Body and Soul - Vinyl 6 Hubert St. New York, NY 3:00 pm till 10:00pm every Sunday
Like many in the crowd, resident DJs Francois Kevorkian, Danny Krivit and Joe Claussell are middle-aged veterans of Manhattan's 1970s underground disco scene; B&S is modeled on the legendary Loft, right down to the alcohol-free juice bar and fabulously crisp sound system. The crowd— a utopian mix of black and white, male and female, straight and gay, drugged and undrugged, shirted and shirtless— clearly don't recognize the rockist version of disco as the death of community and meaning. Soul classics by Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield are dropped next to '90s deep house anthems, as if they're all part of the same sonic-spiritual continuum. Krivit sometimes cuts out the testifying choruses so the audience can participate, call-and-response style.
This can get a bit too Pentecostal, [...]
Every week for over two years now [July 1998], committed patrons of The Feeling have been privy to a varied, expertly mixed selection of music--from extended, loft-classic DJ-booth jams to Kraftwerk, Fela Kuti, and straight-up, pumping deep house music--all spun by a group of DJs that has been doin' it well from the get-go. Francois Kevorkian, producer, studio owner (Axis), and DJ extraordinaire, brings together an expert panel of DJs--Joe Claussell, Danny Krivit, and occasional guests--to form the "Body & Soul All-Stars," a summit meeting of the high council of beats, if you will. The crowd is as enthusiastic as the music is sweet. Loving and appreciative of each track, they come dressed to work it out properly: gym bags, backpacks, and towels are common accessories, and many bring an extra shirt to change into after working up a sweat. In short, it's good vibes all around from a party which is not afraid to affirm something in this time of musical and clubland ambiguity. On the real, if you go for music and dance, you owe it to yourself to check it out.--Darshan Jesrani
With Francois Kevorkian, Joe Claussell and Danny Krivit on the decks from 3:00 pm till 10:00pm every Sunday, there is no better place in the world to experience what House music is all about; positivity, unity and banging tracks. When you enter the legendary space the first thing you notice is the diverse mix of people. Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, male, female, straight & gay, everyone is here to get along and groove to the best the New York underground has to offer. One of the few places where everyone seems to know the words to records that haven't even been released yet.