Dekmantel and Grolsch present: Selectors - Danny Krivit
Dekmantel and Grolsch continue their collaboration by presenting a new Selectors video on New York City’s seasoned DJ Danny Krivit. Krivit, who has been part of the music scene for five decades now, was at the forefront of the birth of house music back in the eighties and has a longtime history in disco and soul. Next to that, he was a familiar face at legendary clubs as the Paradise Garage and The Loft, and still is in important key figure the city’s current scene. The video shines light on him as a DJ, but most importantly highlights what has been keeping Krivit in the game for such a long time. Next to letting Krivit telling the story, the video involves close (music) friends and family like his partner Akemi Krivit, Abigail Adams (Movin’ Records), Elbin Reyes, Juhsoong Sun and Paul Raffaele (Most Excellent Unlimited Records), who all explain what make Danny a true DJ’s DJ.
This year’s Dekmantel Festival sees Krivit joining the Dutch initiative for the second time, after he played at one of their events in 2014 together with Francois K and Joe Claussell as Body & Soul. Having him over for a three hours set on the Grolsch Selectors stage is an exciting first, as Krivit’s is a true DJ’s DJ - someone that puts endless energy in his preparations and selections. Krivit: “I think I have a very unique experience. Growing up where I did, the surroundings that I had along the music and the way it was around me. Just that timing of the change of time, the open mindedness and the freedom that came along with it.” Though, after all this time, he’s as humble as it gets. “I’ve never seen somebody who is so devoted so passionate to and about his music, and has an endless dedication to constantly learning music. It’s not about him. It’s not about him deejaying, or about him showing off his skills; he plays for people and plays to make people happy. That’s his number one priority”, says his wife Akemi Krivit.
The documentary shines light on his endless love for music and shows how his life mostly exists out of daily record store visits. “I’m not easily satisfied; I’m looking for depth, I’m looking for substance. I always get excited when I find those records that stick out, that seem to be different”, says Krivit. The video also shows how he’s massively involved in his 718 Sessions parties and how he comes from a lineage of DJ’s that play music with positive messages in them. “That’s something you hear in interviews when you hear stories about Frankie Knuckles, Larry Levan and David Mancuso - I think Danny is a direct descendant from that line of thinking and playing”, says Paul Raffaele who co-runs Most Excellent Unlimited Records with Krivit. All together, Krivit is simply one of a kind - someone who’s in it for all the right reasons and is there to stay. Krivit: “You always get these people that are fighting against the grain. It’s a little like in life the way grass grows through the cement - it does anyway. That’s why they really call it the underground, these are not the mass of people. The feelings and experiences that I had in the clubs after all these years, it’s like I’m at my peak of enjoying it. After five decades, I’m not slowing it down.”
CREDITS Director & Cinematographer: Filipe Zapelini Camera Assistant: Pedro Carvalho Producer: Melisa Cenik Scenario & Interviews: Eelco Couvreur Edit: Filipe Zapelini & Gabriel Honzik Sound Design: Ben Kruse Color Grading: Ben Federman Thanks to: Danny Krivit, Jusoong Sun, Akemi Krivit, Elbin Reyes, Paul Raffaele, Abigail Adams, A-1 Records, Human Head, Public Records, The Mixtape Shop, Superior Elevation, Good Room, Lauren Murada, Marco Weibel, Olavo Kuhn & Sol Montoya
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Dekmantel and Grolsch present: Selectors - Danny Krivit
Dekmantel and Grolsch present: Selectors - Danny Krivit
Dekmantel and Grolsch continue their collaboration by presenting a new Selectors video on New York City’s seasoned DJ Danny Krivit. Krivit, who has been part of the music scene for five decades now, was at the forefront of the birth of house music back in the eighties and has a longtime history in disco and soul. Next to that, he was a familiar face at legendary clubs as the Paradise Garage and The Loft, and still is in important key figure the city’s current scene. The video shines light on him as a DJ, but most importantly highlights what has been keeping Krivit in the game for such a long time. Next to letting Krivit telling the story, the video involves close (music) friends and family like his partner Akemi Krivit, Abigail Adams (Movin’ Records), Elbin Reyes, Juhsoong Sun and Paul Raffaele (Most Excellent Unlimited Records), who all explain what make Danny a true DJ’s DJ.
This year’s Dekmantel Festival sees Krivit joining the Dutch initiative for the second time, after he played at one of their events in 2014 together with Francois K and Joe Claussell as Body & Soul. Having him over for a three hours set on the Grolsch Selectors stage is an exciting first, as Krivit’s is a true DJ’s DJ - someone that puts endless energy in his preparations and selections. Krivit: “I think I have a very unique experience. Growing up where I did, the surroundings that I had along the music and the way it was around me. Just that timing of the change of time, the open mindedness and the freedom that came along with it.” Though, after all this time, he’s as humble as it gets. “I’ve never seen somebody who is so devoted so passionate to and about his music, and has an endless dedication to constantly learning music. It’s not about him. It’s not about him deejaying, or about him showing off his skills; he plays for people and plays to make people happy. That’s his number one priority”, says his wife Akemi Krivit.
The documentary shines light on his endless love for music and shows how his life mostly exists out of daily record store visits. “I’m not easily satisfied; I’m looking for depth, I’m looking for substance. I always get excited when I find those records that stick out, that seem to be different”, says Krivit. The video also shows how he’s massively involved in his 718 Sessions parties and how he comes from a lineage of DJ’s that play music with positive messages in them. “That’s something you hear in interviews when you hear stories about Frankie Knuckles, Larry Levan and David Mancuso - I think Danny is a direct descendant from that line of thinking and playing”, says Paul Raffaele who co-runs Most Excellent Unlimited Records with Krivit. All together, Krivit is simply one of a kind - someone who’s in it for all the right reasons and is there to stay. Krivit: “You always get these people that are fighting against the grain. It’s a little like in life the way grass grows through the cement - it does anyway. That’s why they really call it the underground, these are not the mass of people. The feelings and experiences that I had in the clubs after all these years, it’s like I’m at my peak of enjoying it. After five decades, I’m not slowing it down.”
CREDITS Director & Cinematographer: Filipe Zapelini Camera Assistant: Pedro Carvalho Producer: Melisa Cenik Scenario & Interviews: Eelco Couvreur Edit: Filipe Zapelini & Gabriel Honzik Sound Design: Ben Kruse Color Grading: Ben Federman Thanks to: Danny Krivit, Jusoong Sun, Akemi Krivit, Elbin Reyes, Paul Raffaele, Abigail Adams, A-1 Records, Human Head, Public Records, The Mixtape Shop, Superior Elevation, Good Room, Lauren Murada, Marco Weibel, Olavo Kuhn & Sol Montoya
DK - FK Edits Interview 7.30.19 World Of Echoes - WWFM 07 - 2019
DK - FK Edits Interview 7.30.19 World Of Echoes - WWFM 07 - 2019
Tue. July 30th, 2019, Francois K aired a recent interview he did with me for his Worldwide FM 'World of Echoes' show. We talked about editing & I thought it was pretty comprehensive & incisive. I wanted to share the 4hr live link with people, but didn’t receive it until a few minutes before it was over, but here is just the 40 min.
DANCE ELECTRIC: ART AND CLUB CULTURE SINCE STONEWALL 1969-1989 / ARTIST TALK AT HIRSHHORN MUSEUM, Lecture Interview Ft Danny Krivit
DANCE ELECTRIC: ART AND CLUB CULTURE SINCE STONEWALL 1969-1989 / ARTIST TALK AT HIRSHHORN MUSEUM, Lecture Interview Ft Danny Krivit
Japanese Donuts Magazine Danny Krivit Interview
Japanese Donuts Magazine Danny Krivit Interview Article
Read Full Interview Online HERE:
来日公演スケジュール
4/26 (Fri)-Mago (Nagoya)
4/28 (Sun)-Keith Flag (Fukuoka)
4/29 (Mon)--Minority (Toyama)
5/2 (Thurs)-Contact (Tokyo)
5/3 (Fri)-Stone Love (Hakodate)
5/4 (Sat)Precious Hall (Sapporo)
リリース情報
Labelle - What Can I Do For You / Messin' With My Mind 7" edits By Mr K on Most Excellent Records （3月リリース予定）
"Rebel Nation" (Danny Krivit Edit) （4月リリース予定）
by Louie Vega, Patrick Adams & Cloud Two - Rebel Nation Feat. Anané. - Nervous Records
7インチ5枚10曲入りBOXセット（レコードストアデー発売予定）
Most Excellent Unlimited Presents Edits By Mr K Club Box,
Five 7"s = 10 songs
Twice As Nice (7" Edit By Mr K)-52nd Street
One More Try (7'' Edit By Mr K)-Ashford & Simpson
Come Back Lover (7'' Dub Edit By Mr K)-Fresh Band
Opposite People (7'' Edit By Mr K)-Fela Kuti
Release Yourself (7'' Dub Edit by Mr K)-Aleem
212 (7'' Edit By Mr K)-Salsoul Orchestra
If You Feel Like Dancin (7" Edit By Mr K)-94 East Ft Prince
The More I Get, The More I Want (7'' Edit By Mr K of Rafael Charres promo RMX)-Lorraine Johnson
Hot To Trot (7'' Edit By Mr K)-Alfredo De La Fe
Woman (7" Edit By Mr K)-Disco Ladies
7インチDanny Krivit Edits / Nervous records（レコードストアデーリリース予定）
Rain (DK 7" Edit)-Kerri Chandler
Rain (DK 7" Edit of Atjazz RMX)-Kerri Chandler
Rushing (DK 7" Edit of Mood II Swing Dub)-Loni Clark
It Makes A Difference (DK 7'' Edit of DK RMX)-Kim English
718 Sessions Oral History in Love Injection
Danny Krivit & Benny Soto give a full oral history of 718 Sessions for Paul Raffaele's Love Injection magazine celebrating it's 13 Year Anniversary! Read Here
Eric Duncan Interviews Danny Krivit
Get ready with a Q&A with Mr. K and take a trip way, way back to the Village in the 1970s.
While Danny Krivit has been part of New York club scene since the '60s, Eric Duncan (of Rub'N'Tug) has made his mark on the underground parties of the '90s. Last time they played together at Le Bain (in January 2013), we asked Eric if he was up for interviewing Danny, and here it is. Enjoy the trip way, way back to the Village in the 1970s.
ERIC DUNCAN: I have heard various stories about you over the years. Is it true you grew up in your family's bar? When and where was this?
DANNY KRIVIT: I grew up in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the 1960s and I literally was surrounded by music. My mother was an accomplished jazz singer and my father was the manager of legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker before he went on to open up The Ninth Circle, a Village hot spot on West 10th Street just west of Greenwich Avenue, where I also worked as a boy. It was here that I met some of the most influential people in the music scene: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Mingus, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono, amongst others. The Mothers of Invention lived down the hall from me, and Sid Bernstein (Manager of The Rascals) lived upstairs. The Rascals would regularly pop down to our house to practice most of their future hits on our piano. At school, a close friend and classmate of mine was Creed Taylor, Jr., son of Creed Taylor, the production genius behind many artists who recorded on the VERVE, C.T.I. and KUDA labels. I remember always hanging out at his house with his father trying to introduce us to his musicians, people like Freddie Hubbard, Hank Crawford, and Stanley Turrentine. I was maybe 11. I didn't really know who they were yet.
Danny as a boy, working in his father's bar
When did you start DJing? Was it at The Ninth Circle?
By 1970, another close neighborhood friend at that time, Nile Rogers, helped me pick out my first guitar, taught me a little to get me started, and said: “If you practice with that, you’ll be jammin’ in no time.” I didn’t practice. I was already a vinyl junkie and an amateur DJ and never really believed I could play guitar even close to the way he did, or like I was hearing on all the fabulous records I was into. But DJing as a profession wasn't fully realized until 1971, after another neighbor/friend introduced me to one of his artists, James Brown, who gave me white-label advance promo copies of his “Get on the Good Foot” and “Think” by Lynn Collins. Around the same time, I started DJing and programming music for my father’s place, The Ninth Circle, which following the events of the Stonewall closing, had newly been transformed from a steak house into a disco.
What was the equipment you were playing? Can you remember what sort of people were there? Were they dancing or hanging out?
Hard to recall the exact equipment we were using back then, small names. It was very primitive. Huge problem keeping records from skipping with a full dance floor in an old Village brownstone. The crowd was mostly gay men, very downtown and funky. There were two floors: downstairs was the dance floor and upstairs was the bar and more of the social scene. Both floors were generally packed and very happening.
The Ninth Circle, a Village hot spot
When you were outside of the family business, how was it to be in the middle of this supernova of New York City's underground culture, music, sexuality, and art?
I was only 14. It was difficult to get into many other clubs, but I remember my father taking me to places like The Electric Circus on St. Marks Place and The Dom (Andy Warhol’s club), which was directly under it. When The Dom closed, I bought their sound system for my house. I had nice neighbors back then. My father also took me to places like The Sanctuary, Hippopotamus, and The Haven. My friends and I would go to the Limelight (the original on 7th Ave), where David Rodriguez was DJing (which was very good), but we were all too young, especially as a group. So we would hang out outside next to the wall of the dance floor. The music would come through loud and clear, even the mixes. All of us would have our own party right there on the street on a Friday, and then come back and do it again on Saturday. I could easily get into live concerts, which I had already been doing a number of years. Seemed like I was at the Fillmore East every couple of weeks, and there I saw Santana’s first performance, Sly & The Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Big Brother & The Holding Company featuring an uncredited Janis Joplin, and tons of others.
Who were the other DJs?
I had really become a part of the downtown underground scene by 1975. I club-hopped a lot, and I became close friends with some of the greatest DJs of all time, including Nicky Siano (of The Gallery), Walter Gibbons (of Galaxy 21), Tee Scott (of Better Days), David Rodriguez (of The Limelight), Richie Kaczar (Club Hollywood, before Studio 54), and Bobby DJ (of Le Jardin), amongst others. Clearly some of the best, but one in particular really stood out from the rest: DJ David Mancuso and The Loft. The Loft was like a musical center or Mecca for all of NY’s best DJs; a completely unique place and home of the original DJ record pool. This is also where I began my longtime friendships with DJs Larry Levan and Francois Kevorkian.
Where were you DJing at that time?
My father opened another club, (in a very early Tribeca) called Ones at 111 Hudson Street (about 2 blocks south of where the club Vinyl was). I was their only DJ through 1977. I was doing so well there that I opened my own after-hours club down the street. In 1977, I started Djing at Trude Hellers. I was also an avid roller skater, and my girlfriend at the time and I would regularly skate over to the Paradise Garage, where Larry would let us skate around the club while he would check out some of the new records that week on the sound system. The Garage remained my main stomping ground until it closed in 1987.
What kind of music was being played? What did it smell like? How late did it go? Take me there. Set the scene for me.
This was clearly a golden era for great music, DJs, clubs, artistic freedom, and the leisure time to enjoy it. No Internet, no social networks, no cell phones, no YouTube. You only could hear this music in the clubs and everybody was going out, all without a been-there-done-that chip on their shoulders. In the peak of the '70s, NYC had over 4,000 cabaret licenses, and a whole slew of clubs without them. All the clubs were packed, all the time. The scene was that big and growing. Today, NYC has about 40 cabaret licenses and the clubs that have them struggle to survive. The real estate market also plays a big part in this. Before the '80s, Greenwich Village (the poster child for the 1st co-ops) had a big prison right in the center, The Women's House of Detention. Rents were very low. For a century, artists and musicians flocked to this area. In 1962, when my father rented the building for The Ninth Circle, he got a 33-year lease for a three-story brownstone with two basements and a backyard, in the heart of the Village for $540/a month rent! The landlord was happy he had a tenant for 33 years. Now you're lucky to get a parking space with a one-year lease for that!
Eric Duncan
Let's go back to the early '70s. What were you playing at that time?
Here are records that I was playing in 1971 (in alphabetical order):
Al Green - Let's Stay Together, Tired Of Being Alone / Andwella - Hold On To Your Mind / Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady The House That Jack Built, See Saw, Don't Play That Song, Think, Spanish Harlem, Since You've Been Gone / Baby Huey - Listen To Me / Beginning Of The End - Funky Nassau / Bill Withers - Harlem / Billy Preston - Outa-Space / Bobby Byrd - I Know You Got Soul, Hot Pants (I'm Coming, Coming, I'm Coming) / Booker T & The MG’s - Melting Pot / Brenda Holloway - Just Look What You've Done / Brian Auger & the Trinity - Listen Here / Chakachas - Jungle Fever / Chi-Lites - Are You My Woman / Chicago - I’m A Man / Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose - Treat Her Like A Lady / Curtis Mayfield - Get Down, Underground, Move On Up, If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go / Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Surrender, Remember Me / Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto / Dorothy Morrison - Spirit In The Sky, Rain, All God's Children Got Soul / Earth, Wind & Fire - Moment Of Truth / Elephant's Memory - Mongoose / Equals - Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys / Everyday People - I Like What I Like Because I Like It / Exuma - The Obeah Man / Four Tops – Don’t Bring Back Memories / Isley Brothers - Get Into Something / Jackie Willson - The Fountain / James Brown - Give It Up or Turnit a Loose, Sex Machine, Hot Pants, I'm A Greedy Man, Soul Power, Make It Funky / Little Sister - You're the One / Marva Whitney - It's My Thing / Marvin Gaye - What's Going On, Mercy Mercy Me, Inner City Blues, Chained, That’s The Way Love Is / Nite-Liters - K-Jee / Ruth Copeland - Gimme Shelter / Dennis Coffey - Scorpio / Spinners - It's A Shame / Supremes - Up The Ladder To The Roof, Stoned Love / Temptations - Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are) / Titanic - Sultana / Traffic - Glad, Gimme Some Lovin' / Wilson Pickett - Don't Knock My Love /
Wow! Thanks Danny for that trip through time. I could talk about this with you all day...
Eric Duncan interviews Danny Krivit for The Standard Hotel Culture Blog.