Who was named DJ Funk and produced house music within Chicago?
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DJ Funk Charles Chambers, better known by his stage name DJ Funk, is a Chicago house DJ who pioneered the ghetto house subgenre of house music. Through the 1990s, he built a regional reputation in the Chicago-Detroit region and in the Midwest rave scene. His 1999 album "Booty House Anthems" was distributed nationally and sold over one million copies. He founded the Funk Records label in 2006. He is included in "", a 1998 film documentary of electronic music.
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Chicago house Chicago house refers to house music produced during the mid to late 1980s within Chicago. The term is generally used to refer to the first ever house music productions, which were by Chicago-based artists in the 1980s.
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Soul Jazz Records Soul Jazz Records is a British record label based in London. The label started in the 1992 to draw "cross cultural connections between various music genres". These genres include reggae, soul, ska, dub, jazz, Brazilian music, and Latin music. The label expanded its range and released compilations of post-punk, electronica, Chicago house music and world music, as well as a number of artist studio albums and singles.
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Tim Dudfield Mr Timothy (a.k.a. 'T-Funk', real name Tim Dudfield) is an Australian dance music producer and DJ. Over the years, he has worked on projects by a wide variety of artists including Madonna, INXS, Felix da Housecat, E Smoove, Inaya Day, Slinkee Minx, Brandy, Cher, Craig David, and Steve Silk Hurley.
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Uptown Funk "Uptown Funk" (stylised as "UpTown Funk!") is a song recorded by British record producer Mark Ronson and American singer and songwriter Bruno Mars, for Ronson's fourth studio album, "Uptown Special" (2015). RCA Records released the song as the album's lead single on 10 November 2014. Jeff Bhasker assisted the artists in co-writing and co-producing the track, with additional writing from Philip Lawrence. The song became a worldwide phenomenon with its major impact on pop culture. According to "Billboard," the song remains the biggest hit of the 2010s.
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Ghetto house Ghetto house, booty house or G-house is a genre of Chicago house which started being recognized as a distinct style from around 1992 onwards. It features minimal 808 and 909 drum machine-driven tracks and sometimes sexually explicit lyrics.
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Chicago Dance Crash Chicago Dance Crash is an American hip hop/contemporary dance company based in Chicago, Illinois. Employing an eight-member ensemble and several artistic associates, the company tours year round while sustaining a calendar year ‘season’ of local premiers and commercial work as well as a spring/fall educational outreach program. The company has received widespread critical acclaim while being considered one of the most notable American dance companies to emerge during the first decade of the 2000’s.
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Studio 11 Studio 11 is a recording studio in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1996. Best known for hip hop music, duranguense, gangsta rap, and house music styles, Studio 11 has recorded, mixed, and mastered over 35,000 musical songs.
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Roy Davis Jr. Roy Davis Jr. is an American musician from Chicago, Illinois, specialising in house music.
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Quazedelic Stanley Harris Jr. (born in Santa Ana, California, U.S.) is a music producer, rapper and singer in Los Angeles, California. He records under the stage name Quaze or Quazedelic. He received his big break into the music industry when rapper Snoop Dogg signed him to Doggystyle Records in 2001. He is most recognized for his funk music style production. His first major release with the Doggystyle Records crew was on the soundtrack of Undercover Brother, where he produced the single, Give Up the Funk. The song featured Snoop Dogg, Bootsy Collins, Fred Wesley, Kokane and Quazedelic. Later he went on to work with many other Hip-Hop and R&B artists like Angie Stone, Baby Bash, G-Unit, Dub C, Redman, Suga Free and Goldie Loc from the Eastsidaz.
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Funk, Inc. Funk, Inc. was a jazz funk/soul jazz group founded in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1969 by Bobby Watley, Eugene Barr, Steve Weakley, Jimmy Munford and Cecil Hunt. During the 1970s they were signed to the Prestige Records label for whom they recorded five albums, though they later disbanded in 1976.
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Shawn Christopher Shawn Christopher is a female African-American house-music singer from Chicago, Illinois.
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Terry Hunter Terry Hunter is an American house music DJ from Chicago, Illinois. He has been active in the Chicago music scene since the early 1990s. He has produced many of his own albums, as well as remixes for other artists.
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Dunk Yer Funk Records Dunk Yer Funk Records was a sub-label of record distributor JDC Records, active in San Pedro, California from 1985 - 1988. With the growing popularity of rap music and electrofunk, Jim Callon decided to form a sub-label. This would keep his JDC Records music catalog focused on dance music and Dunk Yer Funk on rap. The logo of the music label was a 12-inch vinyl record being dipped into a cup of coffee.
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Egypt Taylor Egypt Taylor is an American entrepreneur, producer, and recognizable artist in the hip-hop community. Born in Dallas, Texas, United States, and a native to Philadelphia, Egypt has been referred to as a "veteran freshman" because of his young start and early approval in the music industry. Egypt's contribution to modern hip-hop has caused an increase in publicity and his personal life. Egypt has worked with artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, APEX Predator, and other well known producers such as Metro Boomin and Andy Ha. Egypt was also a summiter at the 2015 Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia.
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The Whiz Kids The Whiz Kids are a production, DJ, and editing team popular in the late 1980s American underground dance music scene. The team was made up of Wayne "Cutmaster Crash" Walters, and Kevin "Boy Wonder" Fluornoy. The two men began their careers in the early 1980s as local DJ's in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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Johnny K John Karkazis, better known as Johnny K, (born in Chicago, Illinois) is a producer/engineer/mixer/musician and songwriter. He owns Groovemaster Recording Studios in Chicago. In addition to the studios, his 40000 sqft music complex includes views of the Chicago sky line, a gymnasium, rehearsal rooms, and pre-production rooms.
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Urban contemporary Urban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid-1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of genres such as hip hop, R&B, pop, grime, UK garage and drum and bass, and Caribbean music such as reggae, dancehall, reggaeton, zouk, bouyon, and soca. Urban contemporary was developed through the characteristics of genres such as R&B and soul. Virtually all urban contemporary formatted radio stations are located in cities that have sizeable African-American populations, such as New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Memphis, Boston, New Orleans, Louisville, Indianapolis, Birmingham, Columbus, Oklahoma City, Charlotte and Orlando.
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Funk carioca Funk carioca, favela funk, and in other parts in the world, baile funk, is a music genre from Rio de Janeiro, derived from Miami bass and Gangsta Rap music.
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Funk 'n Pussy Funk ’n Pussy is the eighth and final album by rapper Schoolly D. The album was released in 2000 for Chord Records and was produced by Schoolly D, DJ Code Money and DJ Chuck Chillout. Reviews for the album were generally mixed, but like his previous albums, the album was a commercial failure. The album spawned three singles; “Do It, Do It”, “Can You Feel It” and “Yes Yes Y’all”. The first track, “Yahmean” featured fellow hip hop emcees Chuck D and Lady B. “Mr. Big Dick 2000” is a remix by the UK trip hop outfit Sneaker Pimps.
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Mukatsuku Records Mukatsuku Records is a record label based out of London, UK, started in 2006 and owned and run by the DJ and record collector Nik Weston. The label's general style of music is soul/funk/jazz/disco related and defined as dance music and/or black music of various origins. Many of the early releases were part of the jazz dance scene. Often, though not always, the music has a focus on Japanese recording artists. Mukatsuku Records releases all of its music on vinyl and releases neither albums nor digital content.
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Timmy Regisford DJ Timmy Regisford is a House artist and producer who, according to deepattitude.com, "His flare and panache on the decks not only technically, but programming-wise has rightly earned him the well-deserved moniker, The Maestro." In 1981 Timmy Regisford with partner Boyd Jarvis started doing a mixshow on 107.5 WBLS in New York City.