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Junior Vasquez
Resident DJ associated with Sound Factory
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
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
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
Resident DJ, Co-creator and sole resident, 1989–95; marathon sets and live editing; later Tunnel and Twilo.
Palladium
1985–1997 · Union Square, Manhattan
Resident DJ, Held the Arena residency Sept 1996–Sept 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
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
Resident DJ, Key Saturday-night headliner through the 1990s gay era.
Roseland Ballroom
1919 (founding) / 1956 (W. 52nd St.) – April 7, 2014 · Midtown, Manhattan
DJ, Held occasional bookings at Roseland in the mid-1990s
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