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 ...