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DJ Screw Plays with Time

Arts, Culture & Media

In the 1990s Houston-based DJ Screw took popular hip-hop mixes and slowed them down to half their playing speed. The resulting sound has cast a spell over Texas.

Deejay Irwin Chusid on Lost-and-Found Art

Arts, Culture & Media

DJ Screw Plays with Time

Arts, Culture & Media

Timeblind

Arts, Culture & Media

New Year’s Resolution: A DJ Gets Back on the Mic

Arts, Culture & Media
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Creative New Year’s Resolutions: Raising Eyebrows

Arts, Culture & Media

One of our listeners has resolved to return to her first passion — reggae. She’s finding it more challenging than she expected.

Discovering an Imaginary Soul Star

Arts, Culture & Media

He’s made more albums than anyone else, but you’ve never heard a note he’s played.

Jace Clayton

Jace Clayton, aka DJ/rupture, explains ‘world music 2.0’

Music

Jace Clayton is the philosopher-king of club DJs, a worldwide phenomenon with a huge following and a voracious curiosity about the global music scene.

Hip Deep Ghana 2: 21st Century Accra from Gospel to Hiplife

Hiplife–a fusion of hip-hop and highlife–has come of age, spawning subgenres tilting to roots culture, international rap, and boldly humorous satire, not to mention azonto, a dance craze that has rocketed to global renown in just over a year. But … Read more »

Hip Deep Ghana 2: 21st Century Accra from Gospel to Hiplife

Hiplife–a fusion of hip-hop and highlife–has come of age, spawning subgenres tilting to roots culture, international rap, and boldly humorous satire, not to mention azonto, a dance craze that has rocketed to global renown in just over a year. But … Read more »

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