Garage music (North America)
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| Cultural origins | Early 1980s, New York City and New Jersey, United States |
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Garage music or garage house is a subgenre of electronic music that developed alongside house music, yet is classified by some sources as being a subgenre of house music, as an overlap between these two genres began in the late 1980s. Garage music was developed in the Paradise Garage nightclub in New York City and club Zanzibar in New Jersey, USA, during the early-to-mid 1980s. It predates the development of Chicago house and is relatively closer to disco than other electronic dance styles. However Garage has eventually been grouped as a variant of the broader term 'house'. DJs playing this genre include Tony Humphries, Larry Levan and Junior Vasquez.
Garage music is often confused with speed garage or UK garage; while these genres are influenced by garage music, they are different genres.
Dance music of the 1980s made use of electronic instruments such as synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines. These instruments are an essential part of garage music. The direction of garage music was primarily influenced by the New York City discothèque Paradise Garage where the influential DJ Larry Levan(1954-1992) played records. Levan was best known for his decade-long residency at the New York City night club Paradise Garage. He developed a cult following who referred to his sets as "Saturday Mass". Influential post-disco DJ François Kevorkian credits Levan with introducing the dub aesthetic into dance music. Along with Kevorkian, Levan experimented with drum machines and synthesizers in his productions and live sets, ushering in an electronic, post-disco sound that presaged the ascendence of house music. Levan got his start alongside DJ Frankie Knuckles at the Continental Baths. At the height of the disco boom in 1977, Levan was offered a residency at the Paradise Garage. Although owner Michael Brody intended to create a downtown facsimile of Studio 54 catering to an upscale white gay clientele, Levan initially drew an improbable mix of streetwise blacks, Latinos, and punks. Open only to a select membership and housed in an otherwise unadorned building on King Street in Greenwich Village, the club and Levan's DJing slowly entered the mainstream. Levan became a prolific producer and mixer in the 1980s, with many of his efforts crossing over onto the national dance music charts.
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