Chicago House

The earliest house music productions made by Chicago-based artists. In the early 1980s, fewer and fewer disco records were being released, but the genre remained popular in some Chicago nightclubs and on at least one radio station. Some of these DJs also made and played their own edits of their favorite songs on reel-to-reel tape, focusing on the portions of songs that worked well on the dancefloor. Some even mixed in effects, drum machines, and other rhythmic electronic instrumentation in an effort to give songs more appeal.

These edits and remixes were rarely released to the public and were available only on privately pressed vinyl records or on mixtapes. The prevalence of four-on-the-floor beats in dance music is largely derived from house. At least three styles of dancing are associated with house music: jacking, footwork, and lofting. 1982–1990.