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- Music Review | DJ Class Bringing Herky-Jerky Baltimore Club to …
- ‘Planet Rock’ remains an enduring theme in the genres it helped launch
- Entertainment abounds: pop music
- What Bach and Beethoven have to say to Bjork
Music Review | DJ Class Bringing Herky-Jerky Baltimore Club to …
New York Times
’s infrequently make it up to New York and DJ Class’s set lacked the consistent thrill of performances in recent years by genre pioneers like DJ Technics or Scottie B. But in moments he captured the style’s catholic approach to sampling which can be either invigorating as when snippets of “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” poked through or grating as when “Twist and Shout” took over the speakers. When DJ Class mixed in Daft Punk’s “ne More Time” he let out a “wooo!” and jerked away from the turntables as if even he couldn’t believe how slick he’d been. There were also jacked-up versions of Cajmere’s “Percolator” and M. ’s “Bucky Done Gun” and DJ Class’s remix of the recent Mims single “Move (if You Wanna).
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‘Planet Rock’ remains an enduring theme in the genres it helped launch
Detroit Free Press
It used to just kill at the early hip-hop parties. “Add Kraftwerk to James Brown and the New York rap vibe and you got “Planet Rock. “(3 of 3)”I was trying to make a song that played to the hip-hop and the punk rock audiences. That’s the stage I was at in my life. So I crashed the two together” he recalls. “We didn’t know it was gonna take off and reach the rest of the world.
Entertainment abounds: pop music
Boston Globe
com N DUBT Gwen Stefani and her boys are back on the road together performing the hits that made them such a staple on ’90s alt-rock radio. Be sure to catch the opening sets by pop-punk rockers Paramore and futuristic R&B star Janelle Monáe. June 20 Comcast Center.
What Bach and Beethoven have to say to Bjork
Brisbane Times
But if you’re listening to a Bjork song or Terry Riley’s In C or any number of recent classical contemporary pieces then it can be difficult to find the line between ‘popular’ and ‘classical. ‘” Ross discovered these popular-classical connections working as a presenter for his college radio station. “I had a show right before the punk rock show and I was playing this very dissonant complex music. The punk rock people would come on next and I realised that bands like Sonic Youth and Pere Ubu also used dissonance – and a certain amount of anarchy as some of my favourite composers were doing. As for the digital age Ross predicts that the MP3 iTunes and streaming music will be the way of the future for classical music. “Ten years ago the way you picked up a classical music recording was to go to a record store and go into this enclosed room. There’d be thousands of recordings there.