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Credit where credit is due: before Paul Oakenfold’s mug and shades graced MTV’s cotton candy airwaves, the man was a bona-fide pioneer. As the DJ behind such culture-defining parties as Future and Land of Oz at London superclub Heaven, Oakenfold was once at rave music’s very forefront. His production work on the Happy Mondays’ Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches foresaw Ecstasy culture’s invasion of pop art, and his genre-hopping 1994 Goa Mix broke boundaries. Let no one question...
AMERICAN IDOL, SEASON TWO Aspirants lined up overnight last week for the show's New York City auditions. There will be one new judge--R.-and-B. artist and DJ Angie Martinez--but otherwise no big changes forthe midseason sequel. A safechoice, but frankly we hoped formore invention on the secondtry. --By Rebecca Winters
...raucous energy couldn’t bury a profound vulnerability that offset the testosterone on display. There was something endearing (and surreal) about these grown men—backed by DJ Mr. Dibbs, who could probably shatter a turntable with his forehead—pouring out their hearts in the most confrontational, hoarse-throated manner possible. Lyrical prowess and mic charisma became tools for assuaging fears of dull futures, wrecked love and artistic failure. That songs such as Atmosphere’s tinkling piano ballad “Abusing of the Rib” and the startlingly mundane anthem...
...There are some goofy, B-movie interludes, but nothing stands in the way of RJD2’s party for long. It’s difficult to find parallels for a scratcher who can hold his own so simply and easily, but perhaps his closest peer is sample-savante DJ Shadow. Shadow’s influence may be seen in the album opener “The Horror” and “Smoke and Mirrors.” Both boast uneasy guitar squalls and minor themes that emerge sounding as though a blues band had undertaken the soundtrack...
RJD2 may be following in some illustrious footsteps as a DJ-auteur, but seldom will you hear an album that as adeptly does what only a DJ can do: seamlessly meld disparate styles and epochs into a whole that is far more than the sum of its parts...