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Footwork, also called juke, [2] or Chicago juke, is a genre of electronic dance music derived from ghetto house with elements of hip hop, first appearing in Chicago in the late 1990s. [3] The music style evolved from the earlier, rapid rhythms of ghetto house , a change pioneered by RP Boo , DJ Rashad and DJ Clent.
The late 1990s saw a rise in juke music (also known as juke house or Chicago juke), [6] as a faster variant of ghetto house. [10] Juke songs are generally around 150–165 BPM [7] with kick drums, pounding rapidly (and at times very sparsely) in syncopation with crackling snares, claps, high hats, samples in very short increments and other sounds reminiscent of old drum machines.
Teklife (commonly stylized as Teklife57) is an electronic music collective and record label from Chicago, Illinois.The group was founded by Rashad Harden and Morris Harper (DJ Spinn) in 2011 in the city's suburbs, but rapidly gained traction among international audiences for pioneering the dance music genre footwork (also known as Chicago juke), a sped-up derivation Ghetto house which itself ...
Juke, as a term being used to describe genres of music, was during different times used to denote: Ghetto house , especially used for faster tracks within the genre, but also used as a blanket term for ghetto house itself.
Rashad Hanif Harden (October 9, 1979 – April 26, 2014), known as DJ Rashad, was a Chicago-based electronic musician, producer and DJ known as a pioneer in the footwork genre and founder of the Teklife crew.
Born in West Chicago, RP Boo started as a DJ and dancer working with the House-O-Matics juke and House crew, [3] making mixtapes, and contributing to the Bud Billiken Parade. [4] His early, self-released singles are cited as foundational to the evolution of the style of Footwork. [5]
Chicago's equivalent dance style is Juke, where the focus is on footwork dating back to the late 1980s. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] Ghettotech was an integral part of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival , an annual event.
Gramaphone Records is known as the home of house records in Chicago. Following Chicago's Disco Demolition Night in mid-1979, disco music's mainstream popularity fell into decline. 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 ...