Deeon Doez Deeon! 12”

Attention please, we’d like to shine a light on the man whose records would come to define many a Numbers party, who once described his music as “for the strippers, for the street”. The original master of Ghetto House, the one and only DJ Deeon. Hailing from the Southside of Chicago, Deeon started out selling mixtapes in his local neighbourhood and playing at sweatbox house parties. Soon he’d graduate from DJ’ing to production, creating gritty XXX club tracks purely for the moment and the party. The music came from the classic drum machines that provided the spark for Chicago House and Detroit Techno whilst the lyrics and call & response chants were inspired by the parties he frequented.

These tracks – originally released from 1994 onwards on the seminal Dance Mania label and now remastered from the original DAT tapes for re-release on Numbers – would go on to forge the Ghetto House sound alongside fellow DJ’s: Funk, Jammin’ Gerald, Slugo, Paul Johnson & Houz’Mon. What made Deeon’s tracks special was that when he told you to shake it, that’s exactly what you did.