1.BadCompany - UlandaMcCullough.NockolasAshford.ValerieSimpson.JimmySimpson (Atlantic)

2.NoOne'sGonnaLoveYou - SOSBand.JimmyJam

3.OneToOne – Tumalumah

4.Tumalumah - ArthurBlythe

5.Loves'GonnaGetYou - JocelynBrown

6.TakesALittleTime - TotalContrast.SteveHarvey

7.GiveItUpForLove - StevenDante.SteveHarvey (CoolTempo)

8.HowManyLovers - Anthony&TheCamp.Jellybean

9.MyLoveIsGuaranteed - Sybil

10.I.O.U - Freeze.ArthurBaker.Jellybean.JohnRobie

This is an ECLECTIC MIX. Please forgive me... I may have had a little too much fun with this mix. 1.Rising - JonathanKiely.Rooney

2.NoFrillsDub - JoshButler

3.SordidDetails – LeighDOliver

4.FinalCall - Kenny Dope.RaheemDeVughan

5.Stronger -DJVivona.MissD.FrankieFeliciano

6.LikeYou - InayaDay.Ridney.SeanGranier

7.Believe - MinisterDe-La-Funk.JocelynBrown

8.IFeelLove - DonnaSummer

9.LionHeart - Afrojack

10.RaasClaatAcid - KatnipTrax

11.JumpYaBody - KillTheNoise.Mercedes

12.Musanze - GeorgeF.DubMechanics.Lemon3

13.ClubZanzibar - TomHades

14.IPutASpellOnYou - ScreamingJayHawkins

15.TheWitchDoctor -ArmandVanHelden

If you are wondering what is this strange but beautiful visual… it is a depiction of a

strange ritual once was key to the spiritual path of our Western culture.

The symbol of it still is key to it's atonement narrative.

The title track here is “Rising” We often say house music is a Spiritual” thing. I feel that it is. So we are speaking here of rising.

There was a tribe wandering in the desert 5000 years ago. They gave us a book that is still today the most read book.

It tells of a realization amongst them of the folly of giving human sacrifices of their children and instead giving sacrifices

of animals. The naive tribes surrounding them thought that if they sacrificed a young child or even a prince at their altars

they would be given favor by the Gods. This wandering tribe realized the folly of human sacrifice and turned from this darkness

towards a more enlightened sacrifice. This sacrifice was thought to be “Rising” up to the heavens as a sweet smell of

love to their ONE true god. Pictured here is the tented tabernacle and the altar where their priests gave up such sacrifices

in the open place to be seen by all peoples. Behind that was The Holy Place and behind that The Holy of Holies.

All of my CDJ live mixes… are made with no sequencing... no auto sync. No particular genres, no particular destination... just a smooth JOURNEY into Beats . My style is Ultra-Eclectic House Music and EDM. no matter what the flavor is. The Mix is just long enough to fit on an 80 min CD-R which you can make yourself by downloading the mix to your iTunes.... making it into playlist and then burning it to a blank CD You will find the Download click on the bottom of the link page.All tracks herein were purchased from download stores or gifted me by the artists. Please do me a few favors. Find at least one track that you love and download the track from a digital download record store… like iTunes, Traxsource or Beatport. In this day where everyone expects free music, it is the ethical thing to do to support the genius artists who create this music. The other thing I humbly would ask you to do is to click on the "Follow" box in Podomatic and if it is not asking too much… a little comment would be such an exciting reward for me.

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/back-to-love-remixes/id568804548

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http://www.mixcloud.com/richardvasquez56211/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14nHUaU_7f8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJHm7Y2_Dnk

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=520018921351135&set=vb.171490112475&type=2&theater

http://www.thechoicerevoice.blogspot.com

http://richardvasquez.podomatic.com/entry/2014-02-17T07_00_00-08_00

http://www.mixcloud.com/nicksnothome/safari-zone-episode-1/

http://instagram.com/djrichardvasquez

1.CityCountryCity - Bootleg.BookerT&MGs

2.MightyHigh -MightyCloudsOfJoy

3.IWasBornThisWay -CarlBean

4.FreeMan -SouthShoreCommission.TomMoulton

5.ThereButForTheGraceOfGodGod –Machine.AugustDarnell

6.BabeWe'reGonnaLoveYou -Lime.MichelSimard

7.Jump -PonterSisters

8.ShakeYourGrooveThing - Peaches&Herb

9.MagicBirdOfFire -SalsoulOrch.VinceMontana

10.StarLove -CherylLynn

11.SkyHigh. - Jigsaw.MixDoctorAdams

Tracklist for 1292 - New Music Weekly Report

1.Supernatural - MarcEvans.MarkGrant

2.FuegoBaileMix - WhiskeyBarons

3.KoteMoun - DJHiro.MasabumiKikuchi

4.AqiVemOSoul - Pablo0Martinex.VeemaLouys

5.DoItGood - AphroDisiax.MishalMoore

6.CityLife - NativeSons.InayaDay.LouieVega

7.Different - Djeff.Kholi

8.ThingsYouDo - Moreno

9.EclaireMaVie - RaffiaScoccia

10.TurnMeOn - BlackCoffee,RawArtisticSoul

11.FarOut - VorisVoorn

12.Linda - MartinSolveig.AtmoGroove

All of my CDJ live mixes… are made with no sequencing... no auto sync. No particular genres, no particular destination... just a smooth JOURNEY into Beats . My style is Ultra-Eclectic House Music and EDM. no matter what the flavor is. The Mix is just long enough to fit on an 80 min CD-R which you can make yourself by downloading the mix to your iTunes.... making it into playlist and then burning it to a blank CD You will find the Download click on the bottom of the link page.All tracks herein were purchased from download stores or gifted me by the artists. Please do me a few favors. Find at least one track that you love and download the track from a digital download record store… like iTunes, Traxsource or Beatport. In this day where everyone expects free music, it is the ethical thing to do to support the genius artists who create this music. The other thing I humbly would ask you to do is to click on the "Follow" box in Podomatic and if it is not asking too much… a little comment would be such an exciting reward for me.

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http://www.mixcloud.com/richardvasquez56211/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14nHUaU_7f8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJHm7Y2_Dnk

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=520018921351135&set=vb.171490112475&type=2&theater

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http://richardvasquez.podomatic.com/entry/2014-02-17T07_00_00-08_00

1.Ain’tNobody – ChakaKhan.FrankieKnuckles

2.WhatchaGonnaDoWithMyLovin - InnerCity.KevinSunderson.FrankieKnuckles.DAvidMorales.KevinMCord.Johnpoppo (Virgin)

3.NotGonnaChange – SwingOutSister.PulStaveyO’Duff.FrankieKnuckles (Fontana/Phonagram)

4.InTheCloset – MichaelJackson.TeddyRiley.FrankieKnuckles.JohnPoppo (Epic)

5.Let’sStayHome – Director’sCut.InayaDay.FrankieKnuckles.

6.YouLove – FrankieKnuckles (Trax)

7.RideTheRhythm – KevinIrving.Frnakieknuckles (Trax)

8.Workout - FrankieKnuckles.RobertaGilliam.EricKupper.JohnPoppo.ToddTerry.HugoDwyer (Virgin)

9.VoodooRay – AGuyCalledGerald.FrankieKnuckles.DavidMorales (FFRR)

10.Tears FrankieKnuckles.RobertOwens.SatoshoTomie.EricKupper.JohnPoppo.DavidMorales.JenniferLewis (FFRR)

11.The Pressure – SoundsOfBlackness.GaryHines.JimmyJam&TerryLewis.LanceAlexander.ProfessorT.FrankieKnuckles.John Poppo.SatoshieTomie.TerryBurrus (Perspective)

12.I’mEveryWoman – ChakaKhan-ArifMarden.DancinDannyD

13.Tonite – ThoseGuys.BasementBoys.EleanorMills.JaySteinhour (MCA)

14.WhereLovesLives – AlisonLimerick.LaitKronlund.FrankieKnuckles.DavidMorales

15.GodfatherOfHouse –ChipE.RambuProductions (Underground)

16.MoveYourBody – MarshallJefferson.FrankieKnuckles. (Trax)

17.DistantPlanet – FingersInc.FRankieKnuckles (JackTrax)

18.Tribute – FrankieKnuckles.Adeva

19.LifeIsSomethingSpecial – PeechBoys.Larry Levan

The first official Def Mix Tribute to Frankie Knuckles was at The Vagabond, Miami FL. It was recorded in a seven and a half hour set featuring David Morales with son Brandon Morales and an opening set by Richard Vasquez. The evening was so charged with emotion it just seemed like the dance floor was floating its way right up to the heavens. Every track and mix was inspired by the unmatchable talents of Frankie Knuckles. I felt so honored to be asked to do the opening by both David Morales and Carmel Ophir, owner of The Vagabond. And when I accepted I did not tell them that I was sick as a dog with the “Plague” that was the aftermath of the Winter Music Conference. I have never demanded antibiotics for flu. But this time I described to my doctor how important this was to me and demanded that he give me whatever antibiotics that would make me functional on that night. One would hardly believe that Frankie and David with the Def Mix family had been there several days before for the WMC Def Mix party which was the hottest ticket of the week… never imagining that Frankie was not to return to us.

Being one of the pioneers of house music in the eighties, naturally I knew Frankie early on. When he came to spin as a resident at my club The Choice I could scarcely believe that he was actually in my house working that all analogue sound system on a Friday night. Later I got to hear him spin regularly at SoundFactory… then SoundFactory Bar and then RedZone. We both lived in the neighborhood known as The Lower East Side. He a few doors away from Dance Tracks record store. I lived one block away on Second Street… and The Choice was three blocks east of us on 3rd Street. We formed a strong brotherly bond when we were talking about our upbringing and found that we both attended the same church in the seventies. A church that had the best choir in Manhattan... Faith Temple Church of God in Christ up on Sugar Hill in Harlem. the minister of music was Professor Herman Stevens. I got my style of playing the Hammond organ from Professor Stevens. The spirit of C.O.G.I.C was all up in Frankie’s music and is best demonstrated in his classic “The Pressure”

Please excuse my two tripped up mixes… it was a miracle that I was actually on my feet that night.

David Morales’ segment of the evening can be found posted on Mixcloud in two parts.

photo: RichardVasquez.DavidMorales.CarmelOphir.TheVagabond

1.SummertimeSadness.Inst. - Asadinho.AlanDelRey

2.TryingToBeCool - Phoeniz.Asadinho

3.LoveGamble - BenGornon.Asadinho

4.TheLight –HenrySaiz

5.ConjureDrama - MaceoPlex

6.Frisky - MaceoPlex

7.ThickestBass - SteveBug

8.CrossingBorders - FritzKalkbrenner.ThodorisTriantafillou.CJ-Jeff.MihalisSafras

9.Opale - SebastienLeger.Siwell

10.DrunkRotations - TolgaFidan

11.Moved - HeikoLaux.RicardoVillalobos

12.MaikTheChicken - Modeselector

All of my CDJ live mixes… are made with no sequencing... no auto sync. No particular genres, no particular destination... just a smooth JOURNEY into Beats . My style is Ultra-Eclectic House Music and EDM. no matter what the flavor is. The Mix is just long enough to fit on an 80 min CD-R which you can make yourself by downloading the mix to your iTunes.... making it into playlist and then burning it to a blank CD You will find the Download click on the bottom of the link page.All tracks herein were purchased from download stores or gifted me by the artists. Please do me a few favors. Find at least one track that you love and download the track from a digital download record store… like iTunes, Traxsource or Beatport. In this day where everyone expects free music, it is the ethical thing to do to support the genius artists who create this music. The other thing I humbly would ask you to do is to click on the "Follow" box in Podomatic and if it is not asking too much… a little comment would be such an exciting reward for me.

https://www.facebook.com/richard.vasquez.56211

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/back-to-love-remixes/id568804548

www.richardvasquez.podomatic.com

http://www.mixcloud.com/richardvasquez56211/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14nHUaU_7f8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJHm7Y2_Dnk

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=520018921351135&set=vb.171490112475&type=2&theater

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http://richardvasquez.podomatic.com/entry/2014-02-17T07_00_00-08_00

1.MakeItLastForever - JocelynBrown

2.WasDogADounut - CatStevens

3.JamHot – JohnnyDynell

4.FunkySensation - GwenMcCrae

5.TouchingTheTimes - StateOfGrace

6.BabyI'mScaredOfYou - Womack&Womack

7.BetchaWontHurtMe - QuincyJones

8.KindnessForWeakness - Cut.LarryLevan

9.HungryForYourLove –Hanson&Davis.HerbPowers

10.HotWater – Level 42

11.Legion - MarkShreeve

12.WalkTheNight – SkattBros

13.Barah - Cleavage

There are thousands of people still here who wished that it could last forever. The Paradise Garage 84 King Street.

Then there are many more who swear they were there… though way to young to have been there. lol.

Then there are those who are working to make it last forever to leave a lasting legacy for all those who absolutely love great dance music. I am finding more an more these days a young generation who know who Larry Levan is even if they never heard of The Garage and many who have heard of The Garage. This summer 2014 a block party in front of the building which housed The Paradise Garage is being sponsored by The Red Bull Academy... to finalize the campaign to rename this street Larry Levan Way... in honor of the greatest deejay ever. 28 years after it's closing Garageheads look back and realize... we knew how special the Garage was even then, but now 28 years later we realize there has never been anything like the Garage since. How blessed we were to have lived those moments.

84 King Street aka Paradise Garage Forever and Ever!

My friend Nick London reminded me that it's been a long time since I posted a Saint Mix.

And since the last one got over 600 hits... here it is.

1.FeaturesOfLove - MikeFrancis

2.ShineOnDance - Carrara

3.InTheRiver – Ilevel

4.Matt'sMood – MattBianco

5.GameAboveMyHead - Blancmange

6.TalkingToTheNight - BrianIce

7.TwoForLove – MikoMission

8.LocomotiveBreath - CatGang

9.FadeToGrey - Visage

10.WhereAreYou - 16Bit

11.Don'tLetGo - KoolaNews

12.BabyOnFire - OttoMix.PKSiegel

13.OverPower – DanHarrow

14.FeelMyLove.Medley.ShatteredGlass.Can'tGetEnoughOfYourLove - ElliWarren

This mix is the Fourth in a series of live vinyl mixes representing what was played at The Saint., NYC. in the years 1980-1986. It was located on Second Avenue and 6 Street in The East Village. just 5 blocks from my infamous townhouse. The Saint had it's unique sound whose private memeberships were white gay males. I remember the attire being 80% faded tight Levis, white T- shirt and a mustache. We who were not into that look called them clones. Although I never performed there I did collect the music that was featured there… and that music was very unique from the other clubs of those years. It's main DJ's were Robbie Leslie, Roy Thode, Michael Cavalone, Michael Fierman among others… but the ones I have listed here were my favorites of them. It was a remarkable place architecturally but it did not have an outstanding sound system. It was severely lacking in in the bass range… but evidently that is the way they liked it. There was very little funk in the music so it really didn't need much bass. The light show really was outstanding and was projected onto a perforated planetarium dome. Richard Tucker was main light man. I have begun this collection with what was termed after hours early morning 'sleaze" music.

"Back in the day, when variable-speed turntables were a relatively new invention, DJs very much wanted to create the perfect mix. Matching beats were only part of that. The most ambitious DJs, particularly those who played night after night until 4 a.m. -- or in the case of many private membership clubs, several hours after the sun came up -- aimed to take their dancers on a journey that mirrored nature's own peaks and ebbs. Typically, the energy and tempos and intensity of the music would build and build until sometime in the early morning hours, when they'd all ever so gradually recede.

To accomplish the downshift, DJs would bring out what's often called "morning music" or its typically slower subset, "sleaze," which is usually sexy but only rarely actually sleazy. To the contrary, morning music and sleaze remained sophisticated throughout the '80s and even into the '90s, while dance music generally got simpler and harder. To construct morning music and sleaze sets, DJs drew from mid-tempo soul, New Wave, European pop, some easy listening, a little touch of jazz, and other forms of gentle disco. Together, these warm and caressing tracks would ease dancers down from their drugs, but leave them elated and ready to take somebody home.

Reacting against the relentlessly fast and banging beats of today's EDM, a new generation of DJs like Lindstrøm and the Horse Meat Disco crew are rediscovering these early morning evergreens. A few are known to nearly everybody, but far more remain primarily known to the surviving club-goers and DJs of dance shrines like New York's 12 West, Paradise Garage, The Trocadero Transfer, and the Saint." --Barry Walters adventuresome.

The Saint Structure, First Floor - entrance floor in industrial high tech modular metal. Second floor perfectly round hard -wood blonde dance floor with planetarium dome and Dj booth. Third floor above the dome for the adventuresome. I can't describe it since I never went up there.

Tracklist for 099.

1.AreYouForReal - Deodato.Camille

2.I'mGivingAllMyLove - TerriWells.DavidTodd

3.TakeSomeTimeOut - SalsoulOrch.JocelynBrown

4.MedicineSong - StephanieMills

5.GetGetOnDown - GeneChandler

6.BehindTheGroove - TeenaMarie

7.MusicIsTheKey - JMSilk

8.KeepOn-DTrain (Prelude)

9.AtMidnight -T-Connection.CoryWade

10.WhatchaGonnaDoForLove - Blaze.FreddieBastone

11..SomehowSomeway - BoydJarvis

12.Don'tGoLooseIt - HughMasekela.GeoffHaslam.DonFreeman

13.BreakForLove - Raze.VaughanMason (GroveSt.)

1.Sotom - SandyRivera,Noir.Jimpster

2,MyDesire - Copyright.Donae'O.JulianGomes

3.HomeToYou - TotruredSoul.ChuckLove

4.LookRightThroughYou - StormQueen.Aeroplane

5.YouAreMyHeaven - KevKruz.SolielLaurent

6.MomentOfMyLife - BobbyD'Ambrosio.MichelleWeeks

7.DefinitionOfLove -JoeyNegro.TheSunburstBand.SeanMcCabe

8.LikeYou - InayaDay.Ridney.L.PhonixYilivation

9.NeverStop - LouieVega.DuaneHarden

10.Fathers - NeilPierce.ZiggyFunkLiffordShillingford

11.ChangeItWithLove - DistantPeople.TAsitaD'mour.

12.Warning - Rhemi.

All of my CDJ live mixes… are made with no sequencing... no auto sync. No particular genres, no particular destination... just a smooth JOURNEY into Beats . My style is Ultra-Eclectic House Music and EDM. no matter what the flavor is. The Mix is just long enough to fit on an 80 min CD-R which you can make yourself by downloading the mix to your iTunes.... making it into playlist and then burning it to a blank CD You will find the Download click on the bottom of the link page.All tracks herein were purchased from download stores or gifted me by the artists. Please do me a few favors. Find at least one track that you love and download the track from a digital download record store… like iTunes, Traxsource or Beatport. In this day where everyone expects free music, it is the ethical thing to do to support the genius artists who create this music. The other thing I humbly would ask you to do is to click on the "Follow" box in Podomatic and if it is not asking too much… a little comment would be such an exciting reward for me.

https://www.facebook.com/richard.vasquez.56211

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/back-to-love-remixes/id568804548

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