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

Sound Unbound:

01 Radio Mentale / Matthew Herbert: "Cool Noises"
02 Martyn Bates / Allen Ginsberg: "Once Loved" / "A Footnote to Howl " (DJ Spooky Remix)
03 Jean Cocteau: "Le Buste" (DJ Spooky Remix)
04 Sun Ra: "Imagination"
05 Mikhail / Gertrude Stein: "Untitled in CoF Minor" / "A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson" (DJ Spooky Remix)
06 DJ Spooky vs. Rob Swift: "Scratch Battle"
07 Marcel Duchamp / The Master Musicians of Joujouka: "The Creative Act" / "Boujeloud/Interview With George Heard Hamilton"
08 Raymond Scott: "The Paper Work Explosion"
09 Alter Echo / Pamela Z: "Perpetual Next" / "Pop Titles 'You'"
10 Liam Gillick / Aphex Twin: "Sarah - Los Angeles Soundtrack" / "I Could Never Make That Music Again"
11 James Joyce / Erik Satie: "Eolian Episode" / "Gnossiene" (DJ Spooky Dub Version)
12 Steve Reich: "Reed Phase"
13 Shukar Cika / Radio Mentale / Raoul Hausmann: "Laka" / "Cool Noisespt2" / "Bbb"
14 Augustos de Campos and Caetano Veloso / Bill Laswell / To Rococo Rot: "Dias Dias Dias" / "Above the Earth" / "Contacte"
15 John Cage: "Rozart Mix"
16 Antonin Artaud: "Pour Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu (To Have Done With God's Judgment)" (DJ Spooky Remix)
17 DJ Spooky: "One Laptop: Theme"
18 Sussan Deyhim: "The Spilled Cup" (DJ Spooky Remix)
19 Raymond Scott: "General Motor Futurama (Interstitial)"
20 Marcel Duchamp / George Lewis & Aki Takase: "Erratum Musical (Score for Three Voices)" / "Voyage for Three"
21 Bill Laswell / René Magritte: "Ghost Dub" / "Le Surréalisme et Les Questions"
22 Anthony Braxton & Evan Parker / Pauline Oliveros: "The First Set - Area 4 (solo)" / "A Little Noise in the System (Moog System)"
23 Bora Yoon: "//" (DJ Spooky Remix)
24 Pierre Schaeffer: "Cinq Études de Bruits: Étude Violette"
25 Daniel Bernard Roumain & Ryuichi Sakamoto: "The Need to Be"
26 Philip Glass: "Music in Fifths"
27 Edgard Varèse: "Poème Électronique"
28 Iannis Xenakis: "Concret PH"
29 Ryoji Ikeda: "One Minute"
30 Sonic Youth: "Audience" (DJ Spooky Remix)"
31 Alter Echo/Ge-te Do-pe: "Aftermath of Creations Dub" / "Dong Lim"
32 Terry Riley: "Dorian Reeds"
33 Luigi Russolo / DJ Spooky: "Corale" / "FTP > Bundle/Conduit 23"
34 Fanfare Savale / Vladimir Mayakovsky: "Rumba Lu Georgel" / "I Know the Power of Words"
35 Trilok Gurtu / Bill Laswell: "Pilgrim's Song" / "Kala"
36 Nam June Paik: "Hommage à John Cage"
37 Morton Subotnick: "Mandolin"
38 The Master Musicians of Joujouka / Boujeloud / Hans Arp: "Mali Mal Hal M'Halmaz / "Dada" / "Sprüche"
39 Sub Swara / Kurt Schwitters: "Koli Stance" / "Anna Blume"
40 Walter Ruttman / Ache Lhama: "Week End"
41 Raymond Scott: "Bendrix: Tomorrow People #1"
42 Martyn Bates: "I Can't Look for You" / "The Palaces of Gesar's Family" (DJ Spooky Remix)
43 Otto Luening and Wladimir Ussachevsky: "Incantation for Tape"
44 Carsten Nicolai: "Time ... dot3"
45 William S. Burroughs and Iggy Pop with Techno Animal: "The Western Land"

Not to mention the all the other tracks that are his shitty ass mash-ups and or feature his trainwreck transitions.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/images/products/books/0262633639-f30.jpg
I'm psyched about the book itself, but jesus, what a way to inflate one's own importance. It's like if Jeff Chang decided to include a CD of his own hip-hop remixes with Can't Stop Won't Stop.

contrary to popular belief, this thread is not about dj spooky

foreword by CORY DOCTOROW

what a gross cover imo

http://drogg.vocodex.org/moorisey/035.gif

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i think the font on the cover is spooky's own special font which he invented. the guy is a joke.

dude i thot u liked "viva hate"

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.