- Frank Delgado
Frank Delgado (born 13 December 1970 in
Los Angeles, California ) is an Americanmusician . He plays turntables, keyboards and sampler forDeftones .With Deftones
Delgado was a guest performer on several songs on the group's first two albums, and was formally inaugurated into the group just before their third release "
White Pony " (2000)In the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was not uncommon for hard rock or heavy metal groups to have a DJ. However, Delgado stood apart from the pack due to his creativity -- his playing rarely featured traditional
scratching orbeat juggling . Instead, he tends to use turntables as a sampler to integrate subtle sounds and textures into the music, remisicent ofelectronic music , ambient, or evenmusique concrete from the 1940s and '50s. Good examples of Delgado's inventive touch include "MX" (from "Around the Fur") which features distorted human laughter and a strange, pitch-shifted sound vaguely reminiscent of glass breaking in slow-motion; the quieter moments of "Digital Bath" (from "White Pony") feature burbling, watery noises.With the band's fourth album, "Deftones", Delgado switched to samplers, keyboards and synthesizers for his main instruments with the band. Delgado has also commented that he created his own samples, rather than use pre-recorded sample banks or borrowing sounds from other artists.
Other activities
Delgado is also in a
DJ collective known as theDecibel Devils with DJ Crook.External links
* [http://www.deftones.com Deftones Official Site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/deftones Deftones MySpace]
* [http://www.decibeldevils.com Decibel Devils Official Site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/decibeldevils Decibel Devils MySpace]
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