Chip E. on inventing the Chicago house record

APR 17 2025

Chip E. traces his path from sneaking into mid-1970s disco matinees as a child to working the bins at Importes Etc. the store whose 'house music' section may have named the genre, and on to 'Time to Jack' and the Jack Trax EP. He is one of the handful of people with a genuine claim to defining the form on record in 1985. A first-hand account from inside the argument about who made house first.