theLIFT feat DANNY KRIVIT (Body & Soul & 718 Sessions)

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Bay Area friends, here we go again! After an amazing November date where Jeremy and I (Wiseacre) were so fortunate to share our music with so many of YOU. We now get back to it with the very welcome return of DANNY KRIVIT !! This is his second appearance with us in 2011!!! So if you missed him the first time, here's your chance to hear the master of the disco edit. For 40 years this man has been sharing tunes on the 1's and 2's. Join us on the dancefloor for a very special evening indeed !

DANNY KRIVIT (BODY & SOUL | 718 Sessions NYC)

+ co-creators / resident deejays:
JEREMY SOLE (KCRW | Afro Funke - LA)
WISEACRE (Louie & Chan | Found Love NYC)

theLIFT is a los angeles based nomadic monthly party created and hosted by JEREMY SOLE and ERIC TUCKER (DJ WISEACRE). we joined together to produce theLIFT as a return to the unbridled love and energy of a well-executed, underground, after-hours event. each month we seek to discover another hidden downtown warehouse/loft to house our/your monthly invocation.

having been deejays and event producers ...for nearly 3 decades collectively and showing folks a fine time in the cities of chicago, new york and los angeles, we feel so blessed to arrive here in 2011 with a ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of over 1100 strong. the party was established in january of 2010 and since then has hosted the worldwide talents of GILLES PETERSON, DANNY KRIVIT, SPINNA, KARIZMA, NICKODEMUS, RICH MEDINA, KING BRITT, SIMBAD, RON TRENT, NATURAL SELF, MARQUES WYATT, LEFTO, MARK DE CLIVE LOWE, IAN FRIDAY, J ROCC and NUMARK to name a few.

theLIFT is committed not to musical genres, but simply fine music radiating from many different points of this fine planet. please stay with us this year, or join us for a first time if you have not yet done so. look for JEREMY SOLE and WISEACRE to expand theLIFT into new york and san francisco, while continuing to hold down our home base of los angeles. as always.... trust us, try and find us!

Promo: Lotus Agency & Fusicology


DANNY KRIVIT :
Growing up in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the 1960s, Danny was surrounded by music. His mother was an accomplished jazz singer and his father was the manager of legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker before going on to open up “The Ninth Circle”, a Village hot spot, where Danny worked as a boy. It was here that Danny met some of the most influential people in the music scene; Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Mingus, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, amongst others. His home was also a hotbed of musical inspiration, with The Mothers of Invention living down the hall, and Sid Bernstein (Manager of The Rascals) living upstairs, the rascals would regularly pop down to the Krivit household to practice their future hits on the piano. At school, a close friend and classmate was the son of Creed Taylor, the production genius behind many artists who recorded on the VERVE, C.T.I. & KUDA labels, and another close friend, legendary Nile Rogers, help Danny pick out his first guitar.

By 1970, Danny was already a vinyl junkie & an amateur DJ, But DJ'ing as a profession wasn't fully realized until 1971, after another neighbor/friend of Danny’s (Vice President of Polydor Records) introduced Danny to one of his artists - none other than the legendary James Brown, who gave Danny white-label advance promo copies of his “Get on the Good foot” and “Think” by Lynn Collins. Around the same time, Danny started Djing & programming music for “The Ninth Circle” which by now had been transformed into a disco. Danny’s father opened his second club called “Ones” In 1975; Danny was their sole DJ through 1977. Danny’s sets were a big success and from this he started promoting and Djing at his own after-hours club down the street. At this stage, Danny was becoming part of the underground scene, club-hopped a lot, meeting some of the greatest DJ names of the time. These included Nicky Siano (of the Gallery), Walter Gibbons (of Galaxy 21), Tee Scott (of Better Days), David Rodriguez (of The Limelight), Richie Kaczar (Club Hollywood), and Bobby DJ (of Le Jardin) amongst others. Although all outstanding names, one DJ and club stood out amongst the rest: DJ David Mancuso and The Loft.

Moving into the 90s, Danny commanded legendary status amongst young and old as well as continuing to forge new paths in dance music into the millennium. He inherited the Ninth Circle from his father and continued to DJ at NY clubs such as Mars, Tracks, The Choice, Palladium, Shelter, Sound Factory Bar, Twilo, The Warehouse, & The Loft. At it's inception in 1996, Danny joined Francois K and Joe Claussell to form the Body and Soul team, at club Vinyl in NYC and regularly played every Sunday for it's entire run, while also regularly Djing in various clubs in New York & Japan & everywhere in-between, Body & Soul has also been enjoying some special events in Brazil, France, LA, London, Portugal, Italy, Singapore & sensational annual events in Japan.

Danny’s talents and reputation have grown immensely and continues to do so, with demand for his DJing & editing work reaching new heights & exploding worldwide from North & South America to Europe & Japan, with his Producer/Editor/Mixer credits included on well over 200 records. Earning a status of “King Of The Re-edit” since the early 80’s, he’s been a major force in bringing attention & world acceptance to the art of editing, even spawning an onslaught of imitators. Also since the early 80’s, Danny has also been a VJ, with a collection of well over 5000 rare soul performances on video from the 60s, 70s, 80's, & 90's. His vinyl record collection is now well over 80,000. He has also contributed to many historical films & literature such as: “Maestro”, “Love Saves The Day”, “Last Night A DJ Saved My Life”, & Mel Cheren’s “My Life & The Paradise Garage”, “Downtown Calling”, “All Hopped Up and Ready To Go”, "The Disco Files" include Danny Krivit as a legendary key player in the history of NY night life & Most definitely one of the very few people who can honestly say he’s consistently DJ’d in all the hottest clubs in NY for the past 40 years!

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