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15 Number 8
August 2002
| It’s Halloween and the suburban freaks are out. Exactly 50 days since 9/11, the Nü Metal Army is marching from the parking lot, through a security checkpoint, and into the Continental Airlines Arena for an evening of packaged mayhem – the last show on the Pledge of Allegiance tour featuring co-headliners System of a Down and Slipknot. After making my way through the beer bottles and a momentary patdown from a fake cop, I’m at Will Call waiting for my press passes to arrive. I’m approached by a hyperactive teen wearing an American Head Charge shirt and holding a plastic jack-o-lantern – the kind toddlers use to tote Halloween candy. He thrusts it toward me. “Spit in the bucket, dude!” “What?” |
The Industrial Revolution:
| Each month, DJ Times brings to its readers information on the latest technologies that hit the market. Lighter amps or improved plastic speakers that go easier on the mobile DJ’s back, effect boxes that jazz up live or studio applications, CD players with enough bells and whistles to start a 9th-inning rally – all of these developments have been crucial to recent advancements in each facet of the DJ market. In this survey, however, we take a quick look back at how we got here and how much of the music that fueled this market was made. We asked our esteemed industry mavens, “Which specific piece of equipment most changed dance music – either the way it is produced or the way it sounds – and why?” Additionally, we asked the survey respondents who produce or remix music, “What gear most changed your way of making music and why?” |
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