As with so many music genres, there are conflicting stories about how and who started it, but with house music, there is one unarguable fact: Chicago was its birthplace. The name? Well that pretty much certainly (although there is even some doubt about this) came from the city's Warehouse club whose philosophy to play underground dance music from anywhere in the world was a key factor in spreading the house sound across the city and beyond from the early '80s onwards.
The Warehouse was set up to be Chicago's version of The Loft in New York, a successful underground club in which Larry Levan and Frankie Knuckles made their DJ names.
Knuckles was eventually persuaded to move from New York to DJ at the Warehouse where his skills at lengthening sections of records by mixing between two copies, and essentially creating new tracks, would become famous.
His mastery and the club's music philosophy would quickly establish the Warehouse on the burgeoning club scene map - actually the Warehouse was the entire club scene map.
