Then someone played one of their songs for Kanye. It was meditative-a technique lifted directly from techno and house music, but more up front about its emotional core. The duo loved to find a good, bittersweet phrase from a song you've never heard-something like "lately I've been singing love songs by myself" or "you don't have to be alone" or "I changed my mind"-and repeat it, over and over again, while building a song around it. Their songs, thumping and proudly off-kilter, always centered on samples. Before Kanye, Sam Griesemer (aka Samo Sound Boy) and Jerome Potter (aka Jerome LOL) were making intensely emotional dance music that was aimed at people wearing headphones as much as clubgoers. For DJDS, the producer duo formerly known as DJ Dodger Stadium, there are two distinct phases to their music: Before Kanye and After Kanye.
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