PARADISE GARAGE Sat. 7.23 @ Barcelona/ATX-SPETTRO & J.A.M.O.N.

Wicked McBeth & The Proponents of House Music All Night Long Bring You:

PARADISE GARAGE
SATURDAY, JULY 23 @ BARCELONA/AUSTIN

Featuring
EDDIE SPETTRO
J.A.M.O.N.

THE LEO BIRTHDAY BASH
Happy Birthday Eddie, Lauren, Miranda & Macy

Welcome Eddie back from his European Tour and kick off his monthly residency!

>>>BARCELONA – 209 E. Sixth in the basement near Brazos & Sixth<<<

No Cover / Drink Specials

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The democratized dance floor – now that’s what I’m talking about. PARADISE GARAGE at Barcelona will be in the spirit of the New York legend. Have a ball. Let it all hang out. Dress to express, if you wish. Do it UP. Get the funk DOWN. Paradise never tasted so groovalicious.

Nightlife: Paradise Lost
D.J.'s and producers remember the Garage -- even if they weren't there.
By Ethan Brown

"Even if you just went to the club a few times," says Billboard dance-music editor Michael Paoletta, "you experienced something so grand that you are actually looked up to." Over the past few years, as dance music has inched closer to the mainstream, the Paradise Garage, a SoHo nightclub that ran from 1976 to 1987, has assumed the kind of talismanic significance that makes it the Woodstock of serious New York clubgoers.

Unlike Studio 54, with its impassive doormen and stiff social pecking order, the Garage democratized the dance floor. "When Diana Ross came by, things got screwed up and somehow she had to pay to get in," remembers Mel Cheren, who ran the Garage with his lover Michael Brody (who died in 1987) and has just published a memoir called Keep On Dancin': My Life and the Paradise Garage. "But when she left, she said, 'It's truly paradise.' Madonna gave her first major performance there, too. And Grace Jones was like the queen of the Garage."

The real star of the club was its D.J., Larry Levan, who created the template for disco, and later house music, with the soulful, orchestral dance sets he played years earlier at gay bathhouses like the Continental Baths and eventually at the Garage. He challenged his audience, and though he spun the Clash's "Magnificent Seven" and 60-minute synthesizer orchestras like Manuel Göttsching's "E2 -- E4," ultimately the wailing divas and percussive funk of a new double CD from Cheren's West End Records, Larry Levan Live at the Paradise Garage, make a case for Levan as less the avant-garde electronic pioneer and more dance music's answer to R&B. (Levan died of heart-condition complications in 1992.)

Levan's sets inspired the current dance-music scene's Old Guard, including Junior Vasquez and Danny Tenaglia, to take to the decks, and the club has become surprisingly influential with house and hip-hop producers who never even darkened its doors. "I was too young to go to the Garage," says house-music producer and D.J. Armand Van Helden, "but I know that the party was about breaking down barriers between music. And that's what I'm about. So I consider myself 'Garage.' " Hip-hop producer Prince Paul says back in the mid-seventies when "there was no such thing as a hip-hop record," D.J.'s like Afrika Bambaataa "would spin disco records like Taana Gardner's 'Heartbeat' remixed by Levan just for the breakbeats. Everybody killed that record back then."

This summer, tributes to Levan and the Garage have become as common as "ladies drink free" nights: Over the weekend, dancers sweated at packed Levan tributes at "Body & Soul" and the Bronx club the Warehouse; this Wednesday, original Garage D.J.'s David DePino and Joey Llanos will spin at "Little" Louie Vega's "Dance Ritual" party at Vinyl; on Saturday night at Brooklyn club Halcyon, Cheren will read from Keep On Dancin', followed by a set from Nicky Siano, the D.J. who taught Levan how to spin; and later that evening, D.J. Timmy Regisford will present yet another tribute to Levan at "Shelter" at Vinyl. "I think things are coming full circle," says Cheren, adding that he'd like to reopen the club in its original King Street space as a Hard Rock Cafe-inspired "disco diner" with Garage memorabilia -- down to an urn bearing Levan's ashes.

[.kt]

a big helllllllllllllllllooooooo to the ever so crazy jamon.
you are OOC. as if he will even read this, nevertheless, hello.

.kt

*awaits the popcorn....

I am so there.

[.kt]

Originally Posted by JustMike

I am so there.

grrrrrrrrr jealous.................................

[juandingo]

tell me more about this barcelona spot. i haven't heard of it but i am well aware of how eddie and jamon can sley though.

[Slow Motion]

Barcelona rocks... great venue and awesome staff. Solid sound....

Macy knows how to create a vibe soooo thick, you can swim in it. And the music will be unreal.

-lance

word to the third!

thanks lance, you rock

Listen to Spettro's mixes at: www.undergroundhouse.net. 4 DOPE ones posted

Here's the press release I wrote for this shindig.


Barcelona Nightclub, Wicked McBeth Promotions & The Proponents of House Music All Night Long bring you PARADISE GARAGE, featuring EDDIE ‘SPETTRO’ and J.A.M.O.N.

Spettro (real name Edward Scott), one of the top house music jocks in the industry, takes to the turntables on Saturday, July 23 at Austin’s most innovative dance club, Barcelona. This will kick off Spettro’s monthly Saturday night residency at the venue.

The July 23 event also celebrates Spettro’s birthday, as well as his return home upon the completion of his European Tour, which encompassed bookings in London, Manchester, Brighton and Belgium and appearances on Internet radio stations, including www.Housefm.net.

In acknowledgement of these triumphs and occasions, and in the spirit of house music and the “vibe” of positive energy and community fellowship such music inspires, the July 23 show is themed ‘Paradise Garage,’ after the legendary SoHo nightclub that was open from 1976 to 1987.

"Even if you just went to the club a few times," says Billboard dance-music editor Michael Paoletta, "you experienced something so grand that you are actually looked up to." Over the past few years, as dance music has inched closer to the mainstream, the Paradise Garage has assumed the kind of talismanic significance that makes it the Woodstock of serious clubgoers. Unlike Studio 54, with its impassive doormen and stiff social pecking order, the Garage democratized the dance floor. A “grand” experience and “democratized” dance floor will be found at Barcelona.

J.A.M.O.N., who has been an Austin favorite since he played hip-hop in the mid-90s, will open for Spettro with a deep house set. B.L.A.K.K., the name of J.A.M.O.N.’s Friday night residency at Barcelona, is one of the top house music weekliess in the state.

ABOUT EDDIE 'SPETTRO'
Eddie ‘Spettro’ (Spettro is Italian for "spectrum of light") places emphasis on his role as an educator to introduce people to the world of house music. A seasoned DJ and accomplished producer, Spettro has brought his unique San Antonio house sound to international destinations and U.S. cities coast to coast. He has released over 30 records internationally for such labels as Tango, Aroma, Brique Rouge, Big Chief, Amenti, So Sound, Doubledown, Primal and Heights. His production has won endorsements by house music heavyweights such as Mark Farina, DJ Heather, Jay-J Hernandez, Chris Lum, Phil Weeks, DJ Sneak and Mazi. Spettro’s tracks have been licensed to mix CDs by global chart-toppers Miguel Migs, DJ Dan, DJ Heather, DJ Raoul (Swirl People) and Jim Masters. Look for Spettro under the monikers "Green Thumb" (with Dwavehed), "Antoine Diego" (with Thomas Sahs) and "Ten Gallon Hats" (with Claude 9 and Chris Specht). Visit the website for a current list of gigs/events, chart listings and more: www.spettromusic.com. Listen to Spettro's mixes on www.undergroundhouse.net.

[Holmes Davis]

sounds cool, i have this one recording of Larry from Studio54, and that cat drops some Bob Seager in the mix, amazing
hopefully in attempt to capture mood, the djs/promoters don't forget to play some of Larry's top 100 PG tunes

[Osan]

Barcelona is hotness.
I miss Eddie

[downlow]

this sounds nice ...hope it stays true to the spirit of what larry did at the garage... like playing only records he played or would have been played... if you hear these songs in the mix that night, I am sure it will be a great evening.

Loose Joints - is it all over my face
First Choice - let no man putusunder
Logg - I know you will
Gwen Guthrie - Padlock
Gary's Gang - Keep on dancin'
Dinosaur L - Go Bang

[Merlin]

If I don't come to dallas on friday I will definitely be there. Who'd of thought, I don't remember the last time the hotness was down south and not up here.

It really is a swanky club...... get there early, because there's a line waiting for you.

ok count me in.. I am there.. who is going with me?