Combine the commotion of upwards of fifteen thousand fans with the bounce of the ball, the squeaks of the sneakers, the rattle of the rim, the whistle of the refs, the blare of horns, and the emphatic public announcements and you’ve got an eruption of sound. Mix in an array of music pushed through pulse-pumping speakers and you’ve got a racket.

The maestros of this mayhem: DJ Bedz and DJ Psycho.

Cassidy Bednark, a.k.a. DJ Bedz, and David Lopez, a.k.a. DJ Psycho, drop the beats the stir the bedlam within the Pepsi Center.

They’ve got lots to mix. The players have their favorites. The fans do too. “We try to keep it balanced…we incorporate many different genres.”

Wednesday night’s game vs. the Sacramento Kings tipped-off with 80’s rock: Motley Crew’s “Kick Start My Heart.” The transition to 50 Cent was seamless.

Because Nuggets’ games are family events, DJ Bedz and DJ Psycho can’t play everything. And much of what the team listens to would not be appropriate.

DerMarr Johnson said he was listening to Jay-Z on his way to the arena while Carmelo Anthony said he’d been playing Jadakiss and The Game.

“A lot of the stuff I listen to they’d have to go to Target for…they’d have to find the joint with the sticker on it.” Kenyon Martin, who was listening to Scarface prior to tip-off, knows that game-time music must be pre-edited for explicit content.

DJ Bedz knows the score. “It’s a very family oriented atmosphere.” And so he spends the off-season, “making edits…and chopping up songs…”

All the noise within the Pepsi Center is orchestrated by Harlan Hendrickson, Senior Director of Entertainment. “He knows when it (songs/sounds) works and why it works.”

This is DJ Bedz and DJ Psycho’s third year as Nuggets’ in-house Disc Jockeys. When they’re not spinning in the Pepsi Center, both can be listened to on KS 107.5 and Mega 95.7, respectively.