WeMeanDisco!!

WE MEAN DISCO!! Dj-Mix 004 - recorded 2009

NYC PEECH BOYS - Life Is Something Special (WE MEAN DISCO!! Two Hearts Love Theme Re-Touch)

XAVIER NAIDOO & DIE KONFERENZ - Heimat (Philly Vanilli NY House Remix)

Heimat

XAVIER NAIDOO und die Konferenz - HEIMAT - (Philly Vanilli NY House Remix)

TINA TURNER - I Dont Need Another Hero ( MM Mix)

Billy Paul - Only The Strong Survive (Philly Vanilli Classic Edit)

Joy (MM Extended Revison)

ISAAC HAYES - Joy (MM Extended Revison)

Love Machine (Philly Vanilli Extended Tribute)

SUPERMAX - Love Machine (Philly Vanilli Extended Tribute)

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BRIAN FERRY - Slave To Love (Philly Vanilli Tribute Edit)

The Man With The Red Face (Tribute to Laurent Garnier)

PHILLY VANILLI - The Man With The Red Face (Tribute to Laurent Garnier) ++ FREE DOWNLOAD

Only You (Philly Vanilli Rework)

TEDDY PENDERGRASS - Only You (Philly Vanilli Rework)++ FREE DOWNLOAD

i love music (Philly Vanilli Extended Edit)

THE O JAYS - I Love Music (Philly Vanilli Extended Edit)++ FREE DOWNLOAD

SLAVE - Just A Touch Of Love (Philly Vanilli ReFreshment)

STARSHINE - All I Need Is You (Philly Vanilli Mix)

F GALL - Ella Ella (Philly Vanilli 2023 DeepHouse ReMix)

FRANCE GALL - ella elle l´a (Philly Vanilli 2023 DeepHouse ReMix)

FALCO - Ganz Wien (a Benz, Die Wienzeile Und Der Perserteppich Remix By Philly Vanilli)

SISTER SLEDGE - Lost In Music (Philly Vanilli Deep Ambient ReMix)

JAMES BROWN - Sex Machine :: PHILLY VANILLI 2024 ReMix

DONNA SUMMER - hot stuff :: PHILLY VANILLI REMIX

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

DAFT PUNK - around the world // Philly Vanilli ReMix

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

PINO DANIELE - yes i know // DISCO BONGO EDIT

PINO - yes i know : DISCO BONGO EDIT

SADE - paradise PHILLY VANILLI Extended Tribute

MJ - off the wall :: PHILLY VANILLI MIX

PHILLY VANILI AKA KIDPARIS AKA WE MEAN DISCO!! 6-30 STUNDEN LIVE DJ MIX

SISTER SLEDGE & JESSE JACKSON - Lost in music - Philly Vanilli Darkapella

MARVIN - a funky space reincarnation :: PHILLY VANILLI HOUSE MIX

PHILLY VANILLI - addicted

grapevine

MARVIN - GRAPEVINE - WE MEAN DISCO!! TECHHOUSE MIX

John Ozila - Funky Boogie (Disco Bongo Edit)

stretchin out

FOXDAFOX - stretchin out (Philly Vanilli Rework)

DISCO BONGO - you get me hot

stayin alive

STAYING ALIVE :: DISCO BONGO RETOUCH

STAYIN ALIVE :: Philly Vanilli Rework

BARRY WHITE - let the music play :: PHILLY VANILLI SUPER FUNK REWORK

Good Nite Harry Tight Disco Fight ++ selected by Philly Vanilli

WE MEAN DISCO!! ++ Out of the Box TV

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