Photo: Laura Levine/Corbis, from an NY Mag series on artists apartments.

From the UK TV show The Tube, posted to youtube by IbizaMusicCoUk. Filmed two months after the death of Klaus Nomi, who passed August 6, 1983, one of the first artists lost to AIDS.

mrmoreno1: I first heard this record the night David Morales had just finished recording it. he ran to the Sound Factory on a Saturday (ok, EARLY Sunday morning) very excited. He ran directly to the DJ? booth. Everyone wanted to know, “what does he have?”

Einfach Super!

May do this occasionally (as long as the youtube channel lasts anyway), some favorite comments and the tracks that go with them.

jetit: Looove this song..I remember the Day I got it. I played the Hell out of it. my Mom and Sister were like if you play that song one more Time!!!..lol and so I did..lol the? next thing I know we were all Dancing..lol love my Family and this song. Thanks.

schnikta: Ooooooooooo!!!!!!! y’all don’t know how? me, Kizzy, Reeka, Nooncy, Bopo, Trav, G, Tankador, all of us (sometimes in a Honda Prelude LOL) used to play this 2def f’real!!!!!!!!!!HOUSEMUSICALLNIGHTLONGsay what?

Happy holidays to any readers, downloaders, and random passers by.

1987 photograph of Keith Haring as Santa by Marcus Leatherdale, up for auction at Phillips de Pury & Company.

http://www.toledohiphop.org/images/old_school_source_code/

Via Mike Barnes on deephousepage.

The Treacherous Three – Gotta Rock

This quote from an October 2009 interview provides some context:

Q: Best “moment in time,” in a club you have ever played at?
A: Easy, The Sound Factory, in the Summer of 1991.

These photos are posted by Scotto to Frankie Knuckles Facebook page:

Frankie Knuckles On Hot97 (Jan 9, 1992)

http://www.sandisco.com/2010/10/frankie-knuckles-on-hot97-jan-9-1992.html

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Sandy B – Feel Like Singing (Erotica Mix)
Happy Mondays – Sunshine & Love (Far Island Mix)
Wave – Enjoy Life (Afro Dub)
Trey Lorenz – Photograph Of Mary (Bass Hit Dub)
Dan Hartman Starring Loleatta Holloway – Keep The Fires Burning (Classic Throwback Mix)
Grooves Unlimited Presents DJ Tools Volume 1 – Give Me All You Got
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Alison Limerick – Where Love Lives (Cut to the Bone)
Madonna – Deeper And Deeper (David’s Love Dub)
Donnell Rush – Symphony (Symphony In E-Smoove)
Mood II Swing Presents Wall Of Sound – I Need Your Luv (Balo’s Banji Dub/Lem’s Church Mix)
Cajmere Featuring Dajae – Brighter Days (Louie’s Masters At Work Mix)
Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson – The Best Things In Life Are Free (Def Version)
Jazzy – Lonely (Underground Goodie Mix)
Stephanie Mills – All Day, All Night (Def Mix)
Karen Pollack – You Can’t Touch Me (Murk Remix)
Black Science Orchestra – Where Were You (Original Dope Demo)
Earth People – Dance (Dub Mix)
Cassio – Baby Love (Chord Mix)
Keisha Jenkins – Goin’ Through The Motions (Emotional Mix)

Don’t know who the writer is, but their closing prediction certainly did not come to pass. I don’t suppose they could have imagined that a few years later the same space would be full of straight suburban kids dancing to Sasha & Digweed. This party was the most packed I ever saw the club, we got there right around 8am and it was hard to move, I remember Junior coming on the mic and saying something like “well, I guess everyone showed up then!”

The New Yorker, Edge of Night Life, May 25, 1992

Imagine throwing a party for your anniversary and having somebody else’s relatives show up with the champagne. It’s not that the glee-seekers who turned out on a recent Saturday for the Sound Factory’s third anniversary (in the current dog-eat-dog club scene, the equivalent of a Lifetime Achievement Award) didn’t have spirit or the best of intentions. They eagerly waited outside, umbrella-less in the rain, for twenty minutes at 3 A.M., thirty minutes at 4 A.M., forty minutes at 5 A.M. By 8 A.M., the place was wall to wall—and those walls are real far apart.

But within those walls were only a few of the crowd that the Factory had built its reputation on. Sure, the old-timers showed up in greater numbers than usual, but there’s no denying that over the past six months there has been a major change in the demographics of the best dance house in town. The Sound Factory is no longer a black club, and no longer a downtown oasis for uptown street-and-ball kids; instead, they go to Trax, where it’s easier to pay the tariff and harder to get snubbed. Nor is the Sound Factory any longer a Mecca for black professionals and bridge-and-tunnel black gays, who now go to Shelter, where the ceilings may be a lot lower but where their influence is a lot higher. Blacks still go to the Factory, but whereas they used to take up three quarters of the floor, they now occupy only about a third of it. On anniversary eve, jamming in their place was a crowd almost as white as the special searchlights installed for the occasion. Strangely enough, the newcomers have done more adapting to the club than the club has to them. They’re fed no silly disco, few memory-lane epiphanies. In return, there are no more clutching circles and line gropes. But the Factory is no longer a haven. Its anniversary should have been a celebration of a location unique in New York nightlife. Instead, it was merely an excuse for a very long party, where the fun was fuelled by unfocussed frenzy rather than by a specific musical or social source of joy. And it will stay that way until this crowd gets tired of the place and moves on. And they will.