Chicago's premier selector of soul-infused house pulls her favorites from Gramaphone Records, in celebration of the upcoming ARC Music Festival

It’s been some decades since Chicago’s house scene revolutionized electronic music in the ‘80s, and now that the windy city is opening up post-pandemic, it’s only fitting that it be properly celebrated. ARC Music Festival, a new immersive dance music event with an absolutely stacked lineup of artists and activities, etches itself onto house history with its premiere Labor Day weekend at Chicago’s Union Park. Equally vital to Chicago’s electronic music scene is Gramophone Records; a local institution that recently celebrated its 50 birthday. Many DJs who have shaped and still define the Chicago scene have also spent time slinging other people’s records from behind the register. For Document, artists from the ARC lineup fill their bags at Gramophone.

Brooklyn, New York, and London are just a few of the notches on the DJ Heather’s theoretical belt of prolificity. Chicago, the birthplace and still-unfaltering giant of house music, has been a champion of the Brooklyn-born artist’s undeniable allure, as DJ Heather has become an integral part of the city’s house scene with her distinctive, soul-infused style. Perhaps the most difficult to replicate aspect of DJ Heather’s appeal is her ability to improvise; evident both in her aptitude for reading a room and in her expansive but carefully collected music library. Below, DJ Heather shares six of her favorite picks from Gramaphone.

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