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Beat / DJing must have been very different when you were picking up the trade.

Andrea Oliva / Back then, DJs were very hands on with the turntables. They’d have two or even three turntables. I was watching Derrick May go totally nuts behind the DJ booth. All the US House DJs back in the day, technically speaking, they were something out of this world - looping vocals, playing instrumentals. Also, at that time, every record that was out included a beat you could use to top mix. CJ Macintosh was into that, for example …

Beat / … the legendary Ministry of Sound DJ and co-producer of the M/A/R/R/S track “Pump Up the Volume” …

/ That‘s right. He was mixing two records of the same tune, but mixing

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