The Rise of House Music: A Full Documentary on its Global Takeover
Discover the origins of house music and how it revolutionized the music scene worldwide. Follow the journey of Chicago DJs breaking boundaries, creating a movement, and shaping the future of music with their innovative sound.
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Let's see if we can find some good old-fashioned house music.
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In a crowd of people, you throw a rock, you're going to hit five DJs in Chicago.
I felt that we could take this music and make it into something big.
We really did move the boundaries because we didn't know where the boundaries were.
We barely knew what we were doing and that was the genius of it.
I don't think we thought about the fact that it was a movement.
We just knew that we were on to something.
I usually start it right from the get.
That's an old Paul McCartney song, so everybody recognizes it.
It says my message, let the people in, baby.
It's 1970 and I had been going out dancing a little bit and collecting records.
And I'm at a party at my brother's house and it's the most boring party, Snoresville, USA.
Everyone's falling asleep.
So I put on You're the One or something like that and this girl comes out of the bedroom
and says, hi, I'm Dale, I'm dating your brother.
You like this music?
I'm gonna take you to a fabulous party.
647 Broadway, I'll never forget it.
David Mancuso's Loft.
We go in this little hallway,
open the door, and I move onto this dance floor.
And as the record is playing, it comes to a peak,
and these bright lights go on.
and then everything goes off and all I hear is this sound, this perfect sound.
I knew in my soul, in my heart, in all my body that that music was moving me to my core
and I knew it was going to move a lot, a lot of people.
And that was for me the beginning of dance music.
The music is just a reflection of the culture.
It's a microcosm of what's actually happening out in the world.
People started to ask for their voices to be heard.
The women's movement, the gay movement, black power movement,
all these things started to cross-pollinate each other,
and we became comrades.
And it played itself out in nightclubs.
The loft made you feel welcome regardless of where you were coming from.
If you were gay, straight, black, white, Puerto Rican.
It was the precursor.
the template for those clubs that would follow.
When the gallery opened, everybody showed up there.
We went from having 80 to 100 people to having 600 people.
An overnight success needs more staff, more food, more everything.
I hired Frankie Knuckles, and he said to me,
I have this friend, his name is Larry Levan,
I'd like to bring him."
And I said,
we need two people on balloons.
Fine, I trust your judgment.
At 12 months,
Larry started playing at the Continental Beds,
