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Notable Legacy Producers significantly instrumental in refining the sound (technical fidelity advancements) and impact of the DC Go Go genre was Square One Productions (a.k.a J.J.&J.) credited for producing a significant number of Washington DC’s most popular early Go Go recording artist e.g. Chuck Brown (a.k.a The Godfather of Go Go) The Soul Searchers, Experience Unlimited (E.U.) Little Benny & The Masters, Rare Essence and D.C. Scorpio, just to name a few.  Square One’s three person songwriting, arranging and production team consisted of its founder and CEO Jonathan Ranard Smith and partners John Mitchel Bebbs (also Drummer for the Atlantic Records’ DC based R&B/Funk band Black Heat) and Darrell Johnson (who later became keyboardist for popular R&B Artist and GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Frankie Beverly’s ).

The pioneering production team of J.J.& J. are also rightfully credited for producing the first ever digital recording of DC GoGo Music in 1988 with their production of Chuck Brown’s innovative blending of Classical Music with the GoGo genre on the album entitled “That’ll Work (2001)”, recorded at Sheffield Studios for I Hear Ya Records exclusively on SONY’s first 24-Track Digital Audio Recorder.  Also as an interesting side note for Digital Recording History Buffs, the first Digital Loop was also invented during this recording session when the albumsalbum's Producer Jonathan R. Smith and its Engineer Bill Mueller came up with the idea of creating The First Digitally Recorded Music Loop.   First they transferred the original Digital Recording to Analog Tape which was then razor blade sliced at its loop-points forming a large physical musical loop which was then run (suspended through recording spools secured by No. 2 pencils) along the walls from the engineering booth, through the studio’s hallway, into and completely around the large performance studio where it then reentered from an adjacent door back into the engineer’s booth and recaptured back from the analog tape to SONY’s first ever 24-Track Recorder.  The Producers and other studio staff actually stood inside of the Analog Looped music steadying the pencils and reels as the first ever A-to-D / Analog-to-Digital music loop was created.

Performers associated with the development of the style include [[Rare Essence]], [[Experience Unlimited|EU]], [[Trouble Funk]], and singer-guitarist [[Chuck Brown]].<ref>"'Godfather of Go-Go,' Chuck Brown Dies". The Washington Informer. May 16, 2012. Archived from the original on May 20, 2012.</ref>