Beat Scene

Equal parts underground icon and mainstream phenomenon, today's deejay has the best of both worlds.

By Victoria Neal • Sep 1, 2000

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Without skipping a beat, deejaying has not only become a reveredenterprise, but also a full-blown lifestyle/industry.

The ballistic beats and brain-thumping drive of electronic dancemusic have risen from the inner sanctum of the underground into themain-stream. Such illuminated focus has knighted the modern deejaywith rock star status (e.g., Moby) and generated a lifestyle thatkids are embracing worldwide.

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