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Rating: Frankie Knuckles. The godfather of house music.
He created it. If House music exists (the serious kind, not the rubbish that clubs pass off as such), much of the credit goes to him. Our good Frankie, after transforming the DJ from "the one who plays records" into a true "non-musician," as Brian Eno would say, by creating the three-turntable system (two were used to keep two tracks at the same bpm and seamlessly transition from one to the other, the third to insert various effects), and starting to remix tracks of Black Culture, recorded this single.
THE TRACK THAT STARTED IT ALL
It begins with a synthesizer loop creating cyclical rhythms that capture you from the first note.
The bassline kicks in; it's the first house track, but I struggle to find better basslines even in the latest electronic music productions assisted by more advanced technology.
The drum machine starts and, shortly after, the voice enters.
The track starts to make you dream, and you wish this magic would never end.
It seems like a few elements, and one might smile thinking about how a house track could be made with so few instruments, considering all the technologies that aid the DJ today, but it's precisely that craftsmanship that creates that engaging sound, as if it were made by analog and not electronic instruments.
The first house music track and one of its absolute pinnacles with all the elements you can find today.
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