Party / residency · cross-linked record

Red Alert Live Cassette Set (October 3, 1986)

A recurring night threaded through the atlas. A party often outlives any single room, tracing it across addresses is one way the atlas connects eras.

Rooms it touched

Union Square (the club)

c. Aug 1986 – c. 1987 · Union Square, Manhattan

ClosedClub

A session recorded off cassette and preserved on Mixcloud; tracklist includes Beastie Boys and Heavy D among the cuts. The turntables ran suspended, the mixer without a crossfader. A former general manager commented the club was 'awesome' but 'might have lasted a year if that.' One of the earliest surviving audio documents of a major New York hip-hop club night.