   chicago house generally refers to house music which was produced during the mid-1980s and late-1980s within chicago. chicago house is not a particular style of house music; the term is generally used to refer to the first ever house music productions, which were by chicago-based artists in the 1980s. ==history==  ===disco edits=== following chicago's disco demolition night in mid-1979, disco music's mainstream popularity fell into decline. in the early 1980s, fewer and fewer disco records were being released, but the genre remained popular in some chicago nightclubs and on at least one radio station, wbmx-fm. in this era, chicago radio jocks the hot mix 5, and club djs ron hardy and frankie knuckles played various styles of dance music, including older disco records, newer italo disco and electro funk tracks, b-boy hip hop music by man parrish, jellybean benitez, arthur baker and john robie as well as electronic pop music by kraftwerk and yellow magic orchestra. some of these djs also made and played their own edits of their favorite songs on reel-to-reel tape, focusing on the portions of songs which worked well on the dancefloor. some even mixed in effects, drum machines, and other rhythmic electronic instrumentation in an effort to give songs more appeal. these edits and remixes were rarely released to the public, and even then were available only on privately pressed vinyl records or on mixtapes. ===original productions=== {{listen | filename = jesse saunders - on and on.ogg | title = jesse saunders - "on and on" (1984) | description = "on and on" (1984) by jesse saunders is often cited as the 'first' house record. it utilized the tb-303, tr-808, korg poly-61, minimal vocals, and sampled bassline from player one's space disco song "[[spac
House_music_genres Music_of_Chicago,_Illinois Music_scenes