Wired
April, 2001
Digital DJsSome of the top tunes of the year--even the decade--were built by software, not live bands. Songs by performers such as Moby and Puff Daddy are constructed by mixing and matching old bass lines, new beats and sampled voices. So where would these artists be without their software? Certainly not sitting on the money they are now--a fact acknowledged by Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim, who has said his new CD cost only about $30 to produce, thanks to his computer. That's a nice profit ma...
