Released only on DMC (Disco Mix Club) Remix Service promo.
Distributed by DMC America. Only available on vinyl, and only for DJ's.
Cataloge # DMC 166
12" Vinyl Format
Limited Edition US Release 1996
Electronic Genre
House Style
Side One
Jars Of Clay - Flood (Remix), Producer [Additional Production], Remix - Junior Vasquez
Side Two
1 - Marathon - Movin' (Remix), Producer [Additional Production], Remix - Fade
2 - Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl (Full Intention's CD Cut Up & Remix), Producer [Additional Production], Remix [Credited To] - Jon Pearn , Michael Gray Remix - Full Intention
Born Donald Mattern, August 24, 1949, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is an American club DJ and remixer/producer.
Mattern moved to New York as a young adult in 1971 with ambitions of becoming a fashion designer, even briefly attending Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and working as a hairdresser for a while. However, Mattern soon became fascinated with NYC nightlife especially with the work of deejay Larry Levan at The Paradise Garage. After adopting the pseudonym "Junior Vasquez", he commenced his career in music production in the 1980s. Vasquez began to work with deejay and pop remixer/producer Shep Pettibone, and together they co-produced and edited numerous singles from such artists as Madonna, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, MC Hammer, Prince, and others. It wasn't long before Vasquez landed a brief residency at Club Bassline, where he began to make a name for himself as a live deejay.
From 1989 to 1995, Vasquez gained national prominence, along with music industry influence — through his residency at the original Sound Factory, a club he co-founded with Richard Grant. Vasquez quickly built a following of loyal fans who became known as "Juniorites". Devoted to Vasquez's musical style, personality, and the spectacle of his weekly Sunday morning after-hours parties, his fans made Vasquez become one of New York City's most popular DJs. Soon afterwards, major record labels began soliciting Vazquez to produce club-friendly remixes for their top singers utilizing his personal beat-driven house style. Due to a rise in demand from these labels, many singers and musicians were known to frequent his Sunday morning events. Working with many popular artists allowed Vasquez to create his own repertoire of exclusive "Private Collection" of authorized remixes (along with several unofficial remixes) which were not released to the market and thus made his live sets even more distinctive to his following, due to the fact because that they could only be heard at Vasquez's Sound Factory events.
After the Sound Factory was closed in February 1995, Vasquez held residencies at the Tunnel (1995–1996), and at ArenA (held at the Palladium) (1996–1997) where his suspended booth was custom-designed by designers Dolce & Gabbana. In 1997, he returned to the former site of the former Sound Factory and reopened it as "Twilo". Remodeled to include a custom-designed DJ booth for Vasquez's exclusive use and fitted with new cutting-edge audio technology known as "Phazon", Vasquez's residency at Twilo lasted until May 2001 when the venue was abruptly shut down by order of the city. In 1997 Ian Jenkinson and Inner Rhythm Artists Tribal Gathering enlisted Vasquez for the largest single artist DJ event in UK history at the London Arena. Problems with the venue saw the event split between the two largest clubs in the country, Ministry of Sound and Cream.
With the demise of Twilo, Vasquez began a new Sunday morning after-hours residency which he named "Earth" at the highest capacity club space in New York City, Exit Nightclub. Vasquez's gig at Earth ended without fanfare in 2002. In the years that followed, he held shorter-lived residencies at various clubs in New York, including Discothèque, Sound Factory (so-named by Richard Grant who retained legal rights to the name and opened in a new space located in the Hells Kitchen section of Manhattan shortly after the closure of the original site), Pacha (which opened in the site where the new Sound Factory once stood), Spirit (which opened at the former space where Twilo once operated), and The Roxy. Vasquez presently serves as resident deejay and hosts a small, monthly event at Cielo (a small bar in Manhattan's Meat Packing District section). In addition to this residency, he continues to spin at occasional events at various venues throughout the city and around the world.
In addition to his work as a deejay and remixer, he has co-produced albums for lots of popular artists and is also known for introducing new artists, including many crossover singers, to dance/pop music scene.
During recent years Vasquez has remixed many of Britney Spears' singles.
Mattern is openly gay and has overcome an addiction to methamphetamine.
ABOUT REMIXES
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