WHO:
Young Richard was born in Brooklyn and raised in the Boogie-Down-Bronx.
It was a time when roller skating, and break dancing were first introduced to New York.
His first influences besides these fresh new cultures were Freestyle music along with the 1980′s New Wave and Alternative & Industrial sounds that were imported to America. While being a self taught photographer, and deejay as many starving artist in the New York melting pot of gold, his first deejay residences were in the middle of 1990′s Club Kid Culture. The Make-Up Room was the only party to be at and the music was a style created by Young Richard himself. His photography tells the stories of the characters that lived this scene in this peroid of time.
The sound was underground and a range that was influenced by his past. It ranged from tribal to dark minimal beats, to acid, to dubby sexy vocals, and whispers all pulsating to a simple strobe light and siren, that was the Make-Up room experience.
Young Richard also has the been the openning act for many artist as Bjork, Nine Inch Nails, The ORB & Clive Barker… Height 611 productions (by Young Richard & The Late Peter A.) was a new version of hard house m...
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