Chicago House.

WHERE THE
SOUND BEGINS.

Chicago's Black and queer dance floors, DJs, and independent producers carried disco into a new era. Frankie Knuckles' Warehouse sets are central to the story, but the scene grew through many clubs, record shops, radio shows, and makers.

Drum machines, synthesizers, basslines, and stripped-down arrangements gave producers a way to make records for their own floors. Those records traveled well beyond the city.