Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry and synthetic to wet and gushy), rhythm tracks can be tempo-tweaked with an upward toggle to change a Timbaland beat into a Chromeo one. Add some T-Pain-esque pitch-correction vocals to your between
No ifs, no ands, and definitely no buts about it -- when DJ Jonathan Brody is asked to define his genre, he comes back with a quick and decisive "disco, disco, disco!" Sure, it swings "from new disco to Italo Disco disco-house," but in the end it's clear: this cat's got it bad for the four-to-the-floor.Born in London but raised right here in Miami, Brody cites Escort ("a great group") as a key influence. However, consider the fact that the act is best known as the back track for the Muppets' "Al
Frankie Knuckles is hardly a man who needs introduction. The legendary
DJ/producer is a pivotal figure in the history of house music, having
begun his stellar career alongside Larry Levan in NYC and as resident DJ at the
Warehouse in '70s Chicago, back when house music was still an
experimental offshoot of disco. Not one to fade away into the past,
however, Frankie has managed to stay at the forefront of dance music
for three decades and his latest output, including a remix of Hercules
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