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This week   The Catacombs will dip way back into my cassette library to hear the ultimate in early rap/house music from the early 80's.  Sounds such as Queen Latifah's "Come into My House", Doug Lazy's"Let it Roll", and "Move Your Body" by Marshall Jefferson. This is the era where rap and house blended into one unique sound....way before gangsta and corporate rap.  Read more below for our first history lesson on House...like it used to be...

This is a Roland Bass Synthesizer, She is Queen Latifah and he is Doug Lazy

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We'll chat about today's House music a little more later.  BIG NEWS!  My first interview should be coming up in Feb. I plan to devote some time to talking to innovators in the LGBT community and  house admirers,  More to come.  Note:  This week's playlist will include many mixed and sampled cuts I took off Power 99's Saturday night dance party and WDAS' party with Lawrence Levan and Kenny Ebo when they would broadcast from Kim Graves, PT's and Voodoo. Vampire and that place that was on Front & South..yeah you remember don't you?

Class Lesson this week.  Part 1 from our good folks at Wikipedia

House music is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid-1980s. House music is strongly influenced by elements of the late 1970s soul- and funk-infused dance music style of disco. House music takes disco's use of a prominent bass drum on every beat and developed a new style by mixing in a heavy electronic synthesizer bassline, electronic drums, electronic effects, funk and pop samples, and reverb- or delay-enhanced vocals.

The common element of house music is a prominent kick drum on every beat (also known as a four-to-the-floor beat), usually generated by a drum machine or sampler. The kick drum sound is augmented by various kick fills and extended dropouts. The drum track is filled out with hihat cymbal patterns on the eighth-note offbeats, and a snare drum or clap sound on beats two and four of every bar. This pattern is derived from so-called "four-on-the-floor" dance drumbeats of the 1960s and especially the 1970s disco drummers. Producers commonly layer sampled drum sounds to achieve a more complex sound, filling out the audio spectrum and tailoring the mix for large club sound systems.