I FUCKING HATE DJ SPOOKY (FORMERLY I REALLY, REALLY FUCKING HATE DJ SPOOKY).

That book looks like some 90s bullshit

soooo much.

if i never hear a blowhard spouting off about sampling again it'll be too soon.

does anyone actually listen to dj spooky for pleasure?

There was this John Berger essay once in Harper's where he went into excruciating overthought about the drawing process and then next to it were a bunch of his shitty-ass drawings. Everything DJ Spooky is involved in is like that.

I am mostly annoyed because I BOUGHT the above book thinking it came with an actual anthology of electronic music/sound collage/sample-based music, etc. and not a "mix."

i would definitely be annoyed if i bought a book that looked like that and was by that author and was on that topic.

It's only edited by him.

other than his involvement it pertains to my interests lemme know if it sucks k?

According to other places on the web, there was a William Gibson interview that Spooky spiked from the book and Kodwo Eshun has given it some lukewarm review partially on that basis.

The weird thing is that you can buy the CD from this and his other book separately, but it's about the same price as buying the book with the included CD. Still have not been able to explain that one.

Spooky is classic if you realize how incredibly non-intellectual and dorky the guy really comes off as. I have this Urb magazine issue (?!?) from the late 90s-ish where they were on about FUTURISM so it has the Bjork robots on the cover and Spooky has some article where every paragraph is interspersed with HYPERTEXT:///// and ftp\\\\\\ and other TECHNICAL TERMS that make the formatting TOTALLY AWESOME

haha!

so people are saying it's no good because it doesn't have a william gibson interview?

Predictably, the foreword by the BoingBoing guy is stupid and the introduction by Reich is good.

The book is alright. From what I've read so far, about 1/3 is completely skippable, 1/3 good, 1/3 meh. Some of it only loosely fits the theme. The Simon Reynolds essay about the drug-experimenting, techno-listening "renegade academics" is unintentionally hilarious. The Lethem essay is great but I read it in Harpers. There's a good, if a bit basic, essay outlining some current issues in music copyright law. There's also a fair amount of sophomoric *experimental-thought* writing.

I saw him open for Kool Keith once and he had a roadie whose job was to hand him and take back from him his electric upright bass at key moments in the set. Also he played a little kalimba that made no actual discernable noises whatsoever.

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― lil yawne (harbl), Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:50 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OTM

People who have done things that are part of the Paul Miller shtick better than him:

Kodwo Eshun
dj/rupture
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homeless people

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/01/dj_spooky_occup.php#Comments

"Occupy Wall Street is a movement of fragments," Miller mused before his set, placing a donated book, his own Rhythm Science, on the library's table. "This whole library project is kind of sampling text."
Miller doesn't claim to have followed the Occupy movement very closely. "I travel too much. I'm mostly in Europe and Asia," he said. The idea for the evening came out of emails with Stephen Boyer, one of the movement's librarians, who was recently accepted to the European Graduate School where Miller is on the faculty.

barrrrrrrrrrrfffff

"I want to give a shout out to the People's Library!" Miller said as he took the DJ's podium a few minutes later. "Who brought books to donate tonight?" The audience barely looked up from their cocktails, and Miller launched into his set.

This whole library project is kind of sampling text.

People are still talking about "sampling" as a strategy of 'subversive textuality'?

just dj spooky

any time i see his name anymore (which is very rarely) i hear it in my head like "dj spooooooooky" in a cartoony vincent price voice

which is an arrangement i am happy with

is this the guy who did that song where he like "literally sampled the history of all recorded music" or something that time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yXOKJ_jX8I

Dying.