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...late in tom petty's career for him to monkey with his sound, and on The Last DJ, Petty's 14th album, he remains a committed minimalist, letting jangly guitars, floating keyboards and his much imitated whine rule the day. But Petty is still evolving as a writer, and The Last DJ contains his most interesting and confident material in a decade. As ever, there are small-time characters with big-time regrets, but whereas previous Petty protagonists had no one to blame but themselves, many of these losers are paralyzed by the grip of corporate culture. On Money Becomes...
...them and wrote Asereje for them. Its release in May was timed perfectly, coinciding with the start of the musical silly season. "Just like turrón [yuletide sweets] at Christmas and turkey at Thanksgiving, so we have to have a song for summer," says Jos? Miguel Blas, a DJ at the Madrid station Top Radio. Some observers say that, contrary to the visual evidence, Las Ketchup won't have legs. They've delivered "a typical summer song," says El Pa?s' López. "Like shorts, sandals and bikinis, they disappear without trace once summer is over." Did anyone tell...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) has been storing a large screen TV, two CD players, a portable DVD player, DJ equipment and 91 assorted DVDs since it seized them from Gomes’ room last fall...
...maintain the primal force in the mix,” he says, “to create those moments of rupture, when the ground you’re standing or dancing on sort of falls away.” Far removed from the dreary academicism of the likes of DJ Spooky, /rupture builds upon the sonic foundation laid by Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and Afrika Bambaataa. Like those hip-hop pioneers, /rupture creates startling new compositions as a strategy to set things...
...epic. Mahmoud Fadl’s Nubian drums ignite the stereo but it’s Donna Summer who graces the final minutes. Impeccably mixed, rhythms mutate fluidly, as opposed to Gold Teeth Thief’s spastic collisions. Sparse French dancehall blossoms into jump-up jungle from DJ Rush Puppy; Bubba’s frantic “Ugly” glides into a head-nodding Akrobatik beat that gets swallowed whole by the industrial grind of /rupture’s Nettle alias; Mutamassik’s shuffling Sa’aidi breakbeats give way to hyperkinetic bhangra...