10 Facts About Ron Hardy

Ron Hardy was an American, Chicago, Illinois-based DJ and record producer of early house music.

Ron Hardy is well known for playing records at the Muzic Box, a Chicago house music club.

Ron Hardy's style incorporated constant tension met with release, with a pulsing narrative that enchanted the wild crowds of the Music Box.

Ron Hardy played a lot of reel-to-reel edits and was always tweaking the soundsystem and playing with the EQ.

Ron Hardy opened his nights with "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

Ron Hardy played the track three more times that night, and by the fourth time the audience was going crazy.

Ron Hardy played a lot of the same tracks his DJ peers in Chicago played.

Ron Hardy continued a successful DJ-residency at The Music Box until the end of the 1980s and quickly changed his playlist to encompass more and more house music.

Ron Hardy died of an AIDS-related illness on March 2,1992.

Ron Hardy has a section dedicated to him on the second DVD of the DJ documentary Maestro.