crowd were sh@@ging etc on the dancefloor they termed it as 'jacking'. Than all the dj's started making records with the word Jack in them.
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To 'Jack', to the best of my knowledge, was a dance :)

People shagging at Music Box was just coincidence, they did that anyway... ;)
 
so B this class of 88 is it the one about oakie and fatboy ect...and how they once went to Ibiza forthe firsttime and got inspired or?
 
Wow! Still got a shed load of those records from back then, 85-89. All with the word 'Jack' in them or in the title. Quite a few Acid House too. Goin' for a rumage.............. :D

Need to get them catalogued. :(
 
MezzaninE said:
Okay everyone has summerised well here, but i recently prodeuced a programme for my final year tv production at uni called 'Meltdown' which (fingers crossed) may be aired on BBC in the next few months

The pilot show was on the origins of house music and hip-hop, looking at the conversion between the two (yes the similarities are incredible!)

this is a smaple from the history archive VT script that i wrote (just the house section!)

I hope this provides more info!

So what exactly is ‘Dance Music’ well the English oxford dictionary defines it as…


“Music created for the masses to dance too..”

Hmm helpful… state the obvious!? Well let’s take our quest back… back to when man was stumbling around. Trying to figure out the best way to pummel a woolly mammoth, where he found his experience divided sharpley between night and day.

During the day man was vulnerable prey to many a beast grater than him… but as the night fell, amidst the flaming torches and the stars, drummers would hammer out a relentless beat, man would eat some sacred root abandon the taboos of his walking life and welcome his brothers and sisters to the dance!

Dance music then is a term that is highly mis-used… so in reality it is just a term for all kinds of music that have the intention of making you dance, from classic ballroom to jive bunny, and folk to happy hardcore, all are forms of dance music! And currently many people use the term ‘dance’ for house music… which conveniently we are looking at in today’s programme…

Now both originate from disco music… Yes those high pitched flair loving Beegee’s did have some purpose in life other than bugging the hell out of us…

Disco originating In Manhattan in 1969 in Sheridan Sq and got it’s first outing at ‘Haven’ with Chicago transits ‘I’m a Man’ which ironically was played to a group of transvestites who had just beaten up the police as there last stand before gay rights were accepted!

‘I’m a man’ was different from most music of the time; it was an intense blend of rhythm and blues and funky rock, it combined the two popular styles and created the new breed of popular music…. ‘Disco’

So firstly let’s take a look at how house music came about.

We are going to be looking mainly at this bloke as he was the pioneer of house music… he is the one and only Frankie Knuckles…

He is the godfather... in fact the house music enthusiast would probably just call him ‘God’… during the early experimental day’s the term house music was just ‘something that would rock the house… but this soon evolved and ended up with it’s own sound and it’s own eclectic mix of bombshells, surprises and funky climax after funky climax.

Knuckles who was fed up of the monotonous sounds of Disco set out to jazz it up for a few of his ‘house parties’ and his underground warehouse parties… which is where it got it’s name from…

As knuckles sat at home with his reel to reel tape recorder, sampling disco sounds, looping them and then laying them down with a 4-4 beat created by his drum machine... his music began to spread and move away from his home in Chicago people like Ron Hardy (another pioneer if not the creator he was the influence in harder forms of house) he would blatantly adjust the Equalisers on his tracks to distort the sound and increase the pitch of his songs by 5 or 6 % speeding them up and bringing even more energy and life to the dance floor… even if the vocals sounded like The Chipmunks on heat…

But it still took a long time for House music to break through in the UK and wasn’t really seen over here until early 1985 4 years after the death of disco and it wasn’t until January of 1987 when Farley ‘Jackmaster’ Funk feat Darryl Pandy covered and re-mixed Isaac hays ‘love can’t turn around’ that House music claimed a UK No1

With the increased popularity of house some of the hardcore fans wanted to progress the sound and so many different types were then built off the back of the original sound… most notably Acid House of the late 1980’s and early 1990’s which went onto create the Techno scene… which would later on (1992-1995) come back to haunt us with its cross breed of Acid House and Techno blended with the original disco classics and form Happy Hardcore. Then as house music became more and more mainstream and defined, it began to adapt and alter it’s own course as the happy hardcore was a little less mainstream, house kept in there with its milder classics of Black box Ride on time (1989) Groove is in the heart (1990) Ebenezer good (1992) Don’t you want me (1993) Dreamer (1994) Set you free (1995)

Now we are already up to 1995 and to me these still sound like classic house records… and you can see where techno and acid house had it’s 5 mins of fame but what happened next was extraordinary... A complete new direction that changed the sound of house forever…

Ministry of Sound
The Ministry of sound was originally created by Justin Berkman an English wine dealer and DJ who was living in Chicago and was so inspired by this new sound he was hearing and that of the work of Larry Levan and his ‘Anti Disco’ movement which was based around his show at New York’s Kiss FM and his dj slot at the ‘Paradise Garage’

So when House came over to England it was originally referred to as garage… as was hip-hop because anything that was new and fresh in comparison to disco was coming out of Chicago. An ironic twist in comparison to what we now understand garage to be! But the garage that we now associate with and understand to be as ‘House Haters’ (anti - house music… so solid crew etc) was created around 1981 in the club ‘Zanzibar’ Newark, New Jersey. And has adapted adding 2 step beats and adjusting the techno and drum and bass rhythms to create its own musical fusion.

Anyway back to the point in hand House music and the success of the Balearics… oh yes the Ibiza compilation full of all the same songs that you already had just in a different order and with 7 different versions of ATB’s 9pm was looming. The drug culture that had created Acid House was about to create a new funky, if not uplifting sound. Driven by the anti-commercial nature of underground house addicts the need for change was kicking in again along with the need for speed. Trance and closet hardcore addicts were moving to more harder and faster beats and the current Hard house trend was beginning to form.

But the more mellow fans who enjoyed the soulful and dramatic flow of the current house music wanted to add meaning to their music and so the new ‘uplifting house’ wave began. Borrowing samples from old rhythm and blues songs and adding them to harmonic trance like melodies and applying a crystal clear yet soft bass line, people like ‘Fat Boy Slim’ and ‘Moby’ were coming into there true element, although both were already substantial players in the music industry this is where there home lay.

(Music being the likes of one-phat-diva ‘in and out’ and that moby one… ‘oooh lordy travelled so far’)

House has now converged back into re-adapting its ‘old school’ classics such as n-trance and dj-sammy but it is not just the commercial side that has used this approach, the likes of felix da housecat with his 1989 hit ‘silverscreen/smokescreen’ re-released it with a more modern techno influenced beat.

The problem with house now is that it has taken on so many different forms and has circled itself in a loop re-generating ‘choons’ from the past and adding whatever the current trends rhythm to it. The problem with defining house is the fact that its influence (from Janet Jackson to Dianna Ross) has been so great and the influence that it has taken on means to define what the genre house is anymore is a difficult task. And if it is house, what type of house is it?

Either way one influence that wasn’t musically but culturally was that of Northern Soul. Yes the North of England has been possibly one of the most influential places in the world… Wigan pier the destination 1960 the year… Northern soul was just the name for a collective who loved music whatever shape or form it came in; they would dance the night away! Yes this was the beginning of the ‘rave’! This music-obsessed culture would plan all night or 3-day events; this is where the likes of cream fields and the love parade will have originated! Without Northern soul the world would have not accepted the ‘rave’!

But the ‘rave’ was not the only thing it brought along… it created ‘Wigan Dancing’ otherwise known to you and I as ‘break dancing’ it’s success was phenomenal so much so that when two Brooklyn born boy’s saw it the took it home and created the American version ‘Break dancing’!


Only a sample and it was a rough draught as the final copy was edited dramatically.. and those who have read 'Last Night A DJ Saved My Life' the historical book, may recognise bits :P

any way there you go a brief history.. i have more if peops want it!
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bloody hell ,can you help me woth one of my essays :lol:
 
One of the most informative posts i've read....knew some of it...but not where 'jack' came from.

Although i knew that 'jack had a groove....' ;)
 
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