Ron Hardy Live Chicago & Acid House DJ-Sets Compilation (1981 - 1990)

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Ron Hardy (1981 - 1990)
Live Chicago & Acid House DJ Sets Compilation

43 Live DJ-Sets + 36 Hours of Music

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We have put together this Quality Collection of Chicago & New York House DJ-Sets which offers the buyer a great chance to purchase this fantastic series of DJ Sets from one of the original Chicago & Acid House Pioneers DJ's from the 1970's & 1980's on one Affordable DJ-Sets Compilation.

The DJ-Sets can easily be used on your Home Entertainment System, In-Car MP3 Player, Home PC / Apple Mac, Apple iPod / iPhone / iPad, Portable Music Player or Tablet and through your Smart TV or DJ Equipment using the USB Drive option, so you have a huge variety of different devices in which you can play our DJ-Set Compilations, regardless of whether you are at home, in the car, or the train or on the move.

Compilation Listing

Ron Hardy - Live @ COD's in Chicago (14.03.87) – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ COD's in Chicago (1981) – 1 Hour
Ron Hardy - Live @ COD's in Chicago (1982) – 1 Hour
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box 326 (1981) – 1 Hour
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (19.06.84) – 90 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (30.06.84) – 1 Hour
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Powerhouse in Chicago (1987) – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Warehouse in Chicago (1982) – 20 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ US Studio Music Box (15.12.83) – 90 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ US Studio Music Box (17.01.84) – 30 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1981) – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1981) 2 – 20 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1981) 3 – 90 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1982) – 30 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1983) – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1983) 2 – 20 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1983) 3 – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1983) 4 – 90 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1984) – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1984) 2 – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1984) 3 – 30 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1984) 4 – 30 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1985) 7 – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1985) 8 – 90 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1986) – 90 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ AKA's in Chicago (1990) – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ Edge Of The Looking Glass (1984) – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1985) – 75 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1985) 2 – 30 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1985) 3 – 1 Hour
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1985) 4 – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1985) 5 - 1 Hour
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1985) 6 – 90 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1987) – 30 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live @ The Music Box in Chicago (1987) – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live in Chicago (1981) – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live in Chicago (1982) – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live in Chicago (1985) – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live in Chicago (1986) – 30 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live in Chicago (1987) – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live On BAYFM in Japan (1992) – 20 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live on WBMX @ ''The Club' (1987) – 45 Mins
Ron Hardy - Live On WBMX in Chicago (1987) – 45 Mins

Artists Profile

Current Location :: Deceased R.I.P

Music Genres :: Chicago House

Ron Hardy is the only man who can test Frankie Knuckles' status as the godfather of Chicago house music.

Though he never recorded under his own name and left little evidence of his life, Hardy was the major name for Chicago dance music from the late '70s to the mid-'80s. By 1974, he had already effected a continuous music mix with reel-to-reel machines plus a dual-turntable setup at the club Den One. Several years later, Hardy played with Knuckles at a club called the Warehouse and though he spent several years in Los Angeles, he later returned to Chicago to open his own club, the Music Box.

While Knuckles was translating disco and the emerging house music to a straight, southside audience at the Power Plant, Hardy's 72-hour mix sessions and flamboyant party lifestyle fit in well with the uptown, mostly gay audience at the Music Box. A roll-call of major Chicago producers including Marshall Jefferson, Larry Heard, Adonis, Phuture's DJ Pierre and Chip E all debuted their compositions by pressing up acetates or reel-to-reel copies for Hardy to play during the mid-'80s.

Lingering problems with heroin addiction forced him to leave the Music Box around 1986 and though he continued to DJ around the area, Hardy wasn't around when Chicago became house music's mecca later in the decade. He died in 1991.

Deejay Ron Hardy died in 1991, and that's the only reason why he's not a star today. With the clubs he's been spinning for (especially the Muzic Box from 1983 to 1988), he was drawing the way of the new sounds of the night. Something was definitely changing, and he was part of the change. You know that one day 'Jack Has a Groove'... but did you really know when late Disco turned into early House music? Ron Hardy was it. Icon of the gay House nights of Chicago, that man was a deejay like some others are monk... it was everything for him, a sort of religion. Mixing speedy electro-pop with accelerated disco, edited disco-classics with acid tracks, when other deejays used to mix it warm... he used to mix it cold. One of his very close friends told me that he was almost never sleeping... mixing records all the time, doing weird things with his turntables. There was about nothing in his appartment, nothing but black shiny records, and a bed... and that for years since the 70's when he left for westcoast, the 80's when he came back to Chicago, until 91 when everything stopped. Too much drugs and awaken nights... he killed his own batteries for the music.