DJ Screw Plays with Time
In the 1990s Houston-based DJ Screw took popular hip-hop mixes and slowed them down to half their playing speed. The resulting sound has cast a spell over Texas.
View ArticleDeejay Irwin Chusid on Lost-and-Found Art
Kurt Andersen and music expert Irwin Chusid talk about the thrill of discovering lost and forgotten music, literature, and art. Chusid is a record producer, radio personality, journalist, and music...
View ArticleDJ Screw Plays with Time
In the 1990s, Houston-based DJ Screw took popular hip-hop mixes and slowed them down to half their playing speed. The resulting sound has cast a spell over Texas.(Originally aired: May 16, 2002)
View ArticleTimeblind
DJ Timeblind improvises a miniature remix of the hour of Studio 360 you just heard.
View ArticleJace Clayton Becomes DJ /rupture
Jace Clayton is the philosopher-king of club DJs. He’s a Harvard grad who used to review poetry, and made some tracks with poet Elizabeth Alexander. He’s an ethnomusicologist who’s fascinated by the...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolution: A DJ Gets Back on the Mic
At the end of 2014, we asked for your creative New Year’s resolutions, and we’ll pick several people to follow throughout 2015. More than one hundred people got in touch, including Maria Thornton. She...
View ArticleCreative New Year’s Resolutions: Raising Eyebrows
At the end of last year, Studio 360 asked for your creative New Year’s Resolutions for this year. And we are following four of you as you try to make good on those projects. Maria Thornton, of Yellow...
View ArticleDiscovering an Imaginary Soul Star
A decade ago, criminal investigator and part-time DJ Dori Hadar headed to his favorite flea market to dig through some records. He was there early, and he hit it big. “There were about 2000, so I had...
View ArticleSmackdown: Live Band or DJ?
Rihanna may be fun for the bachelorette party, but what will grandma think when the DJ starts spinning it at the reception? Deciding between a DJ and a live band for a wedding reception can be both...
View ArticleDowntown Brooklyn Celebrates the New Africa with Djembes and Digital Beats
This Saturday, there will be digital music as well as djembes onstage at the Dekalb Market in Downtown Brooklyn. The celebration of contemporary African music, called Afrika21: The Showcase, is an...
View ArticleMaestro, the DJ is Ready for his Concerto
There was a time when the mere mention of "electronic music" on an orchestra program would send concert-goers fleeing towards the exits, synonymous as it was with bleeps and groans made in university...
View ArticleTracing "Feel So Close" Back to Africa
John Schaefer has a hunch about the underlying sound of the wildly popular hit "Feel So Close" by Scottish DJ Calvin Harris. Listen to this playlist to hear him follow that hunch all the way to Africa...
View ArticleGig Alert: Mouse On Mars
ARTIST: Mouse On MarsDOWNLOAD:"Bonuß"SHOW: Sunday at Santos Party House ($15)Electronic music is often thought of as being forward-looking, futuristic, and pretty serious. Then there’s Mouse on Mars....
View ArticleJust Dance: Lady Gaga, DJ VH1 And The Lower East Side
Last week, pop superstar Lady Gaga released a long awaited new song, “Applause.” It’s her first new material since 2011’s Born This Way — and critics and fans are already weighing in on this next...
View ArticleSweets for the Cheat
Two shock jocks make a big morning mess. Performed by Jon Bander, Alessandro King, Bianca Casusol, Brian Frange, and Elana Fishbein. Written by Ira Gamerman. Produced & directed by Jonathan...
View ArticleMusic That Burns, Literally
Those speakers in your living room, sitting there, like dull hunks of furniture? What if instead of just playing music, they became a pair of fire-spewing dragons? You'd play a tune, and the pulsing...
View ArticleFive Essential Rap and Classical Music Combos
The video of the the rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot holding court during one of the Seattle Symphony’s Sonic Evolution programs, or “orchestral movements from the hood night” as he called it, had collected more...
View ArticleDJ Schools More Than Just Scratching Records
Years ago, a DJ, or disc jockey, was primarily thought to be an announcer with a prominent voice. Think Casey Kasem.Now, the DJ-performer reigns supreme: Tiesto, Afrojack, and Skrillex are just a few...
View ArticleThe Eclectic Sound of DJ Goldroom
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Los Angeles-based DJ, producer, songwriter, and bandleader Josh Legg, widely known as DJ Goldroom, sees beyond electronic music.Goldroom is a...
View ArticleMiddle East Mayhem, Building Super Batteries, Native Beats
Coming up on today's show:This weekend, The New York Times Magazine will publish something akin to a short book. The issue will feature a single, very long nonfiction narrative about what has gone...
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