Larry Levan

Larry Levan, Back to Paradise

May 29, 2014

This musical edition of Throwback Thursday is dedicated to the legendary Larry Levan, the DJ pioneer-priest of NYC’s Paradise Garage. The trancesphere he created for devotees-clubgoers every week was known as “Saturday Mass.”

In 1992 Levan spun off this plane (maybe he’s jamming somewhere with his contemporary and fellow DJ maestro Frankie Knuckles), but it’s still not too late to have yourself a tiny slice of paradise….