Victor Rosado @ Crawdaddy, Saturday 23rd July

voltamadan

VICTOR ROSADO ( PARADISE GARAGE,NYC)
Saturday 23rd July @ Crawdaddy
Free before Midnight/8 after


Following last month's party with Lil Louis, Fatty Fatty are proud to present another debut Dublin appearance for another ageless turntable maestro.

This time it's Victor Rosado, former resident at the truly legendary New York disco mecca, The Paradise Garage, where he learnt his trade under the man many consider to be the greatest DJ ever, Larry Levan.

Victor started off doing lights at David Mancuso's infamous Loft parties, soon graduating to the audio equipment, before eventually being trusted to stand in for Mancuso himself.

He made his Garage debut in the early 1980's and along with a young David Morales, was one of Levan's regular alternates as the legendary Garage DJ increasingly succumbed to an overwhelming heroin habit.

The Garage closed in 1987 but Victor kept on working it, spinning at Morale's Red Zone parties and travelling with Levan to London help open The Ministry Of Sound - which in those days was in thrall to The Garage, moving it's towering soundsystem lock stock and barrel to London and concentrating on the finest disco and house dj's NYC had to offer.



He also span at the renowned Yellow in Japan, a club that was instrumental in bringing original disco-era legends like Levan, Francois K and Tee Scott to those shores for the first time.

In the last few years he has moved into production, with his 'East End' edits tastefully reworking Garage classics for the modern dancefloor. We saw him spin at Al Kent's 'Million Dollar Disco' party in Manchester a few years back, and the magic was still there and no mistake. We've been working on getting him to our fair capital ever since.....

This date will be a warm up for Paradise Garage special at London's Fabric on Saturday 30th July, with Rosado joined by Lenny Fontana playing strictly Garage music 1977-1987.

Support on the night comes from Fatty Fatty/Downtownsounds/NightFlight disco freak Pablo, with Radiomade.ie deep house chun Aaron Dempsey in The Lobby.

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voltamadan

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This Saturday!

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Its free before 12, but if you can't make that deadline we have a few passes to giveaway for Victor Rosado this Saturday.


To be in with a chance of winning, just tell us which of the following acts did not perform at the Paradise Garage

• Grace Jones
• Madonna
• Chaka Khan
• Duran Duran
• The Pointer Sisters

Email your answer to podsaturdays@gmail.com before friday 22 july.

gollem_1975

Did Victor show up in the end ..I left the place at about 2.30am and he still hadn't come on.

Nelson Pickett in the Commitments springs to mind...

voltamadan

gollem_1975 wrote: »

Did Victor show up in the end ..I left the place at about 2.30am and he still hadn't come on.

Nelson Pickett in the Commitments springs to mind...

Victor was there alright, i have the low quality video on my phone to prove it

it was a late start though, probably 1am when he came on.

were you in the right room? we were left of the lobby bar, as you enter.

voltamadan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1ANUayvpuI

ps who is this Nelson you speak of? Wilson's lesser known kid brother? =P

gollem_1975

hehe .. yeah I meant Wilson Pickett..

in fairness I was in Crawdaddy from 12 left about 2.30 and Victor Rosado didn't play there as advertised.

how long did he play for ? I heard he walked off ...

voltamadan

like i said, he started around 1am and played up to the end of the night.

if you were in crawdaddy from 12-2.30, who was DJing, and what kind of music?

gollem_1975

I was in the main room which you go into immediately after you pay in.

I thought that was called Crawdaddy.

I actually never went down to the lobby bar at all.

there were 3 guys DJ'ing in there on rotation and sometimes all 3 behind the decks. I don't know who they were but they weren't playing garage/house anyway. one of them was a baldy guy.

was a good night anyway.. but had hoped to check out Victor Rosado due to his association with the legendary Paradise Garage.

voltamadan

no that room is the Pod, next to that is the Lobby, and next to the lobby is Crawdaddy.

sorry you missed out man, Rosado was excellent. we'll be bringing him back, sooner rather than later!

gollem_1975

no way.. doh

any chance of getting Todd Edwards to visit these shores ?

voltamadan

link

here's the link to the show i did on power with victor