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| | Italian Rap Francis Grasso -- Obit |
 | | Francis Grasso, a pioneering club disc jockey credited with first mixing records together in the late 1960s by matching their rhythms, was found dead on March 23 at his home in Brooklyn. | | | Grasso was born in Brooklyn and, at an early age, discovered a talent for music, playing drums, guitar and saxophone. | | | Grasso developed and refined many of these techniques when he moved his headquarters to Sanctuary, a hedonistic club in Hells Kitchen, and presided over the dance floor there until it was closed by city authorities in 1972. |
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http://www.italianrap.com/artists/popups/popup_francis_grasso.html
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| | Francis Grasso (1948 - 2001) |
| | Other interesting facts: Francis Grasso was a good friend to Jimi Hendrix, dated Liza Manelli, was engaged to a Playboy Bunny, and other famous friends included Jackie O, Truman Capote, Calvin Klein, Andy Warhol, etc...remarkably he remained very down to earth. | | | White DJ Francis Grasso invented the technique of `slip-cueing': holding the disc with his thumb whilst the turntable whirled beneath, insulated by a felt pad. | | | DJ Pioneer Legend Francis Grasso passed away 3/20/01, three days before he was found in his home. |
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http://www.jahsonic.com/FrancisGrasso.html
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| | suenomartino.net |
| | Francis Grasso was one of those figures who made the first contribution to the art of mixing. | | | In addition to this, Francis had a musical background: when he was young he used to play guitar, drums and saxophone. | | | Francis had a natural talent for mixing records. |
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http://suenomartino.net/clubhist.htm
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| | Francis Grasso: The First Modern DJ - Intuitive Music |
| | Jimmy Savile might be considered the first DJ, but the first modern DJ and the one who created club DJing is widely accepted as DJ Francis Grasso. | | | Francis Grasso: The First Modern DJ- Intuitive Music | | | Francis Grasso was the first DJ to truly be admired by the crowd and to obtain some of the popularity that now characterizes the modern DJ. |
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http://www.intuitivemusic.com/content/view/40/43
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| | Slip-cueing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Slip-cueing is a DJ technique originated by Francis Grasso that consists of "holding a record still with his thumb and forefinger while a protective slipmat and the steel platter of the turntable revolved underneath. | | | "Francis was the first DJ to perfect the current technique for stitching records together in seamless sequences. | | | He then released the vinyl at the exact right moment he wanted to come in with the new song, creating a sudden segue from the previous track, similar in the beats-per-minute range and orchestration." (Jones and Kantonen, 1999) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip-cueing
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| | village voice > books > by Tricia Romano |
| | The U.K. author conducted over 300 interviews with early DJs like Francis Grasso, label owners like Neil Bogart of Casablanca Records, and journalists (including the Voice's Vince Aletti), for insight into the world he was not a part of, but nevertheless makes vivid. | | | Tim Lawrence's disco culture tome is one of the sharpest books on dance music to date, striking a balance between you-are-there club descriptions, socioeconomic analysis, and musical critique. | | | Lawrence reveals David Mancuso's Soho Loft parties as the genesis for numerous dance music prototypes: the DJ as shaman, the expertly rendered sound systems, the record pool, and the private invite list. |
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http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0419,paperclips,53393,10.html
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| | Steven Harvey |
| | The DJ, Francis Grasso, was the first DJ-as-auteur/artist/idol. | | | The first of the underground clubs was Salvation in 1969 where Terry Noel played, followed by The Haven, where Francis Grasso worked with Steve D'Aquisto and Michael Cappello. | | | In your description of Francis Grasso you mention my piece, "Behind The Groove: New York City's Dance Underground" from Collusion #5 back in the early 80's. |
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http://www.geocities.com/jahsonic/StevenHarvey.html
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| | Disco - Wikiquote |
| | There were many parallels in the techniques used by Kool DJ Herc and a pioneering disco DJ like Francis Grasso, who worked at Sanctuary, as they used similar mixtures and superimpositions of drumbeats, rock music, funk and African records. | | | For less creative disco DJs, however, the ideal was to slip-cute smoothly from the end of one record into the beginning of the next. | | | Disco was also created by DJs in its initial phase, though these tended to be club jocks rather than mobile party jocks -- records by Barry White, Eddie Kendricks and others became dancefloor hits in New York clubs like Tamberlane and Sanctuary and were crossed over onto radio by Frankie Crocker at station WBLS. |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Disco
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| | Washington Blade Online |
| | The most famous sources being the Loft’s proprietor David Mancuso, as well as club DJ Francis Grasso, (shortly before his death in 2001), who is credited with first mixing songs in a continuous stream. | | | There also are interviews with DJs Frankie Knuckles and Danny Tenaglia and “Sex and the City” costume designer Patricia Field, who apparently was a club fixture in the ’70s and ’80s. |
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http://www.washblade.com/print.cfm?content_id=2846
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| | Disc jockey |
| | Francis Grasso (1948-2001), popularized several new disc jockey techniques, including beatmatching and slip-cueing. | | | 1969 - American club DJ Francis Grasso popularizes beatmatching at New York's Sanctuary nightclub. | | | Grasso also perfected slip-cueing, the technique of holding a record still while the turntable is revolving underneath, releasing it at the desired moment to create a sudden transition from the previous record. |
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http://www.1bx.com/en/Dee_jaying.htm
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| | Optimo: Psyche Out: Pitchfork Review |
| | They just know what good DJs have known since Francis Grasso started blending funk and rock as a cruising soundtrack. | | | While Psyche Out contains plenty of music beyond Grasso's reach (everything that came after Giorgio Moroder, for instance), any mix that opens with Hawkwind and the Silver Apples and climaxes with the Chambers Brothers must capture a little of his feeling. | | | (Okay, maybe a little.) Way before 3/4ths of you (and me) were even alive, Grasso invented disco mixing by blending heavy rock and heavy funk (Santana, JB, War, etc.) for a rabid audience of newly sexually liberated future yuppies, guppies, and buppies. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/o/optimo/psyche-out.shtml
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| | BBC - Films - review - Maestro |
| | Stars: Larry Levan, David Mancuso, Frankie Knuckles, Nicky Siano, Francis Grasso | | | Wallace and Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit | | | It's the cinematic equivalent of an archaeological dig through a culture that's been sidelined by mainstream history books because of its radicalism, its sexuality and, most of all, its challenge to every assumption that blacks and whites, men and women, gays and straights, couldn't find a common ground on the dancefloor. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/04/14/maestro_2003_review.shtml
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| | Loves Saves the Day - A History of Dance Music Culture from 1970 - 1979 |
| | Love Saves the Day includes material from over three hundred original interviews with the scene's most influential players, including David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Tom Moulton, Loleatta Holloway, Giorgio Moroder, Francis Grasso, Frankie Knuckles, and Earl Young. | | | They are interspersed with a detailed examination of the era's most powerful DJs, the venues in which they played, and the records they loved to spin-as well as the labels, musicians, vocalists, producers, remixers, party promoters, journalists, and dance crowds that fueled dance music's tireless engine. | | | It incorporates more than twenty special DJ discographies-listing the favorite records of the most important spinners of the disco decade-and a more general discography cataloguing some 600 releases. |
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http://www.theloftnyc.com/book.htm
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| | Film Festival Today - Features - Archives |
| | Interviews with legendary maestro’s Francis Grasso (1948-2001) “Sanctuary”, David Mancuso “Loft”, Nicky Siano “Gallery” and many others. | | | For example, in 1969 talking about Francis Grosso, in 1971, the “Loft”; you already know the “Gallery” is coming next then the “Garage” after that. | | | The film included the invention of high-powered sound systems by club sound design engineer Richard Long (1933-1986); the creation of the 12-inch vinyl record by SalSoul for remixing music narrated by Tom Moulton. |
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http://www.filmfestivaltoday.com/archive_item.asp?id=401
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| | : GALANTA underground & clubs since '92 : |
| | This interview is the only existing footage of Francis Grasso who passed away shortly after. | | | Ramos also tracked down and interviewed unsung hero Francis Grasso, who happened to be Jimi Hendrix's roommate. | | | Considered as the inventor of beat matching (mixing) and first "DJ", he recounts his experiments with mixing records at the club Sanctuary as well as the birth of the Gay Liberation movement which found fertile ground in the underground club scene. |
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http://www.galanta.net
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| | St. Francis (N.Y.) vs Monmouth (04/07/02) |
| | Francis (N.Y.) starters: 33/cf Iorio; 23/3b Colonna; 1/lf Molinini; 16/dh Esposito; 24/rf Boles; 55/1b DeSiena; 11/2b Sarrica; 8/c Scrimenti; 6/ss Cannone; 20/p Bailey; Monmouth starters: 26/dh Davis; 16/2b Koenig; 21/rf Law; 19/1b Clancy; 2/c St. Martine; 42/lf Grasso; 15/ss Kelly; 8/3b Rotella; 1/cf Pilitowski; 37/p Palmieri; St. | | | 4 2 2 0 0 1 4 1 2 Grasso, Paul lf.......... | | | Francis (N.Y.) - inning 3 Sarrica singled to third base. |
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http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/~sport/25-sfc.htm
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| | Francis Grasso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Francis Grasso was an American disc jockey from New York City, best known for inventing the technique of slip-cueing and later beatmatching which is the foundation of the modern club dj's technique. | | | Francis started his DJ career in 1967 at a New York City nightclub called Salvation II. | | | It was there and at subsequent New York City clubs such as Tarots and his most famous nightclub, Sanctuary (featured in the movie Klute) where Francis perfected his craft. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Grasso
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| | MAESTRO DOCUMENTARY |
| | Francis Grasso, Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, David Mancuso and Nicky Siano tell their tale of friendship and tragedy. | | | Larry Levan :: David Mancuso :: Frankie Knuckles :: Nicky Siano :: Francis Grasso | | | The “rules” of creative freedom set by these individuals paved the groundwork for DJs and Clubs worldwide. |
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http://www.btownsound.com/featuredevents174.asp
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| | Variety.com - Reviews - Maestro |
| | With: Larry Levan, David Mancuso, Frankie Knuckles, Nicky Siano, Francis Grasso. | | | Through interviews with innovative deejays like Frankie Grasso (caught shortly before his death), Nicky Siano, and David Mancuso, an informal history of the art takes shape, as distinctive in its group ethos as in its individual contributions. | | | Of course, what really distinguished underground clubs was the music, the unique sound created by the succession of different records and the mixing of platters to sustain a nonstop groove. |
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http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117923356?categoryid=31&cs=1
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| | Techno Guide: Francis Grasso |
| | Francis Grasso is also known for inventing the technique of 'slip-cueing', the technique of holding a record still while the turntable is still spinning beneath it in order to play the next record on an exact beat. | | | Francis Grasso is known as the first modern DJ. | | | Grasso was born in New York's Brooklyn and got his first DJing job at a club called Salvation II in 1968 when the main DJ didn't show. |
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http://www.intuitivemusic.com/tguidefrancisgrasso.html
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| | djsource.co.uk - Biggest contribution to dance music? |
| | From what I remember from the book, what was great about Francis was how he'd beatmatch tracks that had a live drummer, which doesn't guarantee you a consistent 140 BPM or whatever. | | | Farncis Grasso was the 1st bloke to use beat matching to maintain a constant rythym during "disco's" | | | So who do u think has effected dance music and club culture most? |
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http://www.djsource.co.uk/forums/printthread.php?t=22272&pp=40
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| | Disco - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | Notable DJs include Jim Burgess, Walter Gibbons, Francis Grasso (Sanctuary), Larry Levan (Paradise Garage), Ian Levine (Heaven), David Mancuso (The Loft), and Tom Moulton. | | | Records sales were often dependent, though not guaranteed by, floor play in clubs. |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/disco.htm
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| | Apple - Pro/Video - Josell Ramos and Chip Eberhart, pg. 1 |
| | His film, called “Maestro,” featured groundbreaking DJs Francis Grasso, Larry Levan and David Mancuso. | | | Grasso was the first DJ in recorded history to sync the rhythms of two records and play them simultaneously, a feat that spawned modern mixing. | | | In 1999, New York photographer-turned-moviemaker Josell Ramos decided to unearth the foundations of house music. |
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http://www.apple.com/pro/video/ramoseberhart
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| | Fusicology :: New York City: Music, Culture and Event Listings |
| | Included in the 2 DISC DVD are: Larry Levan, David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Frankie Knuckles, François K, Tom Moulton, Francis Grasso, Tee Scott, Robert Williams, Danny Tenaglia, Tony Humphries, Derrick May, Tee Scott, Danny Krivit, "Little Louie" Vega, Patricia Field, Frankie Bones and many more... | | | With never before seen footage of the legendary clubs The Loft and the Paradise Garage and exclusive interviews with world renowned DJs the secret world of the Underground Dance Music Culture is discovered. | | | FUSICOLOGY.COM makes extensive use of iFrames througout the site. |
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http://fusicology.com/events?rid=3&id=864
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| | House-music-inyourface.com History Of House Music |
| | Maestro includes never before seen footage of the Paradise Garage, The Loft and The Gallery as well as the only interview with Francis Grasso. | | | What evolved was a scene that set the ground work for what was to come in dance music culture worldwide. |
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http://www.house-music-inyourface.com/maestro9.htm
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| | ukhh.com features articles Three MCs and One DJ by Mr Lingo |
| | Francis Grasso, the very first guy to put together and use his own mixer and fader to cut between records started it off at the infamous 'Loft' in New York. | | | Since the dawn of time, DJ's have been where it's at. |
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http://www.ukhh.com/features/articles/3_mcs_1_dj
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| | Disc Jockey 101: Tip of the Month |
| | Francis Grasso used Thorens turntables with variable speed to beat match in the 1960's. | | | First, beat matching was introduced to the masses at New York's Sanctuary nightclub around 1969 by DJ Francis Grasso. | | | In fact, I phoned the technicians at Panasonic/Technics to collaborate this key point: the pitch adjust feature on the SL-1200MK2 is a vestige of the classic variable speed turntables when listeners needed to play records at different rpm's. |
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http://www.discjockey101.com/oct2002.html
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| | DJ's@Work: The Next Step |
| | In the late 1960's a little known Brooklyn-born man by the name of Francis Grasso invented a technique that was to change things forever. | | | Grasso's pioneering style evolved over the years into what we know as DJ'ing today. | | | He was a DJ at a club called The Sanctuary, and was the first DJ to actually mix and blend records together, instead of talking between records, as other DJ's of that time did. |
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