American DJ, producer, and musician who started his career at a number
of clubs in New York City in the mid-1970s then moved to Chicago and
became the DJ at the legendary Warehouse in 1977, the club where the
foundations of house music were laid. Knuckles used his own remixes of
old disco records on reel-to-reel tape recorders; he sampled original
Salsoul and Philadephia International recordings and mixed in other
rhythm tracks and occasionally drum-machine rhythms he programmed
himself. Patrons who heard him called his sound house music after the
Warehouse club name. In 1982 he established the Power Plant, where he
continued to develop house music.
