Well, the disc jockeys got in-between this and created something new... Where the dancer became part of the whole setting of the music being played.” As DJing became more popular, there was a higher demand for records.
According to Mancuso, the meeting ended in a “total disaster” and resulted in a screaming match between the disc jockeys and record companies.
Mancuso decided to have a separate meeting with the disc jockeys alone and invited them over to The Loft, where they declared their intent regarding fair music distribution for DJs everywhere.
It was then that the first record pool was started by Mancuso in concert with Steve D'Aquisto and Paul Casella in 1974 in New York City as a grassroots, non-profit effort to design an efficient pipeline for swapping information between the music industry and working DJs.
They also act as a tool for individual DJs to release their own productions to the record pool, assisting their careers and helping them gain exposure to the general public.
They have also evolved into a business that has their own team of in-house producers, remixers, and editors that release music into the DJ community through the record pool’s networks.