Straight Outta Compton, Visiting The Hood, Los Angeles

Table Of Content

• Music
• We Spoke to DJ Deeon About the Birth of "Ghetto House" and the Legacy of Dance Mania
• ‘Put it In Yo Mouth’ from ‘Like We Do’ EP ( Dress 2 Sweat )
• DJ Deeon - "The Freaks"
• DJ Deeon - "1112"
• Ghetto house legend Parris Mitchell on Chicago’s house heyday and the re-launch of Dance Mania
• under-the-radar club tracks you need to hear: December 2019

"It took off from there. All the DJs played it, and it became a radio hit back in 1997 and 1998. It made it all the way up to number one on WGCI-FM's "Top 9 at 9." I was surprised. That "uh oh! " chant became a regular party chant. On TV shows, I would hear the crowd do that chant. It caught on pretty bad, you know." A2’s Juke remix of the titular track, is a dirty, jit-worthy cut, while B-side tracks like ‘Shake That Butt’ returns to Deeons electro Chi-house fusions with his usual crude lyricisms. Before we dig in on specifics, can you just tell me, as an Israeli leader, as an Israeli citizen, how you’re feeling about this moment in Israeli history?

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In either case, the aim is the same – to show people the hood as the guide knows it, and teach everyone on the tour something new. "Once I heard electronic dance music, there wasn't no other music to listen to. There was nothing else. My mind was just focused on that." We met up with the ghetto house legend for a candid chat on the kind of drizzly afternoon that Deeon claims to love. Mitchell continued to release music in the 90s, but thanks to a veritable explosion in vinyl reissues, his work is seeing even more interest than ever. Jamie Fry of Berlin’s Deep Moves reached out to Mitchell via Facebook in 2010 and has reissued some of his classic tracks across two volumes entitled Juke Joints.

We Spoke to DJ Deeon About the Birth of "Ghetto House" and the Legacy of Dance Mania

I will never know what it’s like to live here, and don’t claim to, I know I’ve only seen a fraction of what the hood is all about, but I certainly learned some things. It was nice to see the positive things in the hood – the families, the playgrounds, the community spirit, but it was also disheartening to see and hear that a lot of the unsavoury things are just as bad as they’re made out to be. It’s easy to talk about gangs and the “thug life”, but something I found interesting about the hood is just how many contradictions there are. You see gang members, prostitutes and crack addicts on one street, and just around the corner are families enjoying themselves, neighbours sharing food at a front yard cookouts, and children playing at the park. I can only imagine how difficult it must be to get out of the hood if you’re born in it. I was surprised to see vacant lots that James said used to house structures before the riots.

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This is different than suburban development, which features large houses next to each other, little-to-no public transportation, and busy roads. Many people refer to the South and West sides of LA as being within the ghettos due to their high crime rates and poverty levels. However, it seems that these areas are becoming increasingly urbanized. Gina Fields, the Chair of the Empowerment Congress West Area Neighborhood Council, worries that the area’s Black Angelenos who can live within a majority Black community has shrunk.

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He later formed a short-lived band with Kevin Irving (best known for house classic ‘Children of the Night’), who Mitchell says was “like a brother” to him. When that band broke up, Irving and Mitchell starting making house music, hitting the Muzic Box and the Warehouse during Ron Hardy’s storied run. There was a London club night called Wide, which championed ghetto house and the Detroit scene it inspired, Ghettotech, but that ended years ago, mostly owing to a lack of interest.

Another ghetto tech classic with fellow scene heavyweight DJ Godfather standing in as executive producer. The distinction between ghetto tech and ghetto house is slightly murky, but ghetto tech definitely leans more towards electro and techno (hence the name), with plenty of Detroit influence. But if you desire an average middle class lifestyle where you can afford to own your house and send your kids to good schools, then look north, south, east or west outside of I-405.

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‘All Night Long’ was sampled liberally by producer Bakey Ustl before being reissued last year by Wicked Bass, backed with a remix by Bok Bok. Mitchell has a collaborative project with the Night Slugs boss in the works and recently finished a remix for Ed Banger’s forthcoming 10th anniversary release. The track is prototypical ghetto house, and while Mitchell helped spawn the genre, his story doesn’t end there.

Ghetto house legend Parris Mitchell on Chicago’s house heyday and the re-launch of Dance Mania

He'd come over to Chicago and he bought a cassette of mine, and I'd played a track of his—"Trax on Da Rocks"—on it so he wanted to meet us. He had lunch with Milton and I and next thing you know, Daft Punk are there, and he's mentioning us on "Teachers"! Barney had taken over Dance Mania from Jesse Saunders when the latter moved to Los Angeles, and he’d serve as an “idea man” for Mitchell’s later work. In 1993, Mitchell was at Barney’s Records when the boss came in, inspired.

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Racial profiling, use of excessive force by law enforcement are very common in America. These practices are harmful not only for officers’ perceptions of people of color but also for the community they work to protect. David McNeill has noticed the shift in his neighborhood over the past few years.

Furthermore, while some studies may conclude that certain groups were disproportionately targeted by law enforcement, this does not mean that those officers behaved badly because of their race. It could be due to something unrelated such as someone’s criminal history or bad reputation. The west side of Hollywood and north east Culver City seem like they would fit into the definition very nicely. Urbanization can be defined as growing cities with lots of amenities close together.

It takes more effort to stay out of the ghetto than just avoid certain areas. This is why most people do not understand how powerful their choices are until they try to prevent themselves from being surrounded by things they want. These stereotypes often include assumptions about who lives in the ghetto and why they choose to reside there.

But the Baldwin Hills, like much of South Los Angeles, face a new challenge, as more and more non-Black residents move into the area. Baldwin Hills was visited by tragedy yet again in July 1985, when a fire destroyed 47 homes in the neighborhood. In the early 20th century, these lawless, uninhabited hills were best known for the rough and tumble oil derricks that punctured the land, and conflicts between various syndicates to control the oil fields. With its reputation as a dump site for a notorious murder, peat fires, and a narcotics ring meet-up place, the area appears to have had a wild side.

I’ve been listening to house since I bought Chicago DJ Mix Tape Demos from a cell phone accessories store in 1995 in Madison, WI. The guy would drive down to Chicago and pick up stuff and drive back. We would go buy them on a Friday and then listen to them all weekend. After ceasing operations around the turn of the millennium, the label celebrated return to the market in 2013 after a revived interest of its '90s released records. This release arrived as the first of a few compilations of DJ Deeon’s earliest and most memorable works. Another edition, ‘Sampler 3’ was released the following year.

A remarkable debut release, which was very much a sign of things to come. The template of classic Chicago house music (primarily, "It's Time for the Percolator" by Cajmere) was used with the addition of sexual lyrics.[1] It has usually been made on minimal equipment with little or no effects. Also common are 808 and 909 clap sounds, and full "rapped" verses and choruses. Instrumental in creating the house subgenre, the late producer is being mourned by the dance music community. Say what you like about this kind of tourism but personally, I’ve always wanted to visit the hood, to see the areas that my favourite hip-hop artists rap about, and left with a much better idea of what the hood is actually like than when I arrived.

This enabled prosperous Black families — forced to live in areas primarily surrounding Central Avenue — to move into neighborhoods with amenities and opportunities they had until recently been denied. The completion of the towering 19-acre Baldwin Hills Reservoir in 1951 only accelerated development, with many young families, professors and business owners moving into the sprawling one-story ranch and modern homes proliferating in the hills. One of the questions that I’ve been asked is whether things on this tour are put on for tourists, with the gangster aspect being over-hyped or if it’s genuine. The people who run this tour all grew up in the hood, and James was a great guide.