Some favorite tracks uploaded:

http://www.youtube.com/user/RJJNY

A Bitch Named Joanna - Long Distance

From an MTV news piece on Junior remixing Madonna’s Secret, seems to have disappeared from YouTube now (I guess the MTV lawyers called).

A tape shared with me a while ago by Ebay seller m-jf in the UK, who kindly gave permission to post it. Originally dated as “circa 3/95″ so I’m not sure where it’s from, the Factory closed in February of that year and the first Roseland “Sound Factory Roadshow” party was a few months later. Some unusually bad mixing in places, never heard Junior mixing so sloppily when I was going to the Factory regularly (the one trainwreck I can recall, the crowd let him have it!). But I only went a few times in 94 and the tracks are definitely from that era.

Junior Vasquez - Lost in Space

Chocolate Tribe - Conquistadores Chocolate
Chez N Trent – Morning Factory
George Morel – I Feel It (Sound Factory Mix)
Saint-7 – Hands on Love
Frankë Pharoah - I Need Your Love (guess)
Groove Box – One World
Ralph Falcon feat. Dorothy Mann – That Sound (Drop the Bomb Dub, Vox Mix)
Radical Men - Higher Ground
Aphrohead – In Thee Dark We Live (Junior Factory Mix)
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Journey of Life - Do You Wanna Groove?
Sound of One – As I Am

Thanks to j for the additional IDs.

Louie Vega and Kenny “Dope” Gonzales transformed this Debbie Gibson record into an underground NYC classic. Should be rereleased with a John Waters-style scratch & sniff that gives off the metallic smell of joints laced with angel dust.

Can anyone ID this similar-sounding track that came out around late 91/early 92?

http://scientitian.com/files/KnucklesID7.mp3

Got taken to this party by my friend Nicolas. I think Johnny Dynell was the DJ playing house upstairs while a more disco soundtrack featured downstairs. Saw some of the club kids and wasn’t very impressed, remember someone with big spots on their face who came off like a very half-arsed Leigh Bowery impersonator. In retrospect, I guess this may have been Michael Alig. The clip is from Funtone’s website. The performer doing the amazing contortions is Lady Hennessy Brown.

Best club I can remember visiting on that trip was Rock & Roll Fag Bar at The World, an amazing space on the Lower East Side. I recently found a Nelson Sullivan clip of the club and realize that it includes Nicolas, who is standing outside talking to Dean Johnson at the beginning.

On my first visit to New York City from London at the end of 1988, one of the things I most looked forward to was visiting the Pop Shop. May 4 was Keith Haring’s birthday, and he would have been 50 this year. As part of a number of tributes and celebrations, one of his murals has been recreated on East Houston Street and a documentary about his life was shown at the Tribeca film festival and is slated for release on DVD later this year.

After the sad closure of the Lafayette St store a couple of years back, the Pop Shop has returned as an online outlet. The T-shirts are being made by Pop Shop’s original T-shirt screener and include the seminal radiant baby and DJ dog images.

http://www.pop-shop.com/

Cribbed shamelessly from a post to DHP by JJ11.

Disco-Disco has a good bio http://www.disco-disco.com/tributes/jellybean.shtml

And Jellybean is still going strong almost 30 years later, his Myspace page has info on his label and parties including the monthly residency, Aint Nuthin But a House Party.

Had to ask my sister to get both of these.

Age 7

Age 8

Can sort of understand why my Mom figured out my sexuality before I did…

Proof that an overused vocal sample can be made magical again. Frankie Knuckles would wreck the Sound Factory Bar with this, continually cutting back to the opening chords which sounded gorgeous on the Bar’s system. One of the signature records of the early days of Frankie Knuckles Fridays, I think.

And just found another Frankie Knuckles favorite, it had been out a couple of years but would still cause a trippy dancefloor freakout every time he played it (although he had a version with less vocals on it and a long hallucinatory breakdown, not sure which mix it was).

A short clip of the club from later on, after the DJ booth had been moved from upstairs down next to the dancefloor.

Underground Network was also a great party. Before the circle dancers started getting in the way, it had the best mixed straight/gay dance crowd I’d ever experienced. And Louie Vega was an amazing DJ, technically flawless and, like Junior at the time, a knack for working a multiple copies of a track. He’d also drop slow classics like Summer Madness and Everybody Loves the Sunshine at just the right moment. Well I guess now I’ve started, and since every track in the world is slowly ending up on YouTube, and it is the start of summer…

At the Sound Factory, Junior Vasquez used to play The Intruders - I’ll Always Love My Mama in honor of Mother’s Day. Mr. Black’s new Church Sessions at Shelter is having a special celebration this weekend.

A pic from a prior party:

And the Intruders - I’ll Always Love My Mama.