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There's a lingering perception that DJs are hustlers--guys who play other people's records, throw in a new beat and call the result their own. It's true that mixing two hit records (which is what party DJs do) and making one are not equivalent achievements, but Davis, 30, is not a mix man. He's a composer who uses samples as his notes. If making music is like putting together a puzzle with infinite pieces, making music with samples is like putting together a puzzle with finite pieces that don't fit. Tempos clash, keys carom...
...past Davis has sampled music close to his own tastes--funk, hip-hop and R. and B.--but other DJs caught on and started copying his style. Now he looks for the stuff they pass over. In 2000 he struck an obscurantist's mother lode. His local record shop, Village Music in Mill Valley, Calif., bought the entire stock of a defunct 1980s dance-music store at an auction. Davis went mad flipping through 10,000 records--mostly rare new wave European singles--that had been frozen in a storage locker for the past decade. "DJ Shadow is my best...
...released his self-titled album last November, its unconventional style baffled radio stations. That's because Groban wraps his baritone around a hybrid of opera and pop, sings in English, Spanish and Italian and, when he performs, is not afraid to look and act like Michael Bolton. If DJs were indifferent, viewers clamored for information after Groban appeared on Ally McBeal playing a loser with pipes of gold. Last week, after he was profiled on ABC's 20/20, sales rocketed, sending the CD into the Top 10. "I'm not performing for the classical crowd or the Britney crowd," says...
...First of all, interpretive dance is never okay, and the dudes in Tool, of all people, should not receive encouragement in that field. Second, it's unclear what is new or unusual about DJs, ambient electronic sounds, or odd time signatures. The first two items on that list were fresh in the early '90s, when U2 mixed rock with techno sounds on their "Achtung Baby" album, and The Beastie Boys interspersed DJ scratches and rapping with heavy guitars on their hit song "Sabotage." By the turn of the century, both tricks were de rigeur among hard rock bands...
Marc A. Wallenstein ’02 organized Local 1200 this past fall after becoming frustrated with the lack of communication and unity among campus DJs. One particular party, Wallenstein remembers, illustrates the problems with the Harvard scene pre-Local 1200. He says an overeager host hired four or five different DJs for one party just to cover his bases. When they all showed up and realized that a live band was playing as well and that no one was sure about how everyone was getting paid, the fun factor plummeted for Wallenstein and his colleagues...