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Kelly was chatting with the two bored DJs from the radio station co-sponsoring the auditions. “My boyfriend listens to your station all the time...
...DJs typically are unassuming types. Unlike pop performers, who have to entertain a crowd visually as well as musically, DJs are only responsible for sonically facilitating as much posterior shaking as possible on a dance floor of limited size. Even so, their job is arguably more difficult: because they have no flashy costumes or choreographed routines, they must hold the audience’s attention exclusively with their beats...
Deep Dish is as inconspicuous in appearance as DJs come. The Washington, D.C.-based duo was indistinguishable from every male patron of Boston’s Axis nightclub at their Feb. 1 performance. But their ease at turning out the best beats in the industry belied the tremendous skill and impressive talent they possess. For hours their eclectic blend of beats and samples showed the hype surrounding them has not come undeserved...
Recently ranked among the top five DJs in the world by Britain’s DJ Magazine, Deep Dish is comprised of Ali “Dubfire” Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. Both emigrated from Iran while still children. The pair met while DJ-ing separately for a party in 1991, and soon afterwards formed Deep Dish Records. Shirazinia met fellow producer and DJ Brian “BT” Transeau (producer of ’NSYNC’s “Pop,” among others) while in middle school, and Transeau was to become...
Still, two major electronic movements in recent memory have served as wake-up calls to America: the current trendiness of rave culture, led by superstar DJs and corporate entities, and 1997’s “electronica” craze. The latter saw a flurry of sensationalist stories in music magazines that envisioned the rock paradigm being overtaken by a legion of keyboard-wielding techno-freaks, in some kind of premillennial musical cyborg invasion. The truth was that artists like Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers themselves represented a rock-happy crossover breed, integrating elements from rave culture in order...