Word: deejayed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they were a musical revelation. "I spent two months learning how to spin on inferior turn-tables," he says, outfitted for maximum hipness in a plum-colored oxford, tight black trousers and two-day stubble. "Then when I tried the Tech 12s, I suddenly felt like a real deejay." Today, the former hippie haven of Haight-Ashbury, where the laid-back Chulada bunks with his brother, teems with hundreds of makeshift Mobys scratching out their living. Some, including Chulada, have made it to the coolest clubs, like Mecca where a weekly knock 'em down drag show packs in gays...
...worst possible time. He is wearing a navy-blue porkpie hat pulled down to his eyebrows, a plaid shirt by a niche fashion house called Hysteric Glamour, baggy pants, a chain of oversize dice hanging from his waist and silver rings on his fingers. Being a deejay would be kind of cool, he says, but he likes graphic design too. And then he met this salesman who tried to import beetles from Indonesia, and that sounded promising?except all the beetles died while waiting to clear customs. "Maybe I could do that," he says...
...hard to tell if the pain PRINCE CHARLES appears to be experiencing is derived from listening to himself deejay or from the knowledge that this photo probably won't make him a huge hit with the ladies. The unlikely event occurred as Charles was touring a new south London youth shelter. Spotting a mixing deck and turntables, he said, "Oh, you've got a disco here." Soon the Prince of Wales was behind the wheels of steel, and with the aid of two rhythmic young urchins he set about mixing I Don't Smoke the Reefer by DJ Dee Kline...
...People don't understand what Denniz meant for this whole era and the sound people call the Cheiron sound, which you hear a lot now on the radio. He started all that. He started out as a deejay and his theory was that the song has to be something that people know right away. He knew that from the dance floor. You couldn't have a one-minute intro because people would leave the floor...
...deejay says he has experienced the station's low name recognition first-hand...