Richard Vasquez Podcast

1.LiliMarlene - PrincessUFO 2.LovelyDay - MikeFrancis 3.TakeMeDown – JohnnyBristol 4.I'mInADifferentWorld – DaveStewart 5.StirItUp – PattiLaBelle 6.History- MaiTai 7.HandsOff - LauraPallas 8.Energy - BeautifulBallet 9.MiAmor - PlasticMode 10.BrotherLouie – ModernTalking 11.TheySayIt'sGonnaRain - HazelDean.AnthonyStevens.Ianlevine (EMI) 12.I'mNeverGonnaGiveYouUp - RickAstley 13.LessonsInLove - Level42 14.OutOnTheNight - Caron 15.LookingForLove - TomHooker This mix is the second in a series of live vinyl mixes representing what was played at The Saint., NYC. in the years 1980-1986. It was located on Second Avenue and 6 Street in The East Village. The Saint had it's unique sound whose private memeberships were white gay males. I remember the attire being 80% faded tight Levis, white T- shirt and a mustache. We who were not into that look called them clones. Although I never performed there I did collect the music that was featured there… and that music was very unique from the other clubs of those years. It's main DJ's were Robbie Leslie, Roy Thode, Michael Cavalone, Michael Fierman among others… but the ones I have listed here were my favorites of them. It was a remarkable place architecturally but it did not have an outstanding sound system. It was severely lacking in in the bass range… but evidently that is the way they liked it. There was very little funk in the music so it really didn't need much bass. The light show really was outstanding and was projected onto a perforated planetarium dome. Richard Tucker was main light man. I have begun this collection with what was termed after hours early morning 'sleaze" music. "Back in the day, when variable-speed turntables were a relatively new invention, DJs very much wanted to create the perfect mix. Matching beats were only part of that. The most ambitious DJs, particularly those who played night after night until 4 a.m. -- or in the case of many private membership clubs, several hours after the sun came up -- aimed to take their dancers on a journey that mirrored nature's own peaks and ebbs. Typically, the energy and tempos and intensity of the music would build and build until sometime in the early morning hours, when they'd all ever so gradually recede. To accomplish the downshift, DJs would bring out what's often called "morning music" or its typically slower subset, "sleaze," which is usually sexy but only rarely actually sleazy. To the contrary, morning music and sleaze remained sophisticated throughout the '80s and even into the '90s, while dance music generally got simpler and harder. To construct morning music and sleaze sets, DJs drew from mid-tempo soul, New Wave, European pop, some easy listening, a little touch of jazz, and other forms of gentle disco. Together, these warm and caressing tracks would ease dancers down from their drugs, but leave them elated and ready to take somebody home. Reacting against the relentlessly fast and banging beats of today's EDM, a new generation of DJs like Lindstrøm and the Horse Meat Disco crew are rediscovering these early morning evergreens. A few are known to nearly everybody, but far more remain primarily known to the surviving club-goers and DJs of dance shrines like New York's 12 West, Paradise Garage, The Trocadero Transfer, and the Saint." --Barry Walters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saint_(club) https://www.facebook.com/richard.vasquez.5494?ref=stream https://www.facebook.com/richard.vasquez.56211?ref=tn_tnmn