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DJ Bil Todd's passion for music was nurtured in rural Virginia

''Hey, you're going to be DJ'ing the opening spot this Friday,'' she texted him one Monday in 2008. '''How do you want to be listed on the flier?' In about three days I taught myself how to beat-match
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