DJ Funk
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Charles Chambers, better known by his stage name DJ Funk, is a Chicago house
DJ who pioneered the ghetto house
subgenre of house music
. Through the 1990s, he built a regional reputation in the Chicago
-Detroit region and in the Midwest rave scene. His 1999 album Booty House Anthems was distributed nationally and sold over one million copies. He founded the Funk Records label in 2006. He is included in Modulations
, a 1998 film documentary of electronic music.
Funk developing from his early influences he started to DJ when he was just a teenager at house parties, and neighborhood clubs.
Additional album mixes:
Chicago house
Chicago house is a style of house music, a genre of electronic dance music which emerged in Chicago in the mid-1980s. Stylistically, Chicago house has no widely accepted definition, but generally includes the first house music productions by Chicago-based artists throughout the 1980s, and any later...
DJ who pioneered the ghetto house
Ghetto house
Ghetto house, or booty house, is a type of Chicago House which started being recognised in its own right from around 1992 onwards. It features minimal 808 and 909 drum machine-driven tracks, and sometimes sexually explicit lyrics....
subgenre of house music
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
. Through the 1990s, he built a regional reputation in the Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
-Detroit region and in the Midwest rave scene. His 1999 album Booty House Anthems was distributed nationally and sold over one million copies. He founded the Funk Records label in 2006. He is included in Modulations
Modulations
Modulations is a multi-media exploration into the history of electronic music, consisting of a documentary film, its soundtrack album, and a book...
, a 1998 film documentary of electronic music.
History
Charles Chambers known to his stage name "DJ Funk" was born on the west-side of ChicagoChicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
Funk developing from his early influences he started to DJ when he was just a teenager at house parties, and neighborhood clubs.
Albums
- 1992: Ghetto House Anthems
- 1993: Ghetto House Anthems 2
- 1999: Booty House Anthems
- 2006: Booty House Anthems 2
Additional album mixes:
- I Love Ghetto
- Freaky Stylz
- Freaky Stylz 2
- Mr. Big D**k
- Bootyology
- Booty Bounce 2000
- Guest appearance on DJ V's Juke-A-Licious Side A