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Great interview very candid

Tell the truth!!! I’m still trying to find the feelings I felt when he was djing! That’s hard to replicate! There are some good dis out here today but I’m always looking for a Ron Hardy experience that I just can’t seem to find!

Bring Chicago House Back you dig

I looking for long lost cd

Nicky is right corporate discos suck. V I P sections and prime service right in the center of the dance floor. AND the rest are treated like cattle

just watched BGS documentary from 2020...great comments Nicky. And ya...the Greed was definitely responsible for the demise of the Disco run I grew up in the 70s and it was a wild time. Little did I know the 80s was about to top that. Cheers Nicky

❤❤❤🎉 Ron was the Best

Right on, keep keeping On❤

DOPE!!! We need a list of some things!

They only mention Kraftwer in order to share black American creation with other groups lol 🤣😆 they don't do that with any other community except for BLACK PEOPLE‼️ Even kpop is a knock off of black American music

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They really aren’t. Ya’ll got BAMBOOZLED by tech bro crypto-fascists.

They really aren’t. Ya’ll got bamboozled by tech bro crypto-fascists.

This didn’t date well.

Great interview, Osunlade is a house music institution!

Yes sir! When you destroy the sense of community you have destroyed its people.

The man is right

True man, don't get me wrong there's definitely some amazing songs from the 1980s - 1990s, but 2010 - now, just have good music anywhere you go now 😂🎉

Very sympathic

When Nicky is telling of how it was back in the day, i was just lucky enough to get to the END of that era, people from the past were JUST just starting to stop going out, and YOU COULD FEEL IT, a few years into the 1990's and it was over, and yeah there were a few movements here and there but you had to GO LOOKING FOR IT.

ONE thing that can be done is: KEEP A FEW NIGHTCLUBS THAT ARE DEDICATED TO DISCO 🪩 MUSICS OPEN, AND DON'T CHARGE AN ARM & A LEG TO ENTER AND DRINK . That is a lot, with the price of everything going up, i know. But if you keep going up on things , it'll drive the industry into the ground.

That’s the magic of make other FEEL, I write songs and DJ in raves, I play mostly psytrance but when you see someone dancing and feeling the track that you are playing it’s just magical. 🧙‍♂️

What about Kraftwerk ? I met Kraftwerk once when I was living in Denmark. I had a friend who was working for the national Danish radio station, and it was during the promotion of their album "Tour de France Soundtracks," the last major release by Kraftwerk as a full group. They arrived at the radio station, very nice gentlemen, and the interview began. It was a pleasant interview, and at the end, the interviewer asked an intriguing question: "Did you ever think that the music of groups like Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire, Yello, and Tangerine Dream would be as popular as it is now?" Keep in mind, this was the time when a group from Belgium called Technotronic had a very big hit in Europe with the song "Pump Up the Jam." The answer was astonishing. The room went quiet because the other members of Kraftwerk knew exactly how this question would be answered. One of them looked at me and said, "Yes, we knew that this music would be as popular as it is now. We were just waiting for the black man to discover the drum machine." Of course, he was referring to people like Juan Atkins, Blake Baxter, Kevin Saunderson, Jeff Mills, Mr. Fingers, Frankie Knuckles, and many other producers from Detroit and Chicago. It is important to remember that neither dance music nor techno music would exist without the four-on-the-floor drum beat, which was popularized by a black man named Earl Young. Listen to a song called "Love Is the Message" by a group called MFSB; the rhythm on that track is the sonic DNA of modern dance music. This groove gave birth to disco. Dance music didn’t begin with synthesis; it began with drums, and where did drums begin? Africa. I rest my case. 🤔

Nice interview, I also grew up in Sydney and start going to raves in the early 90's Ov Thee Earth Tribe held at the Glebe Wheat silos. Impacted me so much to become a DJ, and Record Label Producer.

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He is right.

Respect! 🫡

Legend ❤

I love Ron Hardy from the under Wicker drive, Music box however he will always be one of coldest, can't put it in WORDS because his Character and his Music speaks for itself hell I learned the Hustle in the Music Box power plant reoutoe 178, hell I forgot the 2other Club's that put House music on the Map!!!!!! However there will never be you here me never be a DJay like RON HARDY shit his music made Lady Jack that shit

❤ Yo this was on point and needed. Thx for putting this history out for the masses Ron Hardy was the man!!!! #chitownhouse

Never heard of Bill Brewster and only found out after reading this article on a local dj that still djing. I haven’t been keeping up with dance music for about 20 years, but before that, i was on top of it all. I feel as Bill is speaking, i can totally relate bc I’ve been interested in dance music since the mid 70’s and caught on with house music since about 85-86. I even worked at 2 main dance music stores and had my own in San Francisco. In the last 20 years, I’ve missed chasing new music and trying to figure out how to get back in with all my experience and he’s right, not many books out about dj and dance music culture. Same with not many movies and documentaries out on dance music culture and more ppl. need to make them for other to see and have as a reference. I’ll keep learning more about this man and maybe something will hit me on how I can contribute again to the dance music community.

Tell ‘em Jamo!! I know why you honorably coined your dj Name as JAIME 326!!! Ppl That never went to The Music Box will never understand the way Ron would Work that Box and eliminate sounds with the crossover and make us lose our minds With Certain tracks!! Big ups to you Jamo!! Cause you the truth too!!

LoooooVee yoU ReD's!!!! From a brother in Philadelphia. Your rhythms are fantastic to sophisticated to otta this world. But funky and soulful. I hope to meet you someday inhope you come to Philly. I've been following you for about 12 years now. It started with ... 1. There's a place 2. Love again 3. I forgot the title. But its the one from 2001 space odyssey. Love that concept. Reds be well .🎼 You look fantastic. 👋🏽🇺🇸🤓🌀

He played the first track in reverse.

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Great interview. Thanks James & Marcel!

Ron Hardy is Chicago house. 👊🏽

Thank you for this ! Hearing Jazzie B talk at length is amazing. Such a legend. Big up !

Allysha is an awesome artist!

Ron Hardy Edits are one of the most essential roots of house

Thank you for this! What a crime this doesn't have more attention! All luv

Aiiight Jamie shout out to Lil Louis... And his XMas parties at the Bizmark, was Lit, always a few thousand seemed like👊... Especially the year when French Kiss Dropped♨️♨️♨️

As a New Zealander, i wept when he said he tried to get over to us 😅

Wow! Nicky Siano, living legend of the culture.

Thank you, Jamie!! Ron was more than his vices!! Protect his legacy...we are he's legacy 🙏🏾

House & Techno music IS black music!!!

It is an impossibility for Ron Hardy to be the “Godfather” of house music. You would have to go back in time and rearrange history in order for that to happen.

It is an impossibility for Ron Hardy to be the “Godfather” of House music. You would have to go back in time and rearrange history in order for that to happen.

Did he come to the UK, if so did anyone on here who is from UK see him? I didn't. Saw all the others Knuckles etc from the late 80s and since then

Thanks Jamie