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On Their Debut Album, Stretch And Bobbito Are Taking 'No Requests'

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with longtime DJs and producers Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia about their debut album, No Requests, loaded with new renditions of some of their favorite songs.
"It's crazy to us," Bobbito says of getting recognition for these songs. "That's what we've done for artists for the last 30 years, and now <em>we're</em> the artists."

Adrian Bartos and Bobbito Garcia are a world-famous radio and club DJ duo known as Stretch and Bobbito. Their debut album, No Requests, is out today, and there's something undeniably cheeky about that title if you're a couple of DJs.

is full of songs from their past made new. Bartos and Garcia formed their own band of world-class musicians — dubbed the M19s — and together, redesigned every track. The

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