Get a glimpse of Frankie Knuckles’ record collection
“The collection is meant to be felt"
With the record collection of Frankie Knuckles now at Theaster Gates’s Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago, The Frankie Knuckles Foundation has shared a video expressing what they hope the archive stands for.
Knuckles set up The Frankie Knuckles Foundation later in his life in order to help support causes he felt strongly about, like LGBTQ rights, youth homelessness, music in schools and diabetes research. Today it also helps to educate people on Knuckles’ legacy.
As “The Godfather Of House Music” Frankie Knuckles helped establish the genre’s presence on dancefloors around the world. At a time when music was distributed via physical mediums, he amassed thousands of vinyl records. Now this priceless collection offers a glimpse into his world and music fans from around the world have a chance to be a part of it.
Theaster Gates touched on the goal for Frankie Knuckles collection: “The collection is meant to be felt... Our hope is to attract world class DJs and local DJs, who are the scholars of house, and invite them to pump the music as hard as they can, to be in the spirit of Frankie Knuckles and share that with this neighborhood, our city and the world.”
Watch the video below to learn more about the collection.