About

Proper is Chicago's drum & bass family. We've been at it since 1999, and Doctorgroo started it. We champion the whole range: liquid, breaks, trip-hop, jungle, and dnb, across Chicago and the Midwest.

For years the home base was Debonair Social Club in Wicker Park. Proper ran a weekly night there, Tuesdays through the mid-2010s and Wednesdays by the end of the decade, broadcast live, with jungle nights like Jungle 101 filling the floor.

The jungle had a home of its own too. Junglistic ran monthly at Emporium Arcade Bar in Wicker Park, with Zebo holding it down.

The rooms change. The family doesn't. Proper has kept booking Chicago, from Debonair to Podlasie Club in Avondale to Cobra Lounge, sixteen DJs deep and still adding.

We bring the bass, you bring the vibe. One global drum & bass family.