Main Stage - Live at Primavera Sound 2010

Liquid Liquid

Domino, New York City

The year is 1979, and five young guys are free-flow jamming, in a Hispanic neighbourhood in downtown Manhattan, N.Y.C. The vocalist of this group is Salvatore Principato. By day, he works in a toy store (with Kim Gordon). By night, he's dropping his vocal inflections onto the rhythms of his group, who go by the name Liquid Liquid. Their own brand of 'body music' began to be heard not only alongside bands such as Suicide and ESG, but also in the pioneering sets of DJs like Afrika Bambaataa and Larry Levan, most famously being sampled by Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious 5 on White Lines forever putting their name in hip hop's history books. And without changing track for new audiences, the band played on. Less than twenty five songs later, Liquid Liquid faded from the scene again, only to be rediscovered centuries later when their sense of all out rhythm once again fit the mood of New York city and folks from The Rapture to practically the whole DFA Records crew. This live set from Primavera Sound 2010 shows them vital as ever.