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Knuckles created a number of dance classics in his own right, notably Your Love (1986), Baby Wants to Ride (1987) and the famous remixes of Chaka Khan's Ain't Nobody (1989) and Sounds of Blackness's The Pressure (1992).

Knuckles began hitting legendary New York clubs The Loft, Sanctuary and Better Days as a teenager and by the mid-Seventies was DJ'ing himself. With his friend Larry Philpot, he worked at two of the most important early discos, the Gallery and the Continental Baths - a multi-room gay bathhouse on Manhattan's West Seventy-fourth street.

By 1977, Knuckles had moved to Chicago and opened his own club, The Warehouse. A unique building on South Jefferson St, the venue would be where Knuckles began honing his own signature style and sound.

At a time when tracks from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack were saturating the clubs, Knuckles was spinning tunes from independent labels like Salsoul and using reel-to-reel tape machines to re-edit his favorite tracks to extend grooves for the dance-floor.

Frankie Knuckles - WBMX Friday Night Jams 1986 by Sarah Davies on Mixcloud

Knuckles became so hugely popular at the Warehouse that - initially a members-only club for largely black gay man - it began attracting new crowds and the membership scheme was scrapped. Knuckles left in 1982 and opened the Power Plant a few months later.

In 1985, Knuckles made his first recording with singer-songwriter Byron Walford, aka Jamie Principle. The pair's early tracks were recorded in the Power Plant's DJ booth though they soon graduated to local studios. Several of their creations wound up at local label Trax Records, one of the most influential labels on the house music scene.

In the summer of 1987, British DJ's - including Paul Oakenfold - travelled to the open-air clubs of Ibiza and were turned onto a new style of DJ performance. It birthed the idea of the 'rave' in the UK, with the likes of Oakenfold and Danny Rampling typically playing in huge warehouses or open fields. Knuckles wasn't interested and instead took residency in New York clubs the World, the Roxy, the Sound Factory and Sound Factory Bar - teaming up with Judy Weinstein and fellow DJ David Morales to form Def Mix Productions.

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Frankie Knuckles, The Undisputed Pioneer of House Music, Dies Aged 59

hide captionFrankie Knuckles in 2007.

Frankie Knuckles in 2007.

Frankie Knuckles, a legend in the world of dance music and one of the inventors of house music, a steady, beat-driven style played in nightclubs all over the world, died unexpectedly at his Chicago home on Monday. He was 59.

By the mid-1990s, house music was so mainstream that a song by Frankie Knuckles was played in a commercial for Lipton Iced Tea. But it wasn't always that way. Knuckles, born Francis Nicholls in the Bronx, started in the dance music underground. When he was just 18, he got a job as a DJ at a major destination for gay men the Continental Baths in Manhattan. That's also where Bette Midler and Barry Manilow got their starts. In an interview with the BBC two years ago, Knuckles described it as a world unto itself.

"It was more than just a bath house," he said. "There was a boutique. There was an Olympic-sized swimming pool. There was a theater room. There was a salon."

And a dance floor where Knuckles worked eight-hour shifts.

"A lot of people would check in on Friday night and they wouldn't check out until Monday morning," Knuckles said. "They were on their way to work."

Knuckles' signature sets were not about explosive non-stop energy. He structured them, he once said, like stories with internal logic and a certain moody momentum.

Though he got his start in New York, Knuckles became one of the faces of dance music in another city: Chicago. He moved there in his 20s and quickly began working at a new club.

"He was the main DJ he was the only DJ at a club called The Warehouse," says Charles Matlock, another Chicago DJ, who spoke to NPR last year about the origins of Chicago house. "That club ended up lending its name to this genre of music."

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