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...with its roots. The beats are as solid and inventive as one would expect from an artist who has been at the epicenter of jump-up drum 'n bass for years, but it is the sampling that makes this disc more than just forgettable rave fodder. Aphrodite's usual hip-hop soundbites are topped with a mix of organic, ambient clips ranging from jazz horns to ethereal female vocals. Especially notable is the fun treatment of the rude saxophone lick from DJ Kool's party anthem "Let Me Clear My Throat" on the track "B. M. Funkster." A solid contribution...
When DJ Lethal joined Limp Bizkit a few months before the band recorded its debut album, he changed its sound. "It was more of a punk band--it had a punk edge," says Lethal, a Latvian emigre who had been a member of the Irish-American hip-hop band House of Pain. "What I brought in was more of a hip-hop side." He is working on a solo album...
...Homicide was working as a hip-hop radio deejay in Los Angeles before he joined the pop-rock band Sugar Ray in 1994. At first he was a mere sideman--on the band's 1995 album Lemonade and Brownies; he's not even in the group photo on the back cover. Then again, the picture is a supremely geeky shot of the band riding on a roller coaster, so maybe being left out was a blessing in disguise. In any case, Homicide says, today he's "cut in on publishing and merchandising, and I'm a full-fledged member...
...Bizkit, he provided scratching on Lilith Fair veteran Paula Cole's new album and he worked on rapper Mos Def's brilliant new CD, Black on Both Sides (Rawkus). It's a sign of how divided feelings are that, on his album, Mos Def takes a lyrical swipe at hip-hop tinged rock-pop acts, including one his producer DJ Premier worked with, Limp Bizkit. "I ain't tryin' to slow your groove," Mos Def raps about Limp Bizkit's music. "But that ain't the way I'm tryin' to move...
Deejays bring the same feeling to rock. By sampling from various genres and eras, they make the past the present and vice versa; they turn rock into hip-hop and back again, throwing everything into the mix, making boundaries illusory. Lethal, for example, has 60,000 LPs in his collection, from different decades and different genres. DJ Skribble, who has performed with the hard-rock band Anthrax and who is the co-host of mtv's Global Groove dance show, says, "People are now into groups and artists and not specific genres of music. Deejays are making music less segregated...