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• Famous American radio disc jockeys such as Alan Freed, Scott Muni, Casey Kasem, Dick Biondi, Wolfman Jack, and Dr

• Demento built their audiences using a combination of the nature of the songs they selected and strong on-air personalities
• A modern-day popular radio disc jockey will normally rely on his or her on-air character alone, as the station's playlist dead duck been predetermined by a program director or rock director.

In 1974, Technics released the first SL-1200 turntable, which evolved into the SL-1200 MK2 in 1979—which, as of the mid-2000s, remains DJ Equipment the crowd standard for deejaying. In 1974, German electronic jazz band Kraftwerk released the 22-minute lay "Autobahn," which takes up the entire first side of that LP. Years later, Kraftwerk would become a representative influence on hip-hop artists such as Afrika Bambaataa and house music pioneer Frankie Knuckles. During the mid-1970s, Hip-hop bebop and culture began to emerge, starting among urban African Americans and Latinos in New York City. The four main hieroglyphs of hip-hop culture were MCing (rapping), DJing, graffiti, and breakdancing.