![]() Above ground, other forms of music reigned the radio waves, but under the surface, in dark and sweaty New York clubs, the sound once referred to as disco was beginning to mutate into something completely different. In the early eighties, Studio 54 and Saturday Night Fever were over, and “disco” was no longer a romantic notion in American pop culture. As thousands prepare to make their way to Chicago’s Montrose Beach this weekend for the second annual Wavefront Music Festival, complete with a Chicago Heritage Stage, let us pull back the curtain once again and explore the places from which this music came. The growth of all three branches of this dance music tree are important, but at its core house music emerged from the Windy City as the umbrella genre’s most universal derivative. ![]() New York had disco, Detroit had techno, and Chicago had house. ![]() The eighties were both a tumultuous and exciting time in the history of music, and the tale to be told about the birth and evolution of electronic music is far from a predictable one. ![]()
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