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First Round of DJ Hero Artists Revealed

Here are some of the artists you'll be mixing and mashing in Activision's upcoming DJ game.

Justice is probably the most exciting name on that list for me.
Justice is probably the most exciting name on that list for me.
One of my big concerns about the whole DJ Hero concept was about the relative mainstream appeal of being a pretend disc jockey. I'm still not sure that there are as many people out there with turntable fantasies as guitar fantasies, but it seems like DJ Hero will at least have a fairly eclectic soundtrack. 

Today Activision announced a few of the artists to be featured in the game, including Black Eyed Peas, 50 Cent, Justice, Marvin Gaye, Beck, Beastie Boys, and N.E.R.D. It was already known that DJ Shadow would be involved in creating some of the mixes for DJ Hero, and now DJ Z-Trip and DJ AM are confirmed as well. I'm still a little fuzzy as to how, exactly, DJ Hero will use all this music, and the images of the turntable controller that have been released so far have provided me with zero insight as to how the game will actually play, though I'm sure this will all be much, much clearer when we finally see the game for ourselves at E3 next week.