Recently, we detailed the amazing history of house and acid house music here, and it's quite a story. Just a few producers and DJs in Chicago started experimenting with old Roland gear back in the 1980s and gave birth to a scene that launched dance music as we know it today.
Frankie Knuckles spread the word at Chicago's Warehouse club - a venue which many say would give the genre its name - and DJs and producers including Ron Hardy, Jesse Saunders, Marshall Jefferson, Phuture, and more took the ethos, added a Roland TR-808 4/4 beat, piano stabs and TB-303 acid lines and developed it further.
