History
One of the pioneers of DJ mixing equipment design was Rudy Bozak.
Beatmatching and beatmixing with a DJ mixer were first used to ensure dancers didn't leave the dancefloor between songs.
More recently DJ mixers have been used to for harmonic mixing.
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