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Go-go was originated by [[African-American]] musicians in [[Washington, D.C.]], during the mid-1960s to late-1970s. Go-go has limited popularity in other areas, but maintains a devoted audience in the [[Washington metropolitan area]] as a uniquely regional music style and was named the official music of Washington, D.C., in February 2020.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/its-official-go-go-music-signed-into-law-as-the-designated-music-of-dc/2020/02/19/42a4ef62-52a1-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html|title=Go-go is signed into law as the official music of D.C.|first=Marissa J.|last=Lang|access-date=February 25, 2021|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|archive-date=February 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204193118/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/its-official-go-go-music-signed-into-law-as-the-designated-music-of-dc/2020/02/19/42a4ef62-52a1-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
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
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 albums 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>
Modern artists like Charles "Shorty Corleone" Garris continue the go-go tradition in D.C.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wartofsky |first=Alona |date=2021-01-14 |title=Crank Radio Will Give Go-Go a National Platform |url=http://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/506004/crank-radio-will-give-go-go-a-national-platform/ |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Washington City Paper |language=en-US}}</ref>
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