Better Days with Bruce Forest at Analog (10.15.16)
After 30+ Years in Hiatus…
The return of Better Days brings back sweet memories and the resurgence of that legendary “Sound of NYC”. It’s back, pumped up with all the additional power of modern technology!
“Better Days wasn’t exactly fancy – a bar, a dance floor and some minimal lighting – but some of the giants of the New York scene worked their magic from within the spot’s DJ booth… It was one of New York City’s great dance-music incubators. Among many other claims to fame, Better Days spawned the seminal house track “Do It Properly” and, later, C&C Music Factory. But most importantly, the club played host to two iconic residencies: one by the late Tee Scott, the beloved spinner and remix savant who called Better Days home from the venue’s early days through 1980, and Bruce Forest, the prolific studio wizard who went onto produce and remix everyone from Giorgio and Carl Bean, to Madonna and Whitney Houston.” – Bruce Tantum for Red Bull Music Academy
“There was so much energy that it felt like the whole room would lift off and explode.” – François K
Better Days Mix:
Saturday, October 15, 2016
BETTER DAYS with Music by Bruce Forest +Guests
Support from Occupy The Disco and Bliss Forest
Official Release Party and Book Signing of
Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983*
by Tim Lawrence
*As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York’s party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city’s subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and film. Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Tim Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence.
Better Days was a major player during the period of Tim’s book and Tee and Bruce are mentioned (and Bruce is interviewed) quite often. There is a strong connection between the regulars at Better Days, the AIDS crisis, and the club culture of New York at the time, but due to those demons, the amazing culture of that time, so well described in Tim’s book…(call it the Sound of NYC) became moribund.
$15 AdvanceTickets: click here
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ANALOG BKNY
177 2nd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
10pm / 21+
