House Music Break: Let's Go (Don't U Want Some More)

The title may not sound familiar, but I guarantee that if you spent any time in nightclubs between 1988 and 1995, you heard this song. Often. Just press play and you'll see...

Footage From The Sound Factory (1993)

I keep looking for myself in the crowd - but haven't spotted me yet. Look for the skinny blond twink high on ... um ... LIFE. That's would be me ...

And YES, the children LOVED to walk the runway back in the day. Sashay shantay, hunty ...

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Afternoon Dance Break - Dream Drums

I most associate Lectroluv's Dream Drums with the old Sound Factory on 27th Street - DJ Junior Vasquez would spin this track for what seemed like hours and everyone would go absolutely INSANE:

Afternoon Dance Break - 2 The Rhythm

Sound Factory (the dance music duo, not the club) had two big House music hits in 1992 - Understand This Groove and 2 The Rhythm. Club DJ's (especially at the Roxy and Factory) would repeat the "Ecstasy" vocal of 2 The Rythm over and over and over and over - and all us those trippin' biatches on the dance floor would go absolutely apeshitbonkers. Or so I've heard ...

BTW: I used to own the CASSINGLE of this song. Yes, I am ancient and should be studied by a team of archeologists and anthropologists.

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Afternoon House Break - Welcome To The Factory

In the early-mid 90's, the Sound Factory (above) on 27th Street was THE place to go "after-hours" (AKA after 4 AM when the other bars/clubs closed). Almost every Saturday night my friends and I would stumble out of Roxy and walk 10 blocks to the Sound Factory to dance while DJ Junior Vasquez weaved his magic web of House Music. 

And many times I remember being greeted on the dance floor with this song - "Welcome to the Factory" - by Angel Moraes. Junior always seemed to play it right as I arrived ...

Mother's Day Disco Break - I'll Always Love My Mama

DJ Junior Vasquez used to play the Intruders song - "I'll Always Love My Mama" - when Saturday night turned into Mother's Day Sunday morning at the old Sound Factory.  Happy Mother's Day everybody!

Afternoon Dance Break - X - Junior Vasquez

"X" was Sound Factory DJ Junior Vasquez's tribute to the House of Xtravaganza. When Junior played this song, regular clubgoers would clear the floor and the Xtravaganza children would "hit the runway". Paris is Burning, indeed.

Afternoon Dance Break: Love Changes

If you ever had the pleasure of experiencing the old Sound Factory on 27th Street (above), chances are you heard DJ Junior Vasquez spinning this song by MK (featuring Alana) - Love Changes.

Afternoon Dance Break - In The Dark We Live

A "friend" once told me about his experience in the pre-dawn hours at the old Sound Factory on West 27th Street (above).  He had taken a little Ecstasy (he was young and a bit reckless at the time) and DJ Junior Vasquez put on In The Dark We Live.  This "friend" can still remember, in vivid detail, the bells of this song ringing in perfect timing with the mind-blowing light show.  And as the record chanted "I can see the light", he remembers the artificial sunrise/dawn they created inside the club.  It still sends chills down my "friend's" spine.  At least that's what he told me ...

Afternoon Dance Break - Groove Is In The Heart

Dee Lite's dance hit "Grove Is In The Heart" was one of my favorites ... until the lead singer and I almost got into a fistfight.  One late night (actually, it was morning) at the Sound Factory, Lady Miss Kier and I ended up dancing beside each other underneath the huge disco ball.  However, Miss Thang dances like a flailing retarded chicken - and she kept bumping into me.  After about the third time, my friends could see I was about to attack so they got me off the dance floor before I broke my foot off in her ass.

FYI: I have long-since forgiven Miss Kier, because her music was/is so damn catchy.

Afternoon Dance Break - Understand This Groove

The Sound Factory's "Understand This Grove" was another of those early 90's house songs I danced to at the clubs I frequented after moving to NYC.  Not-so-coincidentally, the "Sound Factory" was also the name of one of those clubs.

You've got to UNDERSTAND this grove.