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  10 Electronic Music Documentaries That Will Make You an Expert

  July 19 at 4 a.m.

  The world of electronic music is dense and varied with more genres, subgenres and non-genres than most other types of music. To the uninitiated, it can be intimidating. To those who just discovered dance music in the last decade, there is a common pitfall of lumping it all under the...

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  Dallas Observer Mixtape With Feezy

  July 3 at 4 a.m.

  After a long break, we are back to wrap up the final run of Observer Mixtape. We are almost to mixtape No. 200, and this week we feature Feezy, a scene veteran with two decades behind the decks. Feezy walks the fine line between the pop sounds of crowded Deep...

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  The DJ’s DJ: Danny Tenaglia Looks Back on His Origins Ahead of Dallas Appearance

  June 13 at 4 a.m.

  Danny Tenaglia has a yellow sticky note on his refrigerator, “3 p.m. interview with Elvis from Dallas Observer.” A 3 o’clock call to Tenaglia is unanswered. A text from Tenaglia comes over about 45 minutes later, “Hey Elvis, so sorry, I’m just waking. Had an unexpected marathon in the studio...

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  Dallas Hip-Hop Producer Tha Kracken Brings Beat Battle Performance to the EDM Scene

  June 6 at 4 a.m.

  Hip-hop album sales reached commercial supremacy in the mid-'90s. It was the most decadent era in hip-hop culture, and music producers took home a substantial share of profits. It's the era that made Kanye West, Just Blaze, The Neptunes and Swizz Beatz household names and filthy rich. Even the original...

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  Meet Asian Da Brat, the Dallas Rapper Who Gucci Mane Is Betting Hard On

  May 29 at 4 a.m.

  Hip-hop is a genre where established artists become talent scouts and use their bully pulpit to develop the careers of younger artists, continually filling the genre with rising stars. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, for instance, rose from obscurity after Eazy-E took them under his wing. Kanye West got his feet wet as...

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  Dallas Observer Mixtape with Jeremy Word

  January 24 at 4 a.m.

  Jeremy Word has been a trailblazer among Dallas dance music promoters. He's been a behind-the-scenes player responsible for countless electronic acts coming through Dallas and the infamous Meltdown Festival, which was the city's premier electronic music festival for most of the '00s. On top of all that, he remained a...