Two inner city club cultures getting together, Chicago and Detroit, incubating new electronic dance music. Inner City was vocalist Paris Grey, from Chicago, where Frankie Knuckles was creating a Queer friendly dance music scene so popular regulars called it House music or just House. And "Big Fun" composer Kevin Saunderson, as part of the Belleville Three (w Juan Atkins and Derrick May), created a Detroit Techno sound combining icy Kraftwerk inspired Black Futurist tempos w heated soul vamping. Early peak.
How does it feel to be on your own? Sifting through the rubble, bringing up the dead, reassembling history from below.
"Big Fun," Inner City (1988)
Two inner city club cultures getting together, Chicago and Detroit, incubating new electronic dance music. Inner City was vocalist Paris Grey, from Chicago, where Frankie Knuckles was creating a Queer friendly dance music scene so popular regulars called it House music or just House. And "Big Fun" composer Kevin Saunderson, as part of the Belleville Three (w Juan Atkins and Derrick May), created a Detroit Techno sound combining icy Kraftwerk inspired Black Futurist tempos w heated soul vamping. Early peak.
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