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House music took its name from a Chicago club

DJs built long mixes from drum machines and imported dance records The style spread to Britain during the late 1980s and reshaped pop production. Its steady four to the floor beat became the backbone of dance music worldwide. Detroit's techno grew alongside it with a colder, machine led sound. It sits in Mondo's music collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: DJs built long mixes from drum machines and imported dance records. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a music fact?: Yes. It sits on the Music shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.