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Pick up the needle. Drop it on the record. DJ Craze, a.k.a. Aristh Delgado, is onstage at the 2000 DMC/Technics World DJ Championships in the Millennium Dome in London, and he's playing the crowd like a video game. Craze, 23, won the world championships in 1998 in Paris; he won again in 1999 in New York City. Most DJs just spin and scratch, maybe toss in a few behind-the-back tricks. When Craze spins, it's art--he twists notes in the air the way Jackson Pollock used to drip paint on a canvas. Now, at the London...
...years ago, many critics thought jazz wasn't an art; 50 years ago, they derided rock; 25 years ago, they went after rap. In the '70s and '80s, DJs such as Kool Herc and Grand Wizard Theodore helped established DJing as an integral part of hip-hop culture. Craze is taking the genre further. People dance to DJs, but "turntablists" like Craze they stand and listen to, they study, they admire as they might a jazz soloist. Craze's sets are meticulously planned and carefully executed. Employing a keen ear, he locates the best grooves on a record; sliding...
Pick up the needle. Drop it on the record. Craze's life is a spinning disc, always changing speeds. Track No. 1: Nicaragua. This is a fast number. "I don't remember much," says Craze, who was born in Managua. "There was a war going on and s___." Track No. 2: Change. When he was three, Craze's parents moved to San Francisco and then to Miami. Track No. 3: Discovery. Craze didn't have much as a kid--not much money, not much direction. But then, when he was 13, his brother brought home a set of turntables...
...suppose I should be grateful that America?s cell phone craze hasn?t spun completely out of control. In Australia, ornithologists have discovered that the country?s so-called "mimic birds" are starting to use cell phone noises in place of their traditional mating calls. Australia?s cell phones are so pervasive, scientists fear, even birds living in rural areas are familiar with the tone. You?ve got to give the birds some credit. What better way to grab a mate?s undivided attention? Our feathered friends have obviously taken note of the phenomenon known as "Ooh-hang-on-while...
Well, not overnight. Rock never really died--after the alternative-rock craze bottomed out in the late '90s, rap-rock hybrids like Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock as well as more straightforward rock bands like Creed have clicked with audiences and gone multiplatinum. And record-company executives, like anxious analysts anticipating a tech bubble burst, have been anticipating a correction in teeny-pop's long boom. They have devoted more resources in the past year to signing and developing rock acts, believing the tweens who flocked to pop would soon be ready for a different sound. "They want [their music...