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...needs an overhaul, and the crowds tend to move on by midnight. But if beer and kebabs are your thing, call (86-10) 6501-7501. Another notable in the neighborhood is the Velvet Room, featuring a canal-side location and intimately arranged sofas. Run by a well-known local DJ, it is a frequent haunt of Beijing's ?ber-hip crowd; phone (86-10) 6460-9365. Other hot venues nearby include Club Orange and Jazz...
Maybe I was expecting a bit too much from a freebie. I ramped up to Roxio's Easy CD Creator 5 ($99), the best-selling burning software for PCs. It had one truly tantalizing feature. You could blend tracks into one another like a true DJ. I dreamed of making nonstop party discs without a nanosecond of silence or fade-out. Alas, this is no good if you can't preview what the transitions are going to sound like--which, 9 times out of 10, Roxio's software failed...
...WIBG, which had started with religious programming (its call letters stood for Why I Believe in God), may have been the first full-time Top 40 outlet in a major market. Top 40 referred to the tight list of current records (guess how many) a DJ could play, though at this early stage the format wasn't padlocked: "Wibbage," as the station nicknamed itself, issued a Top 99 list to record stores each week. Like the shift from network radio to the rise of independent stations, Top 40 happened quickly, between 1955 and '57. It soon became so codified that...
Pick up the needle. Drop it on the record. DJ Craze is onstage at the 2000 DMC/Technics World DJ Championships. An announcer delivers the judges' decision: "DJ Craze--the first DJ in history to win one, two, three years consecutively!" Just as writers like Thomas Pynchon spin out novels that are a blend of literary references (it's no coincidence one of the main characters in The Crying of Lot 49 is a radio DJ), just as visual artists like Lee Krasner have created collages of bits of older paintings (she even used pieces of her husband Jackson Pollock...
...Enter DJ Craze, bearing a turntable. You won't find him performing at Carnegie Hall. Like the early jazz musicians, who performed in speakeasies and brothels, he plays for an audience that's out for a good time. Like the early novelists, his primary source material is in the drift heaps of mass culture. But from those things he produces work that's not just enjoyable but also edifying: his abrupt couplings of borrowed sound--a riff sampled off an old 45, a scrap of dialogue from an old movie--point us to connections we've never made before...