“Landscape!” by Todd Roberts, URB, July 1992

Roberts, Todd. “Landscape!” URB, July 1992.

This is the travelog of the URB staff’s adventures in New York City during the 1992 New Music Seminar. The URB staff described the various parties they have attended as well as shared some of the misadventures they had on their way to and from those parties. They also provided some observations about the differences between the music and club scenes in New York and in Los Angeles. Among their observations, the house music scene is bigger in New York than in Los Angeles, with deep soulful house being the dominant sound. New York techno tends to be harder and less emotive than in Los Angeles. Between their observations of the NYC club scene and of NYC in general, this travelog provides a good snapshot of New York City in the early nineties.

Back issues of URB (unfortunately not a complete run) are available at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.

“NYC DJ Lineup” by Jason Bentley, URB, July 1992

Bentley, Jason. “NYC DJ Lineup.” URB, July 1992.

Jason Bentley gives his impression of DJs Tony Humphries, David Morales, Moneypenny, Kevin Saunderson, and Keoki, whom he saw during his visit to New York during the 1992 New Music Seminar.

Back issues of URB (unfortunately not a complete run) are available at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.

djdiscipleoldschool by DJ Disciple

Banks, David. djdiscipleoldschool. http://djdiscipleoldschool.blogspot.com/

This blog contains the reminisces of DJ Disciple’s career as a DJ. The blog contains only two entries thus far, one some press on his 1999 residency at Motor in Detroit. The other entry, more relevant for our purposes, is his memories of the 1988-1990 period in New York City. Disciple shares his memories of spinning on 91.5 FM, WNYE; the Choice, Wild Pitch, Zanzibar, and his overall feelings about the house music and the scene of that period. The post also contains flyers from parties DJ Disciple spun at during that period.

The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries by Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton

Brewster, Bill, and Frank Broughton. The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries. New York, NY: Black Cat, 2010.

A collection of interviews with DJ’s by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, authors of Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, some of which originally appeared on their website, djhistory.com, which offers insight into the evolution of the DJ. Interviews that are particularly relevant to NYC house music history includes David Mancuso, Francois Kevorkian, Frankie Knuckles, DJ Pierre, David Morales, and Louie Vega.