Word: dj
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...used to be 20 years ago. Featuring Kanye West, Nas, Rakim, and KRS-One—rap stars of today and yesterday—the video attempts to show the timelessness of hip hop culture and those famed Air Force One sneakers. The video begins with legendary DJ Premier flipping through floppy disks and working an old mixer—not exactly Apple Garage Band—resulting in a fresh old-school beat a la the music of Marley Marl or the Fearless Four. The footage is interspersed with clips of MCs in studio, spitting their self-proclaimed...
Move over, Moby. If underground hip-hop artists like DJ Shadow once felt threatened by RJD2’s runaway success, they can rest assured: for RJD2, electronica is the new hip-hop. Philadelphia DJ RJD2’s third solo release, aptly named “The Third Hand,” is more of the same but less of the old. That is, the album is still distinctively RJD2, but in his latest release the turntable auteur moves farther away from his hip-hop roots and toward a more indie sound. On first listen, the mellow beats...
...PetSoundsBar, Skanegatan 80, tel: (46-8) 643 82 25; www.petsoundsbar.se, for a jukebox inspired cocktail (a peach vodka concoction called A Boy Named Sue is a big seller) and a lobster soup followed by a chocolate terrine - surprisingly sophisticated fare for a venue with a rockabilly-and-indie-loving DJ. If the bar has a familiar ring to it, that's because, like Pet Sounds Records down the road, Skanegatan 53, tel: (46-8) 702 97 98; www.petsounds.se/web/, it was named after the classic 1966 Beach Boys album. Musicians from far and wide flock to the store...
...actually possesses. "So much of what we do is just common sense," he says. Rubin co-founded Def Jam Records with Russell Simmons out of his New York University dorm room in 1984 and had a huge influence on the early history of rap (that's him as DJ Double R on the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill), but his formative experience as a producer came during a long-ago session with the Bangles. "Just before recording, one of the girls completely broke down," Rubin recalls. "She said, 'I don't think I can do this. I've never played...
...that most stations have been using since the late 1920s, radio began to turn back to the recorded album in an attempt to save itself. At first, it seemed, the answer to radio’s problems was music and the public’s faith in a reliable DJ. The burgeoning record industry found its own personal soapbox in DJs who championed new releases.And, for the most part, the format worked. Martin Block, Alan Freed, and John Peel rose to national fame for their good taste and innovative programming. They simultaneously served as tastemakers and barometers for the listening...