Facts First
Only supported record details are treated as final, including release dates, credits, labels, versions, catalog numbers, and first-pressing claims.
Records
House Music Records
A growing archive of landmark releases connected to the Museum timeline.
These first record entries are drawn from the public Museum timeline data. Full catalog numbers, formats, labels, release dates, and source notes are queued for later expansion.
Record Archive Trust Standard
Review Stays Visible
Open record questions stay marked as review until reliable sources are strong enough to support the archive.
Connected Culture
Records connect to artists, labels, clubs, cities, and timeline entries when the connection is supported.
Timeline Record References
On and On
reviewTimeline year: 1984.
Museum timeline note: On and On marked a decisive shift toward original Chicago house records.
Museum context: This entry helps the archive show the move from DJ edits and club play into original Chicago house records that could circulate outside the room.
Archive note: Label details remain open until the related label entity is promoted into the canonical set.
Move Your Body
verifiedTimeline year: 1986.
Museum timeline note: Listed as one of the records that helped define the sound of Chicago house internationally.
Museum context: Move Your Body gives the record archive a clear anthem entry, connecting Chicago production to the wider recognition of house music as a sound with its own identity.
Archive note: Full artist, label, format, and source details are queued for a dedicated record entry.
Can You Feel It
verifiedTimeline year: 1986.
Museum timeline note: Listed as one of the records that helped define the sound of Chicago house internationally.
Museum context: Can You Feel It keeps the emotional and atmospheric side of Chicago house visible, showing how a track could feel spiritual, electronic, and deeply human at once.
Archive note: Full artist, label, format, and source details are queued for a dedicated record entry.
No Way Back
verifiedTimeline year: 1986.
Museum timeline note: Listed as one of the records that helped define the sound of Chicago house internationally.
Museum context: No Way Back keeps the darker, stripped-down side of early Chicago house visible, showing how machine rhythm, repetition, and tension became part of the sound.
Archive note: Full artist, label, format, and source details are queued for a dedicated record entry.
Acid Tracks
verifiedTimeline year: 1987.
Museum timeline note: Listed with Promised Land as part of acid and crossover acceleration.
Museum context: Acid Tracks anchors the acid house branch of the archive, connecting Chicago experimentation to a sound that later traveled through clubs worldwide.
Archive note: Full artist, label, format, and source details are queued for a dedicated record entry.
Promised Land
verifiedTimeline year: 1987.
Museum timeline note: Listed with Acid Tracks as part of acid and crossover acceleration.
Museum context: Promised Land keeps the hopeful and song-driven side of Chicago house visible, balancing the archive's machine energy with message, melody, and community feeling.
Archive note: Full artist, label, format, and source details are queued for a dedicated record entry.
French Kiss
verifiedTimeline year: 1989.
Museum timeline note: Lil Louis' French Kiss showed Chicago house could become a global crossover record without losing local authorship.
Museum context: French Kiss closes the first public record band by showing how a Chicago-rooted house record could cross into global club culture while still carrying local authorship.
Archive note: Full artist, label, format, and source details are queued for a dedicated record entry.