Todd Terry

Todd Terry is one of house music's most innovative, successful, and prolific producers. More than any other artist, Terry defined New York house during the '80s, a varied sampladelic smorgasbord blending the sounds of classic disco, the more introspective Chicago sound pioneered earlier in the decade, and plenty of hip-hop attitude and sampling piracy. This free-wheeling, breakbeat-driven sound became a major influence on U.K. rave and hardcore, and his collaborations with rappers, particularly the Jungle Brothers on 1988's "I'll House You," popularized hip-house outside of Chicago. He topped U.S. club charts and scored U.K. pop hits with numerous singles as Royal House and the Todd Terry Project, then achieved his biggest mainstream success with his ubiquitous 1995 remix of Everything But the Girl's "Missing." He continued delivering high-profile remixes and scoring hits with garage house anthems like 1996's "Keep on Jumpin'" and 1997's "Something Goin' On" (both featuring Martha Wash and Jocelyn Brown), then unexpectedly shifted from song-oriented material to dark drum'n'bass with his 1999 full-length Resolutions. He remained as productive as ever well into the 21st century, constantly releasing house tracks on numerous labels (including his own Sound Design, In House Records, and Freeze Records), and occasionally venturing into hip-hop and electro with releases like 2013's Todd Terry vs. That Trap Shitt. His extensive list of singles during the 2020s has included collaborations with Kevin Saunderson, Robin S., House Gospel Choir, and others, while a series of Retrospective compilations have gathered his career highlights.

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