Froggy plays5/29/2023 ![]() He studied the practice at Studio 54 and Paradise Garage, watching DJ Larry Levan synchronising the rhythm of two records, cross-fading to play sections of their sounds simultaneously, while overlaying effects from a third turntable. In 1979 Froggy had visited Billboard magazine's New York disco convention, and there he picked up the theory behind New York's DJs' mixing techniques. ![]() In the early 1980s, prior to electro and hip-hop, he was the country's pre-eminent technical DJ. Froggy's style and theatricality heralded that explosion. Froggy's innovative use of mixing decks and tape recorders, alongside his self-built sound system and the mixing consoles he designed himself, transformed the British club scene, acting as a catalyst, and a blueprint, for late 1980s rave culture. A year later he was a DJ at the first Caister soul weekender in Great Yarmouth, alongside a group of DJs - including Robbie Vincent, Chris Hill, Greg Edwards and Jeff Young - which comprised the Soul Mafia. ![]() In 1978 the disc jockey DJ Froggy, who has died of a brain haemorrhage aged 58, installed his sound system at one of Britain's first soul "all-dayers", the National Soul Festival in Purley. ![]()
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