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Joel Bevacqua is an American rave DJ, promoter, and writer known as DJ Deadly Buda. He is also known as the graffiti artist “Buda”. He is a recognized pioneer in both graffiti and rave culture. Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he is credited by Roger Gastman as being "Pittsburgh’s first graffiti superstar" and inventor of the “monster rock style” of graffiti lettering. He is also recognized for instigating Pittsburgh's rave scene in 1991. In 2005 part of his techno dance music collection was a notable acquisition of the US Library of Congress: Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
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In 1985, Bevacqua chose the tag name “Buda” while doing a book report on Buddhism for a junior high school social studies class. He would frequently travel to New York City where he would meet and learn from graffiti artists at Henry Chalfant’s Soho studio at 64 Grand Street, like Tracy 168 and T Kid 170. Wanting to be better than anyone in New York, Buda developed a new lettering style he called “Monster Rock.” Most New York graffiti lettering styles were drawn in such a way as to give the illusion of 3-dimensionality. However the “3-D” as the graffiti writers called this illusion, usually only went in one direction, so that the letters looked like a cohesive block coming from a singular direction even when they were complex wildstyle letters. “Monster Rock” differed in that the “3-D” twisted and deformed in such a way as to make it appear that the letters were coming from different directions, as if it were a moving, organic form. The first appearance of the Monster Rock style was executed in Millvale, PA, and appeared in the book “Spraycan Art” by Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff. The style was influential to graffiti writers. Twisting “3-D” is now a common stylistic element of modern graffiti art.