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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social

RIP Chicago DJ Lee Collins, who Theo Parrish called one of the three best DJs in the world ra.co/news/83447

aug 25, 2025, 9:14 pm • 82 24

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social

From my Gossip Wolf column hooked to a fundraiser for Lee earlier this year chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

Chicago dance-music DJ Lee Collins has an almost mythical status in that community, but if you don’t already know his reputation, it can be hard for you to figure out why—especially if you limit yourself to physical recordings. Discogs lists just a couple CD-Rs to his name, released by Soul in the Hole, a label and production company cofounded by Chicago DJ and producer Sadar Bahar in 1989. But despite Collins’s thin catalog, he’s been DJing for more than 40 years, and he played a key role in the evolution of disco into house music. In 1983, he launched a dance show on WHPK called Disco Madness, and within a few years he was spinning at Robert Williams’s subterranean nightclub, the Muzic Box.
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