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What about when the first Chicago and Detroit records came?

Oh! Strenuous on! Yeah.

Did you perceive this was something different?

Yes and no, because I felt it was an extension from what I learned from Kraftwerk, Can, Bauhaus, Patrick Cowley and Motown.

So there was continuity there?

For me it was, because I never thought, “Oh, this is Chicago house.” Yes, you understand, because of the beat you could put it there and there and there, but I really detested the little cupboards that music was placed into. I never ever planned a set. It was what you felt.

But if you loved the disco and industrial, then Chicago was combining those two elements…

Absolutely. So in the conclude it was like the industrial to start off, going more into the Chicago, and when everybody’s losing it you can play the stupidest disco. There were also all the Disconet versions, but 80% of the disco records, I played just the dub version by then because it was more into the Chicago-y housey thing.

What was the first house write down you heard?

If only I knew. For sure it was in my record store called Tractor. I didn’t trav