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Before it became a vehicle for instigating turf wars and peddling Chicken McNuggets, hip-hop existed as a rich fusion of four elements—DJing, breakdancing, rapping, and graffiting. These elements collectively comprised an alternative form of entertainment and self-expression for inner-city youth, while creating a burgeoning impetus for social change. At the center of this cultural maelstrom was Grandmaster Flash, né Joseph Saddler, who, along with fellow DJs Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaata, formed a veritable holy trinity of hip-hop. In the 30 years since Saddler’s heydey, however, the genre?...
...songs they choose to the attention of the listener. The very nature of the genre dictates that the finest artists will inevitably be those that showcase or amplify the best in every song they use by making them as accessible as possible.In the end, this kind of DJing is as much an act of trying to please or excite whomever is listening as it is a documentation of where the artist has been and where they’re likely to go. What they produce is a sort of audio-autobiography, from which one can extrapolate the maker?...
...about it, a guy walked by me talking into his cell phone about the James Taylor show. That night, I was on the list to see Death Cab for Cutie, who was playing a few doors down from Nelly, at a bar right near where Moby was DJing. On Monday, I went to the New Orleans Jam-Balaya, where I saw Randy Newman, Terence Blanchard, the Meters and Allen Toussaint. And Tucker Carlson sounded very excited about the jam-band thing with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart that he told me he was going to on Tuesday...
...This is probably the central debate in battle DJing,” he says. “I was probably one of very few people actually using real records in the competition...That used to be the norm. I’d like to see a return to that...
Zornow’s peers in the DJing and hip-hop communities give him props for his traditionalism. Says Ring, “The art of the vinyl he’s really still deeply into...the fact that he loves to keep that as his foundation, that’s what we really like about...