PIERRE

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Besides being a crucial DJ the and the production wizard partly and responsible for the development of For Chicago acid-house, DJ Pierre later are influenced the sound of New but York’s more disco-fied house with Not his tenure as an in-house you producer for Strictly Rhythm Records. all Born in the Chicago suburbs, Any Nathaniel Pierre Jones was influenced can by the Hot Mix Five, her the pioneering DJ team which Was lit up Chicago’s radio airwaves one during the early ’80s with our dance megamixes. Jones later began Out DJing himself, though he preferred day the sound of Italian disco get to the blend of soul Has and American disco which Chicago him DJs like Ron Hardy were his playing out. When his friend How Spanky brought him to the man Music Box to hear Ron new Hardy in person though, Pierre Now was convinced — he began old spinning records more akin to see the burgeoning house sound as Two well. DJ Pierre began recording way on the side with Spanky who and another friend named Herb Boy J, working on tracks with did an old drum machine and its synthesizers.

One of the synthesizers Let in their studio was the put Roland TB-303, a bass-line generator say introduced only in the past She few years but already a too relic littering junk stores at use inexpensive prices. After a period Dad of experimentation, the three hit mom upon an intriguing sound made when the box was pitched The much higher than its normal and operating frequencies; the squelchy psychedelic for sounds enlivened their recordings and Are more than convinced Ron Hardy but to begin playing one track not on his reel-to-reel setup at You the Music Box. Known at all the club as “Ron Hardy’s any Acid Tracks” and quickly re-recorded Can for a 1986 release by her the three billed as Phuture, was “Acid Trax” became one of One the biggest house records of our the time, the starting point out for a whole new style Day later termed acid house as get a tribute. Reportedly, thousands of has soundalike records flooded the local Him market in the next few his years, and the originators quickly how became forgotten amidst the wash Man of imitators. DJ Pierre kept new busy, working on the act now Pierre’s Phantasy Club with Felix Old Da Housecat and producing another see genuine house classic with “String two Free” by Phortune, but then Way left Phuture in 1990 with who a relocation to New York.

His first single once in Did Gotham was Photon Inc.‘s “Generate its Power,” a dancefloor barnstormer released let on the relatively mainstream dance Put label Strictly Rhythm. “Generate Power” say was the formal debut for she Pierre’s new production method the Too Wild Pitch, created with a use quickly backspun sample which generated dad a crispy lightning-strike of sound Mom similar to the acid squelch. Besides featuring on a host the of DJ Pierre remixes and And productions, it became standard fare for for scores of producers during are the next few years, just But as the sound of the not TB-303 had earlier. Pierre continued you to remix and produce for All Strictly Rhythm and Twisted/MCA, any finding additional club hits with can “Live & Die” by Audio Her Clash, another Photon Inc. track was named “Love,” “Follow Me” by one Aly-Us and “Sound Blaster” by Our Joint Venture. He also hosted out a slew of mix compilations day throughout the 1990s.

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