Larry Levan's set at Paradise Garage closing 1987

[The Boogie Doctor]

does anybody have the tracklisting for this set, as it appears in the link below??????

http://www.dhpmixes.com/mixes/garageclose.rm

also, any comments on the set are appreciated.....i thought it was something very special!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

peace and love
the boogie doctor

[QUINNY]

Maybe not the best part of the evening on this recording. Rather like the weather in Cornwall.....always better last week.

Think I would have been bored, to be honest. Although some of the tracks are greeted by whoops and hollers and singing, it all sounds a tad low key to my ears, especially his spinning, which has no attack whatsoever....... and that bl**dy siren....Yeuch!!!!

[The Boogie Doctor]

i didn't think it sounded too bad....seriously deep and chugging stuff....quite druggy and spacey, which is always to my liking....

[Mixmachine]

Anyone has a suggestion to play .RA files without having to install Real Audio software??

RA software always causes problems for me and I avoid this codec like the plague.

from a review of the latest RealPlayer version

"The program still suffers from an intrusive installation, but file-type hijacking and upgrade harassment are mostly gone."

But I don't trust them!!! Why anyone bothers to produce/post anything in .RA codec in this day and age is beyond me!!!

I found this alternative, but I don't know much about this freeware's reliability either..

Free-Codecs.com :: Download Real Alternative 1.75 : Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer/RealOne Player

[Houseman]

Originally Posted by Mixmachine

Anyone has a suggestion to play .RA files without having to install Real Audio software??

RA software always causes problems for me and I avoid this codec like the plague.

from a review of the latest RealPlayer version

"The program still suffers from an intrusive installation, but file-type hijacking and upgrade harassment are mostly gone."

But I don't trust them!!! Why anyone bothers to produce/post anything in .RA codec in this day and age is beyond me!!!

I found this alternative, but I don't know much about this freeware's reliability either..

Free-Codecs.com :: Download Real Alternative 1.75 : Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer/RealOne Player

I've been using Real Audio online since 1998. At the time it was THE way to encode mixes for a web site. From a tried and true format I got the streams to come out with near CD quality and was satisifed with the easy process, not to mention the ability to include .smil.
I guess I'm just too old school and didn't jump onto the MP3 mix bandwagon until now. Real Audio is a great online audio tool in most cases. I still hear some sites with very bad processing and you can hardly hear the music streams without heavy distortion. Real Audio is very system intrusive and going the way of the dinosaur. There are some free conversion software that supposed to smoothly encode .ra to mp3 but it seems cumbersome to site visitors.

Real Audio gives ways to convert files for iPods and direct CD burning, but they still want people to download their software. As for 2008 I will start streaming broadcasts in MP3 formats.

As to answer your question, why anyone would produce in real audio, well it was the best and most server accommodating in its day. And it's sometimes hard to teach us old dogs new tricks.

Houseman
Virgo Lounge - House Music, Deep House, Garage, Club and Disco Music

[The Boogie Doctor]

can we discuss the set please????????????

[qdearl]

After listening to the set, these are the tracks I've been able to identify...

1. Do it Properly - 2 Puerto Ricans, A Black man & a Dominican
2. Changes - Sharon Ridley
3. Stay Free - Ashford & Simpson
4. (acapella) - Don't Make Me Wait - NYC Peech Boys
5. ?
6. ?

As far as the mix itself, I'll have to agree with Quinny, it was kind of dull, sound quality and background noise are definitely a contributing factor to that, but the whole set just seemed to be all over the place....

[Houseman]

This was undoubtedly recorded by someone who sneeked a boombox into the Garage. The mixing is definitely Levan. It may sound crude, but you would have had to been there to get and understand the full blast. No one and I do mean no one could promote a song like Levan. He was truly married to the music and could get the crowd worked up like no other. This particular mix sounds like towards the end of Garage's days (late 80s). This was not the time to be in its vibe. Turn it back 5 or 6 years before and it was truly a magical place that was between space and light. Give me the Garage anyday over that snotty 54.

[MixMasterMax]

There were only two types of people who like Levan's mixing abilities, those as high as he and those higher than he. To this day I still cannot understand what all the fuss is about this man. Since all the clubs of the era were playing mostly the same tracks all we are left with is the mixing, nothing but the mixing. And I must tell you that Levan was left out of the gene pool on this trait when compared to his DJ peers. “understand the full blast” or “no one could promote a song like Levan”, “he was truly married to the music”…what the heck inspired these statements…heavy drugs no doubt. I am beginning to believe that no one here (except Quinny and few other good souls) ever attended a Discotheque around the time of Levan otherwise they would recognize the insignificant contribution this man left behind.

[The Boogie Doctor]

levan is god - your appraisal is very inaccurate and well wide of the mark...i think you need to respect and praise the gods of the genre from which all the people here derive a great deal of meaning and love.