DJ Grandmixer DXT (formerly Grandmixer D. A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience ST, born Derek Showard) is an American turntablist. Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and a DJ mixer. "D. ST" is a reference to Manhattan, New York City's Delancey Street on the Lower East Side. Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York The City of New York The Lower East Side is a Neighborhood in the southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. He was featured in the influential hip hop film Wild Style
Widely recognized as a pioneer, Showard is credited with helping establish the turntable as a a fully performable and improvisational musical instrument (Alberts 2002). Wild Style was the first hip hop Motion picture. Released independently in 1982 by First Run Features and later re-released for home video Improvisation (also called extemporization) is the practice of acting singing talking and reacting of making and creating in the moment and in response to the stimulus of A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. Especially important is his technique of altering the pitch of the note or sound on the LP record. Pitch represents the perceived Fundamental frequency of a sound In Music, the term note has two primary meanings 1 a sign used in Musical notation to represent the relative duration and pitch of a Sound;
He is also credited with greatly helping to popularize DJing through his scratching on Herbie Hancock's single "Rockit" from the Bill Laswell produced album Future Shock. "Scratching" is also a Present participle of " Scratch " and may also refer to a form of street art Scratching Herbert Jeffrey Hancock ("Herbie" born April 12 1940 is a Jazz Pianist and Composer. " Rockit " is a hit Song recorded by Herbie Hancock. It was released as a single from his 1983 album Future Shock Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955 in Salem Future Shock is Herbie Hancock 's thirty-fifth Album and the first of his Electro - Jazz era The music video for "Rockit" was extremely popular on MTV. A music video is a Short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music most commonly a Song with lyrics MTV ( Music Television) is an American Cable television network based in New York City.
He is interviewed in the 2001 documentary, Scratch.
External links
- Scratch and the Hip-Hop Book of Grand Mixer DXT by Randy Alberts, Oct. 2002
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