Frank Delgado ( born Frank Delgado ; born November 29, 1970 , Los Angeles ) is an American musician , better known as the keyboard player of the alternative metal band Deftones . He is also responsible for the samples and turn-arounds in the group.
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| Birth name | Frank Delgado |
| Date of Birth | November 29, 1970 (aged 48) |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles , California , USA |
| A country |  USA |
| Professions | Musician |
| Years of activity | 1988 - today |
| Instruments | Turnteijm , keyboards |
| Genres | Alternative metal , alternative rock , experimental rock , post-metal , shugeyz , dream pop , nu metal (previously creative) |
| Collectives | Deftones , Decibel Devils, Socialistics |
| Labels | Warner bros , Maverick , reprise |
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Content
- 1 Musical career
- 1.1 Deftones
- 1.2 Parallel activities
- 2 notes
- 3 References
Musical career
Deftones
Prior to meeting Deftones , Frank played in the Los Angeles- based Socialistics group. They often performed in front of the Deftones at concerts as an opening group, then an alternative metal band from Sacramento began asking him to provide additional sounds and samples for his music. Frank participated as a guest musician in several songs on the first and second albums, and only in 1998 , not long before the recording of the third studio album White Pony , he was presented as an official member of Deftones [1] .
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was not uncommon to have a DJ for hard rock / heavy metal bands [2] . However, Frank stood apart from the group thanks to his creativity; his game was rarely distinguished by traditional scratching and bit juggling . Instead, he sought to use turntables as a sampler to integrate subtle sounds and textures into music, echoing electronic music , ambient, or even specific music from the 1940s and 1950s. Delgado’s good examples of inventive manipulation are the composition “MX” (from the Around the Fur album), in which there is a distorted human laugh and a strange, shifted frame-by-frame sound vaguely reminiscent of breaking glass in slow motion [3] ; calmer moments can be heard in the song “ Digital Bath ” (from the White Pony album) where you can hear the sounds of the murmur of water [4] .
On the fourth Deftones album, Frank, as part of his repertoire, began to pay more attention to synthesizers and keyboards . Frank also noted that he never uses pre-recorded samples or taken from other artists, preferring to create his own.
Parallel Activities
In addition to Deftones, Frank is a member of the DJ team Decibel Devils together with musician DJ Crook, a member of the side project Chino Moreno Team Sleep .
Notes
- ↑ Prato, Greg [ Delgado, Frank (English) on AllMusic Biography: Deftones] . Date of treatment May 1, 2010.
- ↑ McIver, Joel (2002). Nu-metal: The Next Generation of Rock & Punk. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-9209-6 .
- ↑ Around the Fur liner notes . - Maverick Records , 1997.
- ↑ Greer, Nick Deftones Saturday Night Wrist . Sputnikmusic (December 16, 2006). - "" Digital Bath, "" Knife Party, "and" Change "are all defined by the ghostly samples in the background that perfectly matched Chino's vocals and the wonderful harmonic phrasing on those songs." Date of treatment November 21, 2012.