CAN GUITAR HERO SAVE THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
By David Edery
One of the most interesting developments in the video-game industry is the way that games are being used to jazz up — if not completely re-invent — other, more mature industries. There are several good examples of this phenomenon: the stuffed toy industry and the fitness industry, for example, but my focus for this guest post is the music industry.
While many people are familiar with now-ubiquitous games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero, few realize how dramatically these games have affected music consumption in the U.S.
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ROLL CALL
Who: Ian Church
A.K.A.: DJ CHURCH
Hometown: Queens, NY
Time in The Game: 3 1/2 Years
Genre: Hip Hop
Caught Em At: BOB Bar
When: Wednesday November 19th, 2008
Top 5 Tracks on Serato:
1. Pop Champagne - Ron Browz feat Busta Rhymes and Jim Jones
2. Live Your Life - T.I. feat Rihanna
3. Im So Special - Mavado
4. So Fly - Slim
5. Get Like Me (Stuntin is a Habit) - David Banner feat Chris Brown
Who: Brian Deleon
A.K.A.: DJ GET LIVE
Hometown: Queens, NY
Time in The Game: 12 Years
Genre: Hip Hop
Caught Em At: BOB Bar
When: Wednesday November 19th, 2008
Top 5 Tracks on Serato:
1. 900 Number - 45 King
2. PS 8 - Jay Z
3. Poison - Bell Biv Devoe
4. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
5. Scenario - A Tribe Called Quest
Who: Ryo Terai
A.K.A.: DJ RYO
Hometown: Tokyo, Japan
Time in The Game: 12 Years
Genre: Hip Hop / Club
Caught Em At: Club Marquee
When: Wednesday November 19th, 2008
Top 5 Tracks on Serato:
1. Pop Champagne - Ron Browz feat Busta Rhymes and Jim Jones
2. Arab Money - Busta Rhymes feat Ron Browz
3. Ms. Officer - Lil Wayne feat Bobby Valentino
4. Live Your Life - T.I. feat Rihanna
5. Love Lockdown - Kanye West
Who: Michael Cavadias
A.K.A.: DJ Middle of the Valley
Hometown: Santa Cruz, California
Time in The Game: 8 Years
Genre: Club / House / Techno
Caught Em At: Club Marquee
When: Wednesday November 19th, 2008
Top 5 Tracks on Serato:
1. Great Dj - Ting Ting’s
2. Lights and Music - Cut Copy
3. Rich Girls - Virgins
4. Fame - Bouie
5. Valerie - Amy Winehouse
Start Slide Show with PicLens LiteFUSEBOX RADIO TOP SPINS & TOP ADDS
TOP SPINS
1. Q-Tip feat. Busta Rhymes - Getting Up (DJ Scratch RMX)/White Label (Played Live)
2. Amp Fiddler and Sly & Robbie - Blackhouse (Paint The Whitehouse Black)/Strut Records (Played Live)
3. Blitz The Ambassador feat. Rob Murat - Breath/Reprise Records (Played Live)
4. Camar - Dem Medz Gone Far/Slip-N-Slide (Played Live)
5. K’naan - ABCs (Chubb Rock RMX)/A&M & Octane (Played Live)
6. The Knux - Fire/Interscope (Played Live) (Played Live)
7. Willy Northpole feat. B.o.B. - Hood Dreamer/DTP (Played Live)
8. Laura Izibor - From My Heart To Yours (DJ Premier RMX)/Atlantic (Played Live)
9. The Revelations feat. Tre Williams - Heavy Metal Blues/Decision Records (Played Live)
10. Dom Pachino - Shot U Down/Napalm Recordings Empire, Chambermusik Records & Koch (Played Live)
11. DJ Class - I’m The Ish/Unruly Records & Koch (Played Live)
12. EPMD feat. Teddy Riley - Listen Up/Def Squad & Hit Squad
Records (Played Live)
13. InI Mighty Lockdown - Ghetto Living/Trus Fund Inc. (Played
Live)
14. Hollywood Holt - Hollywood/Chocolate Industries (Played Live)
15. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (Pete Rock RMX)/Compadre
Records & Music World Ent. (Played Live)
16. Saukrates feat. King Reign & Drake - Fades Away/Blacksmith & Universal Canada (Top Song Requested)
17. Floyd The Locsmif feat. 4ize & Yiryah Garcia - Don’t Nobody Care/In The Loop Ent. (Top Song Requested)
18. H.R. (of Bad Brains) - Reborn from the Dead/DC Hardcore (Top Song Requested)
19. Santogold feat. Spank Rock - Shove It/Downtown Records (Top Song Requested)
20. Shonie - Miss Independent RMX/Slick Salt Ent. & Slip-N-Slide Records (Top Song Requested)
21. Brand New Heavies - All Fired Up (Tom Moulton Mix)/Delicious Vinyl (Top Song Requested)
22. Just.Live - So Ghetto/Think Think Think Music (Top Song
Requested)
23. Agallah - Amero/White Label (TheDonBishop.com;(Top Song Requested)
24. King Ali Baba feat. Octayne - What U Smokin’/White Label (Top Song Requested)
25. Mistah Fab - Um-Hmm/White Label(Top Song Requested)
TOP ADDS
1. Soul:ID - Love of My Life/ABB Records
2. Ludacris feat. Nas & Jay-Z - I Do It For Hip-Hop/DTP & Def Jam
3. Illa J - Air Signs/Delicious Vinyl
4. Presto feat. Sadat X,O.C. & Large Professor - Conquer Mentally/Concrete Grooves
5. Mullyman - True Man Story/White Label
6. Ron Browz feat. Busta Rhymes - Barack (Pop) Champagne/Universal Motown
FUSEBOX RADIO BROADCAST- 11/19/08
This is the FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah for the week of November 19, 2008 with some new and classic Hip-Hop & Soul music, news and commentary.
This week’s commentary was on the recent court case from some “conservative” politicians to declare President-Elect Barack Obama a non-citizen, BET’s American Gangster series and some other things here and there and a new Direct EFX segment this week.








