New York clubbing around 1983/4. The emerging 'dance music' scene takes hold in NYC.

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• CL

  @clubhead433 · 5 years ago (edited)

  I was 23-24 years old at this time,  clubbing three or four times a week, every week!!!  I bought all the records showcased here like Peech Boys, Quando Quando, the Jamaica Girls....it was a very special and pivotal time in Dance music or what we called "Club Music".  Chicago House was about to pounce upon the NYC/NJ scene in about 4 to 6 months.    The Paradise Garage was everything at this time...Larry Levan was slaying week after week...introducing the latest Italo-Disco cuts, UK imports (British Jazz Funk, Funky New Wave & Synth-Pop), then all the tunes coming out of NYC indie dance labels like West End, Salsoul, Beckett, Prelude, etc.  It was an amazing time and I'm so glad that I was there to experience it all!  Mudd Club, Pyramid Club, Reggae Lounge,  Funhouse (I went once...more of a Funk Garage/Zanzibar head), of course, Danceteria, Better Days, The Loft on 99 Prince St., and Melons.

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• DA

  @danielroque8504 · 2 years ago

  God Bless everyone who survived the 70s/80s...Im still here in 2024!! RIP to all that passed, we are in queue, but until then, lets love~

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• SA

  @sabrinamerrick1271 · 5 years ago

  Hard to believe the 80s were 40 years ago.

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• TO

  @toujours.dj.brooklyn · 1 month ago

  Mark Kamins what a legend. RIP. Fun fact — his brother is an architect who worked at my company for a while. Kamins used to write his name on his records in thick black felt tip pens and in the late 80s I used to find them at Sounds on St. Marks. I’ve still got one or two!

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• PA

  @PaulV513 · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1hQcFXSWkQ&amp;t=214">3:34</a> Mark Kamins was the DJ that Madonna gave her demo reel of &quot;Everybody&quot; to and the rest is history!

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• JO

  @johnpadilla0029 · 1 month ago

  What a magical time!!

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• NE

  @newdawn7586 · 1 month ago

  I was 16-17 sneaking into clubs...what a time. &nbsp;I went to the Danciteria

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• TR

  @trishhobbsphillips3478 · 1 month ago

  I used to go to the Roxy when I was about 16 and living with my cousin in the early ‘80s! Great times! 😊

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• SE

  @Sensei.shonuff · 2 years ago

  Klaus Nomi died at the Sloan Kettering Hospital Center in New York City on August 6, 1983, as a result of complications from AIDS. He was one of the earliest known figures from the arts community to die from the illness.[21][22] Nomi&apos;s close friend Joey Arias was executor of his estate.[23] Nomi&apos;s ashes were scattered in New York City.[11]

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  @1986SSMONTECARLO · 13 years ago

  Red Parrot, 1018, 4D, Zenons, Lime Lite, Magique, Starbucks, Underground, Palladium, Cat Club, Roxy, Fun House, Ritz, Tunnel, Beat Street Sqeeze, Visage, Danceteria, Leviticus, Bentleys, Garage, Private Eyes, Nirvana, &amp; Studio 54....GOOD TIMES, GREAT MEMORIES!!!

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• DJ

  @DJBobbyMay · 3 years ago

  Just got done reading &quot;l:ife and Death On The New York Dancefloor 1980-1983&quot; by Tim Lawrence...<br>I was already drawn to so much of the music. That&apos;s whole damn reason I picked up the book.<br>But learning about this scene was so inspiring. Dreaming of what a night, the dancefloor, a club can be. Happy with what I got to work with today, but damn, do wish I woulda been there..<br>A completely magical place and time. So many elements intersecting to create something that, surely, was a new nirvana, peak living, transcendence...<br>I won&apos;t spend too many words on what it was (I wasn&apos;t there!!)<br>But if I was, I surely woulda have been dancing well past sunrise...

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• WU

  @wuqimama · 12 years ago

  <b>classic</b> &nbsp;So much fun in NYC during that time.

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