Why Is Jersey Club Music Everywhere Right Now?

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Jersey club is a style of dance music created by Black DJs from New Jersey. Recently, this sound has gone viral online across KZbin, Instagram, and Tik Tok. The sound is in the mainstream again after Drake released his album Honestly, Nevermind. Like many other dance genres the music production used to be dominated by men, but today the women of New Jersey are helping to push this genre to new heights.
Our host, LA Buckner gets introduced to the world of club music by UNIIQU3, a producer that's taking Jersey club to the next level. Also watch the icon, DJ Tameil, talk us through the historical roots of the Jersey club rhythm. This genre isn't just music - it's life, energy, and community, creating a safe space for the young people of New Jersey.
Special thanks to Kelchurhub for the filming location.
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[@UNiiQU3]

Yasss Jersey ! Thank you for coming to New Jersey, Highlighting Jersey Club and Shedding light on the work I've done for the culture and Black Women in Music. I hope this video inspires other women to Dj, Produce and Turn Up in whatever they do ! xo UNIIQU3

[@alarcon99]

Yo! Y gotta put up a KZbin channel and ur insta so everybody can follow. Ur work is 🔥

[@UNiiQU3]

@@alarcon99 thanks ! Imma post the link !

[@leemzleemz161]

👑

[@SoundFieldPBS]

Subscribe to UNIIQU3 ON KZbin bit.ly/3s9ZBgV Or follow on insta instagram.com/uniiqu3music

[@GTheInsane60]

Ayo unique you are a fuccin legend you n ya vixens been killing shit for years

[@elv3812]

When I first heard it, I was like " wait this sounds like Baltimore Club music from the 80's and 90's"

[@BillyBatsonMarvel]

@ Ericka Vinson exactly, that's what it is.

[@sawtooth808]

You can’t leave out Detroit Jit (as in Jitterbug) or Chicago Juke, now the Jersey Club sound is more accessible than Juke or Jit (you might want to listen to Dance Mania’s catalog, but to borrow what Chris Rock Women that listen to stuff from that label, their response: “They Ain’t talking about *me* “) but this is a good thing.

[@elv3812]

@@sawtooth808 That's true. It is a good thing to see regional music blow up nationally and internationally.

[@TheTransitmtl]

Or like 2step

[@ac6002]

Exactly. It's been around for a long time

[@joejustice6985]

I love that you included B-More Club’s influence. Baltimore/Jersey/Philly Club shaped my childhood no doubt. 💯

[@ill2daMAX]

BALTIMORE IS KING!!!

[@whizkidd2227]

@@ill2daMAX right after philly

[@chieftron]

@@ill2daMAX You already know

[@oddyhead3547]

Yo those 3 cities put me on to that jack your body house music.

[@Kiatakesouls.]

@@whizkidd2227 no bmore is the home of club music

[@tameilpaynes7218]

Thank you so much PBS Sound Field for highlighting us & our culture. Fun fact for everyone, now that the year is 2021... by the end of October, Jersey Club Music will officially be 20 years old as of the pressing and release of the first 2 vinyl records that established the Brick City Club Music/Jersey Club Music genre. Thank everybody, worldwide from generation to generation who supported us as we evolved & elevated. Huge shout to Uniique, Cookiee Kawaii, Jersey Godz, DJ Bake, Dj Jayhood, Dj Smallz732, Taj, Sliink, Lilman, Ani, Tiara, R3ll, Telly Tellz, Nassie, worldwide fans of our genre & so many more who continuously put a fresh new set of wheels on this thing to keep this thing rolling! 2001 - forever*

[@SoundFieldPBS]

Everyone make sure to follow the legend DJ Tameil kzbin.info

[@itsyamandjtameil]

👑🗣

[@leemzleemz161]

👑

[@kas3583]

This is Baltimore house lol

[@Christian-ml8lg]

@@kas3583 watch a entire doc learned nothing.

[@mellodope8904]

I was kind of confused when I first heard Jersey Club. "This is that B-More sound. That Chicago/Detroit from the 90s". Love the culture. Love the spin on a theme!

[@sawtooth808]

Yessss I immediately thought Footwork/Chicago Juke & Detroit Jit (or Ghetto Tech) when I heard The Jersey Club sound, it is definitely more accessible than your standard Juke or Detroit Jit tracks (Can you imagine DJ Funk, or DJ Assault playing a set on Ellen?)

[@chumps7974]

@@sawtooth808 I was thinking it sounded familiar. The footwork definitely looks familiar. I guess they cleaned it up so they could play it on mainstream channels.

[@karma92sims14]

Jersey just does it better I guess

[@thatboysmoove4502]

As a African American we create so much music and vibes from state to state it’s crazy I remember when Baltimore and jersey was going crazy like in 2006 w the club mixes and I’m frm bk

[@soulspirationgoddess]

I agree. And it’s so amazing to learn about the history of black American music that’s shaped American music and history.

[@chenanigans]

Heck im from NC and Baltimore/Jersy club music went crazy down here too when we were in high school in the mid 2000's. Me and my crew would have literal free style dance sessions for hours wu tanging and spongebobbing and all the hype dances at the time. We were obsessed! It was nothing like it to get us hype!!! Wished we could have experienced a real jersey club party cuz they still weren't playing it much down here at that time. But I would see the videos on KZbin of how hard it went up there and be in awe, we were dancing fools me and my crew so this sound and culture gave us life man. Even from outside the club lol.

[@cliffwass7281]

you are NOT AFRICAN just american

[@averyscott2984]

💯💯💯💯

[@Regalman]

Foundational Black American

[@kurtkennedy333]

Thank you for noting how Baltimore Club influenced Jersey Club. I love how Tamiel gives respect to Baltimore artists!

[@corsinivideos]

Sound the same. Literally doing exactly what bmore did, chopping up well known samples and sticking the same breaks over them and speeding up.

[@StarvingMyselfToLIFE]

Confused me a bit. How is this the Jersey sound if they picked it from Baltimore?

[@ravelongproductions8507]

BMore Club laid the foundation in the 90s; its a little more raw, dirty, unpolished, in part due to the technology at the time. Jersey Club is an offshoot; higher production quality, different sampling styles, sprinkles of "electronic music" "dirty south"... jersey took bmore Club somewhere else so it'd be unfair to say that bmore club is coming out of jersey. I'm not sure, but I think DC GoGo had something to do with all this too.

[@CookieeKawaii]

Jerseyyyyy ❤️

[@McLewisvNinja]

Off topic but I appreciate the homie has a fresh new outfit every time the camera cuts back to him. 👌🏾🔥

[@UNiiQU3]

DRIP FOR SALE

[@ArthurLABuckner]

I do it for viewers like you! Thanks fam!

[@DJDDT]

New Jersey, Baltimore...just know that Detroit rocked with y'all for years.

[@meeterhead462]

Fact !!!

[@briangarcia8384]

Foreal? You guys play jersey club up there?

[@DJDDT]

@@briangarcia8384 Still do! From "H**s In the House" to "Percolator" to "I Want a Big Girl" -- years, man...years. It fits right in with Detroit Ghetto Tech.

[@walterperkins8562]

LOVE TO DETROIT JERSEY LOVE YA TO 💯🤞💙💙💙

[@edwinragland2883]

Coming from a Philly dude. Chicago is the godfather of this sound.

[@GlitchSkytech]

Im from asia and every time we are in a group party i always blast Jersey Club it will never fail you and people will start asking what genre it is

[@manman478]

This video is a masterpiece. The way yall helped transmit their stores.. damn that was special.

[@SoundFieldPBS]

Thanks Zach we all worked so hard on it

[@UNiiQU3]

much loveeee

[@dondi2129]

I feel so old. I grew up in East orange during the first wave of club music... it has evolved soooooooooo much. Even though I don't live in jersey any more, Jersey club make me feel like i'm home.

[@thenomadpath8904]

I moved from Texas to Baltimore in 2006 and absolutely fell in love with club music. The radio station used to play KSwift (RIP), Blackstarr, Rod Lee all day, everyday.

[@crbailey9191]

Salute to Jerzee....Been part of the Jersey House Music scene since the late 80's. Zans, Club88, Sensations, Sir Richards, Club America, etc Rutgers Parties in P-WAY!!..... Nice to see the transition into todays sound. Keep it ALIVE!!!!!

[@tyjekelton4893]

Pway parties be lit asl 💯

[@BTman58]

Correction.. since the early 80's

[@djdifficult]

Jersey club producer here!! Glad to see where my state and the genre im producing is going 💜🌍❤

[@UNiiQU3]

LETS GOOO

[@darealness818]

what clubs in jersey play this music?

[@gabpintov]

I just want to say: IF I BACK IT UP IS IT FAT ENOUGH???

[@osamabindiesel3389]

*Duck tail wagging intensifies*

[@jose9061]

@@osamabindiesel3389 Underrated comment!!!

[@LeandroFTW]

You ain't ready for this work.

[@lvx3000]

Cookiee Kawaii my 💜

[@toyaJM]

@@lvx3000 Dear Silas has a song/video on his Instagram response it’s dope especially if you’re into anime.

[@MsJoanSpeaks]

Talk about NOSTALGIA! I remember my days in the club going wild to Jersey Club Music! 973 Stand Up! 💃🏾 "Oh Yeah wait a minute Mr. Postman", "You can't Wu Tang Better than me!"

[@Beryllahawk]

So much in this sound is things I've heard and didn't know what I was hearing. There's so much history here - for some reason I still tend to think of dance music as "new" and understanding that this culture, this sound, has been around just about as long as ME is eye opening. Once again you have opened a new door I didn't even see was there, and given me new ways to think about the music I was already hearing as well as even more wonderful music to explore. May the new year bring us all a little closer in our hearts and I hope I have dozens more searches to put into my Spotify because of Sound Field!

[@milhouse777]

Before the virals of tik tok, Jersey Club had some spotlight back in the early 10's when EDM DJs started to introduce the sound in their sets, even some artists like Trip Turtle, Cashmere Cat emerged in this period.

[@AlexOtto]

Also Steve Angello from Swedish House Mafia and Laidback Luke for a little bit

[@soyashio]

When I first heard the Jersey Club sound years ago I was in love with how it just makes you dance and MOVE. Thank you for this video, I learned about the history and community of where it came from and can appreciate this music even more!

[@ModernXMade83]

I’m from Philly we grew up on Jersey Club music. Jersey and Baltimore club music

[@SoundFieldPBS]

philly represent!

[@TaliaOutwrong]

What a great episode, connecting so many people and resources and giving honest anf fair dues to dancers!

[@CLUBJERSEY]

AYYY IT'S LIT 🔥

[@youknowimalex]

Yooooo

[@youknowimalex]

ITS LITT🔥

[@aaleaholiverable]

Thank you for this journalism fr, I never see anything as genuine as the content on this channel anywhere else. also love that you highlighted jersey club ❤❤❤ much love from jersey

[@SoundFieldPBS]

Hey that means a lot to us. There’s a lot of music content out there. I’m glad we found our unique place.

[@whoaX_]

The kick pattern reminds me of South African Gqom music

[@feemondorley1806]

The dancing too seems very Africanize if that makes sense

[@Phronesis7]

I was just thinking this in my comment a second ago. Even the way Jersey dancing looks like it was influenced a little by SA dancing over the years

[@raquelrodriguez865]

First thing I thought too!

[@AP-fn3ib]

you put a really beautiful story together here. i appreciate all the added context. you expanded on where some of the hottest tracks nationally are drawing their influence right now in a very delicately narrativized way. excellent piece

[@aprilrhoden116]

I love you Sound Field team! I Spent some time this afternoon catching up on your videos from 2020. I've learned so much just today, Charlie Parker, Dreamcrusher, Boomba music and Jersey Club music. I can't wait to see what you cover next.

[@mathathawahyasharalah]

Its crazy how all dancing trends in the black community trend again after decades. . Baltimore/Philly/Jersey Club music making a come back. . Next thing you know everybody in New York gonna be getting Lite again 😂

[@krayzekevin]

I'm glad that they said he got his style from my city Bmore. I've been DJ'ing this type of music since the 90's

[@baltimorebikelife7134]

Exactly. We birth a whole new genre, because that is exactly what edd Music is Baltimore club music remix

[@schlockb9917]

Thank you so much for videos like these. It's really refreshing to hear about and open up to music I would otherwise surely miss in german clubs. Can't stress enough how much I appreciate your content!

[@balynsus]

Jersey club music is best twerk music. That's why more ladies be listening to it.

[@UNiiQU3]

Your right about that

[@MrRudePolite]

This explains so much lmao

[@jamesjr2550]

Just like bounce music out here

[@JahmBProducts]

Girls like dancing, guys like lyrics.

[@arriibacon531]

True

[@kenwilliamsvoice]

Good to see young people banging the beat and still moving energetically. I danced to original 80s House. Carry it forward youngins!!

[@cjthibeau4843]

This video exemplifies another reason why I love this channel so much. Not only do we talk about the history, the origins, the social impact, but the continuing revolution and other art that surrounds and connects to music. Music is everything and everywhere. I’d love for this channel to make some sort of deep dive chart/map into the various multiple music genres across even just the US, let alone the world. You show how music is so interconnected to everything and I love it!

[@GINGERJOI]

YAyyyyy!! Thank you so much for this it was Awesome...Jersey, Bmore, Chicago club I lovvvve. Jersey has definitely become probably my top faves in the last few years since watching the dancers on KZbin. The dancers are what got me into it and I'm so proud of all of them who play their role. I'm so glad we are getting new producers and female producers and I learned about people I didn't know in this video, who first contributed. I hope for sure it gains more Respect and popularity I had wished that and it looks to be heading that way!! Good job on this 😄

[@eugeneduprey72]

Hands up my people from Jersey !!! From Newark myself but in Florida. Love seeing this from my state. Much love to all !! Keep mixin it up !!!!!!!!

[@kazuhasgloves]

I love it when y'all upload.

[@SoundFieldPBS]

we put so much work into each of these videos that it feels really good to be able to upload and share them with y'all

[@circlenostar]

This channel is producing such phenomenal and unique work. What a compelling video to start off the new year. Kudos to all involved.

[@SoundFieldPBS]

Dang David that's so nice. Thanks for watching and tell your friends!

[@MegTheeStallyFan]

Totally agree!

[@20firebird]

i'm so glad i discovered this channel! this was the first sound field video i watched and i already have very positive feelings about the show.

[@Mr.universe.]

Yoo somebody needed to shed light on Jersey! Great video!

[@trapforms]

Love this! Thanks for making it, much love to Jersey!

[@UNiiQU3]

^_^

[@trapforms]

@@UNiiQU3 (:

[@Jerazyck]

I guess y'all never heard of Chicago House, or Ghetto Tracks? I was dancing to this music in the 90's

[@soulofthunder9635]

Detroit Techno and Chi-town been had those patterns in the 80s, but we'll let these kids live.

[@gamingmom6164]

Right juking, footwork

[@Jerazyck]

@@gamingmom6164 all night long!

[@mariosmith8475]

Real talk 💯 Chicago Westside...

[@cashcrew]

Chicago did it first

[@jecoeur]

Incredible video as always. The light you shine on stuff like this really helps broaden my understanding and love for music. Big ups

[@vancenichols9490]

I like this a bunch because I can relate to the production methodology that's very similar to 80s/90s house music! Awesome! Thanks!!!

[@teesimone2018]

Thank you for making this. Im born ans raised From BRICK CITYYY!!! aka Newark DJ. I grew up listening to jersey club. It was played at every party and everyone would get down. Even the guys!!! I loved DJ TAMIEL!! 😍 I was apart of LilMan's family team. THATS CRAZY this music is just now getting spread world wide.

[@RijoBeats]

Shoutout Jersey. Ya'll did right by these beautiful people and that wonderful community.

[@empress3984]

this is so dope. So glad yall shared this. I;ve wanted to know about this style for a minute

[@AlohaBiatch]

Thank you for this series. I've never had much interest in music to be perfectly honest, but looking at music through the lens of history and the communities that created certain subgenres like this show does made me realize that there are always interested things to learn (and hear) ! 😊

[@ChristianBondeHansen]

You should check out other great music youtube channels like Volksgeist and polyphonic. Maybe Earworm by Vox.

[@SoundFieldPBS]

Volksgeist is the homie. Also just wanted to say thank you tp. You've nailed exactly what we are trying to do with this show

[@joe-e-geo]

There's an old saying: All politics is local. . Here's a new saying: All music is local.

[@briangarcia8384]

Music is almost always more than just music.

[@Xolanidj]

I’ve been bumpin’ it for about 15 years now. When I lived in Virgina from 2006-2010, there was certain stuff that us djs HAD to play for the region. Go Go, Dancehall, B-More and Jersey Club had to be played at every party, and I loved it. Coming from St. Louis, I was just used to playing crunk music, and whatever else came from the South. It has definitely been cool to see how Jersey Club has evolved over the years.

[@yarropeace]

Wow, great documentary, I love the music and Jersey pride!!😍

[@jabrules1]

Big part of my Philly childhood & club experiences, this was dope to watch, definitely sharing!

[@blm2295]

I been on a major jersey club kick lately and I'm from Baltimore and already knew of baltimore club but now I realize I probably heard this beat in the womb cuz I never get tired of it. I love to work while listening it gives me great work flow.

[@LiTTLeDizZyUriNe]

I’m here for it. I’m from nyc and got into jersey club in 2006 and it’s such a hype genre. I’m glad it’s getting the shine it deserves

[@baltimorebikelife7134]

It’s really Baltimore club music but ok

[@dirtyweapons3459]

@@baltimorebikelife7134Nah there’s a distinction.

[@Ralkila]

Reminds me of the music in Jet Set Radio from Hideki Naganuma, you should do a video on the Musician from that game he was mad innovative in his time and still fresh. I guess you will need to dive in the japan underground to pin point his inspirations.

[@SoundFieldPBS]

This is really interesting thank you for the rec

[@Artersa]

Yeah, it sounds really similar! Dude was definitely ahead of the curve yet right there in the times.

[@Pericles777]

OMG yes he's got a really unique style, instantly recognizable. The JSRF Soundtrack is incredible shit

[@BlaqMarketProduction]

I remember a lot of Drum and Bass sound from that game. Like the sound of DJ Zinc from the 90s

[@MonstarScaly]

Oh my goodness! I'll subscribe right now just to wait for a origin break down video of Hideki Naganuma alone. His production is my childhood.

[@ar.ninetysix]

Ay, everybody making Sound Field happen, Happy New Year!

[@SoundFieldPBS]

heyyyy happy new year!

[@QueenMspeaks]

I’m from Florida and Jersey Club music is so popular over here! I love the beats and dances!

[@mariecait]

I’m from outside Philly in jersey and love this for young people here. Music in our state is so diverse ! Love my jersey ppl❤

[@baltimorebikelife7134]

Baltimore should get love to you for starting the Movement😂

[@Mrmo12]

Love the topics you guys cover

[@SoundFieldPBS]

thanks sasso

[@felazany]

You guys rock! Receive love from Kenya 🇰🇪. Can't wait to host you guys when you decide to visit Nairobi.

[@Lala216]

I like how it feels like there's more of a cultural association between dance and music as well as an in depth musical study. I enjoy this. I enjoy this a lot. !

[@DS-nq1dg]

This is straight up Bmore Club for the new millennium.

[@earthangel_911]

Exactly...good times!!!

[@markeith8564]

Jersey Club been out since early 90’s sorry only the strong gonna last

[@highwayTY]

Chicago House, to Chicago Juke (footwork music) to Baltimore Club, to Jersey Club

[@williammckinney567]

Chicago juke beat is way faster then Baltimore club music.

[@nowthatsnasty6693]

I'm so happy I stumbled upon this. This was A1 🙏🏿. Thank you! 😊

[@ambesa1]

Holy Moly!!! Really Blessed to come across this!!! Kepp those vybz and Love growing!!!

[@Echoxxx]

Jersey Pride!! This episode is so amazing!! ♥️♥️♥️

[@SoundFieldPBS]

JERSSEEEEYYYYY

[@Chosen1Crown]

@@SoundFieldPBS bro jersey stole there music from Chicago house google the origins history smh

[@Letsjustagreeee1]

@@Chosen1Crown so did NY steal drill from Chicago?

[@frenchtea89]

just the tiktok generation discovering it ...i discovered the bmore /chicago house/juke/ jersey club etc etc vibes for myself when I was dj'ing 15 years ago in the UK as the tracks are minimal enough to mix with a lot of breakbeat/garage/bassline but give that extra energy or vocal hook that might be missing otherwise these genres also really encourage dancing and "crowdplay" between dj and crowd HOLD UP...WAIT A MINUTE...WAIT A MINUTE... HOLD UP ;) a lot I have some very sweaty memories of those nights

[@kintsugidotempo4217]

It's great how dance and music are together

[@naoufalzouak2422]

This was the best, love y'all for this

[@djntu2964]

Yes! Dancing is calling your African ancestors!!! ✊🏾 ❤️ 🖤 💚

[@bluelagoon5235]

I first got into Jersey Club about 10 years ago when my friend showed me some tracks by Trippy Turtle. With lots of luck, I was able to see Trippy and his friends play live a few times before he retired his Trippy Turtle alias to focus on his main Lido alias. It's so cool seeing this genre of music make it even bigger than I remembered!

[@sarah2172]

this is so dope thank you for sharing

[@DADP90]

Very inspiring video. Loved it! The dance moves are on another level

[@chrisnunez4758]

These mini-documentaries are so awe-inspirational to watch and I'm glad I stumbled upon this channel a while ago. Thank you for highlighting an amazing culture of people and music with an art for storytelling. So blessed to watch these everytime they come on my sub feed :)

[@shequiracallahan2194]

Jersey STAND UP!!!! I love the Jersey Club sound. I can't wait until we can do festival season again 😩 You can clean your house to it, have fun at the BBQ, workout to it, IT'S LIFE!

[@spacethirdeyevision]

fell in love with jersey club in 2017 now people are catching on and its popping!

[@swanyay3304]

This video was fascinating..thank you for highlighting Jersey club

[@bluuyo]

This is why I fw PBS

[@MikeGrahamDSM]

Jersey club has BEEN poppin since the early 2000s. It also blew up all over DC, Baltimore etc. Apprently it is coming back in full swing, and rightfully so. I remember living in Maryland and listening to the Jersey club dj’s doing their mixes on the radio on weekend nights. Tracks like POSTMAN, SPONGEBOB, ELMOS WORLD, were my life lmao.

[@jamescsjrwork9516]

Ah.... Jersey Club is from Baltimore.

[@MrSkiloV]

You can’t wu tang better than me…..

[@BTman58]

@@jamescsjrwork9516 No, it's not.

[@jamescsjrwork9516]

@@BTman58 Y'all copied everything. I can remember when I played Bmore club back in the early 90's. Philly/Jersey never heard it. Now Jersey plays our old music. Jersey did start with House music, just like Bmore, be Bmore changed it.

[@jamescsjrwork9516]

And again. If you said "Jersey club" in DC they would look at you backwards, every though there is a rivalry with Bmore. We know one another's original sound, and Jersey "club" is a bad copy of Bmore club because yall can't reproduce it right.

[@roycrite4656]

Thanks to this I get to go down another of music's wonderful rabbit holes.

[@londalecarter3482]

Wow. Im a musicphile. Your station is cold my guy. I love in depth mini docs on music and style origins. Thanks.

[@badmilk1735]

Sounds like Brazilian funk drum pattern just changed the snare to a kick

[@Abstract.Noir414]

Maybe but its older than that, brasil funk is a new brasil genre

[@javiermejia2059]

This makes me so proud to be from Newark, NJ although I moved away from Brick City about 5 years ago it'll forever be home. I remember the high school parties and hearing the mixes from classmates (Mr. Postman, Pick it up, Sexy Walk, etc...) even went to middle school with DJ Jayhood... Crazy to see the movement grow. #BRICKCITY #NORTHSIDEBABY

[@3rday600]

Jersey is my city it's a reason you left from there

[@lemonnbae1718]

I've been looking for the name of this genre for so long. the kicks and the bed squeaks are so addictive.

[@MoroMoro1]

Great piece. I enjoyed watching this fr. 11:32 I love that he brought up our roots in Africa

[@bf0189]

Loved your deep sociological dives into the various type of sounds that make up contemporary dance music (I prefer to use dance music over EDM since it all has roots in disco and funk). I'd love to see a video on Detroit techno sometime. So much good innovative music that really holds up with cult acts such as Underground Resistance and the unique original aquatic afrofuturism of Drexciya!

[@mjg239]

The name "Jersey Club" is starting to gain traction, but the sound is old, just repackaged and rebranded in the TikTok era. You've heard of this sound before if you heard DJ Assault's classic "A*** & T**ties" or "It's Time for Da Perculator" in the mid- & late '90s in Chicago (which I'm surprised this documentary didn't touch on). Back in the early 2000s this sound was coming out of Detroit and the Great Lakes area and it was called GhettoTech back then. DJ Assault, and others, used to broadcast music like this from the St Andrews dance parties in Detroit, early 2000s. Now it's going by a different name. A lot of Detroit Ghetto Tech absorbed elements of Miami Bass and Atlanta/Florida Bass/Quad music and of course classic Detroit Techno and Chicago House, which all inspired B-More and Jersey Club Music. Jersey Club is like Detroit GHETTO TECH mixed with JIT and Chicago JUKE HOUSE.

[@junglisticlaboratoryunderc1818]

They touched on the SOURCE of the sounds not the relativity 😏

[@debrisonshore5753]

Bro they really forgot the percolator smh

[@debrisonshore5753]

And watch out for the big girl

[@damanidavis9803]

Jersey Club is nothing but Bmore Club. Baltimore Club also goes back to the early 90s. I went down to Baltimore for college in '93, and they already had their own club style with people like Frank-Ski and Ms. Tony. Bmore Club was a mixture of old school house music and hip hop.

[@NB-ir1me]

Baltimore started all this shit in the mid 80s frl I was there !

[@findingblackpatti]

Yo this is love! Thank you ! Well put the together telling the story from top to bottom, back to front.

[@GazzyD]

DJ LILMAN is what put me onto Jersey Club music back in 2015 all the way out here in Australia. I’ve been doing the “bunny hop”/“Jersey bounce” out here for years.

[@thevibes6422]

Branchbrook and Skate 22 had the club music bumping for me as a young child/teenager in the early and mid 90's! Salute for this feature reppin Jersey ALL DAY.. #EastWick

[@Artersa]

Sounds a lot like Chicago juke, very cool to learn about! Hope to see a video on jungle/drum n bass and it’s renewing growth in the US sometime ❤️

[@ill2daMAX]

JUKE FTW!!!

[@particlejim]

Yeah I found out about Jersey Club after I got turned on to Chicago Juke/Footwork a few years back, definitely a huge amount of crossover there

[@williammckinney567]

Juke beat is much faster and the foot work even faster the Baltimore club music dancing.

[@awilson-w5316]

JERSEY stand up! I love seeing this 🙌🏿🙌🏿

[@websitelaunchcourse4061]

Music Liberated was a true record store. Great childhood memory for me growing up in Baltimore

[@theedrizzler]

That's Chicago Juke House...been around for about 30 years now

[@williammckinney567]

Juke beats are way faster then any club music.

[@ezmyreldaandrade]

At the mid point of the video you pointed out that it's an evolution or iteration of the baltimore club beat. which is cool.. good job on the music research skills.

[@theafroalien3169]

Thanks for the info. As an old head from the south, I just lumped it into a Chicago house category in my mind.

[@chunksfunks960]

The dancing is so explosive and energetic i love it reminds me of my childhood too since jerset music was so popular

[@Poloword310]

My old house head ass thought it was a Chicago thing this whole time 😂 who cares where it’s coming from, just keep on dropping them beats and moving ur @ss! Great vid 👍🏼

[@gamingmom6164]

Right doing footwork

[@gamingmom6164]

Juking

[@mariosmith8475]

It is a Chicago thang..lol

[@BTman58]

@Tiffanie Gee How can it be Chicago than Baltimore? Did you forget that Frankie Knuckles from Brooklyn is the Godfather of House? Baltimore didn’t get into House music until the late 80's. NY, NJ, and Philly already was doing club music and house music in the late 70's/early 80's.

[@BTman58]

@Tiffanie Gee Let me help you out with words from some Pioneers from Baltimore. "In the late '80s, when club music was just starting to figure itself out, Baltimore house spread far beyond the city limits. The genesis of both genres, one hyper-regional, the other soon to be massively influential, began, according to Douglas, at the Baltimore dance club Odell's, during "the tail end of disco." Wayne Davis, who would later open Club Fantasy and the Paradox, was a DJ there. He played what Douglas excitedly calls, "a big soulful mesh" of disco, Philly soul, new wave, and house. Davis' sets, along with trips to clubs "all up and down the East Coast" like New York's Paradise Garage, inspired the Basement Boys' sound. Thommy Davis, Douglas, and Steinhour formed the Basement Boys in 1986, developing a decidedly modern take on house that also looked back to disco's live instrumentation. They recorded in the basement of Steinhour's Druid Hill Avenue rowhouse-hence the name. Perhaps their best known track is Crystal Waters' 1991 hit "Gypsy Woman," which at one point or another has wormed its way into your head thanks to Waters' "la da dee, la dee da" chorus, but stayed there thanks to the song's ornate, sturdy drums and fluttering keyboard line. "It's Over Now," however, is where it began. The record, tugged along by a saxophone, shuffling electronics, and Naté's confidently conversational vocals, got into the hands of Tony Humphries, who hosted a radio mix show in New York and London and DJed at the influential New Jersey nightclub Zanzibar. "The Basement Boys and I wrote a song, and they sent it to Tony Humphries, and next thing I know I'm offered a deal with Warner Brothers UK," Naté recalls, still a bit stunned 22 years later. Like that, Baltimore became a part of house's shift from the underground to pop. By the early '90s, the Basement Boys were producing for three acts on three different major labels: Naté on Warner Brothers UK, Waters on Mercury/A&M, and Mass Order on Columbia." Studio 54 was for white people. Clubs like the Garage and Zanzibar were not playing Studio 54 music. If they were.. then why would the Basement Boyz even send their record to Tony Humphries and why would he play it?

[@Ted_Swayinghill]

Thank you for involving Baltimore! Cuz I grew up listening to DJ Rod Lee and DJ K-Swift (RIP) and others.

[@juanitabing2739]

My freshman year of college, 18 years ago, at an HBCU in South Carolina, I was introduced to Jersey Club music by 5 chicks from Newark/East Orange. I've been hooked ever since ❤

[@ljubalicious]

Great piece