“He came on the dancefloor and danced with everybody, crying. I feel really, really bad about it because that was the last great room like that, of that calibre. Of the old-school calibre.” In 1995 in an interview with journalist Frank Broughton, Frankie Knuckles lamented the loss of New York’s Sound Factory. Between 1989-1995 DJ Junior Vasquez became a legend of New York nightlife through his hard and soulful mix of house music. But the biggest stars were really the dancers with voguers from the Houses like Xtravaganza bringing their ballroom fierceness en masse. “Junior Vasquez loved the energy of the voguing and runway kids and many of his own tracks of the period were really written for voguing kids (“Dub Break,” “Just Like a Queen,” “Gotta’ be a Drag,” etc),” Karl Xtravaganza told me in 2016. This 10-minute film courtesy of Junior Vasquez captures the energy and theatre of this incredible club and captures the connection the DJ had with his crowd. As Vasquez drops heavy tribal tracks like Kraze’s ‘Voodoo Sun’ and his own ballroom cut ‘Get Your Hands Off My Man’ from a booth covered with Keith Haring artwork, the DJ picks out the drama on the dancefloor with a flashlight. You can almost smell the sweat dripping off the walls and that heady scent all the best clubs have.

• Andy Thomas