Larry Levan live at Paradise Garage 1985

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  @Z3000-d2p · 6 months ago

  2026 anyone 🫡

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• 1D

  @1DJSkittles · 3 years ago (edited)

  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

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• DA

  @danielmosqueda2462 · 4 years ago

  The internet is generally shit but being able to hear this kind of incredible archival material is nothing short of miraculous .

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• DD

  @ddoubledutch4783 · 2 years ago

  To be aware and there. You lucky lucky people. Must’ve been out of this world. Your getaway. Can’t touch it. Class

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• AD

  @adrianbreland7174 · 2 years ago

  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.

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• MA

  @marcellusbrown57 · 2 years ago (edited)

  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❤️

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• GE

  @get2dachoppa249 · 2 years ago

  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.

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• JA

  @jaguarvssnake · 2 years ago

  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!

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• CA

  @CarterGuz · 5 months ago

  Im here in 2026 and this is still GOLD.

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• DJ

  @Djhhhn-y3m · 1 year ago (edited)

  Mixing on Belt-Drive turntables with a tiny sliver pitch tab &amp; he still managed to stay, solidly, on beat for nearly entire 2hr set! Despite mixing music from the 70&apos;s &amp; 80&apos;s where the snares were mostly recorded live resulting in off tempo/irregular beats, he mixes flawlessly for at times over 2-8counts his cuts are crisp, sharp &amp; on bar despite using an urei rotary mixer... Those of us who were Nightclub Dj&apos;s in the 80&apos;s &amp; even early 90&apos;s know the level of complexity &amp; musical talent that it took to do such sets with such precision given the wide range of musical choice. He SLIGHTLY falls off beat @ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luAx0xKWiRo&amp;t=92">1:32</a> but other than that, he&apos;s on beat for 2 hrs!!! That in it self is something only very few &quot;dj&apos;s&quot; can rarely accomplish on a 30 min. vinyl YouTube post let alone a 2 hr live set. This is REAL Djing! For all those &quot;performers&quot; these days wearing &quot;Real Dj&quot; T-Shirts while being fortunate enough to having a limitless array of technology to rely on ie: looping, sync, endless effects &amp; absolutely perfect snares/tempos, this is what a true nightclub DJ looked &amp; sounded like when the dance scene was at it&apos;s pinnacle of true greatness. In the words of Ron Trent &quot;These were guys that were more interested in being heard &amp; not being seen&quot;.

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• GA

  @GamalAdeel · 3 years ago

  As a old member of the Paradise Garage,this brings back sweet memories 🎉

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• BI

  @billyt9830 · 2 months ago (edited)

  This brings back so many memories! I was in college living in the dorms and one of my friends asked me if I wanted to go to the Garage one Saturday night. I said sure! When I walked in, I felt like Dorothy walking out of her house after the tornado into munchkin land! I just knew I wasn&apos;t in Kansas anymore! We got there around 2am and didn&apos;t leave until after sunrise!

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