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The Underground Network, New York, 1996. 'Little' Louie Vega takes to the turntables and begins to prepare an autumnal surprise. For the first couple of hours the mixmaster plays a string of classics from the seventies and eighties, casting the Sound Factory Bar's knowledgeable crowd under a magical spell. Next, he delivers a trademark mix of sweet songs and driving tracks, engineering a series of seemingly endless...

They met when dance music was beginning to sound stale and injected it with a decade's worth of inventive vitality. They surfed through the category-ridden nineties as if the confining notion of genre was just an illusion. They transcended fashion by remaining true to an eclectic musical A-to-Z that opens with Africa Bambaataa and ends at the Zanzibar. And even though they've been collaborating for ten years...

His name is David Mancuso. He has had a profound influence on DJs such as Tony Humphries, François Kevorkian, Frankie Knuckles, Larry Levan, David Morales, Larry Patterson, Nicky Siano and Danny Tenaglia. His Loft formula, which dates back to 1970, has inspired the Tenth Floor, the Gallery, the Soho, Reade Street, the Paradise Garage and the Warehouse. Yet for all of the countless column inches dedicated...