DAVID MORALES
“House music! You want me to tell you about house music?” David Morales furrows his brow, scratches his stubbly chin and finally shakes his head in defeat. “How can I tell you about something that is now so big that it figures in the DNA of 99% of all club music? House music is so big that it means nothing, and so big that it means everything! Y’understand what I’m saying? It’s just… music. It’s house. It’s my life!”
David Morales was there at the beginning. OK, he wasn’t actually in Chicago, where house music was finding its groove in the early 1980s, but Morales was definitely picking up the vibrations 800 miles away in New York City. He heard this new music, all made by machines, and he liked it. At this point, he’d been DJing for several years – he started at 13! – and as house music began to make its mark, so did Morales. He was sharing the DJ booth with the likes of Tony Humphries, Larry Levan and Bruce Forest. Gigging at legendary clubs like the Paradise Garage and Club Zanzibar… clubs that, along with what was happening in Chicago, eventually helped to shape the sound of house music.
During the 80s and 90s, Morales’ DJ reputation was put to work in a
