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How to Be a DJ: All You Need Is $395
ABC News – Apr 25, 2007
com)Fast forward to 2007 when today’s up-and-coming spin artists no longer rely on turntables and a mixer but on a whole arsenal of equipment computers and software. With the advent of digital music and the creation of new genres in DJing training new recruits is becoming increasingly more difficult and infinitely more expensive. Enter DubSpot — the New York City-based virtual one-stop shop for aspiring DJ’s VJ’s and electronic music producers. Think “School of Rock” with a spin. DubSpot which launched in December 2006 offers a variety of classes ranging in subjects like mixing scratching and even video and visual training. “DJing is one of those things it becomes your life” said DubSpot DJ Neil Armstrong in an interview with ABC News. “It comes from hip-hop.
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Viva la France
Malaysia Star – Apr 25, 2007
Finally on June 16 Emilie Simon will close the French Art Festival with a concert at The Curve. Simon is the artiste whose work was featured on the award-winning film March of the Emperor. For her performance here the French electro music artiste will perform material from her latest album titled Vegetal which won the best electro album at France’s Victoires de la Musique this year. “She is on the French Spring tour in Asia and will be stopping by Hong Kong Manila Vietnam and China. ” Simon is the last artiste to perform at this party which kicks off at 6pm and her robotic groove is scheduled to continue till midnight. Meanwhile those who are interested in watching French films there are three venues to check them out. From May 24 to June 3 the film fest takes place at Golden Screen Cinemas 1 Utama and MidValley Mega Mall.
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New life | Music | The Guardian
guardian.co.uk – Apr 25, 2007
Gahan is in the Duke of Newcastle suite at London’s Home House hotel (olde worlde fading decadence very Lord Byron) to promote his first solo album Paper Monsters. The six missing minutes in his life occurred at another hotel the Hollywood Sunset Marquis in 1996 when he overdosed on heroin and cocaine and made the front pages after his heart stopped beating in the ambulance. Today Gahan’s expression recalls the fresh-faced electro pop singer who first bounced on to our screens singing New Life in the summer of 1981. Tattoos and scars on his arms (in particular what appears to be a tiny skin graft) tell the subsequent story: Gahan’s passage from the doomy-voiced electro god that inspired Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson to a casualty who almost checked out for good. These days though Gahan is a different beast. After 22 years of singing words put into his mouth (since 1982 by Depeche Mode’s writer Martin Gore and before that by Vince Clarke who left to form first Yazoo then Erasure) he is finally performing his own songs. Considering that Paper Monsters contains one of the highlights of his career in the exquisite Stay it’s a wonder he has not done this before… ” The early years of Depeche Mode were mostly drug free – “the odd weekend party” – but that changed with more parties and the rigours of world touring. He doesn’t make excuses but he never felt comfortable with aspects of the band’s meteoric fame. His life suddenly changed: within months he turned from being an 18-year-old punk watching the Damned and the Clash at the Music Machine to becoming become this “squeaky blue-eyed popster” an image that remained with press and public even when Depeche Mode’s music gradually got darker. “There was definitely an element of wanting to destroy that image” he says. But the underlying causes of his freefall were personal. When Gahan was five years old his father abandoned the family leaving Mrs Gahan to bring up four children. Perhaps this is why he “always felt restless that there was something beyond Basildon” and “beyond everything else”.