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Tony Smith played Barefoot

Pioneering New York disco DJ Tony Smith remembers the early 70s superstars of the scene, including Walter Gibbons and Larry Levan.
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  • Disco, The Garage and after
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  • Paradise Garage

Danny Krivit rolled through disco

The edits legend, rollerdisco ruler, Body & Soul founder, and 718 Sessions supremo started as a pint-sized selector in his father’s bar, aged nine.
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  • Disco, The Garage and after
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  • Paradise Garage

Larry Levan and the Lost Art of DJing

The wild man of disco, Larry Levan showed just how much power and emotion a DJ can wield, setting the bar high for all who followed.
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  • Disco, The Garage and after
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  • Paradise Garage

François K hasn’t stopped

From jazz drummer to disco DJ and legendary remixer, to one of the most forward-thinking adopters of DJing technology, François Kevorkian has packed a lot into his 70 years on the planet.
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  • Disco, The Garage and after
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F**k me I’m Fabus

Steve Fabus began DJing in 1973 in Chicago, before building a successful career at legendary San Fran clubs like The I-Beam and Trocadero Transfer and, today, at Go! BANG
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  • Disco, The Garage and after
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Bruce Forest brought Better Days

One of the first DJs to go full on house music in New York, Bruce Forest was the middle class white kid from the suburbs who won over the hard-to-please Black gay crowd of midtown Manhattan
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  • 50 Years of hip hop
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Fab 5 Freddy made it fresh and fly

The great ambassador of hip hop waxes lyrical about the early scene with a sense of detail that puts you right in the heart of the action.
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  • 50 Years of hip hop
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Sleeping Bag went bang

The disco hippies who took on the mainstream music industry (and won) – then promptly crashed spectacularly
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  • 50 Years of hip hop
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Will Socolov bagged it up

A delightfully frank account of running New York's hottest label, Sleeping Bag, his relationships with leftfield luminary Arthur Russell, before the dream crashed and burned in a haze of.... freebasing.
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Justin Strauss was in the Area

Mudd Club, Danceteria, Ritz, Area... He spun at the greatest spots New York clubland had to offer through the sparkling’ 80s, and Justin Strauss remains as forward-looking today as he was back in those foundation years.
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