Word: maestro
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Vadim is a virtuoso instrumentalist who works the turntable with a confidence and skill comparable to any musical maestro. In execution, his music maintains its own integrity without recognizing the traditional boundaries of genre...
...spin bowlers. But the team appears to have a bottomless well of batting talent, and behind Warne's trickery is a trio of fast bowlers who can do just as much damage. Among other potential heroes to look out for: England's Marcus Trescothick and India's pint-sized maestro Sachin Tendulkar. Pakistan's Yousuf Youhana and Shoaib Akhtar, the "Rawalpindi Express," who can bowl a ball at 161 km/h, should be enough to keep them in contention. And don't miss Sri Lanka's man with the golden arm, spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, sometimes known as the smiling assassin because...
...SAMSUNG HT-SK6 No longer just Sony-on-a-budget, Samsung has joined speaker-maestro Klipsch to build the HT-SK6, a progressive-scan DVD player with 725 watts of power. Precision speakers, designed for easy placement, are from Klipsch's famed Quartet Microsystem. www.samsungusa.com...
...legendary psychedelic flavor of those full moon parties and the epochal madness of three-day Goan raves, few globally renowned DJs emerged from the scene as so many did from other party spots like Ibiza or St. Tropez. Koh Phangan never produced a Sasha or Tall Paul, a deck maestro who made his name under the full moons before jetting off to earn $20,000 a night spinning at Cream or Ministry of Sound. Instead, the Asian raves coughed up Tsuyoshi, who first brought Shiva to the Tokyo dance floor a decade ago during his DJ residence at Wanna Dance...
DIED. JASON MIZEL, A.K.A. JAM MASTER JAY, 37, one of the forefathers of rap and turntable maestro for the iconic New York rap band Run-DMC, famous for stripping down hip-hop music and injecting it with rock, and for its storming cover of Walk This Way with Aerosmith; by gunmen in New York City. Although street violence has always haunted hip-hop, the music of Run-DMC, known as "the Beatles of Rap," never celebrated gun culture. Rather, with almost religious fervor, it preached unity and peace...