Pump Up The Volume - Part 2 - The History Of House Music

Part 2 of a fascinating three part documentary from 2001 on the history of house music, from its early days as NY disco to the massive European and International scene it has become, via the major people and clubs who pushed it forward. Full length upload.

[@12w0]

Hate when people just call it EDM now.

[@hurricanecamille8089]

Thank you. It's HOUSE!!!!!!!!!

[@robdeam7893]

It's awful isn't it. I don't even consider it the same music, how can you compare disclosure to Larry Heard?

[@huntrrams]

Because edm is the umbrella term for all the genres like house and techno.

[@antispaz7]

It’s like saying Elvis and Ozzy are both rock n roll artists

[@followtheciaence]

if you want to see how bad its gotten, look up Tipper at Snowta. Its not even dance music anymore, just people standing around on drugs watching screen savers.

[@CentaurusRelax314]

There isn't a good way to explain this to younger people-when you lived in- and through musical *_movements_* like this. I can't think of anything that exists post-1990s like we had in the 80s with new wave, punk, (hair)metal, techno, hiphop, and house. The 60s and 70s had their movements with rock and psychedelia. House was amazing. We went to work all week just to get to a Thursday or Friday or Saturday (all three) night to go to New York City clubs. To be in that scene, be amongst those people, to hear that music, and to dance. No drugs. Barely any alchol. Just people, fashion, music, and dancing. Beautiful energy.

[@rhythmdroid]

House music is and will always be about bringing all types of people together to freely dance, celebrate, laugh, cry, vent, express, BE.

[@rainerader1182]

Yes. And lifelong friends you danced with on the floor. This was an amazing time to be a musician and a singer

[@LokiDWolf]

PERIOD!

[@tvbabay]

I was a sophomore in high school in Detroit suburbs in 88. I would escape them and find myself in the most gritty, bizarre, scary parts of Detroit. The after hours club bouncer would frisk you on the way in after paying a $10 cover. The club was called Heaven at 7 mile and woodward. The dj, Kevin Sanderson. The music, incredible. The drugs, plentiful. Pitch dark dance floor. Ridiculously loud speakers. Good times!

[@Interval144]

I miss those dark clubs. Something about that gave them so much atmosphere.

[@parabellum5503]

In Baltimore it was a spot called Last Stop. Floor uneven,walls with holes,insulation hanging down from the ceiling. The music was banging and the people were cool and strange.

[@bklynk]

I remember that spot.

[@RichRotorhead]

I still have most of these in vinyl... There will never be another music period like the 80's & 90's

[@robertlund5694]

You can say the same of every decade in the 1900s!

[@SHAKA-NEU-LU]

Rich Cast yep. I’m from Cali and I remember listening to house before I was even listening/dancing to hip hop 1st. I was a “houser” way back when. 44 yrs old and still dancing to house. Sometimes in Vegas it’s all the commercial house bullshit tho

[@RichRotorhead]

@@SHAKA-NEU-LU what they call house now, is techno... Not the same thing 😢

[@minimalmusic6585]

There will be all over again long after we have gone.

[@atillasevis9126]

Only those who lived in that era would understand & appreciate. #and I do.👏🥇

[@jimbrindley999]

house is a feeling.

[@minimalmusic6585]

House is love

[@Mihobitto]

Right, feel it on my playlist too😉

[@nabi_tilldawn]

Couldnt agree more

[@musiclover3928]

"Everybody coming with this damn smiley t-shirts" HAHAHA, Marshall Jefferson is hilarious

[@ajamieson3]

I started crying half way through this. I love house music :')

[@RichRotorhead]

I'm right there with you brother 😢

[@Glimmertwin32]

Yep….I started welling up a few times…..best days of my life

[@Q2131]

Same❤ This was and still is my religion 🎧

[@stoicfabianwtfradio1398]

I was there then. Awesome times, can’t say differently. Everything was new, exciting. And I watch this excellent docu with a grin on my face all the time. We’re lucky.

[@keekee4522]

Growing up in the 90s house music was for everything birthdays graduations weddings I loved Newark house music but Chicago and New York had me moving

[@thaiselizabethh]

I know how u feel ive been addicted 2house music since 1988..parents wouldn't let me go 2a club...so i taped dj disciple and naeem johnson off the radio lol

[@stevehaddon151]

As a Londoner it boils my piss when they say the UK house scene started in London. Everyone knows it was an organic thing. Manchester, Sheffield,Wigan,Glasgow and the list goes on...

[@djkortezis]

Experiencing and watching the gentrification of House Music is sickening.

[@OccidentalExpression]

racist

[@nigelgatwood9986]

@@OccidentalExpression how is that racist??

[@OccidentalExpression]

because you're saying once white people got a hold of it, it's not house anymore right?

[@skyjuiceification]

@@OccidentalExpression No that is not what he was saying...and no, it isn't racist, it's just not flattering to ur click. but that is what happened is it not? yeah, the so-called mainstreamers came in and ruined the raw art as is the case with so many others. ur feelings don't change the facts kid, it is what it is.. have a seat.

[@zebo3531]

Yes it is you know we never can have anything to ourselves

[@acejackhammer]

It all started in the best city in the world, Chicago! From house to hip house!

[@JoFreshFrancis]

Tyree cooper turn up the bass

[@SemperAugustusBubble]

Could you imagine being on a couple rolls hearing this track dropped for the first time, amazing.

[@billygibson8488]

Love cant turn around massive tune heard it in Amnesia 86. .. My world was getting changed . Wow.

[@WRodders]

strings of life is one of my favorite songs

[@taneragreen2782]

mine too. Still love it.

[@khingofswordz43]

A typical House Club experience was so electrifying it made the hardest knuckle head get.off the wall & move your body. I remember, if you was chosen to enter the club....it was like walking into another dimension. You seen smoke machines blow out smoke effects. You seen the party people dancing....moving all around...shoulder to shoulder....Azz to Azz. The bar was packed with thirsty dancers that needs a break off the floor, or a spot to get with that fly girl or guy of your choose. The real kick in the nuts was watching the DJ beat conduct the music with 2 record players, a mixer, & a determination to remix live with only his 2 hands. You would hear heart pounding bass lines, thumping drums over vocal adlibs, & he would extend the best part of the songs & loop it to create a whole new groove. Didn't matter straight, gay, short, tall, black, spanish, or white....everybody could get down to house music. It was a fun atmosphere. At the break of dawn when the party is about over ...your feet became sore for dancing all night. After the call of last round at the bar, all the coke was snorted in the rest rooms, & the music stops....you left out the club feeling exhausted but you can't wait to return the following weekend. Just to do it all over again.....! But only this time you brought friends to the experience. 🤔🎵🤔🎶🤔🎵🤔🎶

[@noname52768]

“Hotline - Rock This House” first uk track. 1986. 1 year before T-Coy

[@bambam6231973]

Chicago had all night parties like that I remeber being so young on a hot summer night at a party with Ron Hardy the club doors were open the music was pouring out...no one complained we danced all night til the sun was up and we went to eat...that was living!

[@28marinabb]

From Chicago too London from London to IBIZA and the all over the World !!!

[@ecologic786]

Morgan Khan (streetsounds) mentions Huddersfield here i would like to address a unkown fact, everybody assigns the beginnings of the house scene in the Uk to shoom London and hacienda Manchester.. However., in 1985/86 the Uk soul all dayer scene is what introduced house music to the Uk and in Huddersfield we had a banging house night at videotech nightclub with the complete list of chicago and Nyc house tracks playing week in week out!!!

[@godsson7787]

Born in 88 so never knew the real history. But I know the house sound has never left west yorkshire, it's always the been apart of the soundtrack black and white even asain in the later stages. I've got to say niche nightclub did wonders for keeping house alive to this day in the uk.

[@ecologic786]

@@godsson7787 I am asian, :-) and can say house started for me in 1985 -:-)

[@godsson7787]

@@ecologic786 im from ravensthorpe mixed black white, grown up around asains and the majority were heavy into dancehall when I was younger imo and wasn't until niche started the trend for most my asain bros. But I'm not old enough to really remember the generation before me.

[@danielhiggins3176]

Really good to experience the beginning as that’s how it felt for me in the 90’s🇿🇦🌿🤙👌For is us it was 330 Point road Durban......

[@CoffeeAndPaul]

Orbital changed my life, immensely for the better :)

[@HipHop4lyfeallday]

voodoo ray is a classic it sounds so euphoric

[@nattyphysicist]

wowsers. So from clubs TO raves then to clubs again. This puts a alot of things into perspective.

[@stephnicholas4579]

Probably my favourite episode of this documentary being a teenager in Manchester (or Madchester) when house was unleashed. Together with the indie scene, Manchester was at the epicenter of it all. Spin Inn, Manchester Underground, Eastern Bloc trying to track down what you had heard in the club, Affleck's Palace to get your clothes and Identity to get your Manchester inspired t-shirts ❤

[@PesterNester]

"Part 2 of a fascinating three part documentary..." Where is part 3? The other uploads of this movie are longer but this is the best quality I've found.

[@deepandsoulfulgrooves]

Oh How Wonderful!! Oh how I sometimes wish I was alive in Chicago at this time GOSH THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!! Aaaaaa

[@sheldonhchambliss1385]

House is a feeling

[@emulus4000]

I"m proud to be a Manc, even though I don't live there anymore. I left for Uni, and then love

[@mr.masses3202]

Wow,in England they were actually doing club music dance moves to Elevator Music,Thank goD they Found House Music,Wow...!

[@musiclover3928]

Awesome documentary!! thank you very much for uploading this masterpiece.

[@TheEightyEightPodcast]

Our boss Wayne Anthony appears around 42:47 ... Aciiid

[@itsriverskye]

Watched the whole thing. SIMPLY AMAZING!

[@edaniels240]

What also made Strings Of Life even bigger was the fact it was intro theme of the 1st Midnight Club racing game

[@lordbountifulitsme9540]

Absolutely Fantabulous

[@357Gent]

Pete Sanders, Sound Engineer - Music Box - Marz Bar

[@minimalist34]

this is such a good little series

[@Mindub]

@96edwysMobile "Can You Feel It" by Royal House aka Todd Terry... later stolen by The Jungle Brothers for their "I'll House You"

[@edaniels240]

They collaborated with him on the track where he's the sole main producer of it as well as the track itself & Can You Party? were follow ups to Party People where all 3 were released on Warlock/Idlers Records in 1988 and yes I still have all 3 vinyls

[@enriqueescobedo15]

WBMX All Day!

[@DeGekroonde]

brilliant documentary :D

[@NewMillionaire]

DARRYL PANDY!!! R.I.P...the VOICE

[@mikadpn]

This documentary is just great

[@paytonmoran5533]

house is chicago

[@zulubeatz1]

Wahey pt 2 tingles and rushes again!

[@musiclover3928]

@trosado1 yes, they also did a special video version, which was great.

[@omnivorace]

Great docu. One Nation, HOUSe NATION ! :)

[@ev3nflow]

Those wednesdays got me constantly sacked, stupid hacienda.. good job i worked for my dad at the time.. great clip that with royal house's can you party playing... im still alive..result.

[@robertlund5694]

You constantly got sacked by your dad ? 😂

[@JoFreshFrancis]

That song introduced me to house.so much energy

[@sheldonhchambliss1385]

Iam learning music history

[@Tonydjjokerit]

a fascinating documentry

[@MAMP]

Thanks friend. Heard is the werd.

[@macmedia1000]

good doc

[@nui8984]

Absolute best 💯

[@edaniels240]

The part where Darryl Pandy start yelling on the record when I first heard it had me rolling laughing hard plus it was the best slamming part of the record

[@marcusp905]

This is my house !!!

[@mattychristian]

43:24 is an impressive statement

[@charlessampson5319]

How can you have a history of dance music and not mention Weatherall and Primal Scream? Maybe Episode 3?

[@YourFunkLord]

VOODOO RAY! HELL YEAH!

[@skyjuiceification]

That was the only house record of solid quality to come out of England in my opinion.

[@JoFreshFrancis]

Voodoo ray is the jam.oh lord

[@qossii]

“House Music Forever “……….

[@cibernautacalavera1]

I love this shit!

[@edaniels240]

I wonder did they forget to mention that there's actually a connection with Chime to both of Joey Beltram's tracks Energy Flash & Jazz 303

[@emulus4000]

I'm too young to experience the beginning but I did have the pleasure of going to the Hacienda when I turned 17. Sorry, I mean 18 😉

[@Mindub]

@AceDubsteP It is called "Acid Trax" by Phuture

[@Greatest1979]

Everything Starts with an E.......hehehe Brilliant!

[@nuttinbuttdafonk]

"Phase 1: The seed is planted when opposites attract. Can you dig it? It takes the physical to create the physical. Phase 2: The flower blossoms through what seems to be a concrete surface, ie. greed, racism, insanity, physical and social handicaps. These are the things that mob the flower. Red rose or black rose; no in-between. Phase 3: The Judgement. If it were to fall upon you today, which flower would you be? The red rose or the black? This is..."

[@funkmasters]

@10.45 he says Carino T-coy was the first British house tune released in 1987 . I always thought Midnight sunrise/featuring Jackie Rawe On the House was the first British house tune 1986? Anyone thoughts?

[@mixinstyle]

Hotline - Rock This House was also before Carino I think.

[@tnt90s]

@@mixinstyle Yup, correct.

[@only1moore]

EZ Posse was a great act. Too bad BBC Radio One didn’t see it that way when “Everything Starts With a E” came out.

[@lorenzodeblock]

Shame Belgian new beat isn't mentionned.

[@jasonspurs]

mike pickering saw him at the doves gig what a legend

[@AFExploration]

one love, music

[@FashionDeejay]

18:32 Track ID: Sterling Void - It's Alright (feat. Paris Brightledge) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX2adnVmrLCga6s

[@TheSoundCenter]

That song if fucking perfect.

[@MrCalverino]

EPIC 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

[@UnkleJohn84]

why has part 3 been taken off?

[@MrCalverino]

MAKES ME WANNA PLAY SAN ANDREAS- SFUR

[@ejones9924]

FRANKIE KNUCKLES

[@maxwheeler3241]

Friends, what is that first Acid track within the first three seconds

[@Itsubichubansai9537]

What is the track at the 09:40, is totally brilliant!

[@RichRotorhead]

"In the beginning" (there was jack) Classic jam with the best opening Acapella ever

[@MiguelCastroInternational]

The song is called "Can You Feel It" written by Larry Herd in 1986 (musician/d.j./producer) *West Side of Chicago, Illinois

[@eddiecogan4570]

Mr Fingers "Can You Feel It"

[@ArtimusDragon]

39:30 music heard 4 miles away :-o

[@bumpyjason]

"when you first heard this stuff, it was just blew yer bollacks off"

[@MAMP]

39:50.... I wish something like that would happen in my boring-ass town. Fuck it i'll call off work the entire next week.

[@martinagable1430]

Come to our House..!

[@mukaser]

When you realize that the soundtracks for most 80s movies was all House music! 😮

[@robertodonnell1146]

Awesome documentary!

[@CaLMCee]

Shaun Ryder is fucking jokes in this. Great documentary

[@chicagostyleasshole]

im lucky i got to grow up when house was flourishing in the middle of chicago. sneaking out to go clubbing at 13 with a fake ID. graffiti and house.

[@emulus4000]

The version of 'Everything Begins With an 'E' used on this program was, I think, the Sir Frederick Leighton Mix, which I think is better than the original

[@AritmeaG]

whats the title of the song that starts at 9.40 min...

[@eddiecogan4570]

Mr. Fingers "Can You Feel It"

[@ArtimusDragon]

@sublogicrecordings man please don't tell me youtube had you take down the 3rd part of this documentary.

[@manuelguillermohernandezji6539]

What's the name song at 18:35? I love that rhytm Music is our last foundation!

[@junglemayne4057]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6O7pY1qbJ2hh6s

[@grokstar]

Sterling Void & Paris Brightledge - It's Alright

[@supremefishscale]

whats the song that starts around 18:25??????

[@grokstar]

Sterling Void & Paris Brightledge - It's Alright

[@SubCityUK]

What's the Techno track around 20:00?

[@primitivo4604]

Lol it's Phuture - Acid Tracks

[@bumpyjason]

@Mindub it was "can you party"by royal house. nearly everything todd did back then was a bootleg of something, ie francois k- go bang,,, and reese and santonio - the sound. i love todd terry but he probably stole more samples the the JBs.

[@radioweebdx7680]

Correction don't bother with Ibiza these days, everything is too expensive. They tax you 30 euros just to get there, and there is basically nothing to do when you are there. They are basically taxing you for a bit of sunshine. Best avoid the place altogether.

[@freyrobin2326]

Anybody has a tracklist?

[@MAMP]

33:29 is a hilarious clip, you can see his brain short circuiting LOLOLL

[@bambam6231973]

What is the song playing at 9:37

[@grokstar]

Mr Fingers - Can you feel it

[@n.b.1483]

Some revisionism on the part of the geezer talking about Joe Smooth’s brilliant ‘Promised Land’. It was released in 1987 and failed to become a hit. The Style Council’s very different cover version was released in early 89, some 18 months after the original. It only reached number 28 in the UK charts, the Smooth original then charted in the uk (#56). Most likely on the strength of SC’s cover. Additionally SC was co-fronted by DC Lee a black woman. I’m not denying how epic the original was but his info is just wrong. Btw I think the cover is great as well, but not the equal of the original.

[@emulus4000]

I've got the book that accompanies this series

[@notdrivingaminimetro]

"fuck me man, check out yer Wednesday nights, stunnin!!"