Fair Mirjam Josefine Frida Pettersen , a young Nordic blond beauty is a champion disco competitor and a Christian who sings devotional pop music.

Given the sordid past of a father who molested children, she has doubts about the reality of a god and calls for forgiveness by various adult testimonials.

She refers to her agnosticism, which you'd have to infer if not for a little speech and some revealing facial signals, with too little dialogue but heaps of closeups.

Well, I can identify with the agnosticism and have many experiences with teen reticence. Religion, disco, or not, teens are inscrutable. Contrasting scenes of acrobatic sometimes suggestive performances are the heavy-duty scenes of Mirjam being chastised and preached to about being more committed to Jesus.

As she listens to her step-father lecture her mother and sister about keeping away from his fraudulent televangelist brother, she also witnesses her mother accusing dad of indiscretions.

To ramp up her devotion to Chris and respond to the leaders' battering, she attends an island religious summer camp, where we watch in disbelief as the adults expunge demons from kids by having them forcefully submerged and breathe into bags resulting in their passing out.

No, this is not a comedy, but it is a cautionary tale about extremism be it in religion or dancing. Not much is resolved for saints and sinners because the script calls for little commentary on the struggle for good and evil.

What's there is pretty costumes, colorful backgrounds, and inane talk about being a friend of Christ while sins are the extracurricular activity of choice for responsible adults.

Can we blame the young for being skeptical? Learn about Norway, teens, battering adults, disco, and some colorful cinematography.

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External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. In hip hop music , DJs may create beats, using percussion breaks , basslines and other musical content sampled from pre-existing records.

In hip hop, rappers and MCs use these beats to rap over. Some DJs adopt the title "DJ" as part of their names e. Professional DJs often specialize in a specific genre of music, such as techno , house or hip hop music.

DJs typically have an extensive knowledge about the music they specialize in. Many DJs are avid music collectors of vintage, rare or obscure tracks and records.

Club DJs, commonly referred as DJs in general, play music at musical events, such as parties at music venues or bars , music festivals , corporate and private events.

Typically, club DJs mix music recordings from two or more sources using different mixing techniques in order to produce non-stopping flow of music.

One key technique used for seamlessly transitioning from one song to another is beatmatching. A DJ who mostly plays and mixes one specific music genre is often given the title of that genre; for example, a DJ who plays hip hop music is called a hip hop DJ, a DJ who plays house music is a house DJ, a DJ who plays techno is called a techno DJ, and so on.

The quality of a DJ performance often called a DJ mix or DJ set consists of two main features: technical skills, or how well can DJ operate the equipment and produce smooth transitions between two or more recordings and a playlist; and the ability of a DJ to select most suitable recordings, also known as "reading the crowd".

With Bronx clubs struggling with street gangs, uptown DJs catering to an older disco crowd with different aspirations, and commercial radio also catering to a demographic distinct from teenagers in the Bronx, Herc's parties had a ready-made audience.

DJ Kool Herc developed the style that was the blueprint for hip hop music. Herc used the record to focus on a short, heavily percussive part in it: the " break ".

Since this part of the record was the one the dancers liked best, Herc isolated the break and prolonged it by changing between two record players.

As one record reached the end of the break, he cued a second record back to the beginning of the break, which allowed him to extend a relatively short section of music into "five-minute loop of fury".

This technique is specifically called "The Merry-Go-Round" because according to Herc, it takes one "back and forth with no slack. In Jamaican music , deejay DJ refers to a reggae or dancehall musician who sings and raps "toasts" to an instrumental or riddim.

The person who select riddims to play is instead called a selector. Turntablists, also called battle DJs, use turntables and DJ mixer to manipulate recorded sounds in order to produce new music.

In essence, they use DJ equipment as a musical instrument. The most known turntablist technique is scratching.

A resident DJ performs at a venue on a regular basis or permanently. Also, DJs who make a steady income from a venue, are also considered resident DJs.

Examples for resident DJs are: [19] [20]. DJs use equipment that enables them to play multiple sources of recorded music and mix them to create seamless transitions and unique arrangements of songs.

An important tool for DJs is the specialized DJ mixer , a small audio mixer with a crossfader and cue functions.

The crossfader enables the DJ to blend or transition from one song to another. The cue knobs or switches allow the DJ to "listen" to a source of recorded music in headphones before playing it for the live club or broadcast audience.

Previewing the music in headphones helps the DJ pick the next track they want to play, cue up the track to the desired starting location, and align the two tracks' beats in traditional situations where auto sync technology is not being used.

This process ensures that the selected song will mix well with the currently playing music. DJs may align the beats of the music sources so their rhythms do not clash when they are played together to help create a smooth transition from one song to another.

Other equipment may include a microphone , effects units such as reverb , and electronic musical instruments such as drum machines and synthesizers.

As music technology has progressed, DJs have adopted different types of equipment to play and mix music, all of which are still commonly used. Traditionally, DJs used two turntables plugged into a DJ mixer to mix music on vinyl records.

CDJs can take the place of turntables or be used together with turntables. With the spread of portable laptop , tablet , and smartphone computers, DJs began using software together with specialized sound cards and DJ controller hardware.

DJ software can be used in conjunction with a hardware DJ mixer or be used instead of a hardware mixer.

Turntables allow DJs to play vinyl records. By adjusting the playback speed of the turntable, either by adjusting the speed knob, or by manipulating the platter e.

This technique is known as beatmatching. DJs typically replace the rubber mat on turntables that keeps the record moving in sync with the turntable with a slipmat that facilitates manipulating the playback of the record by hand.

With the slipmat, the DJ can stop or slow down the record while the turntable is still spinning. Belt-drive turntables are less expensive, but they are not suitable for turntablism and DJing, because the belt-drive motor does not like being slowed down, as it can stretch out the belt or in most cases, snap the belt, thus damaging the whole turntable.

Some DJs, most commonly those who play hip hop music, go beyond merely mixing records and use turntables as musical instruments for scratching , beat juggling , and other turntablism techniques.

CDJs are high quality digital media players made for DJing. They often have large jog wheels and pitch controls to allow DJs to manipulate the playback of digital files for beatmatching similar to how DJs manipulate vinyl records on turntables.

CDJs often have features such as loops and waveform displays similar to DJ software. Originally designed to play music from compact discs , they now can play digital music files stored on USB flash drives and SD cards.

DJ mixers are small audio mixing consoles specialized for DJing. Most DJ mixers have far fewer channels than a mixer used by a record producer or audio engineer ; whereas standard live sound mixers in small venues have 12 to 24 channels, and standard recording studio mixers have even more as many as 72 on large boards , basic DJ mixers may have only two channels.

While DJ mixers have many of the same features found on larger mixers faders, equalization knobs, gain knobs, effects units , etc.

The crossfader is a type of fader that is mounted horizontally. DJs used the crossfader to mix two or more sound sources. The far left side of the crossfader provides only the channel A sound source.

The far right side provides only the channel B sound source e. Positions in between the two extremes provide different mixes of the two channels.

DJs generally use higher quality headphones than those designed for music consumers. DJ headphones have other properties useful for DJs, such as designs that acoustically isolate the sounds of the headphones from the outside environment hard shell headphones , flexible headbands and pivot joints to allow DJs to listen to one side of the headphones, while turning the other headphone away so they can monitor the mix in the club , and replaceable cables.

Replaceable cables enables DJs to buy new cables if a cable becomes frayed, worn, or damaged, or if a cable is accidentally cut. Closed-back headphones are highly recommended for DJs to block outside noise as the environment of DJ usually tend to be very noisy.

Standard headphones have 3. Most of specialized DJ Headphones have an adapter to switch between 3.

Detachable coiled cables are perfect for DJ Headphones. DJs have changed their equipment as new technologies are introduced. The earliest DJs in pop music, in s discos, used record turntables , vinyl records and audio consoles.

In the s, DJs would have to lug heavy direct drive turntables and crates of records to clubs and shows. In the s, many DJs transitioned to compact cassettes.

As technological advances made it practical to store large collections of digital music files on a laptop computer, DJ software was developed so DJs could use a laptop as a source of music instead of transporting CDs or vinyl records to gigs.

Unlike most music player software designed for regular consumers , DJ software can play at least two audio files simultaneously, display the waveforms of the files on screen and enable the DJ to listen to either source.

The waveforms allow the DJ see what is coming next in the music and how the playback of different files is aligned. The software analyzes music files to identify their tempo and where the beats are.

The analyzed information can be used by the DJ to help manually beatmatch like with vinyl records or the software can automatically synchronize the beats.

Digital signal processing algorithms in software allow DJs to adjust the tempo of recordings independently of their pitch and musical key , a feature known as "keylock".

Some software analyzes the loudness of the music for automatic normalization with ReplayGain and detects the musical key. Additionally, DJ software can store cue points, set loops, and apply effects.

As tablet computers and smartphones became widespread, DJ software was written to run on these devices in addition to laptops.

DJ software requires specialized hardware in addition to a computer to fully take advantage of its features. The consumer grade, regular sound card integrated into most computer motherboards can only output two channels one stereo pair.

However, DJs need to be able to output at least four channels two stereo pairs, thus Left and Right for input 1 and Left and Right for input 2 , either unmixed signals to send to a DJ mixer or a main output plus a headphone output.

Additionally, DJ sound cards output higher quality signals than the sound cards built into consumer-grade computer motherboards.

These vinyl records do not have music recordings pressed on to them. Instead, they are pressed with a special signal, referred to as "timecode", to control DJ software.

The DJ software interprets changes in the playback speed, direction, and position of the timecode signal and manipulates the digital files it is playing in the same way that the turntable manipulates the timecode record.

This requires a specialized DJ sound card with at least 4 channels 2 stereo pairs of inputs and outputs. With this setup, the DJ software typically outputs unmixed signals from the music files to an external hardware DJ mixer.

Some DJ mixers have integrated USB sound cards that allow DJ software to connect directly to the mixer without requiring a separate sound card.

A DJ software can be used to mix audio files on the computer instead of a separate hardware mixer. Many DJ controllers have an integrated sound card with 4 output channels 2 stereo pairs that allows the DJ to use headphones to preview music before playing it on the main output.

Several techniques are used by DJs as a means to better mix and blend recorded music. These techniques primarily include the cueing , equalization and audio mixing of two or more sound sources.

The complexity and frequency of special techniques depends largely on the setting in which a DJ is working. Radio DJs are less likely to focus on advanced music-mixing procedures than club DJs, who rely on a smooth transition between songs using a range of techniques.

However, some radio DJs are experienced club DJs, so they use the same sophisticated mixing techniques.

Club DJ turntable techniques include beatmatching , phrasing and slip-cueing to preserve energy on a dance floor. Turntablism embodies the art of cutting, beat juggling , scratching , needle drops , phase shifting , back spinning and more to perform the transitions and overdubs of samples in a more creative manner although turntablism is often considered a use of the turntable as a musical instrument rather than a tool for blending recorded music.

Professional DJs may use harmonic mixing to choose songs that are in compatible musical keys. Recent advances in technology in both DJ hardware and software can provide assisted or automatic completion of some traditional DJ techniques and skills.

Examples include phrasing and beatmatching , which can be partially or completely automated by utilizing DJ software that performs automatic synchronization of sound recordings, a feature commonly labelled "sync".

Most DJ mixers now include a beat-counter which analyzes the tempo of an incoming sound source and displays its tempo in beats per minute BPM , which may assist with beatmatching analog sound sources.

In the past, being a DJ has largely been a self-taught craft but with the complexities of new technologies and the convergence with music production methods, there are a growing number of schools and organizations that offer instruction on the techniques.

In DJ culture, miming refers to the practice of DJ's pantomiming the actions of live-mixing a set on stage while a pre-recorded mix plays over the sound system.

The photograph sparked accusations that Justice's live sets were faked. Disclosure's Guy Lawrence said they did not deliberately intend to mislead their audience, and cited miming by other DJs such as David Guetta.

The term "disc jockey" was ostensibly coined by radio gossip commentator Walter Winchell in , and the phrase first appeared in print in a Variety magazine, used to describe radio personalities who introduced phonograph records on the air.

British radio disc jockey Jimmy Savile hosted his first live dance party in using a single turntable and a makeshift sound system.

Four years later, Savile began using two turntables welded together to form a single DJ console. In the late s to early s Jamaican sound system culture, producer and sound system operator DJ , Jamaican King Tubby and producer Lee "Scratch" Perry were pioneers of the genre known as dub music.

DJ turntablism has origins in the invention of direct-drive turntables. Early belt-drive turntables were unsuitable for turntablism and mixing, since they had a slow start-up time, and they were prone to wear-and-tear and breakage, as the belt would break from backspinning or scratching.

In , Technics started making their SL turntable , which became the most popular turntable for DJs due to its high torque direct drive design.

Hip hop DJs began using the Technics SLs as musical instruments to manipulate records with turntablism techniques such as scratching and beat juggling rather than merely mixing records.

These techniques were developed in the s by DJ Kool Herc , Grand Wizard Theodore , and Afrika Bambaataa , as they experimented with Technics direct-drive decks, finding that the motor would continue to spin at the correct RPM even if the DJ wiggled the record back and forth on the platter.

Yellow Magic Orchestra 's use of the instrument in influenced hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa, after which the TR would be widely adopted by hip hop DJs, with sounds remaining central to hip hop music ever since.

In , the Compact Disc CD format was released, popularizing digital audio. Manufacturers joined with computer DJing pioneers to offer professional endorsements, the first being Professor Jam a.

William P. Rader , who went on to develop the industry's first dedicated computer DJ convention and learning program, the "CPS Computerized Performance System DJ Summit", to help spread the word about the advantages of this emerging technology.