To date the Weekend, from Toronto, has uploaded three songs to YouTube — "What You Need," "Loft Music" and "The Morning".
(Stanley, a renowned trombonist, was a force in the hip, downtown loft music scene in the 1980's, another party I'd have been happy to come late to, had I known it existed!) Roulette has moved often over the decades, but in 2011 it settled into what now seems a permanent home: Memorial Hall in Boerum Hill.
We're at my friend's loft and music studio on the west side of Toronto, and I've just presented the celebrated German photographer with a wall of drum machines and analog synths to mess around with.
AUTHOR TALK WITH MUSIC, Loft, 295 East Eighth Street, East Village.
He began manufacturing dry plates in a loft over a music store and made about $4,000 selling them in 1879 and 1880.
My favorite party was at an actor's warehouse loft with live music; there were always drummers, singers, and dancing all night.
"Like so many before us, we are heavily inspired by the late David Mancuso's Loft parties, the music, and the culture that was born from it," the residents to THUMP over email about the impetus of the night.
The catalyst for banding together was a Michael Kors show, in 1991, in a raw Chelsea loft, when the booming music caused the walls to shake and a big chunk of the ceiling to fall onto the runway, clipping Suzy Menkes, the fashion editor of the International Herald Tribune, on her well-regarded head.
At New York University, she became the programme director of the renowned college radio station WNYU – and in the early 1990s, she began an enduring friendship with David Mancuso, who pioneered parties in Manhattan known as the Loft, where he played music through ambitious audio set-ups, only ever on vinyl.
Right on time, a long parade of men with large round horns draped over their shoulders strode up the aisle to the altar as the organist warmed up in the choir loft, and the energetic music, a weird but wonderful mix of classical and religious, began.
The company is made up of around 15 people — musicians, camera operators, producers, audio/visual wizards, etc. — who all live together in a giant loft and love making music.
