The Waxonia Desk on Chicago House
Three Chicago records built on a single idea held far past comfort — a loop, a filter sweep, a piano figure. The architecture French house took wholesale a decade later was already finished here.
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Mr. Fingers / Can You Feel It
House at its most elemental — a bassline, a hi-hat and an enormous amount of patience. The patience is the part that carried: almost nothing happens here, and it happens for a very long time.
Lil Louis / French Kiss
A record whose entire architecture is one filter sweep held past the point of comfort, and then held longer. Every filtered house record of the next decade is downstream of it.
Marshall Jefferson / Move Your Body
The piano house template, and the thing every producer who came after had to decide whether to inherit or refuse. Most of them inherited it and few of them admitted as much.