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...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...
...argue with our choice of Best Novelist or Best Singer, but no one doubts each is a legitimate category. Where the debate gets trickier is whether some categories even merit inclusion, such as Best DJ. We ultimately decided yes, and music critic Chris Farley defends that decision in his story...
Pick up the needle. Drop it on the record. DJ Craze, a.k.a. Aristh Delgado, is onstage at the 2000 DMC/Technics World DJ Championships in the Millennium Dome in London, and he's playing the crowd like a video game. Craze, 23, won the world championships in 1998 in Paris; he won again in 1999 in New York City. Most DJs just spin and scratch, maybe toss in a few behind-the-back tricks. When Craze spins, it's art--he twists notes in the air the way Jackson Pollock used to drip paint on a canvas. Now, at the London...
...home a set of turntables. "He was like, 'Don't touch my stuff,'" says Craze. But he was all over the stuff anyway. Pretty soon he was playing small parties, spinning merengue records, salsa, hip-hop. Then Craze saw a videotape of Mix Master Mike, a pioneering West Coast DJ, battling another DJ. "I didn't know DJing was an art until then," says Craze. He began to refine his skills. "That's all my life was back then," he says, "coming home and practicing...
...keeping with his campaign to help relieve animal overpopulation, Barker established the Beverly Hills-based DJ&T Foundation to fund free and low-cost spay/neuter clinics and subsidize voucher programs...