Looking for the Perfect Beat: The Art and Culture of the DJ

"It's your soul playing with the rhythm,flying around in the beats."
— DJ Q-Bert
They are music's vanguard. The reshape today's sounds — house, techno, hip-hop, rock — direct our feet on the floor, and influence the way music is represented in our culture.
"Don't look at the turntable as just this mechanism that you play records on. Apply yourself to it as if it were an instrument, and you can express yourself through the turntable."
— Rob Swift, The X-ecutioners
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