Frankie Bones, thugs & harmony. The Ravest American Hero. A DJ who has the total exclusive eyewitness report on DJ culture and how it began in Europe and then the United States. Long before Das Googlemaschine brought the world into our bedrooms, Frankie Bones set out to harness the international power of electronic music. He used guerilla street tactics, not blogs and email blasts, to do so. Things were very different back then. With so many DJ’s blogging away on the internet, it becomes real easy to lose track of the history. Yet before DJ culture went global, it has a deep rooted history to New York City. Electronic Music became popular through the early Hip Hop scene as far back as 1982. The year the Roland 808 drum machine was released Arthur Baker & John Robie created “Planet Rock” which gave Kraftwerk street sensibility. Hip Hop. Hip being in the know. What was happening in the streets and hop. Hop being the movement, DJ’s, MC’s, break dancers & graffiti . The subculture of Hip Hop took the street element right below the surface. To define “Underground” in its true context, Frankie was spending many nights exploring subway tunnels and writing “Bones” on every train in the system.