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Jim Burgess
Resident DJ · DJ
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Rooms they shaped
The Saint
1980–1988 · East Village, Manhattan
Resident DJ, Classical / film interludes; played the final party.
12 West
1975–1980 · West Village / Meatpacking District waterfront, Manhattan
Resident DJ, Key resident; credited by multiple eyewitnesses as the DJ who first demonstrated beat-matched mixing to visiting DJs from other cities.
Funhouse
1979–1985 · Chelsea, Manhattan
DJ, Early resident; also a Saint resident-DJ. Exact Fun House dates not confirmed beyond the pre-Jellybean period.
Infinity
1975–1979 · NoHo, Manhattan
Resident DJ, Resident from 1977 to the club's 1979 destruction. Also DJed at 12 West, the Saint, and Studio 54. Retired 1981; died 1993, age 38 (some sources give 40), of a brain tumor.
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