DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution 17 mai 2022

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DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution - In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique....

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DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed. Spinning two copies of a record, Screw would "chop" in new rhythms, bring in local rappers to freestyle over the tracks, and slow the recording down on tape. Soon Houstonians were lining up to buy his...

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