Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979 Part 2

For the last 20 years London-based author and party organiser Tim Lawrence has dedicated himself to excavating the history of New York City party culture and bringing some of the most powerful aspects of that culture to London’s dance scene, from where it has ricocheted around the world.

With knowledge to share, and a readership as well as a dance floor to feed, Lawrence released Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor as the debut imprint on Reappearing Records. A year in the making, a compilation featuring rare and iconic tracks that appear in his much-loved and heavily-thumbed classic Love Saves the Day amounts to the follow-up. The collection features several tracks selected regularly by Mancuso, the party host who exerted a prophetic and unparalleled influence on New York City party culture, as charted by Lawrence. It also includes choice picks from groundbreaking DJs such as Michael Cappello, Steve D’Acquisto, Francis Grasso, Richie Kaczor, Larry Levan and Nicky Siano, whose expressive contributions are faithfully recorded in Love Saves the Day. The compilation traces how disco grew out of the record collections and intuitive sensibility of these and other DJs, offering a unique survey of the era’s expansive sonic palette.

A1. Willie Hutch - Brother's Gonna Work It Out

A2. Charles Earland - Leaving This Planet

B1. Laura Lee - (If You Want To Try Love Again) Remember Me

B2. The Modulations - I Can't Fight Your Love

B3. Margie Joseph - Prophecy

C1. Blue Magic - Welcome To The Club

C2. Twennynine with Lenny White - Fancy Dancer (12" Version)

D1. Miroslave Vitous - New York City

D2. Edgar Winter - Above And Beyond (12" Version)