The Lab NYC is Mixmag and WAV's weekly stay stream and post-work unwind, powered by Void Acoustics, the place we showcase the best DJs direct from our Brooklyn workplace. This Friday, January 25, the legendary dance music pioneer Mike Dunn takes over the decks for a masterclass in Chicago home flavors.

As one of many key artists innovating throughout the 1980s, Mike Dunn's affect on dance music tradition is nicely documented. He was one of many first DJs bringing two reel-to-reels to events and beefing up soul, funk and disco information together with his personal drum machine to create the jacking type that will grow to be home music. He shared the sales space with lots of his friends on the time who had been additionally pushing new kinds onto the dancefloor, together with Ron Hardy, Larry Heard, Armando and extra. Outside the sales space he would produce a set of seminal home information, together with 'Dance You Mutha', ’Let It Be House’, ‘Magic Feet’ and 'Face the Nation', whereas additionally working because the engineer on information by Armando, Fast Eddie and Okay-Alexi Shelby. Today he continues to pump out dancefloor weapons together with his 'We R Tuesday Nights' sequence of releases that includes edits that give new life to traditional disco anthems.

Following his set in The Lab NYC, Mike Dunn will maintain the get together going as he heads to Elsewhere to carry out alongside Wolf + Lamb. Find tickets here

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