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Club DJ Robert Hood Club DJ Ellen Allien at MAGMA festival 2006, in Tenerife, Spain DJ workplace in a nightclub, consisting of three CDJs (top), three turntables for vinyl records and a DJ mixer A disc jockey , more commonly abbreviated as DJ , is a person who plays recorded music for an audience.
Maxanne Sartori was the first female progressive rock DJ on KOL-FM in Seattle and was subsequently hired in 1970 as an afternoon DJ for WBCN-FM in Boston. Sartori has been credited with influencing the success of artists such as Aerosmith and The Cars. [72] [73] In 1973, Yvonne Daniels was the first female DJ hired by WLS (AM) in Chicago.
In 1943, radio DJ Jimmy Savile launched the world's first DJ dance party by playing jazz records in the upstairs function room of the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds in Otley, England. In 1947, he claims to have become the first DJ to use twin turntables for continuous play, and in 1958 became a radio DJ at Radio Luxembourg . [ 3 ]
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A DJ mix or DJ mixset is a sequence of musical tracks typically mixed together to appear as one continuous track. DJ mixes are usually performed using a DJ mixer and multiple sounds sources, such as turntables, CD players, digital audio players or computer sound cards, sometimes with the addition of samplers and effects units, although it is possible to create one using sound editing software.
Roger Sanchez (The DJ of DJs), Grammy Award winner, four time DJ Awards recipient, and MTV Europe Music Awards nominee; R3hab (real name Fadil El Ghoul), Dutch DJ and record producer of Moroccan and Algerian origin. Ricardo Villalobos, German DJ known for minimal techno, repeatedly came first in Resident Advisor's Top 100 DJs of the year list
Unlike the modern club DJ who uses beatmatching to mix transitions between songs to create continuous play, radio DJs played individual songs or music tracks while voicing announcements, introductions, comments, jokes, and commercials in between each song or short series of songs. [4]
DJ Magazine (also known as DJ Mag) is a British monthly magazine dedicated to electronic dance music and DJs. [2] Founded in 1991, the magazine is adapted for distribution in the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, France, Italy, Latin America, China, South Korea, Brunei, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Canada, Russia, Belarus, and the ...