Venue Details: Loft/Warehouse Space in Sydney CBD, 5 mins from central station, Check here on the week for venue details

Date: Mar 20th 2009

Music: Soul, Disco, Classic House & Detroit Techno

Tickets: $10+ BF or delivered through soulofsydney@gmail.com

Contact Info: PH: 0415 164 425 E: soulofsydney@gmail.com

HYS & Our House present another inner city loft/warehouse party:

‘RESPECT’, … returns for another ride into Sydney’s underground house scene!!

In an inner city personal loft/warehouse space, expect to dance till sunrise to some of the great moments in ‘House’ music over the last 30 years.

Music selectors on the night: GK playing a (Birthday set!), Mr , Phil Toke &Mikecon.

Moved by groundbreaking DJ’s & Producers including; David Mancuso,Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, & Danny Krivit… Expect the RESPECT DJ’s to pay respect to their musical spirit, while paying homage to the HISTORY OF HOUSE MUSIC & its beautiful roots.

Expect a trip through the early days of New York DISCO to Chicago HOUSE & Detroit TECHNO to warm up the dance floor,

Everything & everyone is welcome on our dance-floor!!

Tickets are $10+ BF or Limited on the door.

Love,

The Respect Crew

Feb 2010

Media & Links (Maestro & Pump up the Volume documentaries)

#1 Maestro (2005)

This documentary focuses on the origins of the New York City dance music underground. The film takes you deep in to the world of Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage and David Mancuso‘s Loft as they become the center of underground culture, which evolved into the dance music of today. Features appearances by Levan, Mancuso, Frankie Knuckles, Nicky Sciano, Francois K, Francis Grasso, Jellybean Benitez, Danny Tenaglia, Tony Humphries, Tee Scott, Dimitri From Paris, Danny Krivit, Pete Tong, Joe Claussell, Little Louie Vega, Keith Haring, and many of the original Loft and Garage club members.

Revisit–or see for the first time–the real New York disco era, with this documentary look at the underground celebrities that made it happen. The club scene in the ’70s was one of uninhibited artistic freedom, a percolating hotbed of new talent, new music, new styles, and new ways of thinking, and its story unfolds here in archive footage and interviews with key people on the scene. These include Larry Levan, house DJ at the Paradise Garage whose influence is felt to this day, and who at the time helped make the Garage the center of New York nightlife–young, black, gay nightlife in particular. Then there’s Danny Mancuso, an orphan who moved to New York as a teenager and single-handedly changed the face of the scene with his Loft parties. Other personalities featured include the “Godfather of House,” Frankie Knuckles; DJ and producer extraordinaire John “Jellybean” Benitez; pop artist Keith Haring; and many others. The influential disco era shown here is palpably something that was utterly exciting, original, and inspirational.

Check out the part two (The Loft – David Mancuso) exerts  below

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Or check out the full documentary here

#2 Pump Up the Volume Documentary: A History of House Music

This is the definitive story of house music from its roots till present day, from its early days as NY disco, Chicago House & Detroit Techno. Featuring Frankie Knuckles,Marshall Jefferson,Derrick May,Pete Tong & More

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