Chicago house - Wikipedia

The early house music sound was a "dialogue" between Hispanic,[2] and Black American post-disco[3][4][5] and European post-punk[6][7] electronic music and their traditions with Italo-disco picked or, emulated the most,[8] as the template for house music.[9] Precursors include electro songs "Planet Rock," "Let the Music Play,"[8] Italo-disco (e.g. Klein + M.B.O.), on one hand; EBM[9] (Liaisons Dang

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