Chicago Deep House is a name given to a sub-genre of house music coined in the mid- to late 1980s. Whereas house music in a general sense, refers to an original type of music created in Chicago in the 1980s by the likes of Marshall Jefferson, Chip E., and Lil Louis, Chicago deep house music has its roots in the disco scene of the late 1970s.
In the early 80s, DJs like Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles usually would incorporate disco cuts such as First Choice's "Let No Man Put Asunder" or "Doctor Love", or Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, "Don't Leave Me This Way" into their sets. Since at the time, these songs weren't too old, the crowd could connect with them and accept them. As time progressed, and disco music fell more and more out of the mainstream, the various house clubs of Chicago like Medusa's and the Riviera on its north side as well as the Warehouse and Music Box downtown, kept spinning those records, keeping the music in the clubgoer's consciousness.
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