By Randall RobertsAny knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry and synthetic to wet and gushy), rhythm tracks can be tempo-tweaked with an upward toggle to change a Timbaland beat into a Chromeo one. Add some T-Pain-esque pitch-correction vocal
Temporary Residence Ltd.On Sunday, The Juan MacLean's drummer, Gerhardt "Jerry" Fuchs, died in a pretty terrible accident. According to the NY Daily News, Fuchs was heading to a party in Williamsburg when the freight elevator he was taking got stuck between floors. After being trapped for 20 minutes, the paper reports, Fuchs and another partygoer tried to escape when the party organizer pulled open the elevator doors. The dummer's hoodie apparently got caught as he was leaving, and he fell 50
