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Junior Vasquez

Resident DJ associated with Sound Factory

Resident DJDJ1980s–1990s6 rooms · 61 connected figures

Biography

Junior Vasquez is associated with a long residency at the Sound Factory and a crowd known for marathon, vocal-driven nights. He is often cited within histories of New York house in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Sonic profile

houseSound FactoryNYC vocal & tribal house

Vasquez is associated with a hard, tribal, percussion- and vocal-driven strain of New York house, built for marathon Sound Factory nights and acetate-only exclusives. His sets are often cited as definitive of early-90s NYC club sound.

Rooms they shaped

Tunnel

1986–2001 · West Chelsea, Manhattan

ClosedClub

Resident DJ, Residency 1995–96, after Sound Factory closed; left for the Palladium's ArenA and then Twilo.

Sound Factory

1989–1995 (original room) · Chelsea, Manhattan

ClosedClub

Resident DJ, Co-creator and sole resident, March 1989 – January 1995. Sets ran 10–12 hours routinely, up to 16 hours on extended nights; the closing night set (January 1995) reportedly ran the full 16 hours. Pioneer of live sampling and dramatic structural editing at big-room scale. Later resident at Tunnel and returned to the same 530 W 27th address as Twilo Saturday resident from approximately 1997.

Palladium

1985–1997 · Union Square, Manhattan

TransformedClub

Resident DJ, Held the Arena residency from Sept 1996 to the club's closing in August 1997 (some accounts give September 1997), playing twelve-hour Saturday night/Sunday morning sets. Booth suspended by Dolce & Gabbana. His peak-career moment post–Sound Factory.

Twilo

1995–2001 · Chelsea, Manhattan

ClosedClub

Resident DJ, Saturday-night resident from approximately 1997, returning to the West 27th Street address after stints at Tunnel and the Palladium; had previously been the defining DJ of Sound Factory in the same room.

Roxy

1978–2007 (closed briefly 1989–1990) · Chelsea, Manhattan

ClosedClub

Resident DJ, Key Saturday-night headliner through the 1990s gay era.

Roseland Ballroom

1919 (founding) / 1956 (W. 52nd St.) – April 7, 2014 · Midtown, Manhattan

ClosedBallroom

DJ, A series of one-off nights at Roseland in the mid-1990s after Sound Factory closed; one of the defining DJs of the New York underground circuit era.

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Danny Tenaglia2 shared

Brooklyn DJ remembered for marathon, percussion-heavy New York house

Kenny Scharf2 shared

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Peter Gatien2 shared

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Phil Smith2 shared

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Steve Dash2 shared

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Afrika Bambaataa1 shared

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Albert Ginsberg1 shared

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Amanda Lepore1 shared

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Andy Warhol1 shared

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Arata Isozaki1 shared

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Boaz Aharoni1 shared

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Carl Cox1 shared

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Christine Visca1 shared

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Count Basie1 shared

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Curtis Forte1 shared

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Elli Dayan1 shared

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Fab 5 Freddy1 shared

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Frank Yuengling1 shared

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Frankie Knuckles1 shared

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Gene DiNino1 shared

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Ian Schrager1 shared

Co-owner of Studio 54 and the Palladium; later hotelier

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Jean-Michel Basquiat1 shared

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Jessica Rosenblum1 shared

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John Blair1 shared

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John Digweed1 shared

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Johnny Dynell1 shared

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Johnny Vicious1 shared

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Jonathan Peters1 shared

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Jose Gutierrez Xtravaganza1 shared

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Keith Haring1 shared

Artist embedded in downtown nightlife; Palladium commission

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Larry Tee1 shared

DJ and promoter behind the Berliniamsburg / electroclash party

Lee Chappell1 shared

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Louis Brecker1 shared

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Luis Martinez1 shared

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Marco Riccota1 shared

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Michael Alig1 shared

Club Kids promoter associated with Limelight's Disco 2000

Patrick Anastasi1 shared

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Paul van Dyk1 shared

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Peter Rauhofer1 shared

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Richard Grant1 shared

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Richard Newhouse1 shared

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Richard Sweret1 shared

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Richie Hawtin1 shared

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RuPaul1 shared

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Ruza Blue1 shared

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Sasha1 shared

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Steve Bauman1 shared

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Steve Greenberg1 shared

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Steve Rubell1 shared

Co-owner of Studio 54 and the Palladium

Susanne Bartsch1 shared

Swiss-born New York nightlife impresario and party producer, 'the night life equivalent of a couture label'

Tommy Dorsey1 shared

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Victor Calderone1 shared

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