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The Timbaland Era.(sound recording album 'Scream')(Sound recording review)

The New Yorker

| October 06, 2008 | Frere-Jones, Sasha | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

At first, in the late eighties, he was DJ Timmy Tim--a kid named Timothy Mosley, from Virginia Beach, who liked creating beats in his bedroom. Then, in the nineties, he renamed himself Timbaland and began the stretch of work that has made him, against considerable competition, the most important producer of the past decade. A duo called the Neptunes, childhood friends of Mosley's from Virginia Beach, gave Timbaland a run for his money at the beginning of the aughts but have been harder to find in the past few years, when Timbaland scored his two biggest successes, Nelly Furtado's "Loose" and Justin Timberlake's "FutureSex/LoveSounds." The Michael Jordan to Timbaland's ...

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