B-BOY BERTO

Name:  Alberto Pacheco

Nickname:  B-Boy Berto

Groups: 

Breakdancing Crews:  Floor Masters, Street  Masters, CTA Breakers.

Graffiti Crews:  Creative Team Artists (CTA), Sent From Above (SFA), Insanity Beyond Madness (IBM).

Dance Groups: Imported Taste.

D.J. Groups: Magic Touch, Hot Jams, House Music Only (HMO), Fader X Productions.

Bio: 

I believe my love for music started about 1977-78, around the time when the movie “Saturday Night Fever” first came out.  I remember going to see the movie with my oldest sister, and being so astounded by the moves of John Travolta’s character, Tony Manero, and the sounds of The Bee Gees and the whole spectacle of the Disco Era.  I remember emulating Tony’s moves from the movie and trying to be as suave as he was.  To look at all that now is laughable at best, but I believe that to be my musical point of origin.  Try to keep the giggling to a minimum, folks!

My next big musical venture would have to be what I affectionaly  refer to as the “original” Breakdance Era (not the wannabe rehashing we are experiencing now).  I was just starting High School at the time, and my friends and I would go upstairs from my mom’s house and practice our routines and our ”Poppin’ and Locking”, “Pennies”, our “Helicopters” and our “1990s” (if you are old school, like me, these terms will strike a memory chord).  I belonged to a crew called the CTA breakers at first.  We were part of CTA (Creative Team Artists) who were primarily a graffiti crew who wanted to expand to a full hip-hop crew (Graffiti, Breakers, and D.J.’s).  This is where I gained all my breakdance and some d.j. experience and also started me off as a graffiti artist as well.  I then started a crew with my cousins called the Floor Masters.  At the time we were pretty well known in the Chicago Breaking scene, winning many city competitions and trophies.  For a brief period I joined the Chicago faction of the Street Masters Crew from NYC, but that was short lived.

After Breaking died down, I joined a dance crew called Imported Taste.  A lot of you old schoolers out there remember the club Jenals, and the Rainbo roller rink parties!  Well these were but a few of the places we performed, along with other dance crews like the Culitos and A.K.A. and Contact.  During that time, is when my partner Eddie “Atomico” and I fine tuned our skills in the music scene.  Hanging out in Eddie’s basement, mixing music for the dance crews and and practicing my dancing, are some of my fondest memories. 

With the emergence of the Chicago House scene, that  all but sealed our fate in the D.J. business.  We were hooked on the music at this point.  It was something new and addictive.  The bass and the lyrics were so fresh and innovative.  And the best part was we felt it was OURS!  Chicago is the home of House, and we being Chicagoans, adopted this as OUR music.  It defined our lives.  There isn’t one House song I can listen to and NOT associate some awesome event or occurrence of my past to it!  And here on Chi-Town Underground, we are committed to bring you the same fond memories, the same music you listened to, and the same quality-style mixes you crave!  So we urge you as OUR people, OUR House crowd, to tune in and TURN IT UP!!!  And if you like it, hate it, or rate it in between, PLEASE feel free to drop us a line and we will gladly appreciate your feedback and try to improve the groove!  Peace!

B-Boy Berto!!!