Latin House in New York City

Latin House in New York City is mostly in bars and night clubs.

House is urban electronic dance music that developed from disco in the 1980s Chicago underground warehouse dance scene.

Places to dance Latin house:

• House of Yes
• La Boom

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New York Latin House

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The New York Latin house scene has mostly moved from Chelsea, Manhattan to clubs in Brooklyn and New York’s summer music festivals.

The scene left Manhattan because space is just too expensive and The City has become too civilized.

East Williamsburg and Bushwick, Brooklyn are the land of Latin house these days.

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Latin House Clubs

• 3 Dollar Bill night club in East Williamsburg. 3dollarbillbk.com 🏳️‍🌈
• Avant Gardner is a giant indoor and outdoor night club in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. avant-gardner.com
• Elsewhere is a three-story night club in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. elsewherebrooklyn.com
• House of X
• House of Yes is an aerial circus burlesque night club in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where the 1980s never ended.
• La Boom is a Latin night club that mixes in some house in Woodside, Queens.
• Sabor Latino Ecuadorian restaurant and night club in Elmhurst, Queens. 🇪🇨

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Latin House DJs

• Eli Escobar spins at House of Yes. 🇵🇷
• Louie Vega is a Puerto Rican house legend. 🇵🇷
• Rich Medina is the DJ who brought afrobeats into house. 🇺🇸
• Sunny Cheeba spins great disco, house, and Latin. 🇵🇷

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Latin House Festivals

• Earth Love Fest at the House of Yes in Bushwick.
• Electric Zoo is an EDM festival over Labor Day Weekend
• Governors Ball is an EDM festival around Memorial Day Weekend
• Summer For the City, Lincoln Center’s summer performing arts festival, always presents some Latin hosue.
• SummerStage, New York’s summer performing arts festival in city parks, always presents some Latin house.

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Origins

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It all began in Chicago’s underground warehouse scene with New York DJ Frankie Knuckles (1955-2014). House picked up where disco left off. Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” (1977) with Italian Giorgio Moroder, the father of disco and EDM, was the bridge and the template.

The 1970s were the best of times and the worst of times. It was the worst of times because New York City was falling apart and the streets were dangerous. It was the best of times because we created disco, house, punk rock, and salsa. Disco rose in New York’s LGBTQ+ community. The disco was a place you could go out and be yourself, without being harassed. House grew out of that.

Those were the good old days. Disco evolved into house, and house evolved into electronic dance music (EDM) which includes house, techno, garage, electro, drum ‘n’ bass, and probably some other names we’ll all hear about soon.

To our ears, Amapiano house music from the townships of South Africa, is some of today’s hottest house. It’s mostly sung in Zulu. Tyla had an amapiano hit in English. She’s a good entry point.

All the urban musics are mixing together now. So hip hop, rhythm and blues, house, reggaeton, and Latin trap borrow from each other.