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Roll Call: SONIC LAUNCH - April 29th - Knuckles, Morales & Nevio (pg. 17)
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| The Highroller |
In exactly 12hrs from now, the party will be getting into high gear.
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| TJB |
I am getting really excited now, not that i wasn't before but now oh my. Just got up from a nap... I love naps.
Jon and Hil you guys better make it til the end. Really how hard can it be. We are all stayting till the end. Margs, you know you're coming out tonight - you can't miss this.
See you all in a few short hours. |
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| The Highroller |
| Tar, I don't know how you slept. I can barely sit still in my chair! |
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| The Wiz |
| hahah me too G! my sleep turned into a "rest". I just kinda closed my eyes for an hour or so. |
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| Patius |
so Toronto people, you guys finally are getting something good over there eh? There are some Montrealers traveling, as we speak, for the opening of your new Temple of Love. Take care of it, and just remember, leave your attitud at the coat check and have fun in the dance floor.
here is an article about the club that began everything we know today.
Paradise Garage, New York
“As you climb its steeply angled ramp to the second floor you fell like a character in a Kafka novel. From overhead comes the heavy pounding of the disco beat like a fearful migraine. When you reach the ‘bar’, a huge parking area, you are astonished to see immense pornographic murals of Greek and Trojan warriors locked in sado-masochistic combat running from floor to ceiling. On the floor of the main dancing room are the most frenzied dancers of the disco scene; the black and Puerto Rican gays, stripped down to singlets and denim shorts, swinging their bodies with wild abandon.”
Albert Goldman, Disco
If the Paradise Garage had never existed, the Ministry of Sound would never have been built. To this day, the myth of the Garage continues apace, undoubtedly aided by the untimely death of its pivotal character and resident DJ, Larry Levan and equally the fact that a genre of music, garage, was named after the3 club.
The Paradise Garage on King Street in Manhattan, opened its doors in 1977 after Larry Levan, Richard Long (the constructor of its sound system) and cohorts (including Mel Cheren of leading disco label, West End Records) finally raised sufficient cash to open a small room in the space they had leased. Like Levans previous residencies it was an instant success, thus began its ten year reign over New York’s club land.
What set the Garage apart from the more media-friendly clubs of uptown Manhattan (such as Studio 54 and Xenon) was its relationship to its members. As Steven Harvey, author of the famous Collusion article on New York disco, said at the time “When I first went to the Paradise Garage I felt as though I had finally found the perfect nightclub. With a clear door policy –members and their guests only-a kind and courteous staff, no liquor, an awesome sound system continuously expounding the most serious black music and an audience of thousands of dancers whose inter-connected energy often makes the main dance room fell like a rocket at the point of lift-off. Here was the antidote to all the glacial pose palaces passing as dance clubs.”
Keyboard player Michael DeBenedictus-who collaborated with Levan on his band, project the Peech Boys and later played live at the Garage-recalled in an interview in the NME; “There’s no other focus than the music. People come to dance and they take it seriously. The best dancers in the world are here. They don’t come to cruise; they don’t come to get high. They come to dance. For fourteen hours. You see all the break dancing, electric boogie. All that stuff.
The Garage not only created such a space, but continued to recreate it year after year. Its members lived for it. “I saw Lace perform ‘Cant Play Around’ at the Garage” remembers DJ Danny Tenaglia. “And the record was so huge there that you almost couldn’t hear the singing. That’s how crazy the crowd were going. When they finished we kept on screaming until they came out and sang it again. I probably stayed there for fifteen minutes with chills and goose bumps all over me. It’s those kind of memories that make me believe ill never experience anything like it again.”
Dave Piccioni, owner of Black Market Records in London, was a leading DJ in New York towards the end of the Garage’s tenure. “It was the late eighties when I was going. It was New York cut-throat money time. Everybody was sticking knives in each others backs. It was dog eat dog; aggressive; drug-dealing was rife; there were 60,000 people living on the streets. It was a dog of a place to live. And then you would go to this little oasis, where people were really well-mannered and friendly to each other. You just felt completely comfortable. America is a very narrow-minded place and these were the people who shared something; an open mind. The thing they had in common wasn’t just getting high like it is here; it was much more than that. That was what was so great about it.
It was in this new climate that a word to describe the music Levan played became the new dance industry buzzword: “Garage music”. It’s a word that has since become a hopeless corruption of Levans style (although one of the many facets to his DJing was, indeed the soulful New Jersey style vocal tracks that are closely identified with garage). As Tony Humphries said “You cant even define Garage music, because it was music that was played at the club at that time in that era; but we’ re talking about a ten year span. Records by the The Rolling Stones (‘Too Much Blood’) and Talking Heads (‘Once in a Lifetime’) were played. If you played them now, people would say “that’s not a garage record”. But it was.” The Paradise Garage finally closed its doors in September 1987 and immediately left a void in New York. You still meet people in the city who couldn’t bring themselves to go to another club, such was its impact. And even now, over ten years later, it is still an inspiration for clubs and DJs the world over.
article found at the Ministry of Sound website |
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| jon jon |
| quote: | Originally posted by The Wiz
hahah me too G! |
babbbab |
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| Floorwhore |
| slept for a solid 12 hours last night, and caught a nice cat nap an hour ago....i'm re-ta-go. |
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| Plump Funk |
| unfortunately i'm not gonna make it. |
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| zoogla |
| quote: | Originally posted by Plump Funk
unfortunatly i'm not gonna make it. |
You're stupid. |
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| Plump Funk |
| quote: | Originally posted by fayraree
You're stupid. |
i'll take your word on that.:rolleyes: |
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| zoogla |
| quote: | Originally posted by Plump Funk
i'll take your word on that.:rolleyes: |
Don't roll your eyes at me, bitch. WTF aren't you going?!?!! :( |
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| Plump Funk |
caught a cold and have a massive migraine, if i feel better i'll make it down but for now i gotta sleep.
and since when are you going? |
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