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The Waxonia Desk on Chicago House

Three records made of almost nothing — a drum machine, a bass generator used wrong, a loop held until it becomes a song. The cheapest equipment in the shop, and a genre came out of it.

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  1. Steve "Silk" Hurley / Jack Your Body

    1986 · Underground / DJ International

    A record made of almost nothing, which went to number one in Britain anyway. The clearest ancestor of the idea that a loop held long enough stops being a loop and becomes a song.

  2. Phuture / Acid Trax

    1987 · Trax

    The accident that became a genre. A bass machine nobody wanted, misused by mistake and then misused on purpose, and thirty years of records came out of the difference between the two.

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  3. Mr. Fingers / Mystery of Love

    1985 · Alleviated

    The warm end of Chicago rather than the raw end. The city produced both in the same eighteen months, and the story that it was ever only one of them is a later invention.