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In the late 1980s, many local Chicago house music artists suddenly found themselves presented with major label deals. House music proved to be a commercially successful genre and a more mainstream pop-based variation grew increasingly popular. Artists and groups such as Madonna, Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Aretha Franklin, Bananarama, Diana Ross, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Steps, Kylie Minogue, Bjork, and C+C Music Factoryhave all incorporated the genre into some of their work. After enjoying significant success in the early to mid-90s, house music grew even larger during the second wave of progressive house (1999–2001). The genre has remained popular and fused into other popular subgenres, for example, G-house, Deep House, Tech House and Bass House. As of 2015, house music remains extremely popular in both clubs and in the mainstream pop scene while retaining a foothold on underground scenes across the globe.[citation needed]

Q1: When was the second wave of progressive house?
A1: 1999–2001
Q2: What are some popular subgenres of House?
A2: G-house, Deep House, Tech House and Bass House
Q3: where is house music extremely popular?
A3: both clubs and in the mainstream pop scene
Q4: What variation of house music was produced by artists such as Madonna and Kylie Minogue?
A4: a more mainstream pop-based variation
Various disco songs incorporated sounds produced with synthesizers and drum machines, and some compositions were entirely electronic; examples include Giorgio Moroder's late 1970s productions such as Donna Summer's hit single "I Feel Love" from 1977, Cerrone's "Supernature" (1977), Yellow Magic Orchestra's synth-disco-pop productions from Yellow Magic Orchestra (1978), Solid State Survivor (1979), and several early 1980s disco-pop productions by the Hi-NRG group Lime.

Q1: What instruments did disco songs incorporate from house music?
A1: synthesizers and drum machines
Q2: who produced Donna Summer's hit single "I Feel Love"?
A2: Giorgio Moroder
Q3: what sort of music did Hi-NRG group Lime produce?
A3: 1980s disco-pop
Q4: What year did Cerrone's "Supernature" get released?
A4: 1977
Q5: What year was solid state survivor released?
A5: 1979
Soul and disco influenced house music, plus mixing and editing techniques earlier explored by disco, garage music and post-disco DJs, producers, and audio engineers such as Walter Gibbons, Tom Moulton, Jim Burgess, Larry Levan, Ron Hardy, M & M, and others who produced longer, more repetitive, and percussive arrangements of existing disco recordings. Early house producers such as Frankie Knuckles created similar compositions from scratch, using samplers, synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines.

Q1: What influenced House music?
A1: Soul and disco
Q2: What type of producer was Frankie Knuckles?
A2: Early house producers
Q3: what did Frankie Knuckles use to create his compositions?
A3: samplers, synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines
The electronic instrumentation and minimal arrangement of Charanjit Singh's Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat (1982), an album of Indian ragas performed in a disco style, anticipated the sounds of acid house music, but it is not known to have had any influence on the genre prior to the album's rediscovery in the 21st century.

Q1: What was the name of Charanjit Singh's 1982 album?
A1: Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat
Q2: What did Singh's album contain?
A2: Indian ragas performed in a disco style
Q3: What year was synthesizing: ten ragas to a disco beat released?
A3: 1982
Q4: What sort of arrangement did Charanjit Singh use on his 1982 album?
A4: minimal arrangement
Rachel Cain, co-founder of an influential Trax Records, was previously involved in the burgeoning punk scene and cites industrial and post-punk record store Wax Trax! Records as an important connection between the ever-changing underground sounds of Chicago. As most proto-house DJs were primarily stuck to playing their conventional ensemble of dance records, Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy, two influential pioneers of house music, were known for their out-of-bounds behavior. The former, credited as "the Godfather of House," worked primarily with early disco music with a hint of new and different music (whether it was post-punk or post-disco) but still enjoying a variety of music, while the latter produced unconventional DIY mixtapes which he later played straight-on in the music club Muzic Box, boiling with raw energy. Marshall Jefferson, who would later appear with the Chicago house classic "Move Your Body (The House-Music Anthem)," (originally released on Chicago-based Trax Records) got involved in house music after hearing Ron Hardy's music in Muzic Box.

Q1: Who is Rachel Cain?
A1: co-founder of an influential Trax Records
Q2: Who were Frankie Knuckles and ron hardy?
A2: two influential pioneers of house music
Q3: what was the nickname of frankie knuckles?
A3: "the Godfather of House,"
Q4: marshall jefferson got involved in house music after hearing whose music?
A4: Ron Hardy's
Q5: what was ron hardy's music released in?
A5: Muzic Box
In the early 1980s, 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 (mostly Philly disco and Salsoul tracks), electro funk tracks by artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, newer Italo disco, B-Boy hip hop music by Man Parrish, Jellybean Benitez, Arthur Baker, and John Robie, and electronic pop music by Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Some made and played their own edits of their favorite songs on reel-to-reel tape, and sometimes mixed in effects, drum machines, and other rhythmic electronic instrumentation. In this era,

Q1: who were the chicago radio jocks that played dance music in the early 1980s?
A1: The Hot Mix 5
Q2: what style of music did man parrish play?
A2: B-Boy hip hop music
Q3: what style of music did afrika bambaataa play?
A3: electro funk
Q4: what style of music did kraftwerk play?
A4: electronic pop music
Q5: how did producers sometimes make edits of house music?
A5: reel-to-reel tape
The hypnotic electronic dance song "On and On", produced in 1984 by Chicago DJ Jesse Saunders and co-written by Vince Lawrence, had elements that became staples of the early house sound, such as the Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer and minimal vocals as well as a Roland (specifically TR-808) drum machine and Korg (specifically Poly-61) synthesizer. It also utilized the bassline from Player One's disco record "Space Invaders" (1979). "On and On" is sometimes cited as the 'first house record', though other examples from around that time, such as J.M. Silk's "Music is the Key" (1985), have also been cited.

Q1: who produced the song "on and on" in 1984?
A1: Jesse Saunders
Q2: where was jesse saunders from?
A2: Chicago
Q3: who co-wrote the hit song "on and on" in 1984?
A3: Vince Lawrence
Q4: what type of bass synthesizer was a staple of the early house sound?
A4: Roland TB-303
Q5: when was player one's "space invaders" released?
A5: 1979
Starting in 1984, some of these DJs, inspired by Jesse Saunders' success with "On and On", tried their hand at producing and releasing original compositions. These compositions used newly affordable electronic instruments to emulate not just Saunders' song, but the edited, enhanced styles of disco and other dance music they already favored. These homegrown productions were played on Chicago-area radio and in local discothèques catering mainly to African-American and gay audiences. By 1985, although the exact origins of the term are debated, "house music" encompassed these locally produced recordings. Subgenres of house, including deep house and acid house, quickly emerged and gained traction.

Q1: when was jesse saunders' "on and on" a hit?
A1: 1984
Q2: what type of audience was early disco and dance catered to?
A2: African-American and gay audiences
Q3: what year was house music first used as a genre?
A3: 1985
Q4: what were two big subgenres of house music?
A4: deep house and acid house
Q5: what area radio was house music generally played on?
A5: Chicago-area radio
Deep house's origins can be traced to Chicago producer Mr Fingers's relatively jazzy, soulful recordings "Mystery of Love" (1985) and "Can You Feel It?" (1986). According to author Richie Unterberger, it moved house music away from its "posthuman tendencies back towards the lush" soulful sound of early disco music.

Q1: what producer was the first to produce deep house?
A1: Mr Fingers
Q2: where was producer mr. fingers' from?
A2: Chicago
Q3: when was mr. fingers' "mystery of love" released?
A3: 1985
Q4: when was mr. fingers' "can you feel it?" released?
A4: 1986
Acid house arose from Chicago artists' experiments with the squelchy Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer, and the style's origins on vinyl is generally cited as Phuture's "Acid Tracks" (1987). Phuture, a group founded by Nathan "DJ Pierre" Jones, Earl "Spanky" Smith Jr., and Herbert "Herb J" Jackson, is credited with having been the first to use the TB-303 in the house music context. The group's 12-minute "Acid Tracks" was recorded to tape and was played by DJ Ron Hardy at the Music Box, where Hardy was resident DJ. Hardy once played it four times over the course of an evening until the crowd responded favorably. The track also utilized a Roland TR-707 drum machine.

Q1: When was Phuture's "Acid Tracks" released?
A1: 1987
Q2: Who founded the group Phuture?
A2: Nathan "DJ Pierre" Jones, Earl "Spanky" Smith Jr., and Herbert "Herb J" Jackson
Q3: what instrument was Phuture the first to use in house music?
A3: TB-303
Q4: how long was phuture's "acid tracks"?
A4: 12-minute
Q5: what type of drum machine did "acid tracks" use?
A5: Roland TR-707
Club play from pioneering Chicago DJs such as Hardy and Lil Louis, local dance music record shops such as Importes, State Street Records, Loop Records, Gramaphone Records and the popular Hot Mix 5 shows on radio station WBMX-FM helped popularize house music in Chicago. Later, visiting DJs & producers from Detroit fell into the genre. Trax Records and DJ International Records, Chicago labels with wider distribution, helped popularize house music inside and outside of Chicago. One 1986 house tune called "Move Your Body" by Marshall Jefferson, taken from the appropriately titled "The House Music Anthem" EP, became a big hit in Chicago and eventually worldwide. By 1986, UK labels were releasing house music by Chicago acts, and by 1987 house tracks by Chicago DJs and producers were appearing on and topping the UK music chart. By this time, house music released by Chicago-based labels was considered a must-play in clubs.

Q1: what radio station aired the Hot Mix 5 show?
A1: WBMX-FM
Q2: what record labels helped popularize house music?
A2: Trax Records and DJ International Records
Q3: what song by marshall jefferson became a big house hit?
A3: "Move Your Body"
Q4: what european country were big house music hits being released in, in 1987?
A4: UK
Q5: where was house music from chicago-based labels considered a must-play?
A5: clubs
The term "house music" is said to have originated from a Chicago club called The Warehouse, which existed from 1977 to 1983. Clubbers to The Warehouse were primarily black and gay, who came to dance to music played by the club's resident DJ Frankie Knuckles, whom fans refer to as the "godfather of house". After the Warehouse closed in 1983, the crowds went to Knuckles' new club, The Power Plant. In the Channel 4 documentary Pump Up The Volume, Knuckles remarks that the first time he heard the term "house music" was upon seeing "we play house music" on a sign in the window of a bar on Chicago's South Side. One of the people in the car with him joked, "you know, that's the kind of music you play down at the Warehouse!", and then everybody laughed. South-Side Chicago DJ Leonard "Remix" Roy, in self-published statements, claims he put such a sign in a tavern window because it was where he played music that one might find in one's home; in his case, it referred to his mother's soul & disco records, which he worked into his sets. Farley Jackmaster Funk was quoted as saying "In 1982, I was DJing at a club called The Playground and there was this kid named Leonard 'Remix' Roy who was a DJ at a rival club called The Rink. He came over to my club one night, and into the DJ booth and said to me, 'I've got the gimmick that's gonna take all the people out of your club and into mine – it's called House music.' Now, where he got that name from or what made him think of it I don't know, so the answer lies with him."

Q1: what club did the term 'house music' originate from?
A1: The Warehouse
Q2: what city was the club The Warehouse located in?
A2: Chicago
Q3: what years was the club The warehouse open?
A3: 1977 to 1983
Q4: what types of people did the club The Warehouse attract?
A4: primarily black and gay
Q5: who was the resident DJ at The Warehouse in Chicago?
A5: Frankie Knuckles
Chip E.'s 1985 recording "It's House" may also have helped to define this new form of electronic music. However, Chip E. himself lends credence to the Knuckles association, claiming the name came from methods of labeling records at the Importes Etc. record store, where he worked in the early 1980s: bins of music that DJ Knuckles played at the Warehouse nightclub were labelled in the store "As Heard At The Warehouse", which was shortened to simply "House". Patrons later asked for new music for the bins, which Chip E. implies was a demand the shop tried to meet by stocking newer local club hits.

Q1: what is the name of Chip E's 1985 house hit?
A1: "It's House"
Q2: when was Chip E's hit "It's House" released?
A2: 1985
Q3: the term 'house music' came from the labeling of records at what store?
A3: Importes Etc
In a 1986 interview, Rocky Jones, the former club DJ who ran the D.J. International record label, doesn't mention Importes Etc., Frankie Knuckles, or the Warehouse by name, but agrees that "house" was a regional catch-all term for dance music, and that it was once synonymous with older disco music.

Q1: who ran the D.J. International record label?
A1: Rocky Jones
Q2: House is a regional catch-all term for what kind of music?
A2: dance music,
Q3: what was 'house music' once synonymous with?
A3: older disco music
Larry Heard, a.k.a. "Mr. Fingers", claims that the term "house" became popular due to many of the early DJs creating music in their own homes using synthesizers and drum machines such as the Roland TR-808, TR-909, and the TB 303.[citation needed] These synthesizers were used to create a house subgenre called acid house.

Q1: What was the stage name of Larry Heard?
A1: Mr. Fingers
Q2: Why did the term house become popular?
A2: early DJs creating music in their own homes
Q3: what are the Roland TR-808, TR-909, and TB 303 examples of?
A3: synthesizers and drum machines
Q4: synthesizers were used to create what house subgenre?
A4: acid house
Q5: what was the real name of Mr. Fingers?
A5: Larry Heard
Juan Atkins, an originator of Detroit techno music, claims the term "house" reflected the exclusive association of particular tracks with particular clubs and DJs; those records helped differentiate the clubs and DJs, and thus were considered to be their "house" records. In an effort to maintain such exclusives, the DJs were inspired to create their own "house" records.

Q1: What is Juan Atkins an originator of?
A1: Detroit techno music
Q2: What did Atkins claim the term house reflected?
A2: the exclusive association of particular tracks with particular clubs and DJs
Q3: Why were DJs inspired to create their own house records?
A3: differentiate the clubs and DJs
House also had an influence of relaying political messages to people who were considered to be outcasts of society. The music appealed to those who didn't fit into mainstream American society and was especially celebrated by many black males. Frankie Knuckles once said that the Warehouse club in Chicago was like "church for people who have fallen from grace" The house producer Marshall Jefferson compared it to "old-time religion in the way that people just get happy and screamin'". Deep house was similar to many of the messages of freedom for the black community.

Q1: Who did House relay political messages to?
A1: outcasts of society
Q2: Who did Frankie Knuckles once say the Warehouse club was for?
A2: church for people who have fallen from grace
Q3: Who was a famous house producer?
A3: Marshall Jefferson
Q4: where was the warehouse club located?
A4: Chicago
Q5: what community was deep house popular with?
A5: the black community
Detroit techno is an offshoot of Chicago house music. It was developed starting in the late 80s, one of the earliest hits being "Big Fun" by Inner City. Detroit techno developed as the legendary disc jockey The Electrifying Mojo conducted his own radio program at this time, influencing the fusion of eclectic sounds into the signature Detroit techno sound. This sound, also influenced by European electronica (Kraftwerk, Art of Noise), Japanese synthpop (Yellow Magic Orchestra), early B-boy Hip-Hop (Man Parrish, Soul Sonic Force) and Italo disco (Doctor's Cat, Ris, Klein M.B.O.), was further pioneered by Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson, the "godfathers" of Detroit Techno.[citation needed]

Q1: what was one of the earliest Detroit techno hits?
A1: "Big Fun" by Inner City
Q2: who started the Detroit techno development?
A2: The Electrifying Mojo
Q3: what was the nickname of juan atkins, derrick may, and devin saunderson?
A3: the "godfathers" of Detroit Techno
Q4: who were the early b-boy hip-hop artists that inspired detroit techno?
A4: Man Parrish, Soul Sonic Force
Q5: who were the european electronica artists that inspired detroit techno?
A5: Kraftwerk, Art of Noise
Derrick May a.k.a. "MAYDAY" and Thomas Barnett released "Nude Photo" in 1987 on May's label "Transmat Records", which helped kickstart the Detroit techno music scene and was put in heavy rotation on Chicago's Hot Mix 5 Radio DJ mix show and in many Chicago clubs.[citation needed] A year later, Transmat released what was to become one of techno and house music's classic anthems – the seminal track "Strings of Life". Transmat Records went on to have many more successful releases[citation needed] such as 1988's "Wiggin". As well, Derrick May had successful[citation needed] releases on Kool Kat Records and many remixes for a host of underground and mainstream recording artist.

Q1: Mayday and Thomas Barnett released what hit in 1987?
A1: "Nude Photo"
Q2: what was the name of Mayday's record label?
A2: Transmat Records
Q3: What was the real name of the artist Mayday?
A3: Derrick May
Q4: what year was the hit song "wiggin" released?
A4: 1988
Q5: what label did Derrick May have successful releases on after his own?
A5: Kool Kat Records
Kevin Saunderson's company KMS Records contributed many releases that were as much house music as they were techno. These tracks were well received in Chicago and played on Chicago radio and in clubs.[citation needed] Blake Baxter's 1986 recording, "When we Used to Play / Work your Body", 1987's "Bounce Your Body to the Box" and "Force Field", "The Sound / How to Play our Music" and "the Groove that Won't Stop" and a remix of "Grooving Without a Doubt". In 1988, as house music became more popular among general audiences, Kevin Saunderson's group Inner City with Paris Gray released the 1988 hits "Big Fun" and "Good Life", which eventually were picked up by Virgin Records. Each EP / 12 inch single sported remixes by Mike "Hitman" Wilson and Steve "Silk" Hurley of Chicago and Derrick "Mayday" May and Juan Atkins of Detroit. In 1989, KMS had another hit release of "Rock to the Beat" which was a theme in Chicago dance clubs.[citation needed]

Q1: who founded KMS Records?
A1: Kevin Saunderson
Q2: what was the name of Blake Baxter's 1986 hit recording?
A2: "When we Used to Play / Work your Body"
Q3: what was the name of Blake Baxter's 1987 hit recording?
A3: "Bounce Your Body to the Box"
Q4: what group released "Big Fun" and "Good Life" in 1988?
A4: Inner City
Q5: what was the 1989 hit theme released by KMS?
A5: "Rock to the Beat"
With house music already massive on the '80s dance-scene it was only a matter of time before it would penetrate the UK pop charts.[citation needed] The record generally credited as the first house hit in the UK was Farley "Jackmaster" Funk's "Love Can't Turn Around" which reached #10 in the UK singles chart in September 1986.

Q1: what is credited as the first house hit in the UK?
A1: Farley "Jackmaster" Funk's "Love Can't Turn Around"
Q2: what did "Love Can't Turn Around" peak at in the UK charts?
A2: #10
Q3: what year did Farley Funk have his first UK hit?
A3: 1986
In January 1987, Chicago artist Steve "Silk" Hurley's "Jack Your Body" reached number one in the UK, showing it was possible for house music to cross over. The same month also saw Raze enter the top 20 with "Jack the Groove", and several further house hits reached the top ten that year. Stock Aitken Waterman's productions for Mel and Kim, including the number-one hit "Respectable", added elements of house to their previous Europop sound, and session group Mirage scored top-ten hits with "Jack Mix II" and "Jack Mix IV", medleys of previous electro and Europop hits rearranged in a house style. Key labels in the rise of house music in the UK included:

Q1: What was the first house single to hit #1 in the UK?
A1: Steve "Silk" Hurley's "Jack Your Body"
Q2: What year did "Jack Your Body" hit #1 in the UK?
A2: 1987
Q3: Who had a hit single with "jack the groove"?
A3: Raze
Q4: what group's productions for Mel and Kim added elements of house to the europop sound?
A4: Stock Aitken Waterman
Q5: what was the name of mel and kim's number-one hit single in the UK?
A5: Respectable
The tour in March 1987[citation needed] of Knuckles, Jefferson, Fingers Inc. (Heard) and Adonis as the DJ International Tour boosted house in the UK. Following the number-one success of MARRS' "Pump Up The Volume" in October, the years 1987 to 1989 also saw UK acts such as The Beatmasters, Krush, Coldcut, Yazz, Bomb The Bass, S-Express, and Italy's Black Box opening the doors to a house music onslaught on the UK charts. Early British house music quickly set itself apart from the original Chicago house sound;[citation needed] many of the early hits were based on sample montage, rap was often used for vocals (far more than in the US),[citation needed] and humor was frequently an important element.

Q1: what tour boosted house in the UK in the late 80s?
A1: Knuckles, Jefferson, Fingers Inc. (Heard) and Adonis as the DJ International Tour
Q2: when did the DJ International Tour take place?
A2: March 1987
Q3: what was the name of MARRS' number-one single in October 1987?
A3: "Pump Up The Volume"
Q4: what was frequently an important element of UK house music?
A4: humor
Q5: Sample montages were a key difference between british house music and what?
A5: the original Chicago house sound
One of the early anthemic tunes, "Promised Land" by Joe Smooth, was covered and charted within a week by the Style Council. Europeans embraced house, and began booking legendary American house DJs to play at the big clubs, such as Ministry of Sound, whose resident, Justin Berkmann brought in Larry Levan.

Q1: who released the hit single "promised land"?
A1: Joe Smooth
Q2: who covered and charted the single "promised land"?
A2: Style Council
Q3: who was the resident of the Ministry of Sound?
A3: Justin Berkmann
Q4: who did Justin Berkmann bring into the club to play?
A4: Larry Levan