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Before hosting his first Loft party at his home at 647 Broadway in 1970, Mancuso was playing records for his friends on a semi-regular basis as early as 1966. These parties became so popular that, by 1971, he and Steve
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In May 2008, Mancuso, with the help of Goshi Manabe, Colleen Murphy, and Satoru Ogawa, launched his own audiophile record label, The Loft
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Mancuso's first major Loft party, called "Love Saves The Day", was held
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published an influential and comprehensive study of the New York roots of modern dance music culture that placed
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for the first five years of his life. Although he nominally resided with his mother thereafter, he remained a frequent runaway and spent a year in
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