David Mancuso from The Loft NYC in LA ...Sun. Sept. 4th 2005

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Sunday September 4th 2005
Headinghome Recordings presents


The Loft
Los Angeles

musical host


David Mancuso
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]the loft NYC

Loft Audio set up by
Sound Factory Systems


lights by
Mike Fix

Limited Capacity
$20 presale and at the door.
no guest list

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

Limited edition commemorative T-shirts (M&W)
available the night of the party.

supported by
Mekanic, URB Mag, Fusicology

11:00pm-5:00am

@ Soul Folks Cafe
613 Imperial St. Downtown L.A. 90021


here's some of what some of today's most inspirational DJs had to say about the loft


LARRY LEVAN
Nicky Siano, David Mancuso, Steve D'Acquisto and Michael Cappello, David
Rodriguez from The Ginza - this is the school of DJs that I come from. David
Mancuso was always very influential with his music and the mixes. He didn't
play records unless they were very serious. When I listen to DJs today they
don't mean anything to me. Technically some of them are excellent,
emotionally they can't do anything for me. I used to watch people cry in the
Loft for a slow song because it was so pretty.

It's unusual to hear a hear DJ play slow songs now. It's gotten to the point
where if you play a slow song people think you're crazy... David would do
things like play the sound system with the bass and tweeters off and at
twothirty for whatever record was peaking - banging - they would all come
on. It sounds good anyway, and then shh-boom!" SH


FRANCOIS KEVORKIAN
'I didn't really go to the Loft until sometime in the Spring of 1978. 1 was
introduced by somebody called Larry Francis, the promotion guy at MCA
records, and, like everybody else who went for the first time, I was blown
away I had already been going to a lot of clubs but the Loft was so
different to all the others because it had furniture in there. It was his
house [Mancuso's]. There was no mixing involved, although when I first went
there he was still using some kind of a mixer, some kind of a cueing system
where he would cue up the records using some little speakers in front of
him. He obviously had an incredible impact on the people that went there and
it had an impact on me immediately. I could see that there was a whole scene
that was quite different from a lot of what I had seen at the Garage and
other clubs.

'It was more about the sonic quality of the records, the selection and the
progression of the music, than it was to do with mixing, and I was really
interested to see that the crowd had developed this routine where they were
cheering and clapping at the end of every record that they liked.’