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Paul Johnson is a house DJ and producer from Chicago, Illinois.

He first began DJing in Chicago in 1985, and started working as a producer in 1990, doing tracks for Chicago house labels Dance Mania, Relief, Cajual, Nite Life,

Undaground Therapy, Defected, DJax Up Beats, Peacefrog, and Moody. His tune

"Get Get Down"…

Dynamix II is an electro group founded 1986 in Miami, Florida. The members of the group are David Noller and Scott Weiser, although the original team was David Noller

and Lon Alonzo. The duo took their name from the Dynamix mixing board used in

the production of their first single.…

Trance is a style of electronic music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 160 BPM, featuring

repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and

down throughout a track. It often features crescendos and breakdowns. Sometimes

vocals are also utilized. The style is arguably derived from a…

Hard house, also

known

as

pumping

house,

is…

R. Kelly (born Robert Sylvester Kelly on January 8, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American R&B and pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and occasional

rapper. He first appeared on the music scene as the founder and lead singer of

Public Announcement whose smooth mixture of hip hop beats, soul, and funk

propelled the group's 1992 debut album Born into the '90s to platinum…

Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American pop singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. He came to fame as one of the

lead singers of pop boy band 'N Sync and has won four Grammy Awards as well as

an Emmy Award. In 2002, he released his debut solo album, Justified, which sold

over 7 million copies worldwide. Timberlake's second solo…

Stacy Ann Ferguson (born March 27, 1975) better known by her stage name Fergie, is an American pop/R&B singer, songwriter, and actress. She is a former member of

the kids' television series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid.

Ferguson was also a co-host of the television show Great Pretenders. She is

currently a vocalist for the hip hop/pop group the Black Eyed Peas, of…

Minimalist music is an originally American genre of experimental or Downtown music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonant harmony, steady pulse (if not immobile drones), stasis and slow

transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such

as figures, motifs, and cells. Starting in the early 1960s as a scruffy

underground scene in San Francisco alternative spaces and…

Pop music is an ample and imprecise category of modern music not defined by artistic considerations but by its potential audience or prospective market. Pop is music composed with deliberate intent to appeal to the majority of its contemporaries.

In opposition to music that requires education or formation to appreciate, a defining characteristic of pop music is that anyone is…

The phono input is a set of RCA input jacks, usually behind a stereo receiver to which a phonograph or turntable is attached. Modern phonograph needles and phono cartridges output a very low level signal, which

is input to the receiver then amplified and equalized.

Phonograph recordings are made with high frequencies boosted. This reduces background noise,…

Rhythm and blues (also known as R&B or RnB) is a popular music genre combining jazz, gospel, and blues influences, first performed by African American artists.

Writer/producer Robert Palmer defines "rhythm & blues as a catchall term referring to any music that was made by and for black Americans. He has used the term R&B as a synonym for jump blues. Lawrence

Cohn,…

House music is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid-1980s. House music is strongly influenced by elements of the late 1970s soul- and funk-infused dance music style of disco. House music takes disco's use of a prominent bass

drum on every beat and developed a new style by mixing in a heavy electronic

synthesizer bassline, electronic drums, electronic effects, funk and…

Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969), popularly nicknamed J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, fashion designer, and television producer. She is the richest person of

Latin American descent in Hollywood according to Forbes, and the most

influential Hispanic entertainer in America according to People en Español's

list of "100 Most Influential Hispanics".…

A DJ mix or DJ mixset is a sequence of musical tracks typically mixed together to appear as one continuous track.

DJ mixes are usually performed using a DJ mixer and multiple sounds sources, such as turntables, CD players, digital audio players or computer sound cards, sometimes with the addition of samplers and effects units, although it's possible to create…

Electro, short for electro funk (also known as robot hip hop and Electro hop) is an electronic style of hip hop directly influenced by Kraftwerk and funk records (unlike earlier rap records which were closer to

disco). Records in the genre typically have electronic sounds and some vocals

are delivered in a deadpan, mechanical manner often through a vocoder or other

electronic distortion.…