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...field. Second, it's unclear what is new or unusual about DJs, ambient electronic sounds, or odd time signatures. The first two items on that list were fresh in the early '90s, when U2 mixed rock with techno sounds on their "Achtung Baby" album, and The Beastie Boys interspersed DJ scratches and rapping with heavy guitars on their hit song "Sabotage." By the turn of the century, both tricks were de rigeur among hard rock bands (to say nothing of the industrial bands that had been mixing synthesizers and samples with metal riffs since the Enlightenment). Only Phish would dispute...
...York stop featured Bay Area rappers Blackalicious, making a comeback after a few years’ hiatus, as openers. Playing to a fairly sparse crowd, MC Gift of the Gab and DJ Chief Excel worked hard to raise a vibe that never entirely blossomed. Michael Franti of Spearhead had no such problem. Within seconds of his arrival onstage, he was pogo-ing his entire 6’6 length into the air, and the audience wasn’t long in joining him. Franti gives more to his audience than any other performer, his energy seamlessly carrying...
Mira Calix (the working name of Chantal Passamonte) admirably kept the vaguely disturbing vibe alive as the resident DJ, spinning records from the comfort of the rear stage, barely visible. Signed to the venerable Warp Records, she has often been called the female Aphex Twin. Yet unlike Twin’s growing penchant for self-parody, Calix showed off razor-sharp musical sensibilities and flawless taste in records with a daintily mixed set of beguiling experimental tunes...
...parties within the ivied walls of Harvard, the mastermind of sound is more than likely a Harvard student who also moonlights as a DJ. Student hosts used to merely hire DJs known by a friend of a friend, but now even party planners without DJ connections can tap into Harvard’s “Local 1200,” a support network of a dozen or so DJs who keep in touch via e-mail to share information on gigs and to standardize the Harvard DJ scene...
...think a lot of people go to a party and they see a DJ there, and it doesn’t really click that, hey, this guy could play something cool I’ve never heard before. A lot of people only want to dance to the songs that they know,” says Caleb S. Epps ’02, a hip-hop enthusiast. “I think people would have more fun at parties if they danced to what they heard even if they hadn’t heard it before...