House Music

[bamber]

Bye Frankie.

You gave me some of the best times with this...

Just heard this. Hard for me to express just how important this man was to me, and sometimes without even knowing it, how important he was to all contemporary music listeners, House fans or not.. The influence of these earliest house pioneers like Knuckles and Levan on the music we listen to to today, every time you put the radio on, in any country in the world is incalculable. I'm so glad I got to see and hear him play his tunes one last time last Autumn at the Found Street Party. It was such a special day in many ways for me and now I'll always remember it as the last experience of one of my true, greatest heroes.

http://youtu.be/9PlEUi_qgoo

Edited April 12, 2014 by bamber

[rubenz]

Very sad news, he achieved so much and influenced so many during his life and career.

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

been a bit down all day because of this. People are trying to get Your Love into the charts and I thought it was worth a pop, I don't usually do these number 1 things but I felt obliged today - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/frankie-knuckles-presents/id273852024

Edited April 1, 2014 by JC-Mo'Fucka

[CHRLY]

Very very sad news. 'The Godfather of house music'. R.I.P

[eFestivals]

been a bit down all day because of this. People are trying to get Your Love into the charts and I thought it was worth a pop, I don't usually do these number 1 things but I felt obliged today - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/frankie-knuckles-presents/id273852024

they'll be a bunch of confused 20-somethings wondering why there's a schreeching Flo cover in the charts.

[Aby]

Just thought I'd pop my 2p's worth in...It's not ideal to celebrate his memory by buying his music from Trax - read this interview and you will see that Trax fucked him over years ago, profiteering off him for years and he got none of the money.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1955

A sad day nonetheless - I wouldn't know any of my friends or my boyfriend and my life would be completely different if it wasn't for house music.

Edited April 2, 2014 by Aby

[Aby]

http://thump.vice.com/words/we-didnt-know-this-would-be-goodbye <3 <3

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

ah that sucks, i thought about where the money was going (didn't know about that) but thought ultimately it would just be cool to hear it go out on sunday. anything to shift #selfie down a spot

dimitri from paris done this tribute mix which is nice - https://soundcloud.com/dfp/dimitri-from-paris

[Pot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyqnUtL28Wc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78wL4FmhuRc

Can't wait to see these two

Edited April 4, 2014 by Pot

[Alcatraz]

Francois motherfuckin Kervorkian!!

[Aby]

Francois motherfuckin Kervorkian!!

This! Love that dude :D

[El Matador]

Not house music I know but so happy to see Richie hawtin playing.

[bamber]

I feel I have to say a few more words about Frankie Knuckles.

I am real good actor
This is a heavy road
Our love's a script and you carry total control
Like a clown and I've been smiling
Whenever people are all around
But when the curtain comes down and the circus is through
No one is left but me and you and all my tears
So many tears my tears

House music to him was quasi-religious, he was the preacher at the alter of House. I felt this when I listened to Frankie play many, many times and it always felt like I was experiencing spiritual enlightenment. I was lucky enough to be a regular at Spectrum at Heaven in Charing Cross in London in 88 and 89 where Frankie Knuckles played frequently, and it was always the same. It lifted us up. It was real. It meant something. There is no equivalent to the gushing ecstasy, the profound empathy and the singular common certainty of those early House dance floors whether they be in Chicago or London or Manchester or New York or Ibiza. It was a special time.

The sudden demise of this master contemporaneously aligning with my own advancing years brings home a profound realisation that me and my peers are all getting on a bit and the glory days are gone, but Oh we were so lucky to have been young in a very, very special time. And House lives on, in fact it now enjoys it's greatest ever renaissance. There is a new generation feeling the same spiritual enlightenment possible only through this music that we felt all those years ago. Sweet Soulful House Music will still find it's place in a Thousand years from now. It is Timeless, and it all arguably started with a 22 year old Frankie Knuckles in Chicago in '77

http://www.mixcloud.com/benjib/frankie-knuckles-special/

Edited April 12, 2014 by bamber

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[FuzzyDunlop]

The sun is out, I'm going through some Ibiza pictures. I know this is a different vibe than most posts in here, but here is some Progressive / tech house at it's best (as far as I am concerned anyway). All quite new tunes - they all just remind me of Ibiza. I'd love to find an area at glastonbury playing this kind of thing. It always seems to be Drum and Base wherever I am (and I'm not a fan):

Edited April 12, 2014 by FuzzyDunlop

[FuzzyDunlop]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDHQDomLwbg

[FuzzyDunlop]

Edited April 12, 2014 by FuzzyDunlop

[jonodillieono]

Pryda plz

[morph100]

Anyone planning on going to the Saturday night history of rave 4am - 6am in the temple? I would love to but fear my days of all nighters have passed unless I do some extremely tactile day time drinking and red bull consumption....

Edited April 12, 2014 by morph100

[bamber]

Still thinking about Frankie. If you are too young to remember the glory days or have never seen this, I implore you to set aside a couple of hours of your life to watch this Channel 4 documentary that pretty much tells the whole story of where this, all this wonder came from. Enjoy.

Edited April 12, 2014 by bamber

[rubenz]

Its an old one but I can't stop listening to this re work of new edition ..

[astrowerks]

@morph - yes

HWND

[bamber]

Fitting tributes abide

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