the history of house
introduction



said&did



by phil cheesman
from DJ magazine no. 8, apr/may 1993
stolen and re-formatted by eluna
from hyperreal's plain-text version





It's been ten years since the first identifiably house tracks were put on to vinyl, ten years which have changed the technology behind the electronic music revolution beyond recognition but left the basic structure of house intact. It's seven years since it was being said house couldn't last, that it was just hi-NRG, a fast blast that would wither as quickly as it had started. But then the music reinvented itself, and then again and again until it gradually dawned on people that house wasn't just another phase of club culture, it was club culture, the continuing future of dance music. The reason? It's simple. People like to dance to house.

The roots to 1985
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1989