NYC PEECH BOYS - life is something special // Philly Vanilli 2025 Edit

BOOKER T & MGs - melting pot WE MEAN DISCO!! REMIX

You Can't Hide - David Joseph, If You Read My Mind - Columbus Circle, Theo Vaness - I Can't Dance With You, Johnny Hammond - Los Conquistadores, She Can't Love You - Chemise, Talking Heads - Born Under Punches, Yello - Bostich, Sharon Riley - Changin', Jackson 5 - Forever Came Today, Haven't Been Funked Enough, Diana Ross - No One Gets, Brainstorm - Journey To The Light, and more. I haven't played or practiced in while, so I'm a little rough and raw.
Enjoy,
Omar

Omar Abdallah - Club Classics 70's-80's HARDCORE March 24, 2025mp3

On The Final Nights Of Paradise, Levan is immortalised as sonic commander in chief. The mix compilation doubles as a sketchbook of a canon that remains largely embedded in dance music today. Garage classics like MFSB's old-school vogue theme "Love Is the Message" and First Choice's effusive disco hit "Doctor Love" promenade alongside jacking Chicago-born staples like Adonis' 303 masterpiece "No Way Back." If you wanted to give a brief history of club classics to someone just out of a 50-year coma, this set could serve as a terrific crash course.

Levan's messy mixing aesthetic is on full display here, but there are stretches in which the mix advances without a hitch—particularly a disco-heavy section on vinyl #3, where Levan bumps things along with a series of quick, well-timed cuts. But his scrappier mixing style yields an unexpected reward, even now, almost 40 years in the future.

The Final Nights Of Paradise abounds with the kinds of shocks that DePino rhapsodised. "I'm happy and I'm gay," a voice calls out as HMJ's "Hyped" bounces energetically along and then, wham! an explosion of glitter as the outro of Carl Bean’s early Pride anthem "I Was Born This Way" takes over. The mix takes an abrupt left from Loleatta Holloway's laid-back "Dreamin'" to Serious Intention's dubby proto-house "You Don't Know," rendering a wobbly but determined bridge between eras.

Sometimes you can hear Levan correct his overzealousness. When Man Friday's "Real Love" comes in sloppily on top of Diana Ross' slow-burning "Once in the Morning," he quickly fades out to resolve the clatter. Elsewhere, he seems content to ride out a shaky transition—for a good two minutes, the arpeggiated synths of Chantal Curtis' "Hit Man" wiggle in and out of step with the preceding track, Harvey Mason's "Groovin' You." A rambunctious hand drum solo adds to the glorious cacophony.

Levan famously wove a narrative into his song selection; it was why he was said to prefer vocal tracks to their instrumental counterparts. There's a sense of finality on songs like Adonis' "No Way Back," in which the baritone vocal whispers, "Too far gone, ain't no way back." But there's also a starburst of hope for the future.

"That night, Larry played beautifully, like it wasn't the end," recalled Garage staple Michele Saunders in a retrospective piece on the Garage's closing weekend for Document. "The only difference was that it had been going for three days non-stop. People were strolling in a daze. They did not leave. Later, everyone met at Washington Square Park after the club."

In the interim, Larry played other spots in New York such as the Choice, Mars and the Palladium. He toured Japan, where he was idolised, and applied his touch to Nami Shimada's sparkling "Sun Shower." Even as a remixer, that quintessential Larry brusqueness was on show. Struggling to get the mix right, he thundered a message through producer Soichi Terada's answering machine: "Mr. Levan calling Mr. Terada. Mr. Terada, I need to know the key of your fucking song!"

Levan's life ended on a bittersweet and unresolved note. In Maestro, Knuckles recalled spinning at Sound Factory and having Levan visit him in the booth after the Garage shut. "He said if he had a choice of things happening for him now as opposed to ten years before, he would have chosen now, because he would've been able to appreciate it a whole lot better," he said.

Levan's presence is still keenly felt in New York nightlife, both in the careers that he spawned and the songs he catapulted to ubiquity. "He's the reason why this job is what it is, why it's a career," Knuckles once said. And he's right: The Final Nights of Paradise sounds radically contemporary nearly 40 years after on. So many of these tracks continue to regularly fire up the dance floor as if days, not decades, have passed since their initial release.


Larry Levan - The Final Night of Paradise Garage / 26.09.1987 ++ best sound quality320kbit/s3:16:36

The Final Night at 84th King Street

Larry Levan- The Final Night of Paradise // 26.09.1987// Best Sound Quality

Larry Levan Live at The Garage Closing Nite feat Liz Torres reworked by Philly Vanili
additional Percussions & Arrangement by Philly Vanilli

taking control PHILLY VANILLI MIX

LARRY LEVAN feat LIZ TORRES - taking control :: PHILLY VANILLI MIX

A recording of my DJ set at Green Door Studio on April 4th for their First Friday Spring Blowout art showcase party curated by Jesse Miles. There were 20 guest visual artists and 4 DJs. I was going for a funky chill spring house music vibe. Be sure to check out Green Door Studio at 4 Howard Street in Burlington, VT sometime to check out the dope art!

Track Listing:
I Wanna Tell Somebody - Chaos In The CBD & Josh Milan
Why Why Why Why Why - Sault 
Star Child Going Home - MJ Lallo 
Everybody - Ruze 
Music and the Rhythm - Playin' 4 The City & Electra Weston
APT. 3A - N.Y. House'n Authority 
K to the P - Karizma 
Shimmer - Mr. Fingers 
Fly - Timmy Regisford 
Shake It - Glenn Underground 
Shine - Moodymann
Sweetest Pain - Paris Cesvette feat. Will Downing 
I'll House You - Jungle Brothers 
Eastman - Move D
Supa Saiya Jin - Janeret
Come Alive (Club Version) - K London Posse feat. Maydie Myles 
Infinite Care - Jon Sable 
What You Feel (Deep Active Sound Night Remix) - Lola Palmer 
Belle Isle - John Beltran 
Drop The Beat - Groove Boys Project, Fasme & Dusty Fingers 
Reachin' (Vocal Mix) - LNR 
Time (feat. LyricL) [Afro Reprise] - Don Pascal 
Stay With Me (Larry Levan Mix) - NYC Peech Boys 
Never Again (Copyright Classic Mix) - Kathy Brown 
Heaven feat. Andreya Triana - The Vision 
Breathe (Ashley Beedle's Exhale Vocal Mix) - Blaze
Get Lifted (Get Lifted Monday Night Dub) - Andrea Holdclaw
Rhymes - Kreech
Mistic - Vern
Appease - Janeret
That Thang (Janeret Remix) - Mike Sharon
Diggin Trippin - Arkady Antsyrev
Love Me - Eda Lansberg

Green Door Spring Blowout DJ set 4/4/25

A two hour mix slowly increasing in tempo. Taking influence from British Rare Groove, 70's New York Disco, 80's Proto-House, West African Highlife and 00's Nu-Disco. 

Funky Music For Lonely Weirdos

Nostalgia

REMIXED & REPRODUCED BY The Jamwax Crew

Dubs / Rubs / Alter CUTS / Club Edits / Mixes / Extensions / Reconstructions / Deconstructions
BACK TO BASICS
ALL 12 INCHED & READY TO GROOVE
A rare collection of INSTRUMENTAL DUB regrooved EDITS.....RE-DUBBING SELECT GROOVE - 
Regrooved and Re-Rubbed for the FLOOR - AUTHENTIC & ORGANIC - JAMMMMS....

A Dubbed Out Collection Of Classic 70's & 80's Dance Music and more.... amassing a trove of Underground Uncensored disco edits and remixes

C H I I I C - My Feet Keep Dancing (Pimpin Willie Guitar DUB Mix)

REMIXED & REPRODUCED BY The Jamwax Crew

A fine complied selection of 12 INCHED Secret Weapon Tracks Regrooved and Re-Rubbed for the FLOOR
Remixes / Regrooves / Acetates / Edits / Waxes / Flips / Re-Cuts / Rejams / Restructuring / Reconstructing / Revisions

Essential for anyone who loves modern dance with an edge
All the tracks ooze a true dedication to and love of music.
This a re-edit album, such is the artfulness in the featured tracks re-assemblage that it in fact feels as if The Crew was in the studio engineering and producing alternate takes of solid gold classics, while in fact many of these reinterpretations feature some 15 years later! Astonishing then that some of them improve on the originals.

Billy Nichols - Give Your Body Up (Bop Gun Hard DISKO Groovedown)

DJ in Burlington, Vermont playing a wide range of house music vibes. Inspired by a love of music, experiences at Stereo in Montreal, and local Burlington DJs to start DJing myself. Close your eyes, feel the groove, dance! <3

New Jersey's DJ Dave Davis has been a well respected DJ for over four decades. World Renown DJ's such as Tony Humphries, Timmy Regisford,  Merlin Bob and Shep Pettibone were his influences and helped shape his unique style. Affectionately called ''Dave D" a self taught DJ got his start in local night clubs and venues in 1982. He has made guest appearances at some of the tri-states legendary hot spots including Club Elevation (NJ), Club Zanzibar (NJ), Club Cheetah (NJ), Club 88 (NJ), Scandals (NJ), China Club (NY), Filter 14 (NY) just to name a few and held down residencies including Fluid The Likewater Movement & Soulful Rejuvenation. In 1992 radio personality/producer Andre "Dre" Young (98.3 WNMS FM) heard one of his mix tapes at "Movin Records"(New Jersey's most influential soulful dance music store of the 80's & 90's) and immediately became hooked on his deep soulful vibe, track selection and seamless mixing. Soon after, Dave became the resident dj for WNMS's "Club Mix Show" & "The mix @ six" from 1992-1994. In 1998 he teamed up with long time friend DJ Hot Rod, who was the resident DJ at Club Bogies in East Orange, New Jersey bringing his underground sound to a night club known for commercial dance music, and was up for the challenge of introducing many R&B & Hip Hop enthusiasts to soulful house music. DJ Dave Davis & DJ Hot Rod shared the residency until 1999. Later in the summer of 1999, Dave approached Club Zanzibar's legendary promoter/manager the late Shelton Hayes to produce a venue called "THE BIGGEST PARTY OF THE SUMMER" at the Coliseum Night Club in Jersey City, New Jersey. It was hosted by Carolyn Byrd (Club Zanzibar/Club Shelter NYC) and featured artists Kenny Bobien & Kimara Lovelace performing together for the first time and of course, Dave spinning on the decks. Dave decided to go back to radio and created his own Internet radio mixshow called "The Underground Groovement Party"  from 2003 to 2024. You can still hear his mixes right here on SoundCloud. www.yourmixmaster.com.

JAM PIONEER
Maverick Producer, Arranger, DJ, Songwriter, Composer, Drummer, Percussionist, Audio Engineer, Remixer, Editor, Multi-Instrumentalist
(Jamming circa. 1983)
(DEEP HOUSE, HOUSE, NU-JAZZ, NU-FUNK, NU-DISCO)

Production & Remixing project enquires: 
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An English judge had said so after the Jacobites’ great defeat at Culloden in 1746; a piper was a fighter like the rest, and his music was his weapon.

New tracks tagged #PARADISE GARAGE