House & Freestyle
 

Calling out all the old skool heads (and Midwesterners ;) ), who here is caught up in House and Freestyle as much as I am. I'm from the Chi, the birthplace of House, so it's only natural that I like it! My uncles were Dj's back in the days and they played house to no end!

Some notable favorites:
Aly-Us, "Follow Me"
LOADS OF CAJMERE http://www.myspace.com/cajmere there's the link to listen to his music.
'Fantasy Girl"
"THe Love I lost"
"Love train"
Jungle Brothers, "I'll house you"
Fast Eddie, "Hip House"
Stardust, "Music sounds better with you"
SoHo, "Hot Music"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKumE0iBhM A sample of Old School House


Post some more...if ya can remember!

To listen to current deep house music, listen here:


www.motionfm.com

wow, you brought back some memories. like nights at the Sound Factory and Plastics in ATL in the late 80s-early 90s. and to think, i used to hate House. in college, i quickly i realized that it wasn't a party w/o House!;)

I go to the the Paradox in Baltimore for house music and we gets down... how different is house music from coast to coast?

I think everyone has their own version of house, when people say House here in the Chi, they tend to mean Old School perculator house and ghetto (juke and footwork) house, 'Classics' refer to early house, early 80's.

It varies, i've been to clubs here where the DJ was playing "house" and it sounded like trance (which made me sit down), NY i know thinks of house as the latter.

The Paradox is still open??? Wow we used to get our groove on to house music back in the day there:D (1991-1994). I think that is the first place I heard "It's time for the Percolator" . When I came home and requested it DJ's would look @ me & go "huh?"....

I was just searching for house cd's on eBay the other day...there is a CD out there with these songs on it. I remember some of them

DAAAYUM gonna make me bust out my moves!


I have a CD that has this song, we play it at BBQ's everyone always loses their mind when this song comes out.


Round and round and round and feel the house music steady steady poundin!


Another classic, my uncles were house dj's back in the day, they can still spin and trust at wedding, cottilions, baptism parties, they play this!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se3lXr6FiSc
Girl gets down doing the perculator!

The Percolator and Watch out for the Big Girls get madddd play from me... and yes we be DEEP in the Paradox on a Saturday night with our BYOBs geting crunk! I heart B'more house music...

Neosoul, can you possibly tell me the name of the second song in this vid, it's a baltimore club music song (been wanting to know since i heard it on so you think you can dance? to yrs ago!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnKF54KrYpQ

I haven't heard it before but w/e it is sounds hella good, had to stop myself form dancing at work... the beginning sounded very Lil Jon-ish with house beats... I can mos def dance to it

here's a clip for Watch Out for The Big Girls... funny vid :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKRYbwCIF9w

Yah i know the first one is "Okay (remix)" they're both baltimore club music songs...I just been dling BCM songs like crazy but none of em end up being that song :mad:

You can log onto imeem.com and create your very own playlist. I have a whole gank of House classics and current songs as well.

Currently listening to "I Can't Get No Sleep" by Masters At Work f/ India.

Top House DJ's (both old and new):

Larry Levan (RIP)
Mr. Fingers/Larry Heard/Fingers, Inc.
Masters At Work (Kenny Dope and Louie Vega)
Kerri Chandler
Dennis Ferrer
Osunlade
Danny Tenaglia
Ruben Toro
Frankie Knuckles
Timmy Regisford
Quentin Harris
DJ Spinna

When you see the baby powder being sprinkled on the dance floor - IT'S ON AND POPPING!!!! :D :D :D

does anyone know the name of this song that goes


walking down thes treet watching people...watching...

and that's all I could remember...my mom bought us a "tape" lol im dating myself...


the bottlenecks: these sounds fall into my mind

good life I dont know who sings it though

hoes in this house

the perculator

follow me

I found an awesome clip of Chicago's Ghetto House back in the day...if you're at work PLEASE put the volume down...and please ignore the explicit language :eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afe-0VY4YiI

LOL....this takes me back
 

to when me and my friends would sneak into the old Generator (knowing good and well we were underage)

I grew up on House Music....I remember seeing the old signs tied to the streetlight posts advertising parties @ the Bismark and my sister and cousins would go to parties at Mendel or Whitney Young.

DJ Sting International played for Soul Summit @ Ft. Greene Park in Brooklyn this past Sunday. It was BANANAS!!!

Here's a glimpse of him putting it down for the true House Heads in NYC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXQoN-XzgyA

Ahh house music! I love the bump of the beat just kicks me to the dancefloor. That vid with the big "girl' is funny especially when I found out it was men.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyMJnXgSRrc

Had to post this up...anyone know where to find the 'ghetto' version..it goes "smoke with me, why don't you smoke with me?" I heard this one before the original

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE House Music! (House Music all night long, House Music all night long...)

One of my good friends is a GREAT House Music DJ and still plays (Terry Alford). There's a link to his MySpace Page on my blog with samples of his music. He also hosts a series of Internet music shows as well!

Goodness, I miss the late 80s!

i had no clue they had a vid for this!

Lidell Townsell-Nu nu
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQeRbjV0sGo

anyone know some good freestyle joints...this is the house AND freestyle thread...we've focused heavily on the former!

I just broke a sweat just reading this!!! LOL
I miss

BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN -- this song was the reason I never gained that Freshman 15! LOL

LOL... it's the Bucketheads (my roommate put me up on them, and I still have the CD somewhere)

Inner City did Good Life (hooray for Detroit House/Techno)

:D
Here in San Fran, the dj's play a lot of trance which I like. Jungle, Drum and Bass, Progressive are also popular here.

Def will make y'all get out your chairs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_71cPXT3n0

Oh snap! My radio station plays that all of the time. Usually in mixes. All this time and I never knew it was Lisa Lisa.:D cool.

The radio station I listen to is broadcast online via mp3 stream and windows media. You have to sign up with the station but they dont send out any spam and are locally owned (as opposed to Clearchannel owned or otherwise). You can listen from anywhere in the world.:)

http://energy927fm.com

During the commericals, they play this sort of background track that is not house so dont freak out when you hear it. Happy listening.

More free house music to listen to:

http://deepersoul.blogspot.com/

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! I am beyond elated because it took me over 20 years to find this song but I finally found it on ITunes of all places. It's straight old school, Summer in the Street, Carrie Lucas:D:D:D:D:D:D

ETA
on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxEGRRW6tSY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYCAG8wRe_0

One of the most sampled tracks in Ghetto House/Juke

My Chicago brethen...and Detroit Cousins will recognize this quick!

Gotta Love Midwest Music!


lol at the dancin in the video!

I see there is a debate in the comments of the video as to what came first..footwork..or jit..not to be bias..but The Chi founded everything house related, just thought you all should know!

That song was annoying as hell!!!

Thank God for New York House Music.

:eek::mad:

I was actually in NYC these past couple of weeks I was pleasantly surprised that Old School Chicago House is in heavy rotation over there, thus everyone now recognizes which city brings the better house beat :cool:

I love Chicago House, but that song you posted just hurt my ears, LOL!!

ah can't forget Chitown's Juke..found this awesome clip of Dj Nehpets!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sPnuxdVDmhg

South Side gone global!

wow it only took me almost 20 yrs to find out the name of this song!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yri4I5pmUfM

I was more into freestyle than house. I loved Sweet Sensation ...LOL!!

"Take it While It's Hot" was my JAM!! :D

And this is why I love this thread. Thanks for posting this. I was trying to find this one too.:)

LOL

Remember this then?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xfqTrMhWOFY

and of course....
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LLNfYtcKMaw

I like this one better:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9nF_GiAIAIs&feature=related

:p:D

I don't listen to too much modern House..but I JUST found this one! and I dig it! I see you Detroit!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nZIlba4zKeg

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JRA9X-ssMck

I better see all my Chitown folks get up! I remember this show like it was yesterday!