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This message comes from Progressive Insurance. Progressive makes it easy to see if you could save when you bundle your home and auto policies. Try it@progressive.com Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates. Potential savings will vary. Not available in all states. Hey everyone, it's Ramtin here. So, other than being a host and producer on Throughline, I'm also a musician who writes all the music for this show. And over the years I've written a bunch of music in different genres, but the music that's close to my heart is electronic dance music that includes everything from techno, house, drum and bass, trance. So on. A few years ago, Throughline producer Christina Kim and I made this episode about the history of house music in Chicago and how it influenced the entire genre of edm. In the process of making that episode, I wrote a bunch of music that didn't make it in. So I went back, I listened to it and I decided, whoa, there's a lot of great music here that no one has heard that I could put together in a mix that we could all dance to because honestly, we need it. It's kind of a stressful time. So throw on your headphones or however you listen and use this music to squeeze a little bit more fun out of your day. This is through line dances. There's still an inherent joy to going somewhere where the only thing people care about is the dj. How does house music make me feel? An experience to forget about your problems. House music makes me feel euphoric, empowered. Empowered. Especially being loved, move around, moving, like energized. I like that it allows you to just ride the wave and go along with it. Joyful. You get lost in the music and it just makes you feel at one with everyone and yourself. It's church. Yes. We worship on the dance floor. We worship on the dance floor. This is so cute. Here you're accepted for who you are. Sa Sam Sat Mind the gap. It's these parties are said to be linked with drug taking or worse, they're in breach of local authority licensing regulations. And besides, they keep the home counties. Awake at night, awake at night, awake at night, awake at night, awake at night, awake at night, awake at night, awake at night. I have nothing against meetings that are legal and young people having fun, but this is an illegal meeting. It's against. It's a threat to public health, public order and a real nuisance to people who have lived around it and that must never ever happen again. SAM it was the American import house music which started the craze linked with the so called designer drug ecstasy. It became known as acid house. The trend is said to be probably the most distinctive development in popular youth culture since punk rock in the 1970s. And just as controversial. S.A. sam. It's Sam. Sh. Okay, let's take a little break. Get some water. Wipe the sweat off your forehead. 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We can make these records. And we came up with a bunch of songs on one weekend. We, we had, you know, got a little drum machine and we said, let's go make some. I want to be the guy who throws the party that way for sure. I get it. We were open to stay 7, 8, 9 and some days maybe midnight following night because there were marathon parties. I guess if you had to describe it, you could say it was akin to gospel dance music. SAM Frankie was in a car driving on the stuff. He was in a car driving on the south side of Chicago and he saw a sign of some club that says we play house. And he asked, what is that? And they said the stuff that you play as a warehouse hint how sweet. It was all about the music. It was all about the DJs and it was all about getting together and, you know, jacking. Jacking is a type of dance. Jacking is a type of tell me, what does jacking look like? We had to jack our bodies. Jacking was this motion. You bend your knees and you pump your hips and basically you're just like doing this pumping, running like frantic, frenetic movement just to the beat of the music, to the rhythm, like hard, hard, like just it's like a train, choo choo, like the wheels are turn. SAM Classic music is music that fills your soul. It's a lifeline. It's a feel good music. That's, that's the only way I can keep saying describing it's you walked up a long landing of stairs and there was a little window. And then you walked toward the back of that room and there was a long stairwell downstairs to the dance floor. SAM all of the things that separate us kind of fade away underneath the boom boom boom boom. SA House is about love. It's about community and it's an inspirational type of music. We all accept each other and we all love each other. Up SAM SA it. We have reached the end of Throughline dances. Thanks for sticking around and dancing with us. I'm Ramtin arablouei. 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