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Frank Delgado (born 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a He plays turntables, keyboards and sampler for Deftones. Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and a DJ mixer. A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a Musical keyboard. A sampler is an electronic musical instrument closely related to a Synthesizer. Deftones is a rock band from Sacramento California formed in 1988 consisting of

With Deftones

Delgado was a guest performer on several songs on the group's first two albums, and was formally inaugurated into the group just before their third release White Pony (2000)

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was not uncommon for hard rock or heavy metal groups to have a DJ. White Pony is Deftones ' third album released in 2000 It is the follow up to Around the Fur, which was released in 1997 and marks a significant However, Delgado stood apart from the pack due to his creativity -- his playing rarely featured traditional scratching or beat juggling. "Scratching" is also a Present participle of " Scratch " and may also refer to a form of street art Scratching Beat juggling is the act of manipulating two or more samples (e Instead, he tends to use turntables as a sampler to integrate subtle sounds and textures into the music, remisicent of electronic music, ambient, or even musique concrete from the 1940s and '50s. Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production Ambient music is a Musical genre in which sound is more important than notes Musique concrète ( French; literally "concrete music" is a style of Avant-garde music that relies on recorded sounds including natural Good examples of Delgado's inventive touch include "MX" (from Around the Fur) which features distorted human laughter and a strange, pitch-shifted sound vaguely reminiscent of glass breaking in slow-motion; the quieter moments of "Digital Bath" (from White Pony) feature burbling, watery noises.

With the band's fourth album, Deftones, Delgado switched to samplers, keyboards and synthesizers for his main instruments with the band. Delgado has also commented that he created his own samples, rather than use pre-recorded sample banks or borrowing sounds from other artists.

Other activities

Delgado is also in a DJ collective known as the Decibel Devils with DJ Crook. A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Team Sleep is an American experimental Alternative rock group led by singer/guitarist Chino Moreno, better known for fronting the Sacramento-based

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