"In a good club, and even in most bad ones, the dancers are celebrating their youth, their energy, their sexuality. They are worshiping life through dance and music. Some worship with the heightened levels of perception that drugs bring; but most are carried away merely by the music and the people around them. The DJ is the key to all this. By playing records in the right way the average DJ has a tremendous power to affect people's states of mind. A truly great DJ, just for a moment, can make a whole room fall in love.
Because you see, DJ'ing is not just about choosing a few tunes. It is about generating shared moods; it's about understanding the feelings of a group of people and directing them to a better place. In the hands of a master, records become the tools for rituals of spiritual communion that for many people are the most powerful events of their lives."
Yeah, soak that in. Probably my favorite book of all time.
From Francis Grasso, David Mancuso, and Nicky Siano, to Grandmaster Flash, Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa, you'll read how guys like these paved the way for all the kids today with Serato on their laptops. If you don't own this book, you need to. Here, I'll help.
Also be sure to check out Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton's site djhistory.com
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