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Muzic Box (Music Box)

CTL-E-0591 · Venue · other · 1983–1988

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Under resident DJ Ron Hardy, the Muzic Box was the raw, high-energy counterpart to the Warehouse — the room where acid house broke and where Hardy's reel-to-reel edits and fearless programming defined a harder Chicago sound.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-node-020; source research type(s): venue. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

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Record CTL-E-0591 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 2 sources · CTL research: MUSIC-001.
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A black guitarist performs at the lake meado, ChicagoPhoto: John H. White, U.S. EPA DOCUMERICA, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The movies are popular in the Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago
The movies are popular in the Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, ChicagoPhoto: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
The movies are popular in the Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago
The movies are popular in the Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, ChicagoPhoto: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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