DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB™

DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB (BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND)

2011-10-04T23:09:00.001+01:00

DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!

Disco Unusual Social Club is a moving Dirty Disco Party that takes house and disco heads, on a musical adventure that's full of Studio 54 glam and New York Garage & old-school Chicago House Music energy.

Cities include Chicago(The Original Home), New York, London, Miami, Los Angeles.

"The Most Consistently Tasteful Dance Party In Chicago"-Time Out

Glamour & Panache is the aim, designed to conjure up the era of Studio 54, The Loft, US Studios, Paradise Garage, Better Days, Bonds International, Save The Robots, Coconuts, Nell's, The Music Box, Limelight's and DJs like Nicky Siano and Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy & Dave Mancuso.

The Atmosphere reflects a certain level of Freedom Of Expression & Lono Brazil often sends Dancer into frenzy as they Dance til the wee hours usually half naked by night's end.

A MUST FOR SERIOUS DISCO LOVERS....

Join us as we celebrate the return of DUSC to it's Original Home CHICAGO & the release of the Fall 2011 Disco Unusual Social Club Clothing Line designed by Mr. Brazil. http://discounusualsocialclub.bigcartel.com/

GUEST LIST ONLY:
RSVP:info@discounusualsocialclub.net

15 October at 10:00 - 03:00

The Exchange Bar
1270 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL

Disco Unusual Social Club. Usually Disco, Usually Unusual...

Also;

Disco Unusual Radio w/Host Mr.Brazil
The School of The Art Institute Of Chicago
Fridays 8-10pm Listen Live or Archives
http://freeradiosaic.org/

IT'S PARTY TIME CHICAGO!! DUSC RETURNS TO THE SCENE OF THE TIME

2011-08-25T01:51:00.000+01:00

BBE Music | Mr. Peabody Records - Launch Party - The Real Sound Of Chicago

2010-02-27T23:05:00.001Z

DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB/BBE MUSIC PRESENTS: THE REAL SOUND OF CHICAGO

2010-02-03T04:31:00.002Z

BBE MUSIC & DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB PRESENTS "THE REAL SOUND OF CHICAGO" Underground Disco From The Windy City. Compiled By Mr. Peabody Records.

Record Release Celebration & Listening Party.
Mark Grusane & Mike Cole (Mr Peabody Records)
Unplayed & Rare Disco, Boogie Music

Saturday February 13, 2010
DANNY'S
1951 W. Dickens
Bucktown/Chicago
8PM-3AM

Atmosphere Created By Lono Brazil
EARLY EARLY ARRIVAL STRONGLY SUGGESTED !!!

DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB GOES TO HOLLYWOOD

2010-01-21T01:45:00.002Z

Lono Brazil's Disco Unusual Social Club hits Hollywood, with early sets by and Billy Goods.

Disco Unusual Social Club is a moving Dirty Disco Party that takes Disco Heads, on a musical adventure that's full of Studio 54 Glam and old-school Chicago House Music energy.

Everything from forgotten Disco detritus such as "Lovetown" are staples for DUSC & Dimitri from Paris.

Designed to conjure the era of the Loft and DJs like Nicky Siano and Larry Levan. Lono Brazil keeps the dance floor packed with dirty-disco programming, mutant dance oddities and original edits and exclusives.

http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/clubs/69703/disco-unusual-social-club
http://discounusualsocialclub.podomatic.com/
http://www.myspace.com/diskounusualsocialclub
http://www.discogs.com/label/Cottage+Groove
http://discounusualsocialclub.bigcartel.com/

FUNKMOSPHERE WITH DAM FUNK & BILLY GOODS

2010-01-21T01:42:00.001Z

DÅM FUNK, BILLY GOODS, RANDY WATSON, LAROJ W/SPECIAL GUEST LONO BRAZIL(DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB) 1.18.10 @ CARBON IN CLUVER CITY/LOS ANGELES. DOORS 9:30PM NO COVER.

"LOVE IS THE MESSAGE" TONITE IN WEST HOLLYWOOD/LOS ANGELES

2010-01-18T02:19:00.002Z

DJ RASHIDA'S Sunday Soiree @ Bar Marmont welcomes the Internationally Known Man of Music. Disco Unusual Social Club's own Lono Brazil.

This night promises to be a night to remember Hollywood as the two Music Impresarios dig deep down into the depths of dance music's to bring you the Message of Love...

DJ Rashida has established herself as one of the most sought-after female DJs in the world. She has played her signature fusion of hip-hop, funk, soul, reggae,pop, rock, and house around the globe in cities like London, New York, Geneva, Antwerp, Sydney and Paris. In 2004, DJ Rashida started spinning at the House of Blues on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip, where she opened for such artists as Kanye West, The Roots, Jill Scott and John Legend, Joss Stone, Floetry, LL Cool J, Afrika Bambaataa, Raphael Saadiq, and reggae sensation Damian Marley to name a few. While doing her thing one night, Prince approached Rashida about collaborating. She wound up touring the world with the superstar, as well as spinning at all of his private parties (3121).

•Rashida is now the DJ for MTV's new dance show "Randy Jackson presents America's Best Dance Crew," seasons 1 ,2, & 3 and she has performed at some of the most high-profile after parties in the world for televised events including the Oscars, American Music Awards, Emmys, Golden Globes, BET Awards, Peoples Choice Awards, Britt Awards, and even Saturday Night Live.

•DJ Rashida was a featured performer at the 2006 Lollapalooza festival. Since then, her client list has exploded and she is frequently called upon to spin for a bevy of corporate and celebrity clients, including People, Vogue Italia, Pepsi, Nike, Miss Sixty, Nylon, Jay-Z, Michael Jordan, Lisa Marie Presley, Jada Pinkett Smith ,MTV, Kimora Lee Simmons , HBO, Nike, Virgin, Hennessy, Guess, Conde Naste, Adidas, Revlon, Complex Magazine, and Bloomingdales to name a few.

•You can catch her performing all over the world with Prince, on MTV or serving up a moving mix of music weekly at her own nights Honey,Kiss n Grind & Love is the Message sundays at Chateau Marmont.

About DUSC/LONO BRAZIL:
Disco Unusual Social Club is a moving Dirty Disco Party that takes Disco Heads, on a musical adventure that's full of Studio 54 Glam and old-school Chicago House Music energy.

Everything from forgotten Disco detritus such as "Lovetown" are staples for DUSC & Dimitri from Paris.

Designed to conjure the era of the Loft and DJs like Nicky Siano and Larry Levan. Lono Brazil keeps the dance floor packed with dirty-disco programming, mutant dance oddities and original edits and exclusives.

THIS SATURDAY IN CHICAGO DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB

2010-01-07T13:10:00.001Z

Disco Unusual Social Club
Saturday Jan. 9th 2010
Danny's
1951 W. Dickens
Chicago, IL.
10pm-3am

Atmosphere Created By
LONO BRAZIL

HOT GOSSIP: 80's Disco At It's Very Best!

2010-01-03T03:04:00.010Z

Hot Gossip were a British dance troupe most notable for their appearance on the TV series The Kenny Everett Video Show, which aired on ITV in 1978. It was created and choreographed by Arlene Phillips. The sexually suggestive dance routines, moves, gestures and costumes used by the troupe were considered very risqué, especially considering the early evening timeslot that the Video Show was broadcast in. Hot Gossip are often keen to claim that these risqué dance routines were not simply a result of the television programme and that they performed such dances since they were formed, 4 years before The Kenny Everett Video Show first aired.

Hot Gossip also made a couple of pop records, featuring Sarah Brightman (best known in later years for originating the role of Christine in Phantom of the Opera) on lead vocal. They scored a hit with I Lost My Heart To a Starship Trooper, a lightweight disco track that cashed in on the media hype surrounding the original Star Wars film. They went on to record an album in the early 1980s, Geisha Boys and Temple Girls, produced by the former Human League and then current Heaven 17/BEF member Martyn Ware. The album was a commercial failure.
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Spoofed on The Benny Hill Show as "Hot Gossamer". A few real-life former Hot Gossip dancers went on to appear on the Hill show in its last years on the air as part of the Hill's Angels dance troupe.
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/comedy/watch/v6352085zFNPPGJP

I remember seeing this Benny Hill episode and "LOST IT". Dispite the obvious racist "Black Face" spoofing I still liked it. It seemed really risque back in the early 80's but nowadays it is nothing.

I really love the Girls. The Make-Up Hair, Spandex & Heels.....VERY VERY SEXY! Re; Guy Bourdin, Firoucci,Christian Dior.

When you kiddies are ready for some real sexy shit, get @ Me! I'll fix you!!

Here in the States we had THE SOILD GOLD DANCERS.

Less Disco, More Pop but....It's all visual anyway....
Here are a few publicity Photos of some of the dancers. Spandex, Glitter and all. Ooh, I Love It!

PARADISE GARAGE (Heaven In A Car Park)

2009-12-29T10:46:00.006Z

Wikipedia states ....

The Paradise Garage was a nightclub notable in the history of modern gay and nightclub cultures and in dance and pop musics. It was founded by Michael Brody, its sole proprietor, and was located at 84 King Street, New York City. It operated from 1976 to 1987 and was the base for DJ Larry Levan. Its name derives from its origins as a parking garage. The Paradise Garage's business model was largely inspired by David Mancuso's Loft parties: no liquor was served, there were no sales of food or beverages, and the club was not open to the general public.

The sound system was developed by Richard Long and Associates (RLA) and was said by those that attended to be the best in New York City at that time. The club has been credited for its influence on the development of the modern dance club as it is today: unlike other clubs of its time, the Paradise Garage was focused on dancing rather than social interaction, and it was the first to put the DJ at the center of attention.

Among those to benefit from what became known as "The Garage Sound" or "Garage Music" was West End Records, run by Mel Cheren. Among its successes were "Sessomatto" by Sessa Matto, Karen Young's "Hot Shot," "Heartbeat" by Taana Gardner (remixed by Levan) and "Don't Make Me Wait" by the Peech Boys (produced by Levan). West End Records folded for a number of years, re-opening in the late 90's and releasing one of Levan's DJ sets recorded live at the Garage. In the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, a post-disco radio station, Paradise FM plays music representative of the club's playlists at the height of its popularity.

The building which housed the Paradise Garage is now a facility for Verizon Communications.

We knew it as our church, a place of complete freedom, total love and Larry

This is the very last record Larry played the morning it closed......Changin'

COPY & PASTE THIS LINK TO GET THE LAST SONG LARRY EVER PALYED AT PARADISE GARAGE
http://www.mediafire.com/?ujz0ojntnlu

http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-NY/Paradise-Garage/40552524748
http://www.disco-disco.com/clubs/paradise.shtml

Disco not DISCO!!! Back In The Days When Everyone....

2009-12-22T06:32:00.002Z

NYE 2010 CELEBRATION @ DANNY'S CHICAGO

2009-12-18T23:24:00.003Z

In the first few centuries AD, the Romans continued celebrating the new year with long festivals while an early Catholic church condemned it as paganism. The church remained opposed to the holiday through the middle ages... and as a result, western culture has only recognized the holiday for the last 400 years or so. Even now, many Christian denominations observe the holiday only as the Feast of Christ's Circumcision.

OK, so there will not be any Circumcisions but Supreme Court, People In Cars & Mr. Brazil will be cutting up the Vinyl Only at the THE ONLY POST MODERN DANCE PARTY ON NYE in CHICAGO!!!

Danny's
1951 W. Dickens
Bucktown/Chgo
No Cover
8PM-2AM
RSVP IN PERSON AT DANNY'S
LIST/DOOR CLOSES AT 10PM SHARP!
IF YOU ARE NOT IN BY 10 GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!

LIMITED CAPACITY!

THE STORE IS OPEN!!!!DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB TEES

2009-12-18T23:16:00.002Z

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DJ HARVEY & Brad Vachal REPRESENTING IN AN OFFICIAL DUSC TEE DESIGNED BY LONO BRAZIL

http://discounusualsocialclub.bigcartel.com/

RECORD BIZ: A-1 Records New York City

2009-12-10T02:01:00.007Z

Records store choices in New York City are getting slimmer & slimmer. I remember back in the 80's you could go to several record stores & each had a good selection to offer of the latest Disco 12'.

Shops like Vinyl Mania on Carmine St. Rock & Soul on 7th Avenue off 34th St, Disc-O-mat Uptown. Music Factory in Times Square. Downstairs in Fulton Mall/Brooklyn. I am sure I missed something but the point is you had options...

Well not anymore. If you want Original pressings of classic Disco you got one option. And it is a great option.
A-1 RECORDS
439 East 6th Street New York, NY 10009-6338 - (212) 473-2870
Open Daily 1pm-9pm

A-1 Records

I just hit them up today. And every time I go I find something nice. And I look in the bargin bin.

Legendary Icon Closing: THE PINK TEA CUP

2009-12-09T18:56:00.002Z

"Honey, come get some of this food, it's good y'all."

~Whoopi Goldberg

OH NOOOOOO!!! SAY IT AIN'T SOOOOO!!! The Pink Tea Cup was a Village Icon.

Back in the 80's we used to go there on late Sunday mornings for breakfast after a looong night of Dancing at Paradise Garage. Alot of the Garage staff, even Larry Levan used to go to Pink Tea Cup in the mornings after.

I used to bring my family that came to visit me from Chicago there and everybody loved the food. I was not really a Sylvia's Person because I always lived Downtown so going uptown to eat was a bit of a stretch.

And I would go so far as to say that Sylvia's was Hip-Hop & Pink Tea Cup was Disco!

I have seen many a Disco Diva tip through their doors on the late Sunday mornings. And if you look on the walsl, the photos of those that loved Pink Tea Cup tell the story of 55 years of excellent food, service and friendliness to a community that supported this fine establishment.

I just walked by there the other day and looked in the window, surprised they were still open.

I have to admit I have not been in years. After I moved to LA in the mid 90's, I never went back again.

I also adopted healthier eating habits and foods high in cholesterol have not been on the menu since I was a young buck!

But for the sake of nostalgia I will visit them one last time. Have a meal, reminisce, savor the memories and say goodbye to yet another beautiful memory from a bygone era that will stay in my heart until I return to the essence.....
~LB

2009-12-08T01:16:00.002Z

Lono Brazil returns to Chicago from his East Coast trip to The planet Brooklyn and to Miami Beach. In both cities he was met with love & Disco Lovers. Made some new friends and saw some old ones. His return to both cities is eminent. Stay tuned.....

So this Saturday (Every 2nd Saturday of Every Month) Lono returns to the home of DUSC Danny's Discotheque where it all began, for what promises to be a special night as this is the final Disco Unusual Social Club for 2009.

It was a very good year where we saw the sublime Mr. Brazil grow with the Disco Unusual Social Club t-shirt line and venture out to take the show on the road and create Disco Magic in cites like Los Angeles, London, New York, Miami & of course the special events in Chicago with Lovefingers & Lee Douglas (Rong/DFA/Black Disco, NYC).

Mr Brazil also shared the decks with a stellar list of DJ's in 2009. He Boogied with Dåm Funk (Stones Throw), Space Discoed with Morgan Giest(Metro Area,Environ) Astro Boogied with Master Khan aka The Twilite Tone and also Nitedog(Black Disco), Derrick Carter(Classic), Scott "Smokin: Sills(WBMX, Hot Mix 5), Michael Sarafini, Billy Goods, Bobby Soul, & People In Cars.

Please join us as we dance to the Mystical, magical, musical Disco sounds of Mr. Brazil for the last time in 2009.

Disco Unusual Social Club is a moving Dirty Disco Party that takes Disco Heads, on a musical adventure that's full of Studio 54 Glam and old-school Chicago House Music energy.

Everything from forgotten Disco detritus such as "Lovetown" are staples for DUSC & Dimitri from Paris.

Designed to conjure the era of the Loft and DJs like Nicky Siano and Larry Levan. Lono Brazil keeps the dance floor packed with dirty-disco programming, mutant dance oddities and original edits and exclusives.

http://discounusualsocialclub.podomatic.com/
http://www.myspace.com/diskounusualsocialclub
http://www.discogs.com/label/Cottage+Groove
http://discounusualsocialclub.bigcartel.com/

THE ART OF THE MATTER: Disco Unusual Social Club meets Art Basel Miami

2009-12-07T18:28:00.000Z

2009-11-16T17:11:00.002Z

Wed 11.25.09 I will be at Danny's in the Bucktown Section of Chicago for a special Pre-Thanksgivings Disco Dance Party "Thanks To You". 10 pm-2am.
The next day I return to New York City for the 1st installment of the NYC VERSION of Disco Unusual Social Club. The party will be in Williamsburg in the Borough of Brooklyn.

The venue is TROPHY BAR located at 351 Broadway Brooklyn, NY 11211 Just off the Williamsburg Bridge. 10 minutes from downtown Manhattan. Check out their Blog http://trophybar.blogspot.com It's a pretty cool place I hear.

My Good Dude Duane Harriott (Bim Marx,Other Music, Audio Archeologist) Holds his "ENERGY TO BURN" party there every Month.

So while chief E2B rocka DJ Duane Harriott is out on the left coast for the holiday, I will be presenting the NYC edition of the acclaimed Moving Disco party the "Disco Unusual Social Club" at Billyburg's fave watering hole..let's give thanks!!!

~LB

Galerie De La Vie: NICKY SIANO

2009-11-05T06:16:00.000Z

"Larry and I would blow up balloons, set up the food bar, prepare the punch, and give out acid, but we also spent a lot of time in the DJ booth, watching Nicky's every move. He pretty much taught us what he was doing" says Frankie Knuckles.

Nicky Siano is a pioneer of the dance music scene in the early seventies. He was the owner/designer/DJ of the legendary seventies dance palace THE GALLERY, a club that inspired The Garage and Studio 54. He inspired and launched the careers of Grace Jones, D.C. La Rue, Loleatta Holloway, Larry Levan and Frankie Knuckles, to name a few. His recent party at TWELVE WEST, 1999-2002, was heralded by New York Magazine, The Village Voice, Time Out, Hx, Next, Flyer, DJ Times and Paper Magazine as the party of the year.

"Nicky Siano invented the segue." New York Magazine's 35th Anniversary issue, April 2003, Nicky is named as one of the "100 People who Changed New York."

"Nicky Siano IS dance music." Play Magazine, March 2003 (Australian Tour)

“DJ Legend Nicky Siano remains an important figure in the music industry.” Time Out magazine, September 2001

“Nicky Siano, the legendary Studio 54 DJ, finally returns with a new weekly party…Nicky concentrates on the vibe rather than the classics of an era. One of the moist welcome parties in recent years.”
Flyer magazine, April 1999

In 2004, SOUL JAZZ RECORDS released the first GALLERY COMPILATION, which is an incredible historic package, that includes rare photo's and narration by Nicky, in an impressive casing.

Nicky is featured in MAESTRO, the documentary playing around the world chronicling the life and times of Larry Levan, now available on DVD. In Tim Lawrence's epic book, LOVE SAVES THE DAY, the definitive book on the seventies dance music scene, Nicky's career is chronicled in some detail.

In MTV/VH1's THE DAY DISCO RULED THE WORLD, Nicky is the comic relief and shines threw the many big names on this project. The special is being shown on music channels around the world..

INSPIRA RECORDS was started this year by Nicky, 2004, and the first release SMOKING IT by Automagic is a dance floor staple at the LOFT and many other major clubs. Other releases include "Love Serenade", "Kiss me Again", and "The Power of Love".

A film shot at the Gallery 1975-77, featuring dance scene's that cannot be recreated today, interviews, and the story of one of the patrons, is being edited for release, 2008. A NIGHT AT THE GALLERY, will actually take the viewer in, and guide him threw a night at the legendary club, in 5.1 surround sound. THIS IS THE PROJECT NICKY CONCENTRATES ON NOW IN 2008, as he prepares for the next phase of life.

Nicky’s career began in 1971 and within one year, at the age of seventeen, he opened his own club, THE GALLERY. NY Daily News named him “the city’s best DJ,” Women’s Wear Daily called him “a genius behind the turntables,” and New York Magazine called his club, The Gallery, “one of the five most visually breathtaking nightspots of our time.” Grace Jones and Loleatta Holloway both made their debut appearances at his legendary nightspot.

It was no coincidence that when Steve Rubelle opened Studio 54 he chose Nicky as one of the two original DJ’s, the other was Ritchie Cazor, who has since passed. Continuing his work at the Gallery on the weekends, Nicky weaved his magic during the week at Studio and other many legendary clubs, including Le Jardin, The Grand Ballroom, Galaxy 21, The Limelight, Enchanted Gardens, Hurrah, and The Botel. When the Gallery closed in 1977 he took his regular Saturday night party to The Buttermilk Bottom where it continued for the next three years. He played for Bianca Jagger's legendary birthday party at , Studio 54, where she rode in on a white stallion.

In 1977, he became the first DJ to produce a record-- the underground classic “Kiss Me Again” on Sire Records sold more than 300,000 copies. In 1983, Nicky produced and wrote the top ten--dance classic “Pick It Up.”

Nicky Siano (March 18, 1955 - )was a resident DJ at Studio 54. Siano was born in Brooklyn, New York

The WoRLD BEFORE HOUSE;

2009-11-05T01:57:00.000Z

Chicago Circa 1984 Further Evidence That Euro Disco always existed in Chicago!!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/6798935255bea386/

DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB: A MR. BRAZIL EDIT

2009-11-05T01:41:00.000Z

Véronique et Davina - Crazy Horse - Janvier 1984 GYM TONIC/FRENCH DISCO BOOGIE

2009-11-05T01:17:00.000Z

gym tonic
Uploaded by hot-video. - Music videos, artist interviews, concerts and more.

Véronique et Davina - Crazy Horse - Janvier 1984 - Les grandes heures de Gym Tonic, l'émission culte de Véronique et Davina ! Les danseuses du Crazy Horse en plein exercice sur la chanson "Histoire d'un soir" de la

UP JUMPED THE BOOGIE TO THE BANG BANG BOOGIE

2009-11-05T01:09:00.000Z

11.7.09
Simone's
906 W. 18th St
Pilsen/Chicago
No Cover
Music:Lono Brazil

Let's Rock. You Don't Stop!

DEEPBLAK RECORDINGS

2009-11-05T01:07:00.000Z

ASTRO BOOGIE DISCO FIX!!!

2009-09-03T04:57:00.000+01:00

NEW MIX ON DUSC PODCAST!! SUMMER SUN SALUTATIONS

2009-08-25T17:13:00.000+01:00

http://discounusualsocialclub.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-08-23T15_28_27-07_00

A BRIEF HISTORY OF DISCO (VERY BRIEF)

2009-08-25T17:07:00.000+01:00

Ok fellas, as The European Version of DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB gets set to invade London Town. It is only suiting that we start to think about what we are going to wear. I will post some style suggestions but in the meantime in between time....Here;s a Briefing!

2009-08-07T23:44:00.000+01:00

NEW MUSIC ON COTTAGE GROOVE RECORDINGS

2009-07-29T19:35:00.000+01:00

Click On The Below Link for more info & Listen to New Disco Edits from Mr. Brazil....You won't be mad!

RELEASE YOURSELF

2009-07-08T04:45:00.000+01:00

2009-04-27T00:36:00.000+01:00

The May edition of Jackson takes on a disco aesthetic as we welcome Environ Records afficionado MORGAN GEIST for his first appearance at Sonotheque. One half of the incomparable METRO AREA (with Darshan Jesrani), Morgan's "Double Night Time" solo album was released to critical acclaim in 2008, topping end of year lists the world over. He returns to Chicago for his second Jackson performance! The evening's theme continues as we welcome the sublime LONO BRAZIL for his debut appearance at Jackson. With a storied history in the music industry, the scene stalwart's current monthly endeavor - the Disco Unusual Social Club - regularly blows the roof off of Danny's tavern, and we're floored to finally have him at Jackson. Samone SR71 Roberts rounds out our transmission, bringing her unique brand of effervescent disco stylings to Sonotheque in what will set off a night boogie-down jams from start to finish!

HELLO2MORROW DUSC EDIT(MOODYMANN)

2009-03-24T05:37:00.000Z

This album is REEE-DICCCC-U-LUM!!!! You can purchase it here...

www.mahoganimusic.com

http://www.myspace.com/moodymann313

Most people know two things about Detroit tech-soul legend Moodymann, aka Kenny Dixon, Jr.:
1) In the game since the mid-‘90s, Moodymann’s minimal yet soulful, sample-heavy sound melds the mechanics of house music with the pulse and grime of techno to form a Detroit tech-house crossbreed that is unique the world over and lauded on all points of the globe. He played a primary role in shaping the genre, and has publicly decried what he sees as a white DJ dominance in commercial electronic music.

2) And that’s about all they know about Moodymann.
It’s only very recently that the Moody one has become comfortable with raising his profile and taking more credit for his significant body of work (the full list of Dixon’s alleged ghost productions is staggering). Here, in his first-ever interview, the elusive producer gives us a quick look into his clandestine inner world.

To read more & the interview go to;http://www.demon-days.com/guests.html

This is the DUSC EDITS version done by Lono Brazil. I needed it longer and deeper for the dancefloor for our last party here in Chicago with Lee Douglas & Lovefingers. The reaction was very good. Moodymann is one of my favorite producers in the whole of electronic music.....He is like none other.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/575179096192e815/

LEE DOUGLAS & LOVEFINGERS @ DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB CHICAGO

2009-03-24T05:10:00.000Z

THe Next Installment Of Disco Unusual Social Club

2009-03-17T12:55:00.001Z

AMAZING GRACE!!!!

2009-02-13T18:30:00.000Z

DISCO FLASHBACK!!!!!!

2009-02-13T17:31:00.001Z

2009-02-13T17:25:00.001Z

After 25 years, Grace Jones reunites with photographer Jean-Paul Goude for the Spring issue of V Magazine. Even @ 60 something years old Grace is still that Bitch! We have been pubing Grace for a cool minute here at DUSC and she is our muse. Now all you Disco copy cats can act like you were always on it!
~LB
DUSC

The Next Installment Of Disco Unusual Social Club

2009-02-13T17:04:00.000Z

http://www.zshare.net/audio/55572248a122ecaa/

SOUNDCHECK IN TIMEOUT CHICAGO TOP 5

2008-12-10T21:42:00.001Z

DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB TIME OUT MAGAZINE

2008-12-10T21:35:00.000Z

DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB PODCAST

2008-12-06T15:44:00.000Z

New mix up on the DUSC Podcast

http://www.zshare.net/audio/52319425516b64a4/

http://duscsounds.mypodcast.com/2008/12/Disco_Unusual_Social_Club_Dance_Yo_Ass_Off_12508-165035.html
Download, Listen, Enjoy....

"Keep On Dancin"

DUSC

Disco not DISCO!!!

2008-12-01T02:03:00.000Z

Yello Bostich
Percussion - Beat Ash
Producer - Yello
Remix - Ian Tregoning
Written-By, Arranged By - Boris Blank , Dieter Meier

Lono Brazil vs. Yello
http://www.zshare.net/audio/52085820e7a9246d/

[URL=http://www.zshare.net/audio/52085820e7a9246d/]BOSTICH.mp3 - 15.41MB[/URL]

THE STORE IS OPEN!!!!

2008-12-01T01:25:00.000Z

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http://discounusualsocialclub.bigcartel.com/

Disco Inferno 2.0: A Slightly Less Hedonistic Comeback

2008-11-24T22:19:00.000Z

Charting the DJs, labels, and edits fueling an old new craze
By Andy Beta
Tuesday, November 18th 2008 at 1:52pm

Love Fingers (left) and Doug Lee re-educate the masses.

Every other Wednesday night, LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy and Pat Mahoney host their Special Disco Version party down at Santos' Party House, complete with complementary blue-neon signage. But earlier this year, they took their disco records (and their sign) cross-country, and the Chinatown club's downstairs room, bereft of that neon glow, grows darker. In the shadows, furtive cigarettes flare, while in the booth, DJs Prince Language and Lee Douglas are just barely visible, whipping up track after track of deep, cheesy, ridiculously obscure disco sides.

Taken by St. Vitus, perhaps, a girl breaks from the dance floor and storms the booth, ravishing the lanky Language and threatening to capsize him onto the spinning decks. For an instant, the return of disco seems as hedonistic as its original '70s version. Prince Language (née Joshua Taylor) laughs it off the next day, though: "The girl in the booth was a friend's wife, scaling me like some sort of disco pony," he tells me in his Mercer Street studio, where he's working to finish up a mix for a fashion show as well as remixes for LCD Soundsystem and Lindstrøm. "I eventually carried her back to her husband and presented her to him like an award statue. All in a night's work, I guess."

Over the past couple of years, disco has re-emerged to soundtrack and reinvigorate not just New York's nightlife, but parties around the globe. There are folks like Prins Thomas and Todd Terje in Norway, the Idjut Boys and Quiet Village in England, Optimo and Betty Botox in Scotland, Pilooski and Joakim in Paris, and even some West Coasters getting in on the action. But one needn't look beyond the boroughs to note disco's renaissance. There may be no more Paradise Garage, no Body & Soul parties, and only intermittent instances of the hallowed Loft parties hosted by David Mancuso, but a new generation of DJs, producers, and record labels are keeping the flame. There's Morgan Geist and Daniel Wang, Rub-n-Tug, Escort, My Cousin Roy, the Real DJ Spun, Jacques Renault, Love Fingers, Mark E., the aforementioned Lee Douglas and Prince Language, and dozens of other aliases at work, while labels like DFA, Environ, Rong Music, Wurst, Golf Channel, Italians Do It Better, Editions Disco, Whatever We Want, and Black Disco are just a few of the imprints showcasing New York's nu-disco in a new century. Rather than attempt to chart symphonic strings and ludicrous sounds in glitzy studios (much less hearken back to Studio 54 megalomania), many of these producers and artists are instead paying homage to the musical form in its earliest incarnation, chopping up an extant song to make it dance-floor-friendly.

"Edits created disco," explains Lee Douglas (née Doug Lee), citing folks like Tom Moulton, who famously took master tapes of Philly soul and funk songs and spliced the tape so as to extend the best parts. As Moulton recalls in the crucial tome Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, "I just thought it was a shame that the records weren't longer, so people could really start getting off." To make a nonstop 45-minute mix back then, Moulton would labor on the reels for upward of 80 hours. Such edit work set the template for all future mixers, remixers, and producers, be it Walter Gibbons, Larry Levan, and François K., or Chicago DJs like Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles, on through to the present.

Edits were a tool that allowed DJs to take pre-existing tracks and reshape them to better fit into their sets, whether it meant setting an 808 under the drums, extending the percussion break, or repeating a vocal line to the point of mesmerism. "With every edit, it's an ode to the artist," says DJ/producer Jacques Renault, who releases edits under his own name and original productions as part of recently DFA-signed group Runaway. "You admire this piece of work so much you want to make it even better."

The modern renaissance of the disco edit starts with Ministry of Sound's DJ Harvey and his epochal "Black Cock" series of edits in the mid '90s, followed up by the Idjut Boys and Theo Parrish's "Ugly Edits." Due to the scarcity of the pressings (mostly made for DJ use, plus copyrights become an issue if they remain on the market for long), in the past few years the edit itself has become a fetish object, exacerbated by Internet message-board zealotry and the proliferation of software like Pro Tools and Ableton, which allows initiates and tyros to easily beat-match and make loops. DJ Harvey, who made his first edits via tape and cutting block—and then later on an old Atari computer, all scarcely a decade ago—laments the ease of the edit now. "People don't put quite enough effort into it. It's easy to attempt, but it's not easy to get right with computer technology."

Language agrees: "Edits are relatively easy to do—they're a gateway production drug. It's an easy way to learn what works and what doesn't." The edit arises from the all-too-natural urge of "when you hear something great, you want it to continue," he explains, cueing up his own edit of Canadian disco auteur Gino Soccio's "Love Is" to prove his point; originally a two-minute album interlude, Language expanded it into an ebullient eight minutes for the Francophone-sounding Editions Disco label.

The second reason that edits arise is to elide cringe-worthy parts of otherwise excellent tracks, be it overwrought and keyless singing, lame lyrics, haphazard chord changes, or what-have-you. In the edit, shit can transform into shinola. Language perceives that with the technology available, edits are now "a punk-rock thing, in that making edits allow a lot of people access into it. But the downside is that most edits are going to suck. If you only need three or four chords to play, it's great because all of a sudden someone who thought they had no chance of ever being in a band before will start a band. But most people aren't going to be the Ramones or Wire."

Disco edits can mean recasting the most wretched Eastern European disco or dollar-bin pariahs in startling new lights, or it can lead to hubristic cut-ups of the Rolling Stones, Frankie Valli, America's "Horse With No Name," Billy Ocean, Chicago, Paul Simon, or even Wire. "What's annoying is how much people hype them on the Web," sighs Lee. "People do edits for the sake of copping a name for themselves. There's no fucking rules now."

The adage goes that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it, a fact that echoes at times through the new disco edit scene. Many of the form's current practitioners were toddlers during disco's '70s heyday, but grew up under the assumption that "disco sucks." Coming of age in the eras of hardcore punk and hip-hop (itself a genre birthed in part from seeking out the breaks in disco records), they had to work their way backwards to get at the original source of dance music. Unlike learning about, say, the canon of classic '60s rock, disco music and DJ culture remain decentralized as a whole. "Too many people these days just look to the Internet to learn about music," laments Rong Music's Jason Drummond, a/k/a the Real DJ Spun. "If you're a DJ, you don't learn on the Internet. It's about interacting with people on a personal level, in person."

In the midst of Chicago's post-rock heyday—while attending the Art Institute there—Renault began grabbing whatever records were filed under the "WBMX" section (an urban radio station that frequently had its playlists overlap with those of Chicago's hallowed Music Box; think of the synergy between the Paradise Garage and New York's WBLS). Previously, Language DJ'd hip-hop and funk in the Windy City, and even had a reggae residency at Joe's Pub upon relocating here. Doug Lee started out spinning funk, jazz, and soul out West in the '90s, before the "rare groove" renaissance shot all the record prices through the roof. Digging for disco was primarily an economic matter for him: "I got into disco just because the other shit was too expensive, whereas people would just give away 50-cent disco records."

Renault muses that many of the DJs on the scene today were originally old punk-rock kids, and he himself was drawn in part to the music by "the dirtiness of disco—it's similar to punk." Much like punks relished obscure seven-inches, that mindset carried over to disco. "There's still the pleasure of finding that awesome record. The whole vinyl thing is important to disco, too, like, 'Oh, you have that? Mine's in mint condition.' It's like baseball cards."

The metaphor is apt, as the primary distinction between disco then and now is glaring. Originally, disco music and discotheques provided a haven for disenfranchised gays, blacks, and Latinos. "Disco music is implicitly political, in the best sense of the word," Language explains. "It has the weight of politics, social situations, communities, and cultures, but it's not banging you over the head with it. But it does come out of this very real need, and the music reflected that. You don't have to read too deep into something like (South Shore Commission's) 'Free Man' to understand its chorus of 'I'm a free man.' "

Back then, discotheques provided a space and shelter for personal expression not available to disenfranchised subsets in their daily lives. "But now, it's the province of nerdy, mostly straight white guys, which is ironic in the real sense of the word," laughs Language. Nu-disco may pound and swing similarly, but its audience has blanched and grown stiff. Disco may no longer be a celebration of sexual freedom, but instead, just another ironically embraced taste of the moment. Language cedes that such trends are always in flux and that disco itself no longer serves as the soundtrack of sexual freedom that it did back then. "Gay culture in general has changed so radically. It's not that our society is free of homophobia, but a lot of aspects of gay culture have become mainstreamed." This inversion of race and sexual preference isn't lost on disco's practitioners or newfound admirers, as Language knows all too well. "My girlfriend once summed it up: 'You and all your friends are the straightest white guys who play the gayest dance music.' "

By Andy Beta

The Next Installment Of Disco Unusual Social Club

2008-11-22T06:42:00.001Z

THE UNIVERSE OF KEITH HARING!

2008-10-28T02:02:00.000Z

Friends, I want to share something with you I feel you will enjoy. I had the pleasure of going to this New York Premiere Last Friday & I gotta tell you. THIS IS AN AWESOME FILM!!

It really captures the true essence of a person I love and who was very dear to me. MR. KEITH HARING!!!

"The creator of some of the most popular, enduring images of late 20th-century art, Keith Haring was also an iconic figure of the downtown New York scene in the '80s. Christina Clausen's documentary offers an affectionate, deeply personal glimpse into Haring's life, from his early years growing up in a small, conservative Pennsylvania town to his heyday as a world-renowned artist, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Madonna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Andy Warhol."

Chicago Premiere!
THE UNIVERSE OF KEITH HARING
2007, Christine Clausen, Italy/France, 82 min.

Keith Haring was a protean artist who, in less than ten years of feverish activity, produced a prodigious output that lived up to his motto, "Art is for everyone!" His work ranged from explicit raunch to church murals, from highbrow institutions to playground walls to body art, all imprinted with one of the most dazzling and distinctive styles of any modern artist. Employing on-the-spot video footage (including amazing records of Haring's lightning-fast working methods) and interviews with friends, family, and icons (Yoko Ono, Fab 5 Freddy, Junior Vasquez, Bill T. Jones), director Clausen captures both Haring's ebullient personality and the 1980s cultural ferment that shaped his art, including the Mudd Club, graffiti, hip hop, and the AIDS crisis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGrJ63vJ7G8

Don't miss this. This is a piece of art. About Art & about True Artist that broke rules and wrote new ones. Finally a film that sheds a bright light on an artist that has brought light in

so many of our lives. Those of us that knew him and those who did not. A very inspiring compelling film that will make you laugh.(it also made me cry) .

Schedule
October 31, 2008
Laemmle Music Hall
Beverly Hills, California
Theater Website
October 31 - November 6, 2008
Gene Siskel Film Center
Chicago, Illinois
Theater Website
October 31 - November 6, 2008
Gene Siskel Film Center
Chicago, Illinois
Theater Website
November 5, 2008
Wexner Film Center
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Theater Website
November 20 - 30, 2008
BT Film Festival
Montreal, Canada
Theater Website
Don't be a trick this Halloween. Treat yourself to something sweet!

Thanks for you time.

Lono

The Next Installment Of DisKo Unusual Social Club 10.4.08

2008-10-04T06:44:00.000+01:00

DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB

DANNY'S TAVERN
1951 W. Dickens
Bucktown/Chicago
Sat. Oct. 4th 2008
11PM-3AM
No Cover

music by Lono Brazil

Who's Watching The Watcher??

That ethic has something to do with outer space, inner space, political space and sexual space.....Clear out you a space, go into Myspace, ascend to a magical space which transports the listener as effectively as flashing lights and constant motion and a mechanical beat that transports the dancer. Earth can be just like outter space....If you believe in the magical world ...

Going Down Makes Me Shiver......
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Lawrence Philpot aka Larry Levan

2008-08-17T18:13:00.000+01:00

Lawrence Philpot, aka Larry Levan, legendary disc jockey of the Paradise Garage, record producer and remixer died Sunday, November 8, 1992 at Beth Israel Hospital from heart failure due to endicarditis: he was 38. Larry is revered primarily as the DJ and driving force of the famous gay disco Paradise Garage. With engineer Richard Long, he custom-designed the Garage's monster sound system and DJ booth, complete with audiophile Thorens turntables.

Larry's brilliance lay not only in his technical skill and audio expertise, but also in his unique and eclectic taste. He confounded and greatly broadened the "rules" of what "dance music" could be, mixing everything from gospel, reggae, Philly soul and Euro-disco to rock ("Stand Back"/Stevie Nicks and "Eminence Front"/The Who, to name but two), post-punk ("The Magnificent Seven"/The Clash, and Talking Heads), ambient/environmental music (Klaus Schulze and Manuel Gottsching, for example), and just about everything else. He augmented this aural collage with disorienting sound effects and mind-expanding audio manipulations, working the crossover and balance controls to throw sound around the room as if it had a will of its own. Larry was a shaman who opened a sonic Pandora's box when he Djed, with all kinds of beautiful, scary and indescribably bizarre sounds careening around the room like spirits flying out of the Ark of the Covenant.

Larry cut his musical teeth at The Loft, essentially the first underground, afterhours disco. Started by David Mancuso at the advent of the '70s, The Loft combined psychedelic culture with proto-disco music, which then consisted of longform, psychedelic-influenced soul ("Melting Pot"/Booker T. & The MG's, "Papa Was a Rolling Stone"/The Temptations, etc.), jazz-funk like The Blackbyrds, funky rock ("Woman"/Barabas, for example) and trippy head music like Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. When Paradise Garage opened in 1976, Larry added gospel-and R&B-flavored disco to his musical menu.

With Larry at the helm, the Garage embodied all that was beautiful about disco: glamour, unpretentiousness, excitement, hedonism, epiphany through music, black/white and gay/straight harmony, and the general concept of the dancefloor as family. Celebrities like Grace Jones, Keith Haring, Nile Rogers, Chaka Khan and Madonna hung out and danced the night away along with thousands more of Larry's dedicated flock.

As a remixer, Larry applied his inimitable touch to countless all-time club classics, including "Got My Mind Made Up"/Instant Funk, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"/Inner Life, "Can't Play Around"/Lace, "Heartbeat"/Taana Gardner, Gwen Guthrie's "Should Have Been You" and "Nothing Going On But The Rent" and many, many others. As a writer and producer, he helped create the sound of the innovative New York Citi Peech Boys and their seminal club hits "Don't Make Me Wait", "On A Journey", "Come On, Come On" and "Life Is Something Special", a joyous, mesmerizing celebration of life, love, and music. Larry's work has a spacious, epic, atmospheric quality, with a haunting blend of joy and pain.

After the Garage closed in 1987, Larry kept a considerably lower profile, doing guest spots at various clubs, including Studio 54, Palladium and Mars, and Djing regularly at The Choice, arguably the inheritor of the Garage's underground legacy. The Choice didn't have the grandeur of the Garage, but Larry made it his home, casting his psychedelic spell on a diverse crowd of devoted Garage heads and various other afterhours types. Although his remixing work (and, according to some, his spinning ability) diminished, there's no doubt that Larry, even on a bad night, was still infinitely more creative, interesting and unpredictable than any other jock around. It was that unpredictability that was the reason for many of his followers disenchantment by the mid-and-late '80's: it was also the reason that legions more literally lived to hear him play, or were inspired to make their own careers in music and the music business.

Larry's legacy is more than just a legendary nightclub and a fistful of club classics. Larry Levan was the ultimate DJ: he didn't just excel at his job, he reinvented the concept of the DJ, blurring the boundaries of music, race, sex, sexuality, and changing thousands of people's perception of music, sound and the world around them.

-Ð Adam Goldstone (used with kind permission).

I had the pleasure of meeting Larry and going to the Paradise Garage. It was the single most incredibly experience to happen to me and my musical pursuits. It is why I play records today. Larry was a very demure reserved dude unless he knew you. We had two mutual good friends in common (Frankie Knuckles & Keith Haring) and through Keith I was able to gain access into the booth and Larry. He was a very nice friendly guy that had a no nonsense kinda vibe about himself. Unpretentious in a fabulous
way. His personality was very likeable and infectious. He had a very passionate way about himself.

I saw him play at a couple of smaller venues in NY(Choice) & Japan (Yello).

THe last time I remember seeing Larry was early 92 he was jay walking alone across Bowery barefoot with Japan designer fashion on. I wanna say it was Kansai Yamamoto. It was around 8 or 9 in the morning. He looked troubled......Not long after I got news that he had passed. I was really saddened. It was a great lost.

Copy & Paste this link and listen to a interview and Larry Playing some of his favorite tunes. He also speaks about technology, music production and NY club scene. Kiss Fm Interview with Larry Levan circa early 90's, Featuring some of Levan's favourite selections.

http://choqolat.org/real%20audio/larry.rm

I LOVE DUSC: SPRING AFFAIR 2008 DISkO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB

2008-08-07T02:29:00.000+01:00

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http://www.zshare.net/audio/16642804afc1e8d3/

[URL=http://www.zshare.net/audio/16642804afc1e8d3/]i love dusc spring affair 2008 mixed by lono brazil 4.mp3 - 42.69MB[/URL]

UNLIMITED CAPACITY FOR LOVE

2008-08-06T05:17:00.000+01:00

As We Proceed To Need What You Give...
Your energy & presence.....it is the formula for any decent Social Club.
Without You we would not be able to do this. We do it for and because of you. IT'S YOUR'S!!!!
Do you want it? When you have it will you flaunt it???
Bring a friend. This is a real friends & family demonstration.
I got some new re-edits I am gonna be playing out for the first time.....and some fresh tees.....

DISKO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB & COTTAGE GROOVE RECORDINGS PRESENTS~ Unlimited Capacity For Love
DAVID MANCUSO,NEW YORK NOIZE,KONK, DINOSAUR L, BABY D, LEE DOUGLAS, ESG, COATI MUNDI, NEW YORK DISCO MACHINE. DEODATO, HARVEY SARCASTIC DISCO, THEO VAN NES, COCK ROBIN, I DO IT BECAUSE I WANT TO, NOT BECAUSE I HAVE TO....IT IS A LUXURY......A TOM MOULTON MIX, PLASTIC BERTRAND, HORSEMEAT DISCO, LES BAIN DOUCHES, ZE RECORDS, MARK KAMINS, NELL'S, LIAISONS DANGEROUS, JAMES BROWN(ACCORDING TO DANTE"THE SCURB" ROSS, JB INVENTED DISCO AND THREW THE SHIT AWAY....WE AGREE WITH DANTE). CHIC, LARRY LEVAN, EURO TRASH, GARY'S GANG, GINO SOCIO, NICKY SIANO, RON HARDY, SOUTH SHORE COMMISSION, RONG MUSIC, CERRONE, SAVE THE ROBOTS, MICHAEL IZZYBEAUCOUP, LEE "SCRATCH" PERRY, LOVE COMMITTEE, ......QUINCY JONES, XANADU, (MY STYLE IS IMPETUOUS) QUEEN CONSTANCE RECORDS, PANORAMA, , KANO, CHILLY, (NEVER STOP LEARNING), STOP & LISTEN.....PATRICK COWLEY, A NUMBER OF NAMES, LOUIS CHEDID, ASHRA, MICHAEL JACKSON,ULTRAVOX, BARRBAS, ARTSY DISCO IS SOME BRAND NEW ISH.....I CAN TAKE A PHRASE THAT'S RARELY HEARD. FLIP IT! NOW IT'S THE DAILY WORD.....BALEARIK SOUL, LOVEFINGERS, HEDI SLIMANE, FUSICOLOGY.COM, TOTO, I LOVE FOUR LETTER NAMES LIKE LONO.....GOLD'S TOKYO. THAT SPOT WAS THE MOST AMAZING DISCO IN THE WORLD. THE SAME CAT THAT DID THE SOUND SYSTEM AT THE PARADISE GARAGE DI THE SOUND SYSTEM......LOVE ON 8TH STREET & MCDOUGAL ST, HAS AN ILL SOUND SYSTEM TOO. GO WHEN HARVEY IS PLAYING....YOU WILL REALLY GET A CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE THE A REAL SOUND SYSTEM. FRANKIE CROCKER USED TO HEAT IT UP ON WBLS BACK IN THE 80'S ALL DISCO HEAT!! ....BUT LOVE'S SOUND SYSTEM IS UNLIKE ANYTHING I HAVE EVER HEARD. AND I WAS AT PARADISE GARAGE....DIAL 77, TANTRA, LASER COWBOYS,Ja Kii, PHREEK PLUS ONE, THE TEE-SHIRT LINE IS REALLY COMING TOGETHER.....TULIO de PISCOPO, MODERN TALKING, KLIEN &MBO, GQ, KEN LASZLO, ST. TROPEZ, DON RAY, GIORGIO MORODER, TELEX, MUSIQUE. MILTON GLASER, WAXPOETICS, ANYTHING ELSE REAL REAL ON SOME X-TRA DIFFERENT OTHER SHIT.

Event Information:
Saturday, August 09, 2008
10:00 PM - 3:00 AM
21+
cover: FREE | Wear Warm Leatherette and get in FREE!!!!

Contact Email:
discounusualsocialclub@gmail.com

Venue Information:
Danny's Tavern
1951 W. Dickens Ave
@ Armitage
Chicago, IL 60614
(773) 489-6457
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The Next Installment Of DisKo Unusual Social Club 7.12.08

2008-07-05T09:34:00.000+01:00

DISKO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB & COTTAGE GROOVE RECORDINGS PRESENTS~ DOUGH CLOCKIN, PLANET ROCKIN, SOUL SHOCKIN #1 KOOL DJ , LONO BRAZIL. FRESH OUT THE PACK! COLD GETTIN BUSY ON THE DISCO TIP.....SO DON'T SLEEP.

DAVID MANCUSO,NEW YORK NOIZE,KONK, DINOSAUR L, BABY D, LEE DOUGLAS, ESG, COATI MUNDI, NEW YORK DISCO MACHINE. DEODATO, HARVEY SARCASTIC DISCO, THEO VAN NES, COCK ROBIN, I DO IT BECAUSE I WANT TO, NOT BECAUSE I HAVE TO....IT IS A LUXURY...I SHOULD TAX YOU MF'S......A TOM MOULTON MIX, PLASTIC BERTRAND, HORSEMEAT DISCO, LES BAIN DOUCHES, ZE RECORDS, MARK KAMINS, NELL'S, LIAISONS DANGEROUS, JAMES BROWN(ACCORDING TO DANTE"THE SCURB" ROSS, JB INVENTED DISCO AND THREW THE SHIT AWAY....WE AGREE WITH DANTE). CHIC, LARRY LEVAN, EURO TRASH, GARY'S GANG, GINO SOCIO, NICKY SIANO, RON HARDY, SOUTH SHORE COMMISSION, RONG MUSIC, CERRONE, SAVE THE ROBOTS, MICHAEL IZZYBEAUCOUP, LEE "SCRATCH" PERRY, LOVE COMMITTEE, TWILITE TONE DOES A TUES NITE AT APT NYC......QUINCY JONES, XANADU, (MY STYLE IS IMPETUOUS) QUEEN CONSTANCE RECORDS, PANORAMA, (DO YOUR FUCKING HOMEWORK(KIDS DO YOUR CHOURS), KANO, CHILLY, (NEVER STOP LEARNING), STOP & LISTEN.....PATRICK COWLEY, A NUMBER OF NAMES, LOUIS CHEDID, (IF YOU COME, YOU MIGHT EVEN LEARN SOMETHING), ASHRA, ULTRAVOX, BARRBAS, ARTSY DISCO IS SOME BRAND NEW ISH.....I CAN TAKE A PHRASE THAT'S RARELY HEARD. FLIP IT! NOW IT'S THE DAILY WORD.....BALEARIK SOUL, LOVEFINGERS, HEDI SLIMANE, FUSICOLOGY.COM, TOTO, I LOVE FOUR LETTER NAMES LIKE LONO.....GOLD'S TOKYO. THAT SPOT WAS THE MOST AMAZING DISCO IN THE WORLD. THE SAME CAT THAT DID THE SOUND SYSTEM AT THE PARADISE GARAGE DI THYE SOUND SYSTEM......LOVE ON 8TH STREET & MCDOUGAL ST, HAS AN ILL SOUND SYSTEM TOO. GO WHEN HARVEY IS PLAYING....YOU WILL REALLY GET A CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE THE A REAL SOUND SYSTEM. FRANKIE CROCKER USED TO HEAT IT UP ON WBLS BACK IN THE 80'S ALL DISCK HEAT!! I LIKE SONOTHEQUE'S SYSTEM TOO....BUT LOVE'S SOUND SYSTEM IS UNLIKE ANYTHING I HAVE EVER HEARD. AND I WAS AT PARADISE GARAGE....DIAL 77, TANTRA, LASER COWBOYS,Ja Kii, PHREEK PLUS ONE, THE TEE-SHIRT LINE IS REALLY COMING TOGETHER.....TULIO de PISCOPO, MODERN TALKING, KLIEN &MBO, KEN LASZLO, ST. TROPEZ, DON RAY, GIORGIO MORODER, TELEX, MUSIQUE. MILTON GLASER, WAXPOETICS, ANYTHING ELSE REAL REAL ON SOME X-TRA DIFFERENT OTHER SHIT.

THIS AFFAIR IS DEDICATED TO YOU THE PARTY PEOPLE SO COME OUT & CELEBRATE CAUSE YOU ARE THE CELEBRITY! PAPARAZZI WILL BE THERE SO WEAR YOUR FLYEST GEAR!!!

NO COVER. ALL PLAYBOY CLUB MEMBERS ADMITTED FREE.(MUST SHOW YOUR KEY, CAUSE THAT SHIT IS FRESH!!)

The Next Installment Of Disco Unusual Social Club

2008-05-25T04:04:00.001+01:00

DISKO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB PRESENTS~ ARTSY DISCO NOT DISCO. DAVID MANCUSO,
NEW YORK NOIZE,KONK, DINOSAUR L, BABY D, LEE DOUGLAS, ESG, COATI MUNDI, NEW YORK DISCO MACHINE. DEODATO, HARVEY SARCASTIC DISCO, THEO VAN NES, COCK ROBIN, I DO IT BECAUSE I WANT TO, NOT BECAUSE I HAVE TO....IT IS A LUXURY...I SHOULD TAX YOU MF'S......A TOM MOULTON MIX, PLASTIC BERTRAND, HORSEMEAT DISCO, LES BAIN DOUCHES, ZE RECORDS, MARK KAMINS, NELL'S, LIAISONS DANGEROUS, JAMES BROWN(ACCORDING TO DANTE"THE SCURB" ROSS, JB INVENTED DISCO AND THREW THE SHIT AWAY....WE AGREE WITH DANTE). CHIC, LARRY LEVAN, EURO TRASH, GARY'S GANG, GINO SOCIO, NICKY SIANO, RON HARDY, SOUTH SHORE COMMISSION, RONG MUSIC, CERRONE, SAVE THE ROBOTS, MICHAEL IZZYBEAUCOUP, LEE "SCRATCH" PERRY, LOVE COMMITTEE, TWILITE TONE DOES A TUES NITE AT APT NYC......QUINCY JONES, XANADU, (MY STYLE IS IMPETUOUS) QUEEN CONSTANCE RECORDS, PANORAMA, (DO YOUR FUCKING HOMEWORK(KIDS DO YOUR CHOURS), KANO, CHILLY, (NEVER STOP LEARNING), STOP & LISTEN.....PATRICK COWLEY, A NUMBER OF NAMES, LOUIS CHEDID, (IF YOU COME, YOU MIGHT EVEN LEARN SOMETHING), ASHRA, ULTRAVOX, BARRBAS, ARTSY DISCO IS SOME BRAND NEW ISH.....I CAN TAKE A PHRASE THAT'S RARELY HEARD. FLIP IT! NOW IT'S THE DAILY WORD.....BALEARIK SOUL, LOVEFINGERS, HEDI SLIMANE, FUSICOLOGY.COM, TOTO, I LOVE FOUR LETTER NAMES LIKE LONO.....GOLD'S TOKYO. THAT SPOT WAS THE MOST AMAZING DISCO IN THE WORLD. THE SAME CAT THAT DID THE SOUND SYSTEM AT THE PARADISE GARAGE DI THYE SOUND SYSTEM......LOVE ON 8TH STREET & MCDOUGAL ST, HAS AN ILL SOUND SYSTEM TOO. GO WHEN HARVEY IS PLAYING....YOU WILL REALLY GET A CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE THE A REAL SOUND SYSTEM. FRANKIE CROCKER USED TO HEAT IT UP ON WBLS BACK IN THE 80'S ALL DISCK HEAT!! I LIKE SONOTHEQUE'S SYSTEM TOO....BUT LOVE'S SOUND SYSTEM IS UNLIKE ANYTHING I HAVE EVER HEARD. AND I WAS AT PARADISE GARAGE....DIAL 77, TANTRA, LASER COWBOYS,Ja Kii, PHREEK PLUS ONE, THE TEE-SHIRT LINE IS REALLY COMING TOGETHER.....TULIO de PISCOPO, MODERN TALKING, KLIEN &MBO, KEN LASZLO, ST. TROPEZ, DON RAY, GIORGIO MORODER, TELEX, MUSIQUE. MILTON GLASER, WAXPOETICS, ANYTHING ELSE REAL REAL ON SOME X-TRA DIFFERENT OTHER SHIT.

DISkO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB MINI MIX(Teaser)

2008-05-03T15:17:00.000+01:00

A Poster from one of the early events.Graphics by Yours Truly....

Click The Poster below to hear the Vicarious Disco Quick Mix.....

Enjoy!

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: VINYLMANIA CLOSES DOWN

2008-03-19T04:38:00.000Z

This was the spot! Back in the Garage days, we used to live in here. Right around the corner from Paradise Garage/
59 Carmine Street.

Larry would play some new amazing cuts and the next day or atleast by Monday the spot would be packed.
Charlie would be holding down the fort and my dude Gerrad would play the songs and we would all go crazy. It would turn into a feeding frenzy. Like the floor of the stock exchange......

Wow those were the days. No CD's so you had to buy the vinyl. I did not DJ in clubs in those days. I had turntables and used to make mix tapes.

JUST FOR THE RECORD: Record Reviews & Opinions

2008-03-11T07:59:00.000Z

Disco Not Disco: Post Punk, Electro and Leftfield Disco Classics 1974-1986

For all intents and purposes, DISCO NOT DISCO sums up DISkO UNUSUAL SOCIAL.
A couple of month ago I was in Gramaphone Records (2843 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL 60657 A legendary Record shop on the Northside of Chicago ask for Oscar) Hanging up my poster for the next DUSC party and I saw my man House DJ Cordell Johnson(Nu-Bang Clan) record shopping. Surprised to see me he asked what's up & what was I doing. Examining the poster he then asked what kinda music you playing b-sides and classics. With the inflection as if to say that is not gonna work here in Chicago. I gotta admit, Chicago is A House town. And some of the best House DJ's in the world live right here in Chicago. But not to be deter ed, I said "you gotta come and see".

Much to my surprise Cordell came! On a night of one of Chicago worst snow storms! He stayed a good portion of the night and he even danced! Before he left he said to "man i can't believe you got these people dancing to this music. I'm gonna have to go home and look through my records". Coming from Cordell that was a compliment.

To sum it all up the name should give a clue into what exactly I play at the party. But not exactly. Disco Unusual is the title of a song by a group named North By Northwest. It's on some other shit. And it best describes the vibe more so than the music. But to describe the party I would say that it is not your usual Disco party. Not John Travolta 's Staying Alive type of party.

Wild Shit!!! The song is Sharavari by a group called A Number Of Names from Detroit. This a typical DUSC type of song. Just one of the many post-punk type of songs on the Disco Not Disco compilation out on Strut Records.

JUST FOR THE RECORD: Record Reviews & Opinions

2008-03-09T06:44:00.000Z

So Dim has a new mix CD coming down the pipes. Those of you that are fans of Dimitri From Paris and got open on the first "A Night At The Playboy Mansion" (I sure was) have been waiting with baited breath for the next installment. Well it's here.

Below is an excerpt from Defected's web site about the CD:
With this compilation, I have to get a vibe going,” Dimitri explains, “mix tunes that people aren’t used to hearing with ones they’re more familiar with. I consider it as a single chunk of music,” he continues, “I want people to be able to listen to the whole thing. It should have peaks, lows, some sort of a story.” The first disc pairs break-in-case-of-emergency floor fillers like Jamiroquai ‘Cosmic Girl’ alongside obscure tunes like Musique’s ‘Love Massage’ and recent jazz-pop oddities like Mario Biondi’s ‘This Is What You Are’.

“Some music lovers might deem the Jamiroquai record too obvious, but capturing people’s attention was what it was all about” he explains. “’Love Massage’ is from late seventies, just something I dug out of my collection,” Dimitri adds. “I’ve been a very avid disc collector, and depending on the subject matter, I dig deeper to pull out something suitable.” The Mario Biondi release dates from 2006, yet is no more familiar to many listeners than the vintage dance 12”s. “It charted in Italy, where he’s from, but it deserved a bit more success,” he says, “its one of my favourites from recent years.”

The second disc, meanwhile, features Dimitri’s selection designed for more intimate moments. “Many people came up to after my sets and said that they made out to my CDs,” he explains, “I wanted to give them something to make more of that.” It features sophisticated bedroom tunes like Marvin Gaye’s ‘I Want You’ and William DeVaughn’s ‘Be Thankful For What You Got’. “It was fun to get the chance to do a downtempo mix,” he reveals, “its not something I’m usually asked to do.”

Modern and classic, Dimitri still enjoys evoking the sophisticated, nice-light-switches-and-sharp-suits, Playboy life. “We have this saying in France,” he explains, “‘in the old pots you make the better soup’. I have been playing now for over 25 years. I do an old fashioned heart warming soup, it goes down well, I like it l and I want other people to taste it.” Stick on the CD and you’ll soon gather that Dimitri’s hopes are well founded.
Released: 07/04/08

The 2 Disc set features classics, obscure oddities, new songs and edits. Song like Come Go With Me - Teddy Pendergrass, Love Massage - Musique, real DisKo Unusual Social Club type of type songs. Also on the album is a DisKo Unusual Social Club member in good standing Jere McAllister's Mr. A.L.I. feat. Carla Prather- Midnight Interlude!!!

Congrats Jere!!!

It is also worth mentioning that if you have not heard the first disc , do yourself a favor and grab that....Cause the new one won't be out for another couple of months......Sucks!

~LB
discounusualsocilaclub@gmail.com

PARTY OUT OF BOUNDS

2008-02-26T20:21:00.000Z

DFA DANCE PARTY
SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2008
9:00 P.M.–1:00 A.M.
MoMA

In conjunction with the exhibition Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, PopRally invites you to bring the color chart to life on the dance floor with an amazing lineup of DJs from DFA Records.

Featuring DJs:
Juan Maclean
T&T (Tim Goldsworthy & Tim Sweeney)
Holy Ghost!
Justin Miller & Jacques Renault

Color Chart, which explores artists’ use of ready-made color—from paint chips to colored tape—features works by forty-four modern and contemporary artists, including Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, and Angela Bulloch. PopRally presents an exclusive preview of this monumental exhibition before its official opening to the public.

A wide spectrum of cocktails will be served. Wear your boldest and brightest colors and get ready to DANCE!

Guests receive a colorful custom-made gift designed by PopRally and DFA.

COTTAGE GROOVE RECORDINGS(DUSC DISKO)

2008-02-24T23:54:00.000Z

Available@: US (Downtown 304 http://www.downtown304.com/) | UK (Juno) | UK (Piccadilly) | NL (Clone)

THE WORLD'S MOST INCREDIBLE DISCO PRODUCER

2008-02-24T08:56:00.000Z

The Real Candidate!!!

2008-02-24T07:42:00.000Z

WHO WE ARE. WHAT WE DO.

2008-02-24T04:27:00.001Z

WE ARE DISKO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB(Formally Disco Unusual Social Club)

Nevermind what you heard or think. Here is where the truth lies....

So after a short hiatus Disko Unusual Social Club is Baaaaaaak!!! I had to "git myself together". Shake a few things, sort my priorties. I'm good now.

The next installment of the Disko Unusual Social Club is Saturday March 29th 2008 @ Danny's Tavern 1951 W. Dickens in the Bucktown section of Chicago.

We got some good music lined up for you. Lots of exclusive edits ripe and ready for release. We also got DisKo Unusual Social Club (DUSC) Tees. Tanks for the girls and nice American Apparel short sleeves for the guys. While supplies last. These are all limited edition and we plan to switch up styles as we go forward. Collect them all!!!!.

I am also working on a mix CD for all you Disco lovers. Mind you it will be unusual of course.....And all of you around the globe, I will send you the link when I get it up on the web....

Please leave your comments, concerns and raves on this or our myspace page myspace.com/diskounusualsocialclub
You can listen to some of our Disko Edits get a sneak preview and leave comments!

Thanks for your continued support

Lono Brazil (I am not only a client, I'm the DisKo President)
DisKo Unusual Social Club

About Us: As nightclubs continue to get bigger, fancier and more extreme, the drinks get more expensive and the music gets more and more wack. Countless DJ's have come out of the woodwork everyday proclaiming to be better than the next guy. Many claim to possess a great new concept. In actuality, most are merely doing the same thing and nothing new is happening. It's not a good trend. It's time for something different. Something unusual… DISkO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB. Let's get back to the basics. Strip it all down to its bare essence. No cover. Cheap drinks. GREAT MUSIC. Reminescent of the bar scene of the 70's. Venture back with us to the days when a few beers and some good people came out to see, not be seen. And the music was good. Before House. Before Hip-Hop. Before genres separated us, they brought us together. A time when the word "Disco" sounded unusual. And the desire to dance and sing was not something you did only in the shower. You went out to your favorite social club. DISkO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB is more than a notion in development by Lono Brazil. It is a Social Club(Lono & his closest friends and a few strangers sprinkled in for good measure hang out and listen to great music, dance and socialize), a clothing line(Actually a tee-shirt line designed by Lono. some other accessories as soon to follow) and a music production effort which includes exclusive Limited Edition Disco re-edits produced by Lono Brazil on Cottage Groove Recordings(Also available on Cottage Groove CG-001 Ooh! Love Is....Includes and Edit by Mr. K.(Danny Krivit) and CG-002 Enfermo del Amour Includes Jere's Mix(Jere McAllister, Mr. A.L.I.) Coming soon (3/08)CG-003 .....All of our limited edition/limited pressing vinyl is Distributed exclusively through Downtown 161 and can also be purchased on line at Downtown 304. Look for special events in your city in the very near future.....

DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB 1.12.08

2007-12-25T07:55:00.000Z

R.I.P. Mel Cheren

2007-12-08T04:11:00.000Z

Mel Cheren

Former Financial Backer of The Paradise Garage
C.E.O. West End Records
Owner Colonial House Inn
Founder and President 24 Hours For Life Foundation
Painter

Mel Cheren began his career in the music business in 1959 at ABC/Paramount Records where he eventually became head of the label's production department. Hot acts on ABC/Paramount included Ray Charles, Lloyd Price, Paul Anka and B.B. King. At one point ABC bought Dunhill Records which allowed Cheren to work with artists like The Mamas and the Papas, Three Dog Night and Richard Harris (the artist behind the original version of "MacArthur Park"). When the company moved operations to Los Angeles in 1970, Cheren left to become head of production for Scepter Records.

Back when the majority of record companies were not willing to make a commitment to Disco Music, Mel Cheren was one of the first music industry insiders to promote and support the emerging Dance Music genre, which continues to be popular to this day. Acknowledged to be one of the original driving forces behind the creation of the Disco movement, he early on gained the nickname "The Godfather of Disco" because of his innovative ideas and the trends he helped to set. With a career spanning almost five decades, Cheren’s many accomplishments over the years have clearly proven him to be one of the most important and passionate figures in Dance Music history. He has demonstrated the same commitment and dedication to his AIDS charity work from the early days of the crisis. His countless contributions to the fight against AIDS have become as legendary as his music industry landmarks and his iconic status within the evolution of New York City nightlife.

It was at Scepter that his career really took off. Cheren was ahead of the curve with the emerging “Disco Era” because he was on both the producing and the receiving ends of Dance Music. By being out dancing in the clubs in New York and on Fire Island he had an inside track to what was hot and what was not. With his finger on the pulse of what was becoming popular with the DJ’s and the dancers, Cheren forged new territory. He was instrumental in Scepter being the first record company to create a 12 inch single for DJ’s, knowing that the DJ’s would welcome these records both for their enhanced sound quality and for the opportunities they provided for more creative mixing. The response was immediately positive and practically overnight a revolution swept through the record business as Dance Music labels abandoned the 7 inch format for this influential new concept. He was also one of the original contributors to the first record pool for DJ’s, which went on to become the still successful For The Record Record Pool. One of Cheren’s most important innovations occurred when he convinced Scepter to release the first instrumental mix on the B-side of a 12 inch single with "We're On The Right Track" by Ultra High Frequency. This novel idea earned Scepter the 1974 Billboard Trendsetter Award and soon set the standard for an industry-wide practice. Some of the biggest hits that Scepter released under Cheren’s guidance include B.T. Express' "Do It ‘Til You're Satisfied," Patti Jo’s "Make Me Believe in You" and "Nice And Slow" by Jesse Green, which earned nominations for Billboard’s Disco Single of the Year and Disco Artist of the Year. Mel Cheren's own remix of this song won him a nomination for Billboard's Best Disco Edit of the Year.

West End Records Hot Shot

When Scepter closed in 1976, Mel co-founded West End Records and soon after signed Karen Young, whose single "Hot Shot" sold 800,000 copies making it one of the biggest selling 12" in history. The label went on to release a string of smash R&B and dance hits including, among many, The Bombers "(Everybody) Get Dancin'," Taana Gardner's "Work That Body," "Heartbeat," Raw Silk's "Do It to The Music," NYC Peech Boys "Don't Make Me Wait," and Loose Joints "Is it All Over My Face."

The Paradise Garage

Cheren, though respected for his record label, is loved by many for making possible one of the world's most revered nightclubs, The Paradise Garage. He was the financial backer for the club which was owned and operated by his former partner, Michael Brody. During the Garage years, Cheren's relationship with the club's influential DJ Larry Levan blossomed, resulting in some of the most memorable records to come out of the late Seventies and early Eighties.

One of Mel Cheren’s most lasting contributions to dance culture is the seminal role he played in the creation of one of the most influential clubs of all time – The Paradise Garage. He was the financial backer for the legendary club, which was owned and operated by his former partner, Michael Brody. Beginning in 1976 the Garage established itself as a membership club through a series of “Construction Parties.” Over the years, Brody continued to expand and improve his exceptional dance space above an actual garage on King Street in the West Village. Cheren was not only involved in the Paradise Garage financially but also in a mentoring and promotional capacity. The club was built upon a distinctive sound created by designer Richard Long and resident DJ Larry Levan. During the Garage years, Cheren developed a strong personal and professional relationship with Levan. Their musical collaborations led to the creation of some of the most memorable dance anthems of the 1970’s and 1980’s. Cheren and Levan’s music fostered such a symbiotic connection between the Paradise Garage and West End Records that the club and record label will forever have a lasting association. The Garage not only set a new standard in music and sound production but also in the creativity employed throughout the evolution of its space and the décor designed for its many special themed parties. For all its artistic distinction, the Garage is primarily revered as a uniquely safe and accepting environment for a multi-ethnic gay and straight membership who were treated more like family members than mere club patrons. At the end of September of 1987, Mel Cheren was part of the grieving clan that ascended the chaser-lit ramp for the last time to gather for one final weekend-long party that brought the era of the Paradise Garage to a close. More than anyone else, Cheren has kept the Garage legend alive. Larry Levan passed away in 1992 and yet Mel Cheren continues to sponsor Larry Levan/Paradise Garage tribute parties featuring DJ’s spinning music in the Garage tradition. Cheren holds the trademark for the Garage’s famous muscled dancer logo and has a sizable Paradise Garage archival collection that includes the sign that once hung outside the mythic club on King Street.

In the summer of 1976 Cheren started his own record label, West End Records, with a former colleague from Scepter Records. West End quickly became one of the foremost producers of Dance Music in the late 1970’s. According to Grand Master Flash, West End’s first release, “Sessomatto,” was also the first record that the early rappers used before Sugarhill came out with “Rapper’s Delight.” West End Records hit pay dirt with Karen Young’s single, "Hot Shot," which sold more than 800,000 copies. West End went on to release a string of smash R&B and dance hits including the Bombers’ "(Everybody) Get Dancin'," Taana Gardner's "Work That Body," "Raw Silk's "Do It to The Music," Mahogany’s “Ride on the Rhythm,” Julius Brown’s “Party,” India’s “Stay With Me,” Bettye Lavette’s “Doin’ the Best That I Can,” Loose Joints’ "Is it All Over My Face?" and the New York City Peech Boys’ "Don't Make Me Wait." Undoubtedly, West End’s biggest hit and the song for which it is most famous is Taana Gardner’s “Heartbeat.” Selling close to a million copies, “Heartbeat” is one of the most successful 12 inch releases in record history. It has become an enduring classic, sampled more than 65 times, a favorite of the Hip-Hop generation and still played in clubs all around the world.

In 1998 Mel Cheren bought out his former partner in West End Records, Ed Kushins, and gained sole control of his record company. In 2002 he brought on Blaze producer and recording artist, Kevin Hedge, as President of West End Records. Together they continued West End’s tradition of specializing in "danceable R&B" CD’s and singles, as well as classic compilation projects. Two of their most popular collections are “Larry Levan's Classic West End Records Remixes [Made Famous at the Legendary Paradise Garage]” and “Larry Levan Live at the Paradise Garage,” a double CD set made directly from remastered reel-to-reel tapes recorded live at the Garage in 1979 and which includes a 6-panel insert with never-before-seen photographs. To celebrate West End’s 25th Anniversary, Masters At Work (Louie Vega and Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez) created a 2-CD non-stop mix of remastered, re-equalized, re-edited and remixed West End Records classics. This “25th Anniversary Edition Mastermix” continues to be one of West End’s most successful releases. In addition to their classics series, West End has created new releases with Taana Gardner, Linda Clifford, Marty Thomas, Cazwell and Dawn Tallman. Cheren acquired the rights to the classic Gay Pride anthem, “I Was Born This Way” and released a 12-inch with brand new mixes by Gomi and Junior Vasquez of this Gospel-infused Dance Music masterpiece. In 2007 with diverging visions for the future, Mel Cheren decided to take control of all of the West End classic material, while Kevin Hedge retains ownership of the new material generated during his time at West End for his newly formed Blaze Imprints. With Cheren once again solely at the helm of his record company, West End Records will continue to remaster and re-release their rare classics, produce remixes of other timeless standards and collaborate with other producers and artists to create new and exciting music in the tradition of the cutting-edge West End legacy.

Be Blessed Mel. And Thank You So Much....

WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENNING: THINGS TO DO FOR PEOPLE LIKE US WHEN WE ARE BORED WITH EVERYONE ELSE

2007-12-02T04:09:00.000Z

The Next Installment Of Disco Unusual Social Club

2007-12-02T00:20:00.000Z

DO THE KNOWLEDGE (KNOW THE LEDGE)

2007-11-23T00:30:00.000Z

DAVID MANCUSO
AND THE ART OF DEEJAYING WITHOUT DEEJAYING

Club culture is a nowadays a global business, dance music transcending language, translating via rhythm rather than words. Inter-city has become inter-continental where the top DJ’s are concerned and, be it Moscow, Tokyo, New York or Manchester, it’s increasingly a case of have records will travel. Suffice to say that the person who picks and plays the music that people come out to dance to has never been more revered (at least not by so many), with the resultant financial rewards potentially vast and the lifestyle of a pop star thrown in for good measure. No wonder so many young people (and a fair few older ones) aspire to be a DJ!

But it wasn’t always like this. Where there’s an ocean there’s a source, for all roads lead to Rome and what is now internationally mainstream was once inherently underground, evolving in the parties and clubs of New York, the city its adopted son, John Lennon, once described as ‘the new Rome’. Nothing happens by accident, the fates decreed that following the highs and eventual lows of the 60’s, an epoch when events on the West Coast of the US would overshadow the still considerable creative and spiritual expression of the East Coast, that the baton should pass from San Francisco to New York as one decade blended into the next.

‘Love Saves The Day’, an essential new book, which charts the development of New York (and subsequently worldwide) club culture, takes it’s name from a party held on Valentines Day 1970 at the home of David Mancuso, a loft space at 647 Broadway & Bleeker, in NoHo, NYC. This was at a point when the hippie ideal of peace and love lay shattered in the aftermath of Altamont and the Manson murders. The age of innocence was over and, set against the backdrop of the ongoing Vietnam war, the advent of the Seventies, to a large section of young Americans, presented an altogether darker and more foreboding scenario.

Mancuso, a Sixties seeker, like many of his generation, had been profoundly affected by acid guru Timothy Leary, whose ‘turn on, tune in, drop out’ mantra had been the sound bite of the summer of love. Leary, along with Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert, had written ‘The Psychedelic Experience’, a manual for LSD experimentation, which was based on the ancient text, ‘The Tibetan Book Of The Dead’. This became Mancuso’s ‘bible’. It was the same book that had inspired John Lennon to write the epic Beatles track, ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’, which closed the 1966 album ‘Revolver’, heralding the psychedelic era with its instruction to ‘turn off your mind, relax and float downstream’. What was, until then, only known within underground circles, was about to be unleashed on an unsuspecting world in spectacular style, via the spaced-out celebrations of 1967’s ‘Summer Of Love’.

Leary himself saw the Beatles as ‘ four evangelists’, describing them as “prototypes of a new race of laughing freemen: revolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with mystical power to create a new human species”. During his lectures in ‘67, Leary would hold up The Beatles’ ‘Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band’ album as an endorsement of his vision, and he would also, of course, be one of those present at the Montreal Bed-In where Lennon’s anti-war anthem ‘Give Peace A Chance’ was recorded in 1969.

Mancuso became increasingly involved with Leary, attending his lectures and then his private parties in the West Village HQ of his ‘League For Spiritual Discovery’. These parties, which were ‘more social than serious’, and included food and music, would inspire Mancuso, along with a handful of friends, to experiment with LSD in his own home, using ‘The Psychedelic Experience’ as a guidebook. Following Leary’s lead, music played a central role in these gatherings and Mancuso made eclectic and atmospheric ‘journey tapes’ to accompany the trips, whilst Leary’s advice on ‘set and setting’ would also be closely followed.

People got up and danced from time to time and when this aspect of the experience started to gain momentum, as more guests began to attend, Mancuso improved his sound system and reorganized his space to provide a bigger area for dancing. Invitations were also sent out for bi-monthly get-togethers and, bit-by-bit, the concept behind the Loft parties, as they’d come to be known, began to take shape.

But just as it was all coming together it all fell apart. Mancuso, in accordance with Buddhist principles, relinquished his material belongings to, in effect, follow the way of the monk. Only problem being that there was no monastery for him to retreat to where likeminded people could have helped him on his journey within, so instead he found himself admitted to the psychiatric ward of New York’s Bellevue Hospital.

To read the rest of this article go to http://theloftnyc.com/artofdjing.htm

Disco Dancing At It's Best

2007-11-22T19:12:00.001Z

Lono Brazil vs The Salsoul Orchestra

2007-11-20T01:05:00.001Z

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