David Mancuso's private "loft" parties during the 1970s in New York City were legendary for their mix of great music and a vibrant disco scene. Mancuso had an unusual style of playing records. He was known for leaving space between each track, playing them fully from beginning to end with no adjustments. He had a reverence for music, especially good, new music and his DJ style told the stories from the songs. He used each song to create a profound musical narrative to generate and reflect a changing mood.
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In August 1987, four London music industry legends spent a week-long holiday in Ibiza. There they discovered a little-known club called Amnesia and a DJ named Alfredo Fiorito who blended music like no one else. The crowd at Amnesia, fueled by a new drug called Ecstasy, could not get enough. With a wide variety of musical genres from Chicago House to Cyndi Lauper pop to Reggae, a new sound and new scene was born. This is the music that he played.
Bobby "Blue" Bland was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement in 1997. He passed away earlier this week...but his music will love on forever.
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