New York Mixtapes
DJ mixes and mixtapes from the city where American dance music has always had its deepest roots - digitized and restored from original cassette tape and CD recordings.
New York's relationship with house music and club culture runs longer and deeper than anywhere else in the country. The Sound Factory in Chelsea became legendary as the greatest club of the early 1990s, with Junior Vasquez holding court through marathon all-night sets that defined what a New York Saturday night could be. When that space was reborn as Twilo, it became home to Danny Tenaglia, and later to Sasha and John Digweed, whose residency drew crowds of up to 4,000 from across the entire East Coast. Meanwhile, Club Shelter opened in 1991 following the closing of the Paradise Garage, with Timmy Regisford pioneering a soulful house sound that helped shape the face of house music globally. And running beneath all of it was the Storm Rave circuit that Frankie Bones had launched in Brooklyn - throwing parties in locations across Williamsburg, Coney Island, and Plumb Beach, and helping lay the foundation for American rave culture from the ground up.
This playlist collects mixes that originated from New York City and the surrounding area - documents of a scene that didn't just participate in the history of American dance music, it wrote most of it. Restored from analog sources and archived here for the people who were there, and the ones who wish they had been.
