Throughline Dances

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Speaker 2 Hey everyone, it's Saram Teen here. So other than being a host and producer on Through Line, I'm also a musician who writes all the music for this show.

Speaker 2 And over the years, I've written a bunch of music in different genres, but the music that's close to my heart is electronic dance music.

Speaker 2 That includes everything from techno, house, drum and bass, trance, so on.

Speaker 2 A few years ago, Through Line producer Christina Kim and I made this episode about the history of house music in Chicago and how it influenced the entire genre of EDM.

Speaker 2 In the process of making that episode, I wrote a bunch of music that didn't make it in.

Speaker 2 So I went back, I listened to it, and I decided, whoa, there's a lot of great music here that no one has heard that I could put together in a mix that we could all dance to.

Speaker 2 Because honestly, we need it. It's kind of a stressful time.
So throw on your headphones or however you listen and use this music to squeeze a little bit more fun out of your day.

Speaker 2 This is Through Line Dances.

Speaker 4 There's still an inherent joy to going somewhere where the only thing people care about is the DJ.

Speaker 6 How does house music make me feel?

Speaker 4 An experience to forget about your problems.

Speaker 6 House music makes me feel euphoric.

Speaker 7 Empowered.

Speaker 6 Empowered especially being love,

Speaker 5 move around.

Speaker 7 Moving, like energized.

Speaker 5 I like that it allows you to just ride the wave and go along with it. Joyful.
You get lost in the music

Speaker 8 and it just makes you feel at one with everyone and yourself. It's church, yes.

Speaker 6 We worship on the dance floor. We worship on the dance floor.

Speaker 8 This is so true.

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Speaker 1 I said,

Speaker 1 Some of them I've been

Speaker 1 items to

Speaker 1 make an ice and fence, someone I've been penciled, some of the ice and face, since the night and I'm scared, some of the ice and fence, some of the ice and fence, some

Speaker 1 ice and fence, since the night and ice and fence, some

Speaker 1 ice and skate, some of them I've been fighting, some

Speaker 1 ice and face and

Speaker 1 I'm

Speaker 1 Mind

Speaker 1 the gap.

Speaker 1 To all of this crazy music, music, music, music

Speaker 1 Experience, serious fancy, fancy, fancy series.

Speaker 1 Whoa, why is it?

Speaker 1 These parties are said to be linked with drug taking or worse.

Speaker 9 They're in breach of local authority licensing regulations and besides they keep the home counties awake at night, awake at night, awake at night, awake at night, awake at night, awake at night, awake at night, awake at night.

Speaker 9 I have nothing against

Speaker 9 meetings that are legal and young people having fun, but this is an illegal meeting, it's against, it's a threat to public health, public order, and a real nuisance to people who have lived around it.

Speaker 9 And that must never ever happen again.

Speaker 7 It was the American import house music which started the craze. Linked with the so-called designer drug ecstasy, it became known as acid house.

Speaker 7 The trend is said to be probably the most distinctive development in popular youth culture since punk rock in the 1970s and just as controversial.

Speaker 5 Okay,

Speaker 2 let's take a little break, get some water, wipe the sweat off your forehead, and when we come back, more through line dances.

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Speaker 2 You're listening to Thru Line from NPR. I'm Ramteen Adab Louis.

Speaker 2 Right now, I'm actually playing DJ. You're going to listen now to the second half of Thru Line Dances with music from me.

Speaker 11 So we started playing the songs on cassette at the party.

Speaker 3 And people kept dancing just like it was any other record, like a regular old record.

Speaker 11 Wait a minute, hold on.

Speaker 3 We can make these records.

Speaker 3 And we came up with a bunch of songs

Speaker 3 that we had, you know, gathered a little drum machine and

Speaker 6 said, Let's go make some music.

Speaker 3 I want to be the guy who throws the party.

Speaker 1 That way, for sure, I get it for him.

Speaker 11 We were open to six, seven, eight, nine, and Sundays, maybe even midnight, the following night because they were marathon parties.

Speaker 9 I guess if you had to describe it, you could say it was akin to gospel dance music.

Speaker 3 Frank,

Speaker 9 he was in a car driving on the south side of Chicago, and he saw a sign in some plug that says you play house loose.

Speaker 11 And he asked,

Speaker 9 what is that? And they said, the stuff that you play at the warehouse, hence house loose.

Speaker 12 It was all about the music. It was all about the DJs.
And it was all about getting together and, you know, jacking. Jacking is a type of dance.

Speaker 12 Jacking is a type of dance.

Speaker 8 Tell me what is jacking

Speaker 5 up.

Speaker 12 We had to jack our bodies.

Speaker 12 Jacking was this motion.

Speaker 12 You bend your knees and you pump your hips.

Speaker 12 And basically, you're just like doing this pumping, running, like frantic, frenetic movement, just to the beat of the music, to the rhythm, like hard, hard, like just, it's like a train.

Speaker 12 Choo-choo, like the wheels are turning.

Speaker 11 Constant music is music that fills your soul.

Speaker 9 It's a lifeline.

Speaker 7 It's a feel-good music.

Speaker 11 That's the only way I can keep saying and describe it.

Speaker 9 You walked up a long landing of stairs and there was a little window

Speaker 9 and then you walked toward the back of that room and there was a long stairway downstairs to the dance hall.

Speaker 1 All of the things that separate us kind of fade away underneath the boom, boom, boom, boom.

Speaker 12 House is about love, it's about community, and it's an inspirational type of music.

Speaker 11 We all accept each other and we all love each other.

Speaker 2 We have reached the end of Through Line Dances. Thanks for sticking around and dancing with us.
I'm Ramteen Arab Louis. You're listening to Through Line from NPR.

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Speaker 2 Thanks for listening and dancing.

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