718 Sessions
http://www.dannykrivit.net/
Santos Party House
96 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10013
http://www.santospartyhouse.com/
Happy New Year! We caught up with our boogie-on at Santos Party House on New Year's Day. There was a last-minute snafu with the location, as the venue was originally at Webster Hall.
Santos Party House is in a nondescript building with large blacked-out walls on Lafayette Street in Chinatown. The flyers mentioned that the party started at 6pm ($5 for the first 100 to get in), but even by then, the outside was eerily empty at 6pm. We were not even sure we were at the right place, but a line started to form a little after. Doors were opened at 6:30pm, so we got in for cheap. Yay!
The main floor of SPH was open that night. It had a roughly crooked rectangular layout, with two bars. There were at least three DJ booths that we saw, with the main one on stage. There was also a "serious" mixing board according to DJKung. The dance floor was wood and pretty even. The wall of speakers hanging on the wall looked impressive at first sight, but DJKung and I felt that the sound system needed a lot of improvement. The music did not really feel very warm, and it was hard to find the sweet spot on the dance floor.
This was our first time at 718 Sessions. We've been fans of Danny Krivit from his days at Body and Soul, so we expected a lot of classics, which he delivered. Even three days later, we're still humming "We're gonna stomp... all night... in the neighborhood...'coz it feels all right!" I must say that even with my eight-year hiatus from boogie-ing, the vibe is still the same. Well, apart from the cell phones and smoke-free environ, that is. The place did get pretty packed around 830p-9pm with a lot of sweaty, singin' and screamin' peoples.
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