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This is an interesting enough article, but it has been written dozens - if not hundreds - of times since the mid-90s. Everybody seriously into electronic music
by alisonatwork 4y ago
This is an interesting enough article, but it has been written dozens - if not hundreds - of times since the mid-90s. Everybody seriously into electronic music knows the impact of the Belleville Three. The history has already been written, drawing a line from disco, funk and early synth noodling of the 70s through the club scenes in NYC and Chicago, to the bedrooms of Detroit, and back over the Atlantic to London, Ibiza, Manchester and eventually Berlin.
There are perhaps people who have a legitimate case to be made that they have been left out of the history. I remember one DJ from Chicago (Leonard "Remix" Rroy) who wasn't part of the Warehouse clique and spent years telling everyone who listened that he did at least as much to pioneer house music in the city as Frankie Knuckles. But The Belleville Three and Underground Resistance are not that. I was hoping this article would reveal more untold stories like that one, not the same mythology that's already been around for almost three decades at this point.