Golden Era of House Music

Abusia Backtrack Live: Honoring the Golden Era of House Music Streaming Sunday, June 22, 2025 Live on AbusiaRadio.net and Twitch.tv/AbusiaRadio This Classic Groove Sunday, Abusia Radio invites you to a special moment in our cultural journey—Abusia Backtrack Live, a one-day audio tribute celebrating the DJs, dancers, and sanctuaries that built the foundations of house music. Throughout the day, we’ll broadcast a curated tribute on AbusiaRadio.com, blending music, memories, and messages […]

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ABUSIA BACKTRACK

Chapter 2: The Inner Circle

Abusia Backtrack Presents: Chapter Two: The Inner Circle In Chapter One: The Sound That Built Us, we opened the doors to the sanctuaries where house, disco, and underground dance music began. But behind those doors was a circle of visionaries—people who didn’t just play records. They broke rules, built communities, and designed blueprints for freedom. This is the story of the inner circle: David Mancuso, Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, and […]

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Tech News

An Introduction To Mixing with DJ Isolators

WHAT IS AN ISOLATOR? In basic terms, an isolator is a high quality, standalone DJ EQ with large knobs that’s attached to the master out. In contrast to traditional EQs, they are generally not used for the purposes of mixing, but instead to shape the sound and add color to your set. Isolators also feature wider frequency ranges, smoother pots, high quality amplification circuits, and much more gain per band […]

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House History

A Brief History of Ron Hardy’s Music Box

Any history of Chicago house music would be incomplete without a triple fold LP size chuck saved for Music Box. In 1982, after, five years as its resident, Frankie Knuckles left The Warehouse (widely credited as the inspiration behind the term “house”) to set up the Power Plant. After a couple months of closure, founder Robert Williams reopened in a new location and looked to Ron Hardy to stem the […]

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House History

Legendary NY Nightclub: Better Days

Better Days was a New York dance club which opened in the 1972 and closed in 1988. Re-opened and closed again in 1990 or 1991. It was located on West 49th Street. DJs Bert, Tee Scott, Bruce Forest, Francois Kevorkian, Kenny Carpenter, Larry Patterson, Shep Pettibone, and others played to a loyal, attitudeless black black crowd over a period of more than 15 years. Bruce Forest was the house DJ at Better Days from 1981 to 1988. Bruce Forest helped Shep, Dave […]

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House History

DJ Tee Scott: Candy Store & Better Days

Let's go back before our most memorable dee-jays, Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy. Before our most memorable clubs, the Garage (NYC), Warehouse (Orig Chicago) and Music Box (Chicago). There was another lost but not forgotten jock, a foundation upon which many others have built careers without even knowing it; DJ Tee Scott. If you are a true dee-jay and not a record spinner like so many today, if […]

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DJ Interviews

Bruce Forest brought Better Days

Bruce Forest’s long residency at midtown Black gay club Better Days is one of clubland’s more unlikely stories. Forest was the white middle class kid who won over the hearts and feet of a tough New York crowd who didn’t take kindly to an impertinent upstart replacing their beloved Tee Scott. He eventually won them over and stayed until it shut down in 1988. Thanks to his fascination for […]

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House History

The Warehouse: The Place Where House Music Got It’s Name

Frankie was originally from NY and he was friends with Larry Levan and they frequented “The Loft” parties given by David Mancuso for the NYC gay scene. Larry and Frankie attended the Loft parties regularly. It was not only a place of joy but also a place where they became acquainted for the first time with the techniques of House music. Mancuso taught them how to create “a scene”. He […]

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House History

David Mancuso Residence / The Loft

"The crowd was a rich mix of classes, colors, and sexual tastes with two key things in common: they were hard-core dancers and they were utterly devoted to the Loft. Their high spirits preserved the Loft’s house party atmosphere and helped establish its reputation." Vince Aletti, Village Voice, 1975 The Loft, the name anointed by attendees, was an invitation-only, private house party held weekly on Saturday nights from midnight […]

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