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[da400a0]

il concorso in pillole...Villa Pisani a Stra con il Frigimelica!

[jammtext]

Check out this 2003 mixtape from DJ AM, unearthed from the archives by DJ Vice.

DJ AM Cornerstone Mixtape #51 (2003)

Extremely rare recording of DJ AM on the Cornerstone Mixtape #51 recorded in 2003. This mix original was split into two separate mixes, one by AM & one by Truly OdD. This is the AM mix recording only.

[lomaaltakid]

My DJ AM Story

My DJ AM story comes from a perspective different than many CLASS A DJ's out there. I wasn't old enough to have the pleasure of meeting DJ AM but being into DJing culture since I was a very young age, I remember hearing about DJ AM sometime in 2001 - 2002.  I didn't believe the hype back then from what many Crazy Town fans said about this guy. I had respect for this guy, yet I figured that the main reason for his success was because he was some celebrity DJ that had many celebrity girlfriends at the time.  When I started getting fully into DJ'ing, I didn't take time to listen to the big guys because I didn't understand what it took to get to that skill level. I was pretty one-sided when it came to DJ'ing. I felt that DJ'ing was just mixing records and that scratching was just for show... But it wasn't until I hung out with many of my DJ friends and mentors that got me to where I am today that I realized how having talent and skill can get you places. Even when I started DJing, not many people strived to become DJ's like they are today. When I started DJing when I was still in 6th grade and had my own gear, I was the only one in the ENTIRE school who did. Even up until freshman year of high school. Nobody understood what the concept of DJ'ing was. When I listened to DJ AM's set on Power 106 in the winter of 2005 however, I realized that he came out with this set that made any average Tom, Dick and Jane understand that DJ'ing is actually pretty cool. I will say that my mentors didn't feel that AM was all that extraordinary, they admired many other connoisseurs in that field like Spryte, Vice, Scotty Boy etc. They respected AM, but never held him in a degree of fandom, and I understood why. Not out of jealousy, but because we as DJ's are just that. We're just DJ's, we're not celebrities, we may cater to celebrities but we don't always need to be A class celebrities. When that shit went down with AM and the plane crash, many DJ's went out in solidarity, myself included, and we all wanted our fellow celebrity colleague to recover and do what he was destined to do, DJing. I feel that the celebrity limelight and the press he received didn't praise him in the right way and could have been a contributing factor on why he ended his life. I was truly sad that AM had passed, not because I was one of his biggest fans, but because the DJ'ing community lost one of the few DJ celebrities that existed, the only problem was that he didn't necessarily want to be a celebrity, I feel he was just a human being, and a victim of the system. He couldn't handle all that pressure and especially the excruciating pain from recovering from the plane crash a few months back. It was one of the saddest days in DJ'ing history, because the world lost one of the few DJ's that still made many people dance and while he wasn't the best or the most skilled DJ, he had a way with making any everyday person, truly appreciate the art of DJing and see what the art is all about. How you can cut up records, create mashups, fuse genres, hype up a crowd by scratching and all sorts of tricks. There's literally nobody that has since done that to that worldwide impact like AM. Rest in peace fellow DJ. Thanks for making those incredible sets and mixes because I tell you, that set you did on Power 106, is still one of the best DJ mixes ever created. Almost ten years since you've made it, it can still make anyone bounce and feel good and be appealing to anyone, young and old, latino, black, asian or white. Fuck those ten minutes or so that was just straight old school hip hop was the best set I've ever heard to this day. Music is universal. We need more DJ's that can do that and not just those who just push buttons and sell out arenas. But I ain't hating on anybody, everyone is dope in their own way. Respect to turntablists, respect to the radio DJs, the club DJ's, the hip hop DJ's, the open-format DJ's, the festival EDM DJ's, the producers who perform live, you're all great in your own way.  I got love to all the DJ's that just do it for the passion of the art and music, whatever that medium may be.