Steve Boughton

There are two types of DJs: battle DJs and club DJs. Usually, the nimble-fingered scratch junkies who spend months perfecting precise battle routines are either uninterested in working clubs or don't have the ear for matching up tracks. Miami's DJ Craze, a three-time winner at the DMC world DJ championships,...

When Alexander Barck says his group is "really bad with names," he means it. He's a member of the six-man German DJ/producer team Jazzanova, whose time-traveling, globe-trotting sound -- a deft amalgam of hip-hop, jazz, funk, soul, samba, house and drum and bass -- thoroughly defies description. In Between, the...