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...Frontier Psychiatrist.” With all its painstakingly woven samples—over 900, including the first-ever legal Madonna sample (from “Holiday,” no less)—Since I Left You is the definitive Endtroducing… of dance music. Like DJ Sjadow’s bleak hip-hop masterpiece, it is a postmodern collage in which something wonderful is invented from scraps of nothing. But far from being a threatening cut-n-paste dystopia, this music wraps itself lovingly around your ears, the warm crackle of vinyl always audible...
...traditional four or five piece band, Slipknot are a nine-man unit comprised of two guitarists, one drummer, two “custom percussionists” (who bash kegs, tin drums and each other at various points), a bassist, a DJ, a sampler and a vocalist. The result of this strange amalgamation of participants is that one moment the guitars are muted and pulsing, vocals slickly rapped over with a mild hip-hop scratching, and the next a double bass drum is rumbling, the guitars are screeching, and the lead vocalist is screaming as if his lungs were on fire...
Their hour-long set of crowd-chanting, mosh-pitting anthems was punctuated by three notable moments. The first was a series of solos—initially, DJ Sid “#0” (who wears a gas-mask), a turntable master, scratched and spun in an ever-quickening crescendo as strobe lights flickered; the second spotlighted the drummer—the kabuki-masked musician drummed at a hellish pace while his drum set floated upside down and rotated above the stage. Slipknot’s second highlight was their final track, “Surfacing...
...listened to from home, “Nasty Habits,” was actually off the air that semester because the students who had started it graduated. “I was in the right place at the right time. They asked me if I wanted to DJ, so I was,” he says. O’Dette loves the experience of getting to meet artists that he has listened to when they come to the station for live performances. “It’s great. The next time they come around, they?...
...says. Unlike O’Dette, Baudoiun did not go to Emerson with the intention of working at WERS, but an existing love of music brought her to the station. “A friend of mine was music director, and he offered me a show [to DJ]. I thought, ‘Great! I can bring in those CDs that I’ve been already trying to get out there.’” She was a DJ for “The Coffeehouse,” then its music director and now runs every show...