Word: dj
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Every so often, prisoners from local jails call in to the station using an original method: they call collect, and make their request in the few seconds of time normally allotted for the caller’s name, hanging up before the DJ has the chance to accept...
...DJ Harry G. Kimball has a well-developed theory to explain the phenomenon. “We are similarly alienated from mainstream music, but in different ways,” he says. “What we play is underground, obscure: Punk, Hard Core, Indie Rock, ... The prisoners tend to think older, more traditional Heavy Metal. There is a difference between what they want and what we play, but we’re the only music station that accepts requests and is easy to call...
...such sexy-voiced female DJ, Thalia S. Field ‘03, who is also a Crimson executive, has her own explanation. “Many of the people who make requests are very strange,” she says. “It’s a great radio station, but what we play appeals to a certain type of person. Like noise music.” Noise music? “Recordings of ordinary sounds, like jackhammers. The movement started in the 1930s with Pierre Henri, who composed musique concrète,” she explains. Though...
...together a rap album with live guitars and drums. To do so, they turned bass player Jimmy's apartment -- which had earlier doubled as the Anodize band HQ -- into a recording studio that has since produced four LMF albums, plus solo albums by band members DJ Tommy, who spins and scratches hip-hop beats onstage, and guitarist and producer Davy Chan. The band's songs are collaborations, but Davy and DJ Tommy -- who both have more than a decade of experience professionally fiddling with sound equipment -- are the ones largely responsible for the high quality of LMF's recordings. Davy...
...A.Room might have struck a chord by waving the flag for Cantonese hip-hop but with success it's suddenly finding a larger mission. DJ Tommy earned raves from Japanese and Korean music 'zines in August with his A.Room-produced album Respect 4 Da Chopstick Hip Hop -- which he recorded with an eclectic mix of Japanese, Korean and Cantonese hip-hop artists. He believes beats can bring Asian youth together. "Because we like hip-hop we have something in common," says Tommy, who won international fame in the early '90s with his blurry-handed appearances at the world DJ competition...