Ghetto House & Footwork

Chicago's harder, faster local strain. Dance Mania and its roster, the raw drum tracks and explicit chants, juke, and the footwork battles that grew out of it.

Part of Chicago House

12 moments in this segment.

1. 1989 - Tyree - "Hardcore Hip-House". The Chicago hip-house fusion.
2. 1995 - Waxmaster - Dance Mania ghetto trax. The raw, sample-chopped Dance Mania ghetto-house sound.
3. 1995 - Traxmen - Dance Mania. Dance Mania ghetto-house tracks.
4. 1996 - Paul Johnson - "Feel My M.F. Bass". Raw, filtered Chicago house from the late-90s master.
5. 1996 - DJ Deeon - "Freak Like Me" (Dance Mania). Dance Mania ghetto house, Chicago’s raw, hard, late-90s strain.
6. 1996 - Jammin’ Gerald - Dance Mania ghetto house. Raw, percussive, hard Chicago ghetto house.
7. 1999 - Paul Johnson - "Get Get Down". The filtered Chicago house global smash.
8. 2000 - DJ Gant-Man - ghetto house medley. Old-school Chicago ghetto house, the bridge from house to juke.
9. 2011 - DJ Spinn & DJ Rashad - Teklife. The Teklife crew who took Chicago footwork worldwide.
10. 2012 - Traxman - footwork / Teklife. Traxman’s deep crate-digging footwork, descended from ghetto house.
11. 2013 - RP Boo - the birth of footwork. RP Boo on inventing footwork, house’s hyper-speed Chicago descendant.
12. 2013 - Footwork - "I’m Tryna Tell Ya". A documentary feature on the Chicago footwork scene.