True New York experience: Head to the Garage the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, party till 2 am, head home on the subway to change & head out to my store (I was a Macys employee back then) to get on the bus to bring you to wherever where you changed into your costume for the Thanksgiving Day Parade, did the parade, & made it home by 2 pm for that fabulous dinner. Memories for a lifetime.
That’s called living the dream mate we just didn’t know it at the time no phones just the excitement of going out and not knowing what the night was gonna be I miss them
The internet is generally shit but being able to hear this kind of incredible archival material is nothing short of miraculous .
00:00:08 - T.C. Curtis & Galaxy - You Should Have Known Better
00:06:40 - NYC Peech Boys - Come On, Come On (Don't Say Maybe)
00:10:52 - Cheyne - Call Me Mr Telephone
00:19:46 - Man Friday - Love Honey, Love Heartache
00:25:37 - Serious Intention - You Don't Know
00:27:27 - Bionic Boogie - Risky Changes
00:34:00 - Adiche - Chuka-Ja (Get Ready)
00:35:48 - Colonel Abrams - I'm Not Gonna Let
00:40:06 - Colonel Abrams - Music Is The Answer (Dub)
00:47:50 - Colonel Abrams - Trapped
00:52:59 - John Rocca - I Want It To Be Real
01:03:55 - Hanson & Davis - Tonight (Love Will Make It Right)
01:11:02 - Chip E. - Like This
01:22:27 - Man Friday - Love Honey, Love Heartache
01:26:52 - Dotty Green - I Caught You Out
01:32:13 - Man Friday - Jump
01:38:03 - Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait
01:45:43 - Loleatta Holloway - Hit and Run
01:50:43 - Man Friday - Love Honey, Love Heartache
01:57:14 - Third World - One More Time
Living! I miss being in that booth w/ Larry the few times I was blessed to be there. Watched the magic from the source ❤🎶
The Garage was THE club. Studio 54 had nothing but glitz and pretension. I went to both, and preferred the Garage hands down.
Thank you
This music brings tears to my eyes bc there arent many real pioneers of true muziK. Im going to sit and let this mellow my soul.
Why can't somebody just open a club like this again in New York we can do it. It won't be the same without him but least we can honor him and those who have come before
paradise garage, where larry used to play has an annual reunion party and its this sunday september 3rd!
watch the Maestro documentary, and at the end this is explained. They cant afford to, plus they cant get that right vibe back.
44 male here... lifelong house head, this is before my time but I'm loving it. Know almost none of these songs, but can feel the groove and almost imagine being there. Awesome to hear a recorded set from this legend.
There’s a list somewhere online of 1000 paradise garage tracks, highly recommend digging into it, all the foundations of house are in there
WOW! What a find! I was a professional club/rave DJ in the UK from 1987 to 2003. At 57 I only mix for pleasure these days. Anyone who knows anything about the geneology of mixing knows who Larry is and what a true pioneer he was. Fantastic upload, I'll be giving it plenty of plays. Thank you!
You say in you comment that you was a DJ ing at raves in the UK.. fantazia eclipse etc?..
Yeah what's your DJ name? I'm been around in London since the 80s.
Listening to this while reading “Life And Death on the New York Dance Floor” by Tim Lawrence. Essential book if you’re into this stuff!
"Keep On Dancin' - My Life and Paradise Garage" By Mel Cheren, owner of West End Records and boyfriend of Michael Brody, owner of Paradise Garage. Must read.
Im so grateful, i had the wonderful privilege, of experincing Paradise Garage from 1978-1987 closing, Saturday night special we called it! The Garage was raw, an incredibly hot 🔥🔥 club! I was 16 yrs old, the first time Alida, had noel let me in, Noel Garcia, a great guy, @ the door downstairs! I lived for this place and Larry knew his dancers, he would keep bis eyes, on his dancers? Precious, treasured memories of a magical, Golden time! Keith Crandell, Jerome Harris, Kenny and John, my crew RIP. Man i miss that place!💯 Paradise Garage forever❤️
the garage varick and king street nyc those were the days and the funhouse too
thank you for uploading these DJ sets from the legendary paradise garage!!
Legend
Hmm
I was born in 84. I’m glad this window into musical culture at the time exists
Those times will never come again but the memories keep me smiling especially when I am having a rough day. If you have to ask , you don't know. From Friday after work til Sunday. That damn punch bowl.....😂😅😊
I'm crying 😢😅. Man I took a sober sober there my bk boys said what up with Kerri and I said that she drunk the punch 😂😂😂
The early days LOFT punch bowl ~ if you were thirsty that would / could take you to a new 'level' of thirst quenching.......
I came in at the tail end of this era....started djing 4 years after PG closed....what a time to be alive!
Important to save such old sets
This is truly outstanding. This set up is a duplicate of Twilight Zone Toronto back in the same period. And at 52.40 throwing in I want it to be real...a mirror moment. No one made a better system than Mr Longs. And the Zone and Paradise were pinnacle. I guess I was lucky to have experienced.
A most beautiful and wonderful music & dance club era. I loved it.
Legendary deck master - I stumbled across LL a decade or so years ago now. I loved the history and influence he has and just the balls on the man to play tunes in such a way and have such an influential style. I made a trip to the former site of the Warehouse three years ago - despite it being knocked down years before I put my headphones on and stood for a while and could feel that vibe #RIP legend
As a old member of the Paradise Garage,this brings back sweet memories 🎉
do you happen to anyone who has Larry levans version of another man by barba mason
old school mega talent x
Larry Levan classic is always best until now and I will like to hear reel's of Larry Levan from the 80's and I grew up in the paradise garage 💯 percent 😅😊😅
To be aware and there. You lucky lucky people. Must’ve been out of this world. Your getaway. Can’t touch it. Class
Just watched the documentary Maestro (2003) off of criterion channel and the first thing I wanted to do was hear a mix by Larry. I’m so happy I found this and what a wonderful way to explore and celebrate queer and black history! It makes me yearn for a time I wasn’t even alive for, and that’s something special.
This is the closest I've ever heard Larry sounding to the actual Paradise Garage. Great mix!
Larry Levan è il pioniere, il fondatore, ha scritto la storia della Garage che poi si evolverà nell'house music.
Il numero uno.
Che possa riposare in pace.
Respect ❤
How he manages the mix, acknowledges the crowd, looks good on camera, while on the phone with his stockbroker does not fail to impress. #boss
True, except for the fact that that is not a phone but a monitor headphone 🧐. Larry puts his heart into this. 🥰
He had his nights, but that was the Paradise garage. Not leaving until 7am. Three crowds a night.
You ever get everything and everybody ready to go and Larry did...magic.
And you're there a few more HOURS?!?
Genius at work......RIP mr LEVAN
My time was 1991 onwards in UK. Love this love the documentaries from Chicago with the kids making music with Atari ST.. that was the scene in uk until mid late 90’s particularly during the jungle scene.. DJ’s printing dub plates Friday afternoon to rinse out that weekend.. music factory straight out of Kingston to London 🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏
BMX BANGERS! 102.7 fm Oak Park Chicago
One Love Family. The Frankie Paradise Network. NYC RIP Larry Levan
Paradise Garage and Larry Levan, the Number One 👏👏 Regards from Buenos Aires 🙌
The best dj of the history the king ! Pure fine music ❤
Pure Quality 1luv 😎
OMG THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!
I am a 44 year old retired NYC club kid, Larry Levan is EVERYTHING in the world of house music in NY and NJ. This sound made a massive comeback in the house scene it is now known as SLO DISCO.
I currently have like 6 crates of vinyl and if i had to get rid of some, the stuff from the Paradise Garage/Club Zanzibar era would DEFINITELY BE KEPT !!!!
REST IN PPARADISE 💪 COLONEL !!!!🎧 🎤🕊
I remember my first time, no alcohol! 😅 ty It wasn’t easy to get in the garage but I did with my green parachute pants. I guess that was my give away. I was there to dance. Thank you for the memories god bless
I remember times i had at the paradise garage with larry levan on the 1s and 2s it was pure bliss
Me too I was there as well, drinking the punch, and we both know what was in the “punch “😅
I've heard people say that Larry's mixing could be messy but so far this is flawless !!
His mixing was killer, except when he would nod out, sometimes causing the record to skip.
He was one of the 1st to segment isolate trble or bass or mids so the voices or other instruments would stand out for that moment.
@@KCNYC Yes it DID.. Club Zanzibar in Newark had a Richard long System as well..
I love this reel because it takes me 100% to paradise garage 😅😅love 💘😊it we larry Levan back in the 1980's from bls107.5 fm please ❤❤
The Godfather of HOUSE ❤ Paradise Garage D.J. Sound Engineer
absolutly amazing 😎
Thank you for these dope gems! New music list added 😎
Yeah the fact that we have this is incredible. ❤
Club Kids stand up! NYC class of 85.
Garage was Slamming back in the day wat an experience plus it was in SoHo just a couple of blocks from my hood in Little Italy!
Being at the Paradise Garage made for some of the happiest moments of my life.
This is Garage sounding music, most definitely. This brought back some great memories. Thank you!❤❤❤
If you really went to the Garage - you wouldn't have said "... Garage sounding music..."...wannabe?
HEARD LOOOOOTS ABOUT , THE LEGEND LARRY LEVAN ..... IMAGINE,HERE IN BRASIL,
I'm a ole school DJ, and I've been to the garage back in mid eighties and it was great, I was sitting listening to my eighties boom box and I made some tapes and someone walked up and said you sound like Larry levan, now how many years is it now, I almost shed a tear because that's who I wanted to jam like,miss DJs like that
Tear it up Larry!!!!
I was THERE!!
As was I. This was my senior year of high school. I was Born and raised in New Jersey! I think the very next weekend Colonel Abrams was at Zanzibar, Newark NJ. He killed it!
I have heard this recording a few years back somewhere on web. Prior to the introduction to Larry there was a live performance by Miss Jocelyn Brown. Imagine that - JB live then hand over to Larry for five hours 😮 🔥 🪩
CULE VAINA BACANA....!....SALUDOS DESDE POLONUEVO -ATLANTICO....
No shade at the TH-cam video sound, but these tracks that Larry Levan is playing here sound sooooo much better if you were actually there inside the PG club. The feel of all the floor shaking beats, Bass, Highs & Lows were so incredible. BEST system around! They put $$ in that system for perfection! It was like you were in another world of sound and the feeling of great music...I have not, to this day, experienced anything like that! I missed the anticipation or spiritual feeling of walking up that long Ramp into the PG club space, the coat room, the snacks & coffee, movie play room, roof, big A$$ speakers, the people, etc...
NYC and many memories. Friday Nights
This Is a gem❤❤❤❤
far as my knowledge none of these songs are what they would call hits except for maybe a couple i love the fact the taste in music was so much better back then as long as the vibes was good there werent no issues
I was a NY club dj at the time of this program. Few tracks here were radio hits, yet most received airplay and all were big club hits. Larry did tons of remixes for the great West End Records. His work on Taana Gardner's "Heartbeat" is legendary and was sampled by other artists for years afterward.
Big up UK's finest 'The Funk Masters' .Their ground breaking Instrumental track 'Love Money' features throughout this mix. Sounds like Larry had the masters tapes.
PHYLLIS NELSON, MADE ME, from Brasil DISCOVER, IM FROM 1974 the majesty LARRY, I WAS A CHILD,
I can only imagine what these records sounded like on that Richard long sound system at the Garage wasn't old enough to go clubbing
The Loft with David Mancuso and the Garage with Larry NYC!!
The stack of amps and compressors behind him powering the sounds is awesome. Also looked like 4 turntables were at play!
I walked past 84 KING back around Xmas time of 2022 and ... YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE NOW I WAS😲 ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED AND TOOK PHOTOS
Man I miss those days zanz better days sensations club 88 magoos limelight the loft oh so many days of these classics
The Funhouse The Tunnel Xenon’s Infinity’s Starbucks Tribeccas The Red Parrot Heartbreaks Private Eyes The Roxy And Honory mention The HOW CLUB which was a Sober Club.
I was muthafing there this night
OMG STOP IT!!!!!! I was only 5, being at Paradise Garage is a dream of mine. LUCKY!!!!
Best thing on you tube
Thank you Defected…
Larry Philpot 1954- 1992
Those good old times
Rest in peace g
Be advised people he is not on the phone he is setting up his master mix
can't believe ive been missing this for so long..
A history lesson
I'M SO THANKFUL TO HAVE BEEN A PART OF Larry Levan IN THE PARADISE GARAGE FOR THERE WILL NEVER B/A BETTER PARTY R.I.P. Larry Levan ALWAYS AND FOREVER SHINE LIKE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD 🌍 CEJUMBO RYE2ULOVE>>~😎🙏🦮🙏💙💪💙💪
Love it.......Yeah i do.....
Wow paradise garage good times
Good past Musictimes O:)
The Robin Williams poster is a bit random innit! LOL
yeahh!... Wondering how was to be there listening this really deep person playing the records as no one.
It was the ultimate dance experience. During the 80s, I danced many nights away at Studio 54 and the Paradise Garage. Since they closed, I put my dancing shoes up because I did not want anything to take away those memories. If I never dance again, I feel like I've already danced in paradise. Larry Levan was a huge icon. By the way, I also worked for the man who designed and created the sound system for Studio 54 and the Paradise Garage, the great Richard Long. Life was so magical during the late 70s and 80s in New York City. And you know what the catalyst of it all was? It was the music. In order for us to get back to that, the music has to change (which I don't think it will).
Very larry Levan paradise garage please more larry Levan and I still have membership for the garage live mixing larry Levan
I love to hear larry Levan other paradise garage live I have not heard bring to memories 😊😊
Those were the days ❤
I think this was recorded on the night of a fashion show ,and if so that voice announcing LARRY is JAIME DEL LA CRUZ, i only know of him from reading Mel's book (which i'm sad and upset, someone took it, i had it autographed by MEL & DANNY KRIVIT), the video USE TO BE up on TH-cam years ago.
this is my kind of music :-{)
The simple times! Just go out n jiggle!
this is so incredible... if anyone might have any track id's id really love to try to find some of these stunning deep cuts!!
Top, I luv it...thank u Defected
From Disco to Disco. From Disco to Tech-House.
👍🏽this is the good stuff
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Wow!!!🤩🤩🤩
❤️
Calling Mr. Telephone. To the beat..Huh,huh,huh,huh....😄
IM 66 YEARS OLD FROM NYC I STARTED GOING TO THE PARADIS GARAGE 1976 MY SONS WAS 6 MONTHS HE'S NOW 46 AND LOVES HOUSE MUSIC II'VE BEEN TO A FOT THE PARADIS REUNIONS WITH JOEY LANOS AND DAVID PINO. IN 2014 THEY A BLOCK PARTY IN THE FRONT THE GARAGE AND IT WAS EVERYTHING. THANK LARRY LEVAN FOR EVERYTHING I NEVER NEED A MEMERBERSHIP CAUSE MICHEAL BRODY AND JOEY LANOS WOULD ALWAYS LET ME IN THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE.
my neighbor is from the bronx, same age as you. she used to party there too back in the day -- very jealous of everyone who got to experience the paradise garage!
Thank you!