Chicago's DJ Thadz and DJ Slugo join forces for a raucous two-part mix and speaks to Martyn Pepperell about the origins of ghetto house, Paul Johnson’s role in their entry into production, and music ...

Yesterday electronic wunderkind Nicolas Jaar debuted “Ghetto,” an exultant eight-minute house track featuring vocals from Chicago ghetto house and juke producer Thomas Kendricks, better known as DJ ...

Today, veteran Chicago DJ and producer DJ Slugo is releasing The Archive, a collection of wide-ranging tracks with a unique history: they'd largely been recorded during the '90s heyday of ghetto house ...

For more than three decades, Thomas Kendricks, better known as DJ Slugo, has been DJing, producing, and celebrating ghetto house, a sound he helped pioneer. Slugo grew up in the Robert Taylor Homes ...

Chicago artists DJ Clent and DJ Slugo have removed themselves from the line-up of Boiler Room’s forthcoming Detroit event in boycott of its ties to KKR, the parent company of its owner, Superstruct ...

Nicolas Jaar has shared a new track from Chicago’s DJ Slugo through his “serial label” Other People. The track was made “in light of recent events” and was produced on “a cold but sunny morning by ...

Viva Acid and Dance Mania Legends have announced a Chicago event celebrating more than three decades of Ghetto House while highlighting ongoing inequities faced by Black electronic music innovators.

DJ Funk, the Chicago legend who coined the term "ghetto house," has died. The musician, whose real name was Charles Chambers, was 54. Funk's death was confirmed to PEOPLE by his friend and ...

Funk's friend and collaborator DJ Slugo confirmed the news in an email sent to People magazine on March 6, where he praised Charles by writing: "He was one of the pioneers of the sound we call ghetto ...

'He was one of the pioneers of the sound we call ghetto house music in Chicago,' his friend DJ Slugo told People Thursday in an email. 'We love and miss you my brother, and I won't let our sound die.' ...