Check out this NSFW mix. By lowbrow cultural mixmaster Coop, out just in time time for all you Coffee Achievers.
Danceteria Grafix Go CC
We have a huge collection of Danceteria invitations, posters,
drink tickets, advertisements and more. And we've decided to make the available under a Creative Commons license. Check back for more details next week.
The Home of Remix Culture
Danceteria, the legendary New York City nighclub, is one of the original valhallas of pop remix culture. Since the eighties, and for over twenty years, Danceteria's
multi-storied environment, unique cutup graphics, wide-ranging bookings, seminal dancefloor, mashed-up events, and kaleidoscopically original crowd took post-modern over the top into a truly mind-altering, life-changing religion of remix.
Just in case you hadn't noticed, remix culture is now everywhere, from mashups superimposing one piece of music on another, to music videos slammed into game graphics, to fashion, film, and graphic design that cuts and pastes images and forms from any culture or any period in an ever-changing stream of audiovisual exuberance. In fact, Remix Culture perfectly describes the experience of the original Danceteria, which in its multi-storied, multi-environment building on 21st Street in Manhattan presented wild and inexplicable combinations of disparate art, music, fashion, video, dance, parties and people, a self-defined “supermarket of style” that mesmerized guests while simultaneously attracting those who would define popular culture for decades to come.
And through it all, the point is always “fun.” Serious fun.
Recent Posts
Danceteria Graphix
- Welcome to the archives! Many of the original, signature designs were cut-and-pasted together (with scissors and glue) by Rudolf, co-owner and legendary club impressario. We have a fairly huge unpublished collection that we'll be scanning and putting up here regularly. Subscribe and you'll know what's going on!
