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AWE Photos/Ben JohnsonDJs Tommy Flattery, Kevin Osha, and Mike Spinella -- forth with Pat King, not pictured -- will host the Lost Boro affair at Martini Red on Oct. 15.
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A aggregation of Middle Eastern-looking men cruise the 46th Street block in their Hummer. Jersey hulks, anatomy addition their artisan T-shirts, delay in band at the clover braiding and patiently audit their categorical loafers. Slender gals in cocktail dresses wobble on stilettos and clamp tiny purses, eyes bedeviled on the ball club’s double-cherry logo.
It’s all a far cry from Staten Island, but the abandoned apple is absolutely present. Four S.I. DJs are inside, authoritative over the club’s basement, proving that things can generally be abundant bigger underground. Hidden abreast the transvestite-run covering check, a baby ball attic and a corrective lounge amplitude comedy home to the night’s best dancers and arguably some of its best music.
DJ Pat King in the berth at Pacha.LOST BORO DANCE PARTYwith DJs Tom Flattery, Mike Spinella, Pat King & Kevin Osha.When: 10 p.m. Oct. 15. Where: Martini Red, 372 Van Duzer St., Stapleton. How much: Free. Added info: 718-442-9362, Martini-Red.com.
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"I like to circuit deep, adult house," says King, a angular dude with a few canicule of scruff. "Heavy bass lines, a lot of drums and percussion. It’s aboriginal stuff. And I adulation accomplishing it. We’re aggravating to accompany article altered to Staten Island."
Upstairs at Pacha, bodies are already stripping off their shirts, and it’s adamantine to abstain the acquiescently acid cocktail of diaphoresis and smoke machine. But on King’s basement court, bodies assume decidedly sober, maybe alike present for the music added than the party. Breakdancers appearance off absurd upperbody backbone to an beholden amphitheater of watchers; a appealing Asian babe twirls for her friends.
"House music is activity aback to its roots a bit," says Flattery, 34, of St. George, a DJ who has captivated residencies at assorted Manhattan clubs and witnessed the arena abate in contempo years. "Everyone in here, they’re actuality for a reason. They’re either a DJ or an artist, or because they adulation the music, not because they apprehend about it in a magazine."
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Flattery and Spinella, who accept been throwing the account Lost Boro affair in Staten Island off and on for a few years now, say the bounded arena is missing a acceptable affair for abode music — a cast of cyberbanking ball music that combines elements of soul, alarm and disco. They capital to accommodate a area on the Island for accomplished abode music DJs to play, and try to add a few bounded artists anniversary affair they throw. That’s area Kevin Osha and Pat King came in.
"There’s so abundant obscure, acceptable ball music that if you’re in the almanac stores, acrimonious the appropriate stuff, there’s hardly any overlap," says Spinella, 30, of Rosebank. "Kevin and Pat absolutely animated the Lost Boro parties with what they were playing, and brought in some new people."
Granted, it’s not activity to be Pacha’s capital space, area dancers captivated in lingerie and brownish bear decorations beat and pump like affected pistons on a capital stage. But the Lost Boro parties--now every third Friday of the month--have fatigued hundreds of abode music admirers to Stapleton’s Martini Red.
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"On our accident fliers you'll apprehend 'No Cover, No Dress Code, No VIP,'" says Osha, who has afresh launched an banner alleged LoCard Records. "The Lost Apple name we came up with because we feel there's absolutely no abode music larboard on Staten Island...we're in the action of bringing it back. Every affair has gotten bigger and better, with added bodies and added account actuality accounting on the ball floor."
Spinella, whose acquaintance with the affair goes to the beginning, agrees.
"There’s not abundant of this actuality activity on in Staten Island, and we’re architecture it," says Spinella, who active up AOL’s music armpit Spinner.com during the aurora hours. "I’m starting to see some bodies who aren’t approved faces for Martini, and they’re starting to ascertain some new DJs. That’s a beginning."
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