Todays popular sound of music has dealt a knockout
punch to a lot of musicians who play musical
instruments. Well, whatelse do musicians play? Lots!
The scene these days is all about musicians who play
turntables, groove boxes, floppy drives and whatever
it is that creates todays hip sounds of popular music.

Take the case of my talented musician friend Earnie
the songster. He's been hit by himself! Earnie was
amoung the first few guitar players who switched over
to keyboards with automatic bass/drums/chords,
starting a 'one man band' trend that rendered his
fellow band members redundant. The one man band scene
ruled and why not? Earnie had a family to support,
playing in a band could only pay half his bills,
'being' the band paid all his bills.

Few years down the line the popular one man band trend
has given way to the 'no man band'. One does not
necessarily have to be a musician to create todays
cool sounds of popular music. DJ'ing, programing,
sequencing, sampling is where it's at baby. Today a DJ
or a computer programmer creates the cool sounds that
spearhead popular musics evolution. So what does my
friend Earnie do now? You've guessed right! Alright
peeps in the house, please welcome DJ Earnie who's
gonna spin some mean disc while scratching the shit
out of them vinyl frisbees! And by the way, DJ'ing
these days pays even next years bills!

Colin D'Cruz
www.hullocheck.com