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DJ Breaker is a turntablist musician, specializing in funky house music and drum and bass. His 2006 album, "DJ Breaker's 2006 Bicurious Mix," was released to critical acclaim and his interview with Art Forum magazine serves as an inspiration to aspiring turntablists worldwide. Turntablism is the art of manipulating sound and creating music using phonograph turntables and an audio mixer. ...
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Biography
DJ Breaker spent his formative years as a small business owner, attempting to purchase local food chains, start a record label, and work as a CEO at a local radio station. After being courted for several years by major record labels (Bad Boy Entertainment, Arista Records, Columbia Records, and Hopeless Records)and being asked to record with their people in New York and Philadelphia, DJ Breaker decided to self-release the album "Sexclusive" (2000).
That year, he toured the world, performing at venues including, but not limited to, Carnegie Hall and the Boston Pops. He was awarded the key to the City of New York and a float was built for him during the New York City Thanksgiving Day Parade. During St. Patrick's Day Celebration in Boston, Massachusetts, a blimp designed to portray DJ Breaker as an Adonis of sorts sailed over the Charles River after its initial launch in Harvard Yard. Later that year, MIT contacted DJ Breaker to teach a course on Electronic Music to their graduate engineering students. DJ Breaker declined the offer in order to create the music software known as Cubase. [1] [2]
DJ Breaker is widely regarded as the first openly bicurious DJ of our time. He was interviewed by then presidential hopeful Howard Dean with regards to the needs of the bicurious community.
Reportedly, DJ Breaker is working on a new album entitled "Half Wafrican/Half American." Early reviews suggest this is the most influential album or piece of literature to be created by an individual in the last quarter century.
DJ Breaker has won acclaim from humanists for using his fame in order to promote literacy causes as he is, famously, illiterate and has no desire to learn how to read.
Myths about DJ Breaker DJ Breaker did not invent the rave per se; however, he was instrumental in the first rave ever thrown during the late summer of 1999 on a rice boat outside of the Gulf of Mexico. DJ Breaker in several interviews has declined the desigination of the inventor of the rave; however, this myth still persists, though Snopes has persistently aided in its debunking.
DJ Breaker is not the inspiration for the character Will on Fresh Prince of Bel Air as many believe to this very day. While DJ Breaker did spend time in West Philadelphia, he was neither born nor raised there.
DJ Breaker never completed college. This is a seldom reported myth as many are familiar with his boasts of illiteracy. Also, his completion of grade school is questionable and the veracity of this rumor has yet to be established.
DJ Breaker was not born a woman. Though famously bicurious, all medical data obtained by a variety of interest groups contend that DJ Breaker was born a man, despite his girl like fingers. These fingers famously were able to invent the scratch sample found on DJ Shadow's "Organ Donor." Myths still persist, however, that DJ Breaker was once addicted to estrogen pills, though, much like the myth of his lack of a grade school education, this claim is not entirely substantiated.
Discography 1998 - Trip Hop Drum Funk Daddy Mackin Street Beats! (Relapse Records) 2000 - Sexclusive (self-released) 2001 - Serious Shit (self-released) 2001 - A Little Something About My Family (Christmas Time Out!! Records) 2002 - Bless the Child (Sugrub Records) 2003 - Phirestarter (Relapse Records) 2004 - The Softer Side of Breaker (Nothing Records) 2005 - The Fragiler (Nothing Records) 2006 - DJ Breaker's 2006 Bicurious Mix (Relapse Records) 200? - Half Wafrican/Half American (?)
References - ^ Shadow's Digest, August 3rd, 2006
- ^ "Out of the Shadow", Interview with Eric K. Arnold, SF Weekly, September 13, 2006
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