It's become increasingly easy and respectable to create electronic music. Platinum-selling artists such as Fatboy Slim and the Chemical Brothers have steadily worn down America's innate resistance to sampled dance music, and in many ways, the challenge to create engaging new sonic forms of music now falls to the future set of sample-happy DJs and producers. Many sixteen-year-olds don't want a guitar anymore for their birthday; they've got a sampler or a Technics 1200 DJ turntable on their wish list. In a climate of Internet mass availability -- where sounds, beats, and blips are there for the clicking -- practically anyone can make music as long as they have a mouse and a modem, if not a musical background. The result is a barrage of material that sometimes makes it difficult to distinguish the genuine artists from the... More >>>