Melting Pot 11th Birthday with Danny Krivit (Body & Soul, NYC) listings

The Admiral Presents

Melting Pot

11th Birthday Party!

Downstairs:
with Special Guest DANNY KRIVIT (Body & Soul, 718 Sessions, NYC)

Plus residents Andrew Pirie and Simon Cordiner

Upstairs:
Big Break Records


Saturday 3rd March, 2012
The Admiral
72a Waterloo Street, Glasgow, G2 7DA
10.30pm - 3am

£10 early bird tickets available from The Admiral only
£12 at all other outlets

Tickets available from Friday 10th February at:

Tickets Scotland
In Person: 237 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8DL
08444 155 221

Aspecto (No booking fee)
In person: 18-20 West Nile Street, Glasgow, G1 2PW
0141 248 5349

The Admiral (No Booking Fee)
In Person: 72a Waterloo Street, Glasgow, G2 7DA
0141 221 7705

Hillhead Book Club (No booking fee)
In Person:17 Vinicombe Street, Glasgow G12 8BE
0141 576 1700

Info:
info@meltingpotglasgow.com
http://www.meltingpotglasgow.com

DANNY KRIVIT

A Melting Pot birthday party wouldn't be complete without a truly special guest, and this year is no different! Danny Krivit flies in from New York to give us a masterclass. He teamed up with Francois K last year at the Electric Frog to great effect, and is now going back to our more intimate home of The Admiral, with our rather splendid soundsystem that will let Danny show us what he's got!

Dannys biog is lengthy to say the least! Coming up to 41 years as a DJ, resident and guest at some of the biggest New York clubs over that period: from The Paradise Garage, to The Loft, Roxy, Body and Soul, and latterly his own monthly 718 Sessions, to over 200 production credits, and a record collection pushing 70,000! Danny is steeped in New York clubbing history, and so obviously is THE perfect MP guest!

Danny started out DJing in 1971 at his fathers club, The Ninth Circle, in Greenwich Village, where he would play the latest white labels given personally to him by James Brown himself! He built up his DJing career throughout the 70s, immersing himself in the scene, establishing close friendships with the likes of Larry Levan and Francois Kevorkian through David Mancusos Loft record pool, and becoming resident at the seminal Roxy club in 1979 for the next four years. It was The Roxy that broke the nascent hip-hop scene in New York, with Grandmaster Flash, Africa Bambaata, and D.S.T. playing alongside the renamed Danny Rock!

During the 1980s Danny started to make a name for himself as a re-editor of note, with several of his edits became the standard versions: MFSBs Love is the Message being the most obvious. Others included: James Browns Funky Drummer, Give it up or Turn it Loose and Brenda and The Tabulations Lets Go All The Way. Since then his production/mixer/editor credits tally over 200! Earning himself the title King of the Re-Edits! With a serious of fantastic compilations over the years on Strut, and latterly the In The House series on Defected.

After holding down residencies all over New York in the 80s and 90s, it was in 1996 when he joined forces with Francois K and Joe Claussell to form the weekly Sunday party, Body and Soul, which became a defining moment in his career. Over the 7 of so years that the party ran weekly it became an international institution, with clubbers jetting into New York especially. Body and Soul was thought of as the closest New York had to the Paradise Garage since its closure in 1987, with its forward thinking musical policy of pushing new sounds, but respecting the rich heritage of disco, funk and soul that built the New York club scene. International dates exploded at this point, and Danny continues to play all over the world to this day. Body and Soul carries on as a special event, around 3 times a year in New York, with an annual weekend tour to Japan, and dates from as far afield as Brazil, to London, to Singapore. Since 2002 his 718 Sessions monthly night has gone from strength to strength in New York, and we cant wait to have him back in Glasgow!

More info on Danny Krivit:
http://www.dannykrivit.net/biography.html


Big Break Records
Now on to their 100th release in just under 3 years, Glasgow based Big Break Records have put down a marker for how a reissue label should operate. Taking the best albums from disco, funk and soul; lovingly remastering them, and putting together some wonderful sleeve notes. You couldn't find a label that was a more perfect fit for Melting Pot than BBR.

There are bound to be a selection from their back catalogue, including the likes of: Melba Moore, Pointer Sisters, Taste of Honey, Cerrone, Tom Moulton, Odyssey, Heatwave, Gladys Knight, Evelyn Champagne King, Change, Brooklyn Dreams, and many more, phew!

More info on Big Break Records:
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/bigbreak.asp


Melting Pot Pre-Club
The Admiral, 72a Waterloo Street, Glasgow, G2 7DA
Free entry with Melting Pot DJs
9pm - 10.30pm

Melting Pot DJs will be kicking things off at our pre-club at the newly renovated upstairs bar in The Admiral

With thanks to Loud & Clear Hi-Fi for sound equipment:
http://www.loud-clear.co.uk