Chicago House

Chicago house was born in a dark room. In 1984 Frankie Knuckles was spinning reel-to-reel edits at The Warehouse and Trax Records was pressing 12-inch singles onto thin black vinyl. The look that grew around it was never designed — it was photocopied: Xerox-grain flyers, smudged sleeve type, the acid-house smiley burning yellow in a strobe-lit black club.

芝加哥浩室诞生在一间黑屋子里。1984 年，Frankie Knuckles 在 The Warehouse 俱乐部里放着自己剪辑的磁带，Trax Records 把单曲压进薄薄的黑胶。围绕它生长出 的视觉从来不是「设计」出来的——它是复印出来的：施乐复印机的颗粒噪点、糊成一团 的封套大字、在频闪灯下黑色俱乐部里灼灼发亮的酸性浩室笑脸。霓虹粉、笑脸黄、电光青， 全打在真正的黑底上，像唱针落进黑胶的那一刻。