Frank Delgado
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Frank Delgado (born 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician. He plays turntables, keyboards and sampler for Deftones. Delgado was a guest performer on several songs on the group's second album Around the Fur, and was formally inaugurated into the group just before their third release White Pony.
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 features traditional scratching or beat juggling. Instead, he tends to use turntables as a sampler to integrate subtle sounds and textures into the music, remisicent of electronic music, ambient, or even musique concrete from the 1940s and '50s. Good examples of Delgado's inventive touch include "MX" (from Around the Fur) which features distorted laughter and what sounds a bit like the sound of glass breaking in slow-motion; the quieter moments of "Digital Bath" (from White Pony) feature burbling, watery noises.
Delgado is also in a DJ collective known as the Decibel Devils with DJ Crook.
Delgado has also commented that beginning with Deftones, he created his own samples for Deftones, rather than use sample banks or sounds from other artists.
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| Deftones |
| Chino Moreno | Stephen Carpenter | Abe Cunningham | Chi Cheng | Frank Delgado |
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| Albums: Adrenaline | Around the Fur | White Pony | Deftones | Saturday Night Wrist |
| Singles: 7 Words | Bored | My Own Summer (Shove It) | Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) | Change (In the House of Flies) | Back to School (Mini Maggit) | Digital Bath | Minerva | Hexagram | Hole in the Earth | Mein |
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