.·:*¨¨*:·.The Loft with David Mancuso - London Sunday 21 June 2009.·:*¨*:·.

[Simon]

Lucky Cloud Sound System's Journey Through the Light celebrates its 6th anniversary (yes its been 6 years!) with David Mancuso (the Loft) on 21 June 2009.

Don't miss this special celebration. For tickets and info, click here! (http://www.the-crystal-room.com/loft/party.php)

Peace on Earth

[Simon]

Tickets are starting to sell quickly now! Only 2 weeks until the 6th anniversary party with David Mancuso! Ticket price includes as much food as you can eat, free soft drinks and music played on Europe's finest mobile Hi-Fi system.

Get tickets here! (http://www.the-crystal-room.com/loft/party.php)

Below is an extract from an interview with David Mancuso published in the current issues of Shook. For more info click here! (http://www.shook.fm/content/shop/)

Back in the late sixties in a Loft room on 647 Broadway, a young Timothy Leary disciple and a group of like-minded flower children unwittingly created the blueprint for New York’s disco underground. Beneath a ceiling covered in balloons and streamers, David Mancuso stood before a small Buddha, weaving an eclectic and atmospheric soundtrack (from obscure Latin and African rock, to psychedelic soul and unclassifiable ethereal LP tracks) to match the mood and movement of the dancers; who defined the melting pot that was cooking up in post-industrial New York. Re-launching his party as ‘Love Saves The Day’ in 1969 (after a period of Buddhist disownment and a trip to the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital) Mancuso and his friends created an environment where freedom and unity were the watchwords, as dancing became communion. In the early seventies as word about this unique dance space started to filter through, The Loft became a haven for NYC’s outsider art community. The party’s whole aesthetic, from the refined sound system to the family ethic, became a huge influence on New York’s future DJs and their revered clubs, with famous ‘Loft babies’ including Nicky Siano (The Gallery), Larry Levan (Paradise Garage) and Frankie Knuckles (Chicago’s Warehouse).

Mancuso once claimed he was “tuning in to ‘that natural rhythm - that three billion year old dance – I just applied it through these artificial means which were amplifiers and records.” The bearded mystic first brought this party ethic to London at the end of the nineties as a guest of Nuphonic Records. However, it was a conversation with Tim Lawrence while he was researching his book ‘Love Saves The Day’ that led to Mancuso’s Loft parties becoming regular happenings at The Light Bar in Shoreditch, with Lawrence and friends setting up The Lucky Cloud Sound System. These parties have inspired others such as LCSS and Voices collective member (alongside DJ Alex another LCSS partner) Cedric Woo, DJ Cosmo and Simon and Guillaume whose Beauty and The Beat, Cosmodelica and Deep Frequency parties respectively embrace the Loft atmospherics, as London embraces the more cerebral and spiritual side of nightlife. In an Old Street bar prior to the LCSS 5th Anniversary and on the cusp of the release of the first of the long awaited Loft audiophile 12”s, I sat down to reason with this most enigmatic yet enlightening of party hosts.

[Simon]

^^^

[Simon]

Next Sunday! Get tickets here! (http://www.the-crystal-room.com/loft/party.php)

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[Simon]

This Sunday!

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[Simon]

For the buffet we have Summery Caribbean food from Roti Stop (the guys who run the Trini stall on Broadway Market).

Its gonna be hot hot hot on Sunday! :p

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