VARIOUS ARTISTS (DINOSAUR L / DAVID BYRNE) - Life & Death On A New York Dance Floor (1980-1983) Part 1

Reappearing Records

£21.58

CATALOGUE NO. REAPPEARLP001PT1
FORMAT - 2xLP
RELEASE DATE 22nd May 2020
Genres - Disco, Electronic, Hip Hop, Indie Dance, New York

Track Listing
A1. Dinosaur L - Go Bang! (LP version)
A2. Tuxedomoon - Desire
B1. Gray - Drum Mode
B2. Alan Vega - Saturn Drive
C1. David Byrne - Big Business (dance mix)
C2. Johnny Dynell & New York 88 - Jam Hot (Rhumba Rock)
D1. Rammellzee vs K-Rob - Beat Bop (original 12" single)
D2. 3 Teens Kill 4 - Hold Up

For the last 20 years London-based author and party organiser Tim Lawrence has dedicated himself to excavating the history of New York City party culture and bringing some of the most powerful aspects of that culture to London’s dance scene, from where it has ricocheted around the world. Having conducted the first set of major interviews with David Mancuso, Lawrence started to put on Loft-style Lucky Cloud Sound System parties with David and friends in London in June 2003. In early 2004 he published Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-79, which tracked the influence of the Loft on the wider New York DJ, dance and disco scene. In 2009 his biography of the iconic musician Arthur Russell became the first book to map the wider downtown music scene. These beautifully written and politically insightful histories have educated, inspired and celebrated the previously overlooked foundations of contemporary dance music.