What kind of music got played at the Mudd Club?

Okay holy crap, that Dany Johnson playlist looks ridiculously fun! It will be soundtracking my work this morning.

Is there any tradition of US punk/ new wave clubs DJing reggae, as per Don Letts in the UK?

"one jaw grinding morning"

it might've been in the sandbox during the outage, but wasn't there a thread with old danceteria footage? guess i could go look instead of typing here...

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The late Tom Terrell used to spin reggae and ska at the original 930 Club location in DC (and he was road manager for Steel Pulse in the US), and there were certainly others. There were lots of US djs influenced by what was happening in the UK. Depending on the dj and the particular Uk band or style of the moment this was often a good thing (when some US djs started embracing New romanticism while dropping American r'n'b and punk/new wave I got less interested in their appraoch)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TueeQKzdB6s&feature=fvst

thanks, scott. that's it. thought someone (maybe dan?) started a thread for it, but i can't find it.

I'm also pretty sure there has been a thread for this insane Danceteria flyer collection but I might have seen it on Facebook and not ILX

http://lundissimo.info/imgs/danceteria/

http://lundissimo.info/imgs/danceteria/1983/images/830105-Schedule.jpghttp://lundissimo.info/imgs/danceteria/backs/830105-Schedule-2.jpghttp://lundissimo.info/imgs/danceteria/1983/images/830212-SonicYouth.jpg

wow "PS1 Party" ... didn't realize that had been going so long as an art gallery

the Pyramid Club from this era still exists but I don't really understand who goes there, I think it's basically one of those cheesy retro-'80s places like Culture Club

still has the same logo above the door on Avenue A though

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Pyramid-club1.jpg/300px-Pyramid-club1.jpg

thanks Curmudgeon, interesting re. reggae.

wdw Diane from Scott's video

I danced at the Pyramid once in early 1985, I remember the DJ playing The Cramps' "Goo Goo Muck".

Ann Magnuson on the difference between Club 57 and the Mudd Club: "We were all about mushrooms and laughing like hyenas, while they were all about heroin and Nouvelle Vague films."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_2_38/ai_57475770/

We turned the club into a center for personal exorcism, devising theme parties (or "enviroteques," as one drug-dealing-conceptual-artist ex-boyfriend liked to call them). There was Putt-Putt Reggae Night, where we played miniature golf on a course made of refrigerator boxes designed to resemble a Jamaican shantytown; Model World of Glue Night, where New York's hippest built airplane and monster models, burned them, and sniffed the epoxy

danced at the Pyramid once in early 1985, I remember the DJ playing The Cramps' "Goo Goo Muck".

I just watched Downtown 81, which follows Jean Michel Basquiat through various scenes in New York in, you guessed it, 1981. At one point he's walking around wondering where to spend the night, and then he says he gonna go to the Mudd Club. I can't tell if he actually does or not, he goes somewhere and watches a group perform in a service elevator as it moves between floors. It starts at about 4:30.
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It just closed a couple weeks ago, but the East Village West show at Royal-T was utterly fantastic: http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/east_vilage_west_ambitious_exhibit_of_nycs_fabled_70_80s_art_scene_/
http://laist.com/2011/10/01/ann_magnuson_and_kenny_scharf_curat.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1NqJkwpaWc

Just in case anybody missed it: scroll down this page, with the Club 57 mix streaming on top, and you'll soon see Dany's link to the mix download, which still works (or did for me a few minutes ago)
http://soundcloud.com/dany-johnson/club-57-mix

RIP Anita Sarko:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/arts/music/reflecting-on-anita-sarko-influential-dj-of-the-new-york-club-scene.html?smid=fb-share

That's so sad