House-O-Matics

CTL-E-0571 · Neighborhood · 1980

Verified evidence grade of this record

The House-O-Matics were a Chicago house dance troupe that DJ Rashad belonged to as a young dancer; RP Boo also came up with the House-O-Matics and discussed them in his 2016 Red Bull Music Academy lecture.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-050; source research type(s): community. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

Wikipedia, 'DJ Rashad'; Red Bull Music Academy lecture notes (2016)

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