Video: Maestro - Larry Levan & early DJ culture 1/9

Excellent excerpt from a documentary about Paradise Garage and the early days of New York underground house and disco, I highly encourage seeking the rest of it out online. It's really nice to get perspective on these scenes and understand that it wasn't only about music, but also breaking down divides of race and gender in a time when being queer or non-white still made you a "different kind of citizen". Worth a watch!

Maestro chronicles the early days of The Paradise Garage and its most famous DJ, Larry Levan......anyone interested in House music and DJ culture HAS TO CHECK THIS for reasons that should be apparent. L .

This one's a special one. Maestro is a film by Josell Ramos that chronicles the early days of disco and dance music in New York City. It takes a look back at the underground scene that gave birth to disco and house music, chronicling legends like Larry Levan , David Mancuso , Nicky Siano , Frankie Knuckles and Tom Moulton and legendary places like Paradise Garage , The Gallery and The Loft . It's an amazing document, a chance to go back to [...]

This morning I watched the film Maestro , which chronicles the career of Larry Levan, and the New York disco scene of the 70's and 80's. None of that Studio 54 shit, this was Levan killing it at the Paradise Garage, David Mancuso 's parties at the Loft, and Frankie Knuckles telling crazy stories. The first part is posted above, and the rest available on You Tube, which saved me a trip to the video store. It would be pretty fucked of me to leave you guys without a Larry track, so here [...]

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