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  "slug": "dj-deeon",
  "name": "DJ Deeon",
  "description": "DJ Deeon appears 3 times in our Juke and Footwork, 1994, and Miami lists, placing as high as No. 2. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/dj-deeon/",
  "appearanceCount": 3,
  "distinctRecordings": 1,
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    "first": 1994,
    "last": 1994
  },
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  },
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    },
    {
      "kind": "curator",
      "slug": "nineteen-ninety-four",
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      "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-ninety-four/",
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      "title": "Freak Like Me",
      "year": 1994,
      "label": "Dance Mania",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Ghetto house at its most reduced: a drum pattern, a bassline and a chant. Deeon made records that cost nothing and worked on any system, which is why they travelled so far from Chicago.",
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        },
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      "title": "Freak Like Me",
      "year": 1994,
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      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Chicago ghetto house at the point where it starts to become the thing that becomes footwork. It is here because a whole subsequent genre is recognisably downstream of records like this one, made on almost nothing.",
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      "trackKey": "dj-deeon--freak-like-me",
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      "title": "Freak Like Me",
      "year": 1994,
      "label": "Dance Mania",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Chicago's ghetto house takes the same overlong, tuned kick rather than the house records made in its own city — the lineage note on our footwork ranking says exactly that. A drum pattern, a bassline, a chant, and nothing that costs money.",
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