Lance Taylor, also known as Afrika Bambaataa, is an American DJ, rapper, and producer from the South Bronx, New York. He is notable for releasing a series of genre-defining electro tracks in the 1980s that influenced the development of Hip Hop culture. Afrika Bambaataa is one of the originators of breakbeat DJing.
Afrika Bambaataa in April 2009
Afrika Bambaataa (left) in 2004
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include radio DJs, club DJs, mobile DJs, and turntablists. Originally, the "disc" in "disc jockey" referred to shellac and later vinyl records, but nowadays DJ is used as an all-encompassing term to also describe persons who mix music from other recording media such as cassettes, CDs or digital audio files on a CDJ, controller, or even a laptop. DJs may adopt the title "DJ" in front of their real names, adopted pseudonyms, or stage names.
Club DJ Robert Hood
Club DJ Ellen Allien at MAGMA festival 2006, in Tenerife, Spain
DJ workplace in a nightclub, consisting of three CDJs (top), three turntables for vinyl records and a DJ mixer
DJ Pete Rock performing at Rahzel and Friends – Brooklyn Bowl, 2016