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Earliest known recordings of Sylvester to be released
Dark Entries prepares an album of jazz, gospel and blues on Sylvester's Private Recordings: August 1970 in honor of legendary disco vocalist's 76th birthday.
Sylvester Is Too Big For a 15 Minute Short Video But That’s What We’ve Got To...
Watch Love Me Like You Should: The Brave and Bold Sylvester streaming now.
El Tropico: Summer’s Last Sleaze from Coco à Gogo
Imagine Sylvester, only French and playing in an island disco. Maybe that's too much, but Coco à Gogo comes close on Lo O Goulo from Tartine Records.
For Discos Only Collects the Disco Swerve of Sylvester, Fantasy & Vanguard
Backed by some 5,000 words of liner notes by Bill Brewster, For Discos Only documents when venerable jazz and counterculture labels Fantasy Records and New York's Vanguard "went disco."
Over and Over, And Why Every Disco Artist Just Looks a Little Shabby Compared to Sylvester
Sylvester is a livewire downed in the middle of the street, still trembling with lethal energy some thirty years (is it really?) since he left us. KON does the tracks justice on Over and Over on his KONTEMPORARY label.
Pure Love for the Music: Inside 5 Mag 162
D'Marc Cantu, T. Williams, Christopher Coe, Nat Wendell, Prince Airick and more inside 5 Magazine's bulging new issue 162, out now!
Louie Vega: Music Is A Family
Fresh from his seventh Grammy nomination, Louie Vega talks to 5 Mag's Krystal Rodriguez in a must read interview on Loleatta, Sylvester, Elements of Life, his NYC Disco album and uniting three generations of dance music.
Louie Vega Brings the Disco Heat from Sylvester
Three remixes of Sylvester's "Dance (Disco Heat)" continues Louie Vega's romp through disco's attic.
Joey Negro’s 2008 Dub Mighty Bloody Real (Free Download)
Way ahead of it's time, Better Days Records featured some of the most beautiful and most versatile bootleg disco edits in the world. Better...
The Essential Sylvester Playlist
Dimitri from Paris, Kon, Theo Parrish and more make an appearance in the essential Sylvester playlist, compiled by DEL for his Foundations column.
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Sylvester Fabuloso!
I recently did a lecture and DJ'd a party for Brian Cassidy's Cave Cast series where I discussed some of the foundations of philaDELphia...
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A People’s History of Chicago House Music
In the poetic and robust Chicago House Music: Culture and Community, Marguerite L. Harrold captures the history of house music with the eye of a scholar and the passion of a true believer.