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The Warehouse (or the "House" for short) was a nightclub
Nightclub

A nightclub is a Alcoholic beverage, Dance and entertainment Music venue which does its primary business after dark. People who frequent nightclubs are known as clubbers....
 that was established in Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
, Illinois
Illinois

The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....
 in 1977
1977 in music

EventsBohemian Rhapsody is named 'The Best Single Of The Last 25 Years' by British Phonographic Industry.In this year, the St. Magnus Festival was founded in Orkney by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies....
 under the direction of Robert Williams. It is today most famous for being what many consider to be the birthplace and heart of "house music
House music

House music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit....
" under its first musical director, DJ Frankie Knuckles
Frankie Knuckles

Frankie Knuckles is an United States disc jockey, record producer and remix musician. He played an important role in developing house music as a Chicago DJ in the 1980s and he helped to popularize house music in the 1990s, with his work as a producer and remixer....
. A broad spectrum of dance music was being played; however, first and foremost were R'n'B
Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music first created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s....
 and Disco
Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in and was initially popular among African American, gay and Hispanic and Latino Americans communities in the United States in the late 1960s....
. Knuckles experimented with different possibilities of developing an original expression, mixing disco music with European electronic music.

When The Warehouse doubled the admission fee in 1982, Knuckles was indignant about it and he left the club.






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The Warehouse (or the "House" for short) was a nightclub
Nightclub

A nightclub is a Alcoholic beverage, Dance and entertainment Music venue which does its primary business after dark. People who frequent nightclubs are known as clubbers....
 that was established in Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
, Illinois
Illinois

The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....
 in 1977
1977 in music

EventsBohemian Rhapsody is named 'The Best Single Of The Last 25 Years' by British Phonographic Industry.In this year, the St. Magnus Festival was founded in Orkney by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies....
 under the direction of Robert Williams. It is today most famous for being what many consider to be the birthplace and heart of "house music
House music

House music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit....
" under its first musical director, DJ Frankie Knuckles
Frankie Knuckles

Frankie Knuckles is an United States disc jockey, record producer and remix musician. He played an important role in developing house music as a Chicago DJ in the 1980s and he helped to popularize house music in the 1990s, with his work as a producer and remixer....
. A broad spectrum of dance music was being played; however, first and foremost were R'n'B
Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music first created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s....
 and Disco
Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in and was initially popular among African American, gay and Hispanic and Latino Americans communities in the United States in the late 1960s....
. Knuckles experimented with different possibilities of developing an original expression, mixing disco music with European electronic music.

When The Warehouse doubled the admission fee in 1982, Knuckles was indignant about it and he left the club. The Warehouse was renamed “Music Box” and Ron Hardy
Ron Hardy

Ron Hardy Born May 8, 1958- was an instrumental figure and DJ in the development of house music. An innovator and originator of the genre, he is highly regarded not only for his iconic performances at the Music Box, a Chicago house music club, but for his pioneering edits and mixes of disco, soul music, funk and early house music ....
 was booked as a resident DJ. Marshall Jefferson
Marshall Jefferson

Marshall Jefferson is widely regarded as one of the leading innovators of the genre of music now known as house music, in particular the subgenre of Chicago house....
 also played the decks in the legendary club. In 1987 the “Music Box” closed.

See also

  • Chicago Deep House
    Chicago Deep House

    Chicago Deep House is a name given to a sub-genre of house music coined in the mid- to late 1980s. Whereas house music in a general sense, refers to an original type of music created in Chicago in the 1980s by the likes of Marshall Jefferson, Chip E., and Lil Louis, Chicago deep house music has its roots in the disco scene of the late 1970s....


External links

  • – Clubbers Guide to Life from Ministry of Sound
    Ministry of Sound

    Ministry of Sound , now MSHK Group, is the home of the best known dance music and lifestyle brands, the largest independent record company and the most famous nightclub in the world ....
    . Retrieved in September 6, 2007.