Chicago house
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Sep 17, 2026
BirchHOST
Remedy is the debut studio album by the English electronic music duo Basement Jacks, released in May 1999 on the record label XL.
BirchHOST
The producer was Felix Buxton and Simon Radcliffe, and the genre is house, Chicago house.
BirchHOST
I'm going to read from the book, Craig McLean.
BirchHOST
Preacher's son Felix Buxton and ex-squatter Simon Radcliffe burst out of the Brixton South London Underground club scene in the late 90s.
BenPANELIST
I really enjoyed it.
BirchHOST
I think it's the next...
BirchHOST
Obviously, you know, I think we're all Daft Punk fans, and Homework was one of those albums that kind of came up and kind of reinvented the disco-y Chicago house style.
BirchHOST
And this just continues that mode, that style.
Shawn O'SullivanHOST
And they were really important in the development of the Chicago sound.
Shawn O'SullivanHOST
And you can hear that in the early Chicago house records.
Shawn O'SullivanHOST
There is a weirdness, a kind of skeletalness, a certain DIY spirit.
Shawn O'SullivanHOST
Um, and this certain straddling of like, you know, kind of like, um, of kind of like soulful black American music.
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ChrisHOST
But I'm a sucker for that.
ChrisHOST
And it is...
ChrisHOST
That gives it like this... kind of like psychedelic propulsion that I link with like later, like weirdo Chicago house, that kind of like constant baseline.
ChrisHOST
That's something that like, Whenever I hear that in an early 80s production, my ears just perk right up.
David EastaughHOST
And as the 80s progressed, I mean, I was a bit obsessed with John Peel at that stage.
David EastaughHOST
So he was playing a lot of those early dance stuff from a guy called Gerald and 808 State and Chicago House Music.
David EastaughHOST
And, you know, it changed so much, didn't it, during that period? Were you just constantly sort of...
David EastaughHOST
buying new technology and sort of learning new programming at this point
speaker_1HOST
Invention in dance music is fundamentally an act of re-editing.
speaker_1HOST
Take Chicago House, for example.
speaker_0HOST
OK.
speaker_1HOST
Yes, the genre as we recognize it coalesced in Chicago.
12 MINS LATER
speaker_0HOST
Just a few hours east, another city was constructing a completely different sonic architecture.
speaker_1HOST
Oh, yes.
speaker_0HOST
If Chicago House was deeply rooted in the organic, sweat drenched roots of disco, gospel and the physical reality of the human body, this other city was obsessed with machinery, industrialization and a cold sci fi futurism.
speaker_0HOST
We have to talk about Detroit.
WhosChrisHOST
You know, house music is a universal language spoken and understood by all.
WhosChrisHOST
You see, house is a feeling that no one can understand really unless you're deep into the vibe of house.
WhosChrisHOST
House is an uncontrollable desire to jack your body.
WhosChrisHOST
The house is an uncontrollable desire, the jacket bloody hot.
WhosChrisHOST
And as I told you,