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DJ Deeon

The pioneering work of Frankie Knuckles and Vince Lawrence kick-started the Chicago house scene and revolutionised dance music in the 1980s; but while they were packing out downtown warehouses and nightclubs, there were also parties going on in housing projects on the south side of the city. Inspired by Kraftwerk, Italian disco and Soulsonic Force, DJ Deeon was one of the young kids making his own minimal electronic tracks experimenting with Roland drum machines and DAT recorders. He added X-rated call-and-response, slang chants over the top of his primitive, repetitive beats as ...