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Bruce Tantum
Verified
North America Editor, DJ Mag TM
New York
Beats
Biography
Bruce has been living the club life since time immemorial. Sometimes he writes about the music he hears along the way, along with people who make and play that music. Sometimes he'll host a radio show. Then he goes out and lives the life a little more.
musicians, club lifeCovers: Dance music, producers DJs, electronic music experimental music
Content
By Bruce Tantum Verified|DJ Mag TMVerifiedHouse music’s Chicago origins should be well known to everyone by now: it was born in the early 1980s in clubs frequented by the city’s queer people of colour, midwifed by DJs like Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy, and raised by producers like Marshall Jefferson, Jesse Saunders and Farley "Jackmaster" Funk. But the synthesised four-to-the-floor rhythms of what we now know as house percolated elsewhere as well — it just took a little longer.
By Bruce Tantum Verified|DJ Mag TMVerifiedNo name is quite as synonymous with the birth of house music as that of the late, great Frankie Knuckles, who was born on 18th January 1955. Of course, the evolution of house from the DNA of disco — and, to lesser extents, electro, industrial, Italo and new wave music — was no solo endeavour: a family tree of progenitors from Chicago’s underground including Ron Hardy, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Jesse Saunders and Chip E all played key roles.
By Bruce Tantum Verified|DJ Mag TMVerifiedProduced in the aftermath of the death of his godfather and grandmother, DC Salas’s ‘To The Places I Call(ed) Home’ is an emotional listen, serving as a preservation of the Peruvian-Belgian artist’s memories. But despite the minor-key prevalence of near-gothic melodies on the 10-track album, it’s hardly a sombre one.
Company Info
DJ Mag TM
London, England, United Kingdom