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DJ Hero
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NocturnOwl: Old School Salute @ The Jet Hotel
Greg Bloom’s not the boss of me now. But he used to be. For the better part of…
December 26, 2010
Knob Twiddlin’: Denver’s Joman remixes deadmau5
If you want to be wildly successful with dance music, you’ve got to pick a helmet. After all,…
October 12, 2010
Hindsight: deadmau5 @ The Fillmore
Joel Zimmerman went from zero to DJ Hero in record time. Live Nation doesn’t even know how to…
October 8, 2010
NocturnOwl: deadmau5
Deadmau5’s career is alive and well. D.C.-area heads must’ve wondered if his alias was a self-fulfilling prophecy,…
October 4, 2010
Movin’ Units: Velcro City Records
Jason Schlosky has long had a thing for hooks and loops. Velcro City Records, the dance music label he founded with DJ Hero (no relation to the video game of the same name), benefits from nostalgia value associated with the patented “zipperless zipper†system invented by Swiss engineer George de Mestral. Hooks and loops, an idea de Mestral ganked from Mother Nature (burdock burrs, specifically), are the functional foundation for the popular textile technology. They play a similarly essential role in the creation of electronic music. Where would techno and its related electronica genres be without hooks and loops?
February 7, 2010