RIP Frankie Knuckles

[billfromthehill]

A very Sad day indeed. This guy was a legend of the House Music scene, a wonderful human being and somebody who had inspired me and many across the world. Such a sad loss, I know people who went to see him play in London on Saturday night and what a privilege they said it was. He smashed the place. I was actually listening to his Def Mix party set last week.

Will be missed. R.I.P Frankie Knuckles - The god father of house music

Fucking legend and the soundtrack to the wildest and at times happiest days of my life, 25 years since 1989....fuck me where did it all go

Ah spot on there fella is it really that long fekin jaysus where's the years gone
R,I,p, Frankie

 

[Deepest Blue]

Not really my type of music but even an old square like me could tell he was a class act.

RIP.

 

[bazbarrybazzer]

House music legend.

RIP

 

[whipper]

Been listening to sets by him for the last 25 years,the guy was top draw when it came to House music.

He was one of the DJs that still has me living in the past,I have 100s of sets now from bitd.

RIP Frankie

 

[mancitymick]

Never ducking heard of him?

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Never ducking heard of him?

As a DJ who was getting fed up of the disco scene in his nightclub, The warehouse,. Frankie Knuckles was one of, if not the, very first people in the world to start messing with old Roland drum machines, samplers and bass sequencers to produce a hypnotic, repetitive dance sound for the club. These experimental tracks spawned a who new genre which eventually, via a UK cultural revolution, exploded all over the world and had profound effects on music and behaviour everywhere.

 

[Zubrman]

Never ducking heard of him?

As a DJ who was getting fed up of the disco scene in his nightclub, The warehouse,. Frankie Knuckles was one of, if not the, very first people in the world to start messing with old Roland drum machines, samplers and bass sequencers to produce a hypnotic, repetitive dance sound for the club. These experimental tracks spawned a who new genre which eventually, via a UK cultural revolution, exploded all over the world and had profound effects on music and behaviour everywhere.

A bit like Alan 'Fluff' Freeman.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Never ducking heard of him?

As a DJ who was getting fed up of the disco scene in his nightclub, The warehouse,. Frankie Knuckles was one of, if not the, very first people in the world to start messing with old Roland drum machines, samplers and bass sequencers to produce a hypnotic, repetitive dance sound for the club. These experimental tracks spawned a who new genre which eventually, via a UK cultural revolution, exploded all over the world and had profound effects on music and behaviour everywhere.

A bit like Alan 'Fluff' Freeman.

arf

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[shadygiz]

sad news...rip frankie

your love is still one of my all time fav's

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Last night I went down to the theatre where my 8 year old daughter was performing in some dance thing involving kids from the local infant and junior schools. Booming from the PA, as these kids did their routines, and hundreds of parents clapped and whooped along, was a stream of house derivative music, with 909 drum loops, off-beat 909 high hats and thumping, repetitive bass lines. I thought of Frankie Knuckles, 30 years ago, across the world, messing about in front of a club full of drugged up gays and freaks, and marvelled at his legacy.