The Chicago label Dance Mania experienced its peak years between 1998 and 1997, but its take on house music — raw, soulful, often lascivious, and frequently unhinged — is back in vogue throughout club ...

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 ...

Chicago-born ghetto house DJ, producer, and label head DJ Funk has died aged 54, close friend and collaborator DJ Slugo has confirmed in a post on Instagram. In a video, Slugo explained that he had ...

DJ Funk, the Chicago producer who created and named the subgenre of ghetto house, is dead. He was 54, per The Guardian, though other sources report his birthday as June 20, 1971. DJ Slugo, a ...

In the mid-1990s, a new style of music was pouring out of Chicago's underground club culture. It was created by DJ's and music producers, and would later be known as ghetto house music. One of its ...

DJ Funk, the innovative Chicago producer who coined and helped create the ghetto house subgenre, has died, Resident Advisor reports, citing the late musician’s friend and collaborator DJ Slugo.