Newark, New Jersey, a principal city of the New York metropolitan area, has significantly contributed to the evolution of electronic dance music. It is recognized as the birthplace of the "New Jersey sound" or "Jersey sound" in the early 1980s, a subgenre of deep and garage house music¹. Furthermore, Newark is the origin of Jersey Club music, which emerged in the early 2000s as a fusion of house and hip-hop elements². Its musical legacy is rooted in these distinct electronic genres.