Video ARCHIVE
Take a look back over highlights of Giant Step's 30 years captured on video.
Giant Step Celebrates 30 Years
Experience 30 years of Giant Step in this 60 second video.
An in depth discussion about the making of Donnie's album "The Colored Section" and its relevance today.
Giant Step presents Donnie's "The Colored Section" Panel
An in depth discussion from June 2020 on Donnie’s seminal album The Colored Section moderated by Jason King and featuring a rare appearance from Donnie, Giant Step’s Maurice Bernstein, album producer Steve “The Scotsman” Harvey, activist Annasa Troutman, and his former manager and DJ Rich Medina.
Giant Step and W Records
An overview of Giant Step agency at work on the 2019 award-winning platform for W Hotels called W Records featuring Amber Mark, Japanese Breakfast, Roosevelt, Perfume Genius, and Fifi Rong.
Giant Step and Samsung 837
An overview of Giant Step agency work in the creation and execution of Samsung’s marketing center of excellence, Samsung 837.
W Records & Japanese Breakfast
W Hotels and Japanese Breakfast collaboration for W Records.
The Times Square EDITION Opening 2019
A snippet of the legendary opening of Ian Schraeger’s Times Square EDITION opening in March 2019. Giant Step curated and produced all the musical talent including artists like CHIC, Diana Ross, Lauryn Hill, Q-Tip, and Sofi Tukker to name a few.
Gilles Peterson w/ Maurice Bernstein at The Lot Radio, Brooklyn
A video of the radio interview that Gilles Peterson did with Giant Step CEO and Co-Founder Maurice Bernstein for Worldwide FM at The Lot Radio in Brooklyn in 2018.
Giant Step 25th Anniversary Logo
A short video from Kevin Lyons, the legendary designer of the iconic Giant Step logo, celebrating 25 years of Giant Step.
Giant Step at SummerStage 2015
This was the year that Giant Step was celebrating its 25th and SummerStage’s 30th. The show featured DJ sets from Africa Bambaata, Gilles Peterson, and Quantic.
Offline with Q-Tip
Rare footage of Giant Step and Q-Tip’s party that was then at Irving Plaza. Notice Q-Tip’s crazy DJ booth especially built for the party.
Giant Step and Intel
Giant Step agency work creating and executing the “Music Experiment 2.0” Series for Intel with artists like Arcade Fire and Disclosure.
Giant Step and Absolut
Giant Step agency work creating the award-winning platform ABSOLUT X for the iconic vodka brand. Combining music x art x cocktails, it featured the likes of Grimes, Walk The Moon, Nick Cave, Santigold, Bloc Party, Sanford Biggers, and Questlove.
Giant Step at SummerStage 2013
The line up included the legendary Shuggie Otis, Australia’s Hiatus Kaiyote, and Jose James.
Jessie Jay - Boombox Series
In 2011, we took then unknown singer Jessie J into a New York City subway station with nothing but her voice and a boombox. Take a look at the audience's response to her.
Future Music Series with Robyn 2010
Giant Step agency created a national music platform for SVEDKA that featured everyone from Wale, Mark Ronson, Aloe Blacc, and Janelle Monae. Here’s Robyn’s 2010 performance at SkyBar at Mondrian in Los Angeles.
Questlove Toasts Gilles Peterson at Giant Step's Sunset Soiree 2010
One music legend toasts the other. Questlove toasting Gilles Peterson as they DJ with each other at Giant Step’s 2010 Sunset Soiree at The Florida Room at Delano in Miami.
Giant Step presents 14th Annual Sunset Soiree
In 2010, Giant Step’s 14th Annual Sunset Soiree in Miami at Delano Hotel with Bobbito Garcia, Estelle, Chico Mann, Gilles Peterson, Questlove, and more.
The Roots & Janelle Monáe at Delano Miami 2009
New Years Eve 2009 at The Florida Room at Delano capturing the special night in Miami where a young Janelle Monáe & Bobbito Garcia performed poolside and The Roots performed in The Florida Room.
Janelle Monáe at SkyBar 2009
Janelle’s now legendary, 2009 performance at SkyBar at Mondrian in West Hollywood during Grammy weekend.
De La Soul in The Florida Room at Delano Miami 2009
De La Soul performing for the 1st anniversary of The Florida Room in 2009.
Katy Perry at Steve Madden 2008
Giant Step agency work creating a music platform for Steve Madden Music. The first artist we put into the program was a young Katy Perry who had just released “I Kissed A Girl.” The series went on to work with artists like Lady Gaga.
Gilles Peterson at Cielo 2008
A 30 second video clip of one of Gilles’s legendary Cielo sessions.
Giant Step presents 12th Annual Sunset Soiree
A stop motion video from the photography of Phillip Angert featuring the vibe and artists over the three day fest in 2008 including Erykah Badu, Turntables On The Hudson, Carl Craig, and more.
RAMP interview at SummerStage 2007
A rare interview with the band RAMP before their performance at Giant Step’s 2007 SummerStage.
State Of Independents - Giant Step 2001
A UK TV documentary about independent record labels featuring Giant Step’s label, club, and marketing company all in one.
Basement Jaxx at Giant Step’s SummerStage 2001
A rare clip of UK’s Basement Jaxx performing at Central Park SummerStage.
Bebel Gilberto “Samba Da Bencao” at Shine 2000
The audio of Bebel’s live version of her classic song “Samba Da Bencao” when she performed for us for our Miles A Head series.
Giant Step’s 10th Anniversary at Summerstage 2000
We celebrated our anniversary with a massive SummerStage show with Gilles Peterson, Giant Step’s Ron Trent, Tomango, Marc Anthony Jones, UK’s Lamb, and headlined by Nigeria’s Femi Kuti.
From the Giant Step Vault -- Ultra rare footage from Nuyorican Soul's record release party at the Supper Club, NYC 1997. Features Kenny Dope & Louie Vega of Masters At Work, Tito Puente, George Benson, Hilton Ruiz, Jazzy Jeff, Roy Ayers, India Arie.
Nuyorican Soul Record Release Party at Supper Club 1997
To celebrate the release of Giant Step Records’ Nuyorican Soul album, we threw the mother of all parties. Here’s raw and messy footage of the night. Bear with it as it features artists like Tito Puente, George Benson, La India, and Vince Montana being interviewed and jamming together on stage.
From the Giant Step Vault -- Original Nuyorican Soul EPK from 1997, featuring Kenny Dope & Louie Vega of Masters At Work, Tito Puente, George Benson, Hilton Ruiz, Jocelyn Brown, Dave Valentin, Roy Ayers, India Arie, Bennie Diggs
Nuyorican Soul EPK 1997
In the old days when albums were released, part of the marketing included an EPK (electronic press kit). This was normally a VHS tape that was used as a marketing tool. This video includes footage from the photoshoot, music video for “Runaway,” and insights from Masters At Work and musicians featured on the album like Roy Ayers, Tito Puente, George Benson, and Jocelyn Brown.
This short video collage chronicles the shows and events from 1990 through 1996 of the company that preceded Giant Step: The Groove Academy.
Groove Academy 1990-1996 Poster Collection
A video we created in 2010 to celebrate Giant Step’s 20th anniversary, a collection of Groove Academy flyers.
MTV “24 Hours In Music” Documentary 1994
Giant Step’s infamous Supper Club party was featured in this MTV documentary offering a rare insight of the vibe of the club plus a live performance from Repercussions.
Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool Documentary 1994
This is the documentary in full that features performances and interviews with Donald Byrd, The Roots, Guru, Ron Carter, The Pharcyde, Digable Planets, MC Solar, and many more. The live concert was produced by Giant Step at Supper Club and the house band was Groove Collective. The documentary, directed by Earle Sebastian, originally aired on PBS and was to raise AIDs awareness.
Sometime in late 1992, we were approached to have the Giant Step musicians write the theme for the popular MTV show, Yo! MTV Raps. Here’s a clip of the late Tupac, who was still performing with Digital Underground at the time, performing “Keep Ya Head Up” from his second album, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.
Tupac “Keep Ya Head Up” at MTV Jams 1993
Footage of a young Tupac (who was then part of the Digital Underground crew) performing his track “Keep Your Head Up.” The live band was made up of the Giant Step regular musicians. This was a classic example of how the sound of the club and hip-hop were influencing each other.
Ronny Jordan feat. Dana Bryant - “The Jackal” - 1993
Dana was managed by Giant Step and was asked by UK guitarist Ronnie Jordan to write lyrics on an instrumental he’d composed. The result was the stunning track “The Jackal.”
#GiantStep30 IG Live Series
Our Instagram Live series celebrates 30 Years of Giant Step as CEO Maurice Bernstein has conversations with thought leaders and industry trailblazers who have been involved with the company.
A rare clip of George Clinton and The P-Funk Allstars performing “Cosmic Slop” at Groove Academy’s 1st anniversary show at Palladium in New York City.
Groove Academy 1st Anniversary 1991
Our first anniversary featured performances from Blowfly, Brand New Heavies, and the legendary George Clinton & P-Funk. Here’s some rare footage we uncovered of P-Funk performing their classic “Cosmic Slop.”