Ron Hardy
Ron Hardy (8 May 1958 - 2 March 1992) was a Chicago DJ and producer of early house music. He is well known for playing records at the Muzic Box, a Chicago house music club. Decades after his death, he also is recognized for his edits and mixes of disco, soul music, funk and early house music (sometimes known as Chicago deep house).
Early career
Hardy started his career in 1974 in Chicago gay club Den One.(link to article) Here, with a set-up of two turntables, a mixer and a reel-to-reel tape-deck, he played long nights of underground black dance music. Around 1977, he went to work in Los Angeles. At the end of 1982, when DJ Frankie Knuckles left the Warehouse to open the Power Plant, Ron Hardy DJed at the Warehouse's new location until Robert Williams renamed it "The Muzic Box." Producer Chip E. introduced Hardy to recording music in 1986 when the two mixed "Donnie" by The It (featuring Chip E., Larry Heard, Robert Owens, and Harri Dennis). From humble beginnings, Hardy's contributions to house music are considered incredibly influential.
Podcasts:
Ron Hardy
ALBUMS
- Roots, Funk, Reggae released: 2012
Ron Hardy
ALBUMS
- Traxbox released: 2013
- Terry Farley presents Acid Rain: Definitive Original Acid and Deep House 1985-1991 released: 2013
- Another “Bugged Out” Mix & “Bugged In” Selection released: 2012
- Gene Hunt Presents: Chicago Dance Tracks, Part 1 released: 2011
- Trax Re-Edited released: 2011
- House released: 1999
- The House That Trax Built II released: 1996
- Acid Rain released:
Traxbox
Released 2013- Wanna Dance? (original 12″ version)
- Girls Out on the Floor (original 12″ version)
- I’m Scared (original 12″ version)
- Jack the Bass (original 12″ version)
- Ride the Rhythm (remix)
- Jack the House
- Jack’n the Trax
- Clap’n the Pella
- Virgo Tracks Again (untitled A1)
- Virgo Tracks Again (untitled A2)
- Virgo Tracks Again (untitled A3)
- Virgo Tracks Again (untitled A4)
- Girls Out on the Floor (original 12″ version)
- Fire 121 (original 12″ version)
- Do It to the Beat (original 12″ version)
- Sensation (long)
Terry Farley presents Acid Rain: Definitive Original Acid and Deep House 1985-1991
Released 2013- Magic Feet (original 12" club mix)
- Another World (original album version)
- Ecstasy (original album version)
- I Need a Friend (original album version)
- In the Night (original Kenny's Night club mix)
- Shout (original album version)
- I've Lost Control (original 12" club mix)
- I'll Make You Dance (original album version)
- I Can't Forget (original 12" club mix)
- String Free (original 12" club Leray mix)
- Where's Your Child (original 12" club mix)
- Slam (original 12" club mix)
- Acid Rain (original 12" Rain dance UK club mix)
Another “Bugged Out” Mix & “Bugged In” Selection
Released 2012- To Our Disco Friends
- Sensation (Obi Blanch edit)
- Gridlock
- From a Man's Journa
- Concussion
- This One's for the Children
- No Ufo's (D-mix)
- Like I Am / Comme je suis (Based on the Sling & Samo edit)
- Speechless (Gesaffelstein remix)
- Over and Over
- Never
- Discombabulate
- Girls on Me (instrumental edit)
- Ravenswood House
- Let Your Body Make Your Body
- Two Different Ways
- It's a Trip (Mike 'Hitman' Wilson's Psychedelic remix)
- Body Acid (Kink's on Acid remix)
- The Bull (Erol Alkan rework)
- Opa
- Forever Dolphin Love (Erol Alkan rework)
Trax Re-Edited
Released 2011- Take Me Higher (Ray Mang re-edit)
- Farley Knows House (PPF Jack From Daze dub)
- It's a Cold Cold World (Hotel Motel re-edit)
- We're Rocking Down the House (Toby Tobias & Hardway Bros re-edit)
- Washing Machine (Swag's Ariston re-edit)
- Dub Love (Mark Broom Retouch)
- You Used to Hold Me (Justin Harris Respectful Redo) (feat. Xavier Gold)
- What Is House (Andy Blake re-edit)
- Clap Me (Kink Cover version)
- Waiting on My Angel (Leftside Wobble re-edit)
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Weekend
by: Ryan HirtLet's get on it, like you want it,
Like you need me, come please me!
If you aren't really ready, stop texting
Star racing, I can't take it!
No more! I need you know at my door,
So we could get this party staring right!
Oh, already got the candle light,
Take off your clothes now,
I've been waiting on you for way too long!
See, this ain't the time to be vocal
Let's do the talking...
I want you to know how I'm feeling,
I'mma put it on you all night, night, night!
Like... girl, that I'll be with, we'll be holding...
We've got no secrets!
I'mma give you...
We gonna make this the best...
All weekend!
All weekend!
Yeah!
Let's get on it!
Really on it!
I guess I... it's our last chance, no replay!
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