Maestro – History of Club Culture
1960′s early 70′s: jukebox was the predominant medium for listening to music in New York clubs. Commercial venues had to adhere to strict city rules. The social and political climate were in constant flux. Small bars and dance spaces in New York from the outer boroughs to midtown, gave refuge to disquiet. Below the surface a new way of life was evolving, by-passing and answering a call for life, the ethos that would be dominant influences to whatwas to come in dance music culture.
Maestro is a feature documentary to explore the roots of the Underground Dance Music Culture. It tells the story of how a group of people found refuge and a call for life outside the mainstream, by-passing the social restrictions of the time, what evolved was a scene that set the ground work for what was to come in Dance Music worldwide. It’s a rare look at the secret world of the underground, a film 4 years in the making.

