Which Era of Dance Music Are You? · Result

Chicago House, 1984 to 1987

Simple machines, no permission, records out in two weeks.

Designed rarity: about 14% of takers

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You would rather finish something than perfect it, and you trust that the tools already in front of you are enough. That is the Chicago instinct: from 1984 the city stopped importing records and started making its own, and a Roland bass machine built for guitarists got turned into acid. You are resourceful, quick and generous with ideas, the kind of person who hears a rough demo and says put it out this week.

You go out for the floor rather than the name on the flyer, and you tend to like rooms that are small, loud and unfussy. People like you are usually the ones asking what that record was, then going home and trying to make something like it before the weekend is over. A rough edge does not bother you at all, and you dance hardest when the track sounds like it was made last Tuesday.

Your strength

You start with what is in the room and finish it this week.

Your blind spot

A hard drive full of nearly finished ideas can feel productive while nothing actually lands.

Key takeaways

  • You would rather finish than perfect, and that is mostly right.
  • The tools you already own are enough. Use them.
  • Take one careful thing all the way to the end.

Rooms to try in Seoul

  • Modeci, Itaewon: The Seoul room most likely to play a Trax record without announcing it, to a floor that came for house rather than a name.
  • Cakeshop, Itaewon: Small, loud and unfussy, the right setting for records that were made in a bedroom in two weeks.

Rooms to try around the world

  • Smartbar, Chicago: The city that made the records still has a room where people who were there play them, and that matters.
  • Nowadays, New York: A room that treats a rough house record from 1986 as a working tool rather than a museum piece.
  • Sub Club, Glasgow: A low ceilinged basement that has kept a house residency going since 1994, the Chicago model transplanted.

Your nearest types

Hardcore and Jungle, 1992 to 1994Faster, heavier, and onto the next thing in six weeks. Good.UK Acid House and Rave, 1988 to 1992The best nights are the ones nobody manages to control.

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