One of the first DJs to go full on house music in New York, Bruce Forest was the middle class white kid from the suburbs who won over the hard-to-please Black gay crowd of midtown Manhattan
A delightfully frank account of running New York's hottest label, Sleeping Bag, his relationships with leftfield luminary Arthur Russell, before the dream crashed and burned in a haze of.... freebasing.
Mudd Club, Danceteria, Ritz, Area... He spun at the greatest spots New York clubland had to offer through the sparkling’ 80s, and Justin Strauss remains as forward-looking today as he was back in those foundation years.