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Larry Levan 1954-1992

David Toop, The Face, January 1993

JUST BECAUSE remix culture confuses our sense of history, this doesn't mean that DJs don't have heroes. Larry Levan was one of the few DJs to be universally acknowledged for his role in the evolution of disco and its offspring.

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