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Knuckles to a record deal, and he did two albums for the label, the first of which contained “The Whistle Song,” an eight-minute disco-ey house instrumental built around a flute solo. Mariah Carey, Bjork, U2, Luther Vandross, Lisa Stansfield, Vanessa Williams, Whitney Houston, Madonna and Annie Lennox, not to mention Michael and Janet Jackson, all commissioned remixes from the boys at Def Mix. In time, his style also became commercial, at least compared with other forms of ‘90s dance music. Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Images Knuckles and another D.J., Satoshi Tomiie.
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David Morales, who was a partner in a company, Def Mix Productions, with Mr. “He wasn’t into tribal or the tech,” said the D.J. Two to three minutes in, the vocal (usually R & B but sometimes pop) would start, and the song would effervesce like champagne. The mixes were long, usually eight to 10 minutes, as he built the track around a pulsing disco groove and slowly introduced lush string arrangements, soft piano lines and electronic samples, all of which were then stretched out like taffy. Knuckles went on to early ‘90s residencies at Sound Factory, the Roxy and the Sound Factory Bar - the heyday of house music in New York, some would argue - where he often introduced his remixes months in advance of their official releases in record stores. “It was just great funky of-the-time music,” said the fashion designer Stephen Burrows, who recalled staying sometimes until “9 or 10 in the morning.”Īfter that, Mr. Knuckles returned to New York in the late ‘80s, and played at the World in the East Village.
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There was no one else who could do what he did.” “I would say I was going to a friend’s house and staying over to do my homework,” she said. popular on the fashion circuit, remembers her youth in Chicago where she bought a fake ID, largely to be able to hear Mr. Knuckles moved to Chicago and helped pioneer the sound that came to be known as house music, producing club records by day and spinning at night at the Warehouse, which became one of seminal nightclubs of the era. In the ‘80s, as disco fell out of favor, Mr.