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Frank Delgado

Frank Delgado (born 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician. He plays turntables, keyboards and sampler for Deftones. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State California County Los Angeles County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... “Instrumentalist” redirects here. ... Turntablism is the art ofSubscript text manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and an audio mixer. ... A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played with a musical keyboard. ... An AKAI MPC2000 sampler Playing a Yamaha SU10 Sampler A sampler is an electronic music instrument closely related to a synthesizer. ... Deftones are a Grammy award-winning experimental alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. ...


With Deftones

Delgado was a guest performer on several songs on the group's first two albums, and was formally inaugurated into the group just before their third release White Pony (2000) White Pony is Deftones third album, released in 2000. ...


In the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was not uncommon for hard rock or heavy metal groups to have a DJ. However, Delgado stood apart from the pack due to his creativity -- his playing rarely featured traditional scratching or beat juggling. Instead, he tends to use turntables as a sampler to integrate subtle sounds and textures into the music, remisicent of electronic music, ambient, or even musique concrete from the 1940s and '50s. Good examples of Delgado's inventive touch include "MX" (from Around the Fur) which features distorted human laughter and a strange, pitch-shifted sound vaguely reminiscent of glass breaking in slow-motion; the quieter moments of "Digital Bath" (from White Pony) feature burbling, watery noises. Scratching is a DJ or turntablist technique used to produce sounds for some types of music. ... Beat juggling is the act of manipulating two or more identical samples (e. ... It has been suggested that Electronica be merged into this article or section. ... Ambient music is a musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, modern classical music, traditional, world, and noise. ... Musique concrète is the name given to a class of electronic music produced from editing together fragments of natural and industrial sounds. ...


With the band's fourth album, Deftones, Delgado switched to samplers, keyboards and synthesizers for his main instruments with the band. Delgado has also commented that he created his own samples, rather than use pre-recorded sample banks or borrowing sounds from other artists.


Other activities

Delgado is also in a DJ collective known as the Decibel Devils with DJ Crook.
He has said to have recently been heading out of a LA club hand-in-hand with Hilary Duff. DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ... Team Sleep is an experimental dream / ambient rock group led by singer/guitarist Chino Moreno, better known for fronting Sacramento band Deftones. ... Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, producer, fashion designer, and spokesperson. ...


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Frank Delgado (born 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician.
Frank Delgado (born October 19, 1960 in Consolación del Sur, Pinar del Río) is a Cuban musician, and a member of the novísima trova, heir to the nueva trova...
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Frank Delgado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (139 words)
Frank Delgado, born in Los Angeles, California in 1970, is an American musician.
Frank is also in a DJ collective known as the Decibel Devils with DJ Crook.
Frank is considered to be special in the sense that he adds to the music in a different way than a typical DJ in a band.
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