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1st DJ in History turns 90
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| BeatifulEmotion |
90 years are those that Rum Diggins, considered has fulfilled first dj of history. This American settled down in Boston worked like wireless engineer when its "Diggola" created.
"I have not invented anything, I only used the same things, of a different way, thats everything", affirms the pioneer. "I put background music and voice in background from the part of back of my van in the days of sport events in the school" It was as well as it was born the culture of Dj. In Boston, in the middle of the century last Rum mounted a van with the equipment sufficient to attract the public.
A movable platform of sound that had two plates record player, mixer of sound, lights, microphones, amplifiers and 10 loudspeakers, with this equipment placed in the sport events of its school and in the doors of clubs to which people used to go. It was there where he puts its favourite songs. A day girls decided to contract it for a celebration and was there, in September 1949, when she decides to do the one that tapeworm in but the still compact van but. The "Diggola" is born.
This console tapeworm the design of the time, Art Deco, consists in lights in front of the box that blinked to the rate of music and two plates record player (it added greater to another record player so that the music did not stop when changing of disc, even the mixer does not exists). The "Diggola" revolutionized the form to listen to the music in the celebrations.
Shortly after it began to be produced in series and little by little to become popular the movement of the Dj-movable, scattering themselves and perfecting this practice. At the present time its inventive Rum Diggins is retired officer, with 90 years, but it was in the 1995 when it hung definitively his helmets. Everything a profit since it punctured in more than 20,000 celebrations or events.
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| david.michael |
| Any Rum Diggins livesets available for download? |
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| Demoted |
| That article was hard to understand. Some old guy invented djing and acquiring tapeworms while outside? |
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| david.michael |
| quote: | Originally posted by Demoted
That article was hard to understand. Some old guy invented djing and acquiring tapeworms while outside? |
Agreed... looks like it was translated by an online service from another language. |
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| narcism |
| raja ram wouldnt be far off that age :haha: |
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| grooviebeats |
| quote: | Originally posted by david.michael
Any Rum Diggins livesets available for download? |
ta does not support file sharing |
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| Eis |
| quote: | Originally posted by narcism
raja ram wouldnt be far off that age :haha: |
Isn't Raja something like 60+ ? |
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| Aristronica |
| i had a tapeworm once... |
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| Ygrene |
| quote: | Originally posted by Demoted
That article was hard to understand. Some old guy invented djing and acquiring tapeworms while outside? |
I'm pretty sure it was written by Yoda. |
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| Ygrene |
Ok, I did a search on Ron Diggins and I can't see ANYWHERE that he was ever called 'Rum Diggins'. This is exceptionally lollable to me for some reason.
I think I may have found my DJ name. |
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