peace
I heard Dj Ak-47 is the best
Me three
but she was too young to take in all this good shit for real though!
If she knew fully about all this, she'd shoot herself for even playing like a dj
Those were great times, I remember going to record stores in NY damn near every record shop DJ's on the 1 and 2s music bumpin through Cerwin Vegas. When you headed out to the Clubs, no drama people were their to get their dance on, or get high. The brothers wanted some ass and the sisters wanted dick. Ah the good ole days. Damn!
Tunnel shit, mid late 80s where there were no doors to the unisex bathrooms & you'd see a whole bunch of people in stalls doing what they felt like with the sick music blasting.
The Garage...
Those were the days that I was never able to get in. That place and The Tunnel. So I always ended up going to The Peppermint Lounge, The Ritz, and Danceteria instead.
Yeah.
"AIN'T NUTHIN' GOIN' UP BUT THE RENT" is Levin's magnum opus.
But this shit right here was MY jam...
Yo, does anyone remember him coming out with a line of bass enclosures back in the day, I know he was up on sound reinforcement I think he did something with AST on canal street?
And yes the ladies were all about dick back in the day, if your shit was halfway tight you were getting some like it was a stick of gum, man I had to work weekends back then and I found my self going to work from everywhere in the tri-state area in the morning. Anyone remember the Soap factory out in Jersey!!
YESSIR as had an older sibling who used to hit up both the Soap factory & Danceteria; Madonna was up in those spots up to her old tricks as a youngin too when she was her daughter's age.
Jellybean Benitez used to get it in also.
I was a youngin compared to a few of y'all & was still jamming @ the family house parties to the Soul & Disco, being brought up by the music plyed by those sound systems like those that were being represented in that documentary that gave props to all them DJs who were doing it in the 70s b4 Bam apparently; Uncle used to have a party throwing Team & goes back with KoolHerc; cuzzo out in LI who got down with Hank & them in the BombSquad used to get busy in the basement & also would be djing for his & our parents, family & friends as a teen all influenced by these pioneers of Soul; another from Laurelton was on that SparkyD compilation back in the day & I always fuck with him about it
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Let me take back to my home town in New Jersey, Brick City AKA Newark and Club Zanzibar and Tony Humphries. When it came to House Club Zanzibar was the spot on the East Coast.
The ZOOOOO!
Was just telling & always telling N'ork (like y'all be saying) kats about how ClubAmerica, The Zoo, The Peppermint & I think the World (not the L.E.S. one across the water but the one out in EO or the Bricks) used to have streets FULL of traffic outside during & after the spot was "NERVOUS"; sometimes when we couldn't get in, we just played the streets for chicks then headed to BOTH White Castles in Nwk & EO for the antics.
That was one night of the week in the 90s.
Am from more up North with roots across the water, so we'd also play the downtown scenes & clubs like MKs, the grimey assed World, NVs, IVs, Mirage; SilverShadow & The RedParrot were ill but never had the opportunity to be up in there & the RedZOne were starting to blow but then the HomeBase shit opened up.
UnionSquare was long gone. Hip Hop clubs were wilds as fuck but the house & college night type spots with kats trying to emulate LL & TH were all over with less drama (chains snatched, polo coats cut with feathers flying, fronting, fighting, riding the crowd wave during the fights, cigarette. dust & woolie smoke in the air embedded in your clothes) & more dancing. HipHop, House & Classics - not one of them without the others in the 80s & 90s
Grew up going to The Rink with kats battling all night ontop of fighting, profiling, stunting & the linke so when I got educated on that House & strictly groove shit
DAMN, how the fuck can I forget my second home - The mawfucking PALLADIUM on college nights way b4 DowntownJulieBrown started filming ClubMTV up in there. AstorPl Barbers were giving free cuts onstage one night - waited on line & got a raincheck waiting all night for that shit
& don't know how it was in the 70s & early 80s but the college night shit in NY carried over to them college superjams like the Syracuse Greekfreak
late 80s & early 90s.
The mofucking Sunday breakfast @ the barn/ski lodge joint the day after, capping off the weekend with all that house playing & that whole row of condo type apts with ALL the chicks up there was fucking ridiculous literally.
You couldn't tell them djs they werent LL or TH
Got up in Body5Soul in the 90s b4 they closed it down as I've heard so much about the infamous Garage - shit got damn near religious up in that spot with kats breaking out the powder for their spot on the floor, the battles, the chicks, the whole vibe
Incredible.
All them older vibes y'all OG kats set the standard with in the 70s & early 80s, we damn sure tried to keep alive in the late 80s & 90s.
That just reminded me of The Octagon & The IndigoBlue cafe & all them downtown longue spots that did & still do get it in.
I feel ?uestlove, but Im not sure if he was baptized in the era of all this good music by the sick talent brewing outside of Philly.
Jeff is definitely top 5 in Hip Hop djs but this is a whole other universe.
Is APT still rockin or not?
Direhard kats, what was the spot in Stamdford, CT called? Brokers or something where all the heads used to dip to when the other spots in NY were mellowing out?
Used to work & live up there but it just shut down when I was there.
Recording something right now but I plan on bathing in all the links posted in this post for Proper Education when done.
ALOT of knowledge & wisdom in this 100 star post!
Appreciate all the jewels the Elder kats are dropping in this as well as acknowledging The Legends TH & LL
peace
