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Best soulful-house parties
added by
Nightlyfe City Staff
from
Time Out New York
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http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/clubs/73381/best-soulful-house-parties
Soulful house—the kind that came of age at spots like the
Paradise Garage, the Shelter and Newark’s Zanzibar—is, along
with hip-hop, the sound that the world most associates with New
York’s nightlife scene. Twenty years after its birth, the
emotion-drenched, R&B–based end of the house spectrum is still
supplying the soundtrack to our clubbing world, and here are the
top parties where you can to find it.
Body & Soul
New York veterans Joe Claussell, François K and Danny Krivit
pack the massive dance floor of Webster Hall’s main room with
deep and soulful house, classics, Afro-Latin rhythms and
anything else they feel like at their ever popular monthly
Sunday tea dance.
Webster Hall, 125 E 11th St between
Third and Fourth Aves (212-353-1600)
718 Sessions
If soulful disco and R&B-based house are Gotham’s gift to the
dance-music universe, then Danny Krivit is the city’s top Santa
Claus. It doesn’t matter that the party bounces from venue to
venue: Wherever it ends up, it’s one of the best shindigs in
town.
Santos Party House, 100 Lafayette St
at Walker St (212-714-4646)
Roots
Masters at Work’s Louie Vega and Blaze’s Kevin Hedge—two guys
who have long been fighting to keep the soul in NYC’s club
scene—dig through their collections every Wednesday at Cielo and
spin the music that got us here.
Cielo, 18 Little W 12th St between
Ninth Ave and Washington St (212-645-5700,
cieloclub.com)
Soulgasm
House, funk, soul and old-school hip-hop
spurt from East Village hangout Sin Sin’s two floors, with DJ
Brian Coxx New York (as opposed to the techno Bryan Cox and the
hip-hop Bryan Cox, both of whom are missing that extra-x oomph)
and his guests working the ones and twos. Live percussion helps
juice up the evening. For more info, go to
myspace.com/soulgasmnyc.
Sin Sin 85 Second Ave at 5th St
(212-253-2222)
Deepa
The Deepa clan tosses a monthly house-music gala at Public
Assembly, featuring residents Brian Burnside, Marc Bartolomeo
and guests spinning deep and soulful house, with the occasional
teched-up tune and classic tossed into the mix.
Public Assembly, 70 North 6th St
between Kent and Wythe Aves, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(718-782-5188) |
