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Founded by Cris is Bliss, Rough Luxury, an oxymoron, is meant to relate the feeling of upward urban mobility, living and re-thinking; like early loft living in formerly manufacturing districts (think TriBeca/Soho in NYC) or driving a hoopty but living in a mansion. Rough Luxury is not about living beyond...
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Founded by Cris is Bliss, Rough Luxury, an oxymoron, is meant to relate the feeling of upward urban mobility, living and re-thinking; like early loft living in formerly manufacturing districts (think TriBeca/Soho in NYC) or driving a hoopty but living in a mansion. Rough Luxury is not about living beyond your means but rather living well within your means, and feeling good about yourself and your surrounding, its that step right before full Luxury. So a minimally furnished apartment on Park Avenue or a fully pimped-out pad in the projects are both signs of Rough Luxury. Ber'lin Records, named after a party Cris promoted in Harlem, was formed in 1997 to specialize in House/Dance music, while the Rough Luxury brand would concentrate on the increasingly popular Hip Hop, R&B and related genres. The Ber'lin Club/Party was so named to evoke the spirit that existed during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's and in Berlin, Germany during that same time period. It was a time when people of different groups were, for the first time, on a large scale, mixing with each other on a social level (Social Networking in the physical world). In Harlem, USA and Berlin, Germany of the 1920's, the Jazz Age was in full swing and people were enjoying a new freedom of dancing that was not seen before and would not to be seen again until the Disco Era of the 1970's and early 80's. https://www.youtube.com/user/RoughLuxuryRecords https://www.facebook.com/BerlinRecordsUS/ https://www.facebook.com/RoughLuxury/ https://twitter.com/BerlinRecords https://twitter.com/RoughLuxury
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