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DJ Spooky: The Secret Song

Read "The Secret Song" reviewed by Mark Corroto


DJ Spooky again proves hip-hop is jazz. Like its grandfather bebop, mixologist/DJ/producer Paul Miller's (aka DJ Spooky) hip-hop is as vibrant and creative as the great revolutionaries in jazz. On The Secret Song he mixes dub, reggae, rock, classical, world, electronic and, well, jazz into a jazz thing.

Spooky's reflections on the financial and world meltdown of the last eight years pulls together a global perspective on the people's culture, be it “Azadi," the Farsi word for “freedom," sung by ...

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DJ Spooky Vs. Dave Lombardo: Drums of Death

Read "Drums of Death" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Word to the wise: play Drums of Death at full volume. Piss off the neighbors--some things are more important. You'll want to feel your chest vibrate with the bass, your bones sizzle with the drums, and your very flesh seared by the guitars. These mutant hip-hop funk metal jams are not for the faint of heart, nor the closed of mind, nor the timid of spirit. But man, they do move you right along.

DJ Spooky has never ...

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DJ Spooky vs Dave Lombardo: Drums of Death

Read "Drums of Death" reviewed by Paul Olson


There have been about thirty thousand attempts to fuse hip-hop and heavy metal music since the Beastie Boys tried it first on Licensed to Ill back in 1986. Most of these attempts fall somewhere in the continuum between “unsuccessful-but-well-meaning (Ice-T's metal band Body Count) and outright bad (the odious nü-metal of Korn and Limp Bizkit).And then there's Drums of Death, the new Thirsty Ear collaboration between hip-hop/electronic conceptualist DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid and thrash-metal drummer Dave Lombardo ...

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DJ Spooky: Celestial Mechanix

Read "Celestial Mechanix" reviewed by Mark Corroto


We arrive at the mix, the remix, and the original sound recordings from the same place. Your ears, you see (you hear), cannot differentiate between the original and what has been reconstituted. But your psyche can.

DJ Spooky knows this and he is a master of playing with your subconscious mind. He deals in fragments, found sounds, and memory. That is why when you hear Captain Kirk from Star Trek and Commander George W. Bush mixed (er, remixed) ...

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DJ Spooky: Dubtometry

Read "Dubtometry" reviewed by Farrell Lowe


This is such an exciting time in the world of modern jazz. We are in the midst of a new wave of fusion where jazz artists unabashedly embrace current pop and world music sound forms. When Miles Davis went electric in the Sixties, it caused quite a stir; I can only hope this new brand of fusion can create a similar unrest in the world of jazz. The process of discovery and assimilation of new insights into culture and music ...

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DJ Spooky: Dubtometry

Read "Dubtometry" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Formally Dubtometry represents a remix of 2002's bold jazz-tronic record Optometry. Indeed, the common denominator remains DJ Spooky, who produced this 17-piece set. But the comparisons between hip-hop and jazz, which Spooky so effectively blended on last year's record, end right there. It might be jazzy, but this is a straight-up hip-hop record, no matter how you cut it.

So take it on its own terms. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. For Dubtometry, Spooky (aka Paul D. Miller) ...

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DJ Spooky with Mad Professor: Dubtometry

Read "Dubtometry" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Did you catch that sample of Chef from Apocalypse Now in the remix of DJ Spooky’s Optometry ? Not Dennis Hopper or Marlon Brando, but the crazed boatmen who transport Martin Sheen up the river and into the heart of darkness are sampled here.

There have to be cosmic implications for quoting Apocalypse Now, or perhaps Apocalypse Now Redux.

Since Peter Gordon’s Thirsty Ear label and its producer Matthew Shipp are melding hip hop culture ...

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Radio

DJ Spooky Covers Radiohead for the Voice Project

DJ Spooky Covers Radiohead for the Voice Project

Source: JamBase

GO TO VOICEPROJECT.ORG FOR MORE INFORMATION Recently, DJ Spooky worked with the up and coming classical music star, Joshua Roman to do a commisioned cover of Radiohead's classic “Everything in its Right Place." Check out the results below. The session was recorded at DJ Spooky's home studio in Tribeca. Anna Gabriel (Peter Gabriel's daughter) recorded the session and is the force behind The Voice Project. She has done sessions like this with the likes of Billy Bragg, Angelique Kidjo, Emmanuel ...

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TV / Film

DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation, June 22 - 28

DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation, June 22 - 28

Source: All About Jazz

MoMA PRESENTS WEEKLONG RUN OF DJ SPOOKY'S REBIRTH OF A NATION

Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid) Will Introduce and Discuss His 2008 Cinematic Remix of D.W. Griffith's Landmark Original Film on June 22

DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation June 2228, 2009 The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters

NEW YORK, May 19, 2009 - The Museum of Modern Art presents DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation, a weeklong run of composer, multimedia ...

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Recording

DJ Spooky 'Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series MasterMix' June 22, 2004

DJ Spooky 'Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series MasterMix' June 22, 2004

Source: All About Jazz

To commemorate the thirtieth entry into the Blue Series catalogue, DJ Spooky has cooked up a very special new album. With the entire Blue Series spread out before him, Spooky has expertly sorted, sifted, chopped and recombined this vast amount of music into a shining new work that teases out the lines between jazz and hip-hop, and then obliterates those lines.

The result is “Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series MasterMix," a no-holds-barred re-envisioning of some of the most visionary jazz ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The Secret Song

Thirsty Ear Recordings
2010

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The Secret Song

Wondercap Records
2009

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Afrique Universelle -...

Wondercap Records
2007

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Drums of Death

Thirsty Ear Recordings
2005

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Celestial Mechanix

Thirsty Ear Recordings
2004

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Dubtometry

Thirsty Ear Recordings
2003

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