DJ Spooky
Author of Rhythm Science
About the Author
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Works by DJ Spooky
Associated Works
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2000) — Contributor — 594 copies, 11 reviews
The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture (1999) — Contributor — 181 copies, 2 reviews
Better Living Through Circuitry: A Digital Odyssey Into The Electronic Dance Underground (2005) — some editions — 4 copies
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- Canonical name
- DJ Spooky
- Legal name
- Miller, Paul D.
- Other names
- DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid
- Birthdate
- 1970-09-06
- Gender
- male
- Short biography
- Paul Dennis Miller, known professionally as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is an American electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics "illbient" or "trip hop". He is a turntablist, record producer, philosopher, and author. He borrowed his stage name from the character The Subliminal Kid in the novel Nova Express by William S. Burroughs. Having studied philosophy and French literature at Bowdoin College, he has become a professor of Music Mediated Art at the European Graduate School and is the executive editor of Origin magazine.
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- D.C., USA
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Reviews
I could of lived without some of the real heavy academic essays in this book. The history of electronic music, hip hop and sampling was great, I found it very interesting. Lots of artists and information that I had not read elsewhere.
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Product Details
* Audio CD (September 18, 2001)
* Original Release Date: 2001
* Number of Discs: 1
* show more Label: Six Degrees
* ASIN: B00005O7TW
* Also Available in: LP Record
* Average Customer Review: based on 10 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #169,313 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
Yesterday: #167,315 in Music
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1. Sound - Moby Listen Listen
2. Papua New Guinea (Dub Mix) - Future Sound Of London Listen Listen
3. Emergency Broadcast Network - Emergency Broadcast Network Listen Listen
4. Monster Dub - Tino Listen Listen
5. Peace In Zaire Mix (Dub Pistols Inna NYC style) - DJ Spooky Vs. The Dub Pistols Listen Listen
6. Show Stoppa (Show Case Mix) - DJ Ziggy Listen Listen
7. Live Jam - DJ Spooky Vs. Carl Craig's Innerzone Orchestra Listen Listen
8. Michelle - DJ Logic Listen Listen
9. Leave Our Planet - Paradox Listen Listen
10. The Raw Uncut - Hive Listen Listen
11. Flight IC 408 - State Of Bengal Listen Listen
12. Anger (Talvin Singh Remix) - Ryuichi Sakamoto Listen Listen
13. Music Is... - Phoenix Orion Listen Listen
14. Sycosis - Double Zero Zero - The Deckwrecka Listen Listen
15. Bade Saba (DJ Spooky Remix) - Sussan Deyhim Listen Listen
16. Laundry (DJ Spooky Remix With Of Unknown Origins' For The Love) - Anti Pop Consortium Listen Listen
17. The Bay-Bronx Bridge - Masters Of Illusion Listen Listen
18. Suprize Packidge (Automator Remix) - Mix Master Mike Listen Listen
19. Rock The Nation - Michael Franti & Spearhead/DJ Spooky Listen Listen
20. From - Get Your Snack On - Amon Tobin Listen Listen
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Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
SYNCHRONIA "I tell a story of bodies that change." Ovid, Metamorphoses circa 1 AD "But of course, there are two kinds of people on earth. One - The people of the towns are more sensible than tortoises. Two - The wild people of the jungles are as senseless as donkeys." Amos Tutuola, The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town 1981 Ovid's Metamorphoses or Kafka's Metamorphosis? Amos Tutuola's freewheeling world of spirits or Tim Berners Lee's? Arthur Koestler's "Synchronicity" or Grandmaster Flash's Adventures on the Wheels of Steel? The links between all of these are sampling and flow, change and transformation. Mix tapes and mythologies, microphones and migration, text and textuality… the patterns are what make it all happen…. Synchronia – the word brings up all sorts of connotations: synchronicity, synchronism, synchronous, etc., etc. This was my working title and the guiding idea when I created this mix. The basic idea is that things happen in patterns, rhythms, intersections, convergences… And in this world of hyper-networked information, it's one of the more subtle ways of thinking about what makes all of the patterns of everyday life mesh. There are a couple of directions the word can take you in depending on what you're looking for. Rhythms and algorithms, sounds and samples, bits and beats – what I was looking to create with this mix is a statement about how much the world has moved beyond what W.E.B. Dubois called 'the color line' in America, Amiri Baraka a.k.a. Leroi Jones' 'changing same' or what someone like Frantz Fanon would have called simply 'the pathology of place' that informed so much of 20th century culture. What's that sound coming from the new crossroads of net culture? Is it human or human derived? The values, like the beats and rhythms that make up the fabric of this mix, like I always enjoy saying – are all about flow. Rhythm, depending on which angle you look at it from, is derived from the Greek 'rhythmos,' a term that meant 'measured motion' and if you think about the early references to the 'music of the spheres' dating back to Pythagoras, I guess the rhythms have become flattened – spheres become disks, become hard-drives, become networks of process forged in the underground and overground cultures of the information age. The artists I've chosen for this mix are all hybrid folks – nobody sticks to one style, and everybody here has a lot of different ways to engage the creative process. Nobody in Synchronia stays in the stagnant waters of received opinion, and nobody on this mix would want to. Anyway, that's what went through my mind as I made the mix. Music from the 4th world, music from the new beats, music for the age of information. Glitches, fragments of text, codes, ciphers (there's an on-line component to this too… Check the website) – different stories and times. Stories and storage, stories of storage – how do we recall the way we create? Think of Synchronia as a soundtrack to a world where any sound can be you. It's the residue, the moments and memories of how the sounds and songs came to be 'here' in this mix that I really want people to check out. A lot of the first really 'organized' cities were necropoli. Like the 9th century Arabic philosopher, Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad ibn Musa of Khuwarizm, whose name derived into the terms 'algorithm' and 'algebra,' I like to think of numbers as tools for the living to help organize their lives. That's what this mix is about – a celebration of life and renewal. The new crossroads make new sounds. Hip-hop, techno, ambient, illbient, drum 'n bass, dancehall reggae – these are just terms used to hold a place in our minds where we dance together. Language is the glue, and music is the free floating variable. Who would want anything else? Think of Synchronia as a soundtrack to a way of life in a world where humans have become a kind of dust drifting through the codes we made in an earlier age. It's the 21st century. It's time to synchronize.
–DJ SPOOKY That Subliminal Kid
Product Description
Rather than creating yet another mix CD based on current dancefloor hits and trends, Six Degrees sheds light on a different aspect of DJ culture with Under the Influence. In this series, the most influential contemporary mixmasters reveal their personal favorites and sources of inspiration. Under the Influence combines the top picks from famous record crates along with tracks and musical collaborations from the featured mixers themselves. The first installment of Under the Influence is a mixed set by turntable innovator DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid. Includes tracks by Moby, Future Sound of London, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Talvin Singh and Sonic Youth in addition to DJ Spooky's collaborations with Michael Franti & Spearhead, The Dub Pistols and Carl Craig.
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Spooky, September 19, 2001
Reviewer: E. Frampton "Parandot" (Wexford, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This mix album is definitely worth the effort and money to grab it. It is eclectic, as is most from Spooky. He still reigns as my fave DJ, seeing him spin those tables is a surreal site. As it says on the package, this album doesn't bank on some current dance-floor trend. It is Spooky showcasing his many influences and favorite tracks. Those range from Sonic Youth's "Tremens" to Moby's "Sound". He mixes his own collaborations into the cd as well to create a mix cd like none I have heard. Overall, it is a compelling listen, and a very varied album that I can listen to no matter what my mood. show less
* Modern Mantra ~ DJ Spooky "That Subliminal Kid"
* Drums of Death ~ DJ Spooky vs. Dave Lombardo
* Riddim Clash ~ DJ Spooky vs. Twilight Circus
* Songs of a Dead Dreamer ~ DJ Spooky
* Subliminal Minded EP ~ DJ Spooky
* Dubtometry ~ DJ Spooky
* Optometry ~ DJ Spooky
* Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series Mastermix ~ DJ Spooky
Explore similar items: in Music
Product Details
* Audio CD (September 18, 2001)
* Original Release Date: 2001
* Number of Discs: 1
* show more Label: Six Degrees
* ASIN: B00005O7TW
* Also Available in: LP Record
* Average Customer Review: based on 10 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #169,313 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
Yesterday: #167,315 in Music
This item is part of The Under the Influence Series.
Listen to Samples
To hear a song sample, click on "Listen" by that sample. Visit our audio help page for more information.
Windows Media RealOne Player
1. Sound - Moby Listen Listen
2. Papua New Guinea (Dub Mix) - Future Sound Of London Listen Listen
3. Emergency Broadcast Network - Emergency Broadcast Network Listen Listen
4. Monster Dub - Tino Listen Listen
5. Peace In Zaire Mix (Dub Pistols Inna NYC style) - DJ Spooky Vs. The Dub Pistols Listen Listen
6. Show Stoppa (Show Case Mix) - DJ Ziggy Listen Listen
7. Live Jam - DJ Spooky Vs. Carl Craig's Innerzone Orchestra Listen Listen
8. Michelle - DJ Logic Listen Listen
9. Leave Our Planet - Paradox Listen Listen
10. The Raw Uncut - Hive Listen Listen
11. Flight IC 408 - State Of Bengal Listen Listen
12. Anger (Talvin Singh Remix) - Ryuichi Sakamoto Listen Listen
13. Music Is... - Phoenix Orion Listen Listen
14. Sycosis - Double Zero Zero - The Deckwrecka Listen Listen
15. Bade Saba (DJ Spooky Remix) - Sussan Deyhim Listen Listen
16. Laundry (DJ Spooky Remix With Of Unknown Origins' For The Love) - Anti Pop Consortium Listen Listen
17. The Bay-Bronx Bridge - Masters Of Illusion Listen Listen
18. Suprize Packidge (Automator Remix) - Mix Master Mike Listen Listen
19. Rock The Nation - Michael Franti & Spearhead/DJ Spooky Listen Listen
20. From - Get Your Snack On - Amon Tobin Listen Listen
See all 26 tracks on this disc
Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
SYNCHRONIA "I tell a story of bodies that change." Ovid, Metamorphoses circa 1 AD "But of course, there are two kinds of people on earth. One - The people of the towns are more sensible than tortoises. Two - The wild people of the jungles are as senseless as donkeys." Amos Tutuola, The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town 1981 Ovid's Metamorphoses or Kafka's Metamorphosis? Amos Tutuola's freewheeling world of spirits or Tim Berners Lee's? Arthur Koestler's "Synchronicity" or Grandmaster Flash's Adventures on the Wheels of Steel? The links between all of these are sampling and flow, change and transformation. Mix tapes and mythologies, microphones and migration, text and textuality… the patterns are what make it all happen…. Synchronia – the word brings up all sorts of connotations: synchronicity, synchronism, synchronous, etc., etc. This was my working title and the guiding idea when I created this mix. The basic idea is that things happen in patterns, rhythms, intersections, convergences… And in this world of hyper-networked information, it's one of the more subtle ways of thinking about what makes all of the patterns of everyday life mesh. There are a couple of directions the word can take you in depending on what you're looking for. Rhythms and algorithms, sounds and samples, bits and beats – what I was looking to create with this mix is a statement about how much the world has moved beyond what W.E.B. Dubois called 'the color line' in America, Amiri Baraka a.k.a. Leroi Jones' 'changing same' or what someone like Frantz Fanon would have called simply 'the pathology of place' that informed so much of 20th century culture. What's that sound coming from the new crossroads of net culture? Is it human or human derived? The values, like the beats and rhythms that make up the fabric of this mix, like I always enjoy saying – are all about flow. Rhythm, depending on which angle you look at it from, is derived from the Greek 'rhythmos,' a term that meant 'measured motion' and if you think about the early references to the 'music of the spheres' dating back to Pythagoras, I guess the rhythms have become flattened – spheres become disks, become hard-drives, become networks of process forged in the underground and overground cultures of the information age. The artists I've chosen for this mix are all hybrid folks – nobody sticks to one style, and everybody here has a lot of different ways to engage the creative process. Nobody in Synchronia stays in the stagnant waters of received opinion, and nobody on this mix would want to. Anyway, that's what went through my mind as I made the mix. Music from the 4th world, music from the new beats, music for the age of information. Glitches, fragments of text, codes, ciphers (there's an on-line component to this too… Check the website) – different stories and times. Stories and storage, stories of storage – how do we recall the way we create? Think of Synchronia as a soundtrack to a world where any sound can be you. It's the residue, the moments and memories of how the sounds and songs came to be 'here' in this mix that I really want people to check out. A lot of the first really 'organized' cities were necropoli. Like the 9th century Arabic philosopher, Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad ibn Musa of Khuwarizm, whose name derived into the terms 'algorithm' and 'algebra,' I like to think of numbers as tools for the living to help organize their lives. That's what this mix is about – a celebration of life and renewal. The new crossroads make new sounds. Hip-hop, techno, ambient, illbient, drum 'n bass, dancehall reggae – these are just terms used to hold a place in our minds where we dance together. Language is the glue, and music is the free floating variable. Who would want anything else? Think of Synchronia as a soundtrack to a way of life in a world where humans have become a kind of dust drifting through the codes we made in an earlier age. It's the 21st century. It's time to synchronize.
–DJ SPOOKY That Subliminal Kid
Product Description
Rather than creating yet another mix CD based on current dancefloor hits and trends, Six Degrees sheds light on a different aspect of DJ culture with Under the Influence. In this series, the most influential contemporary mixmasters reveal their personal favorites and sources of inspiration. Under the Influence combines the top picks from famous record crates along with tracks and musical collaborations from the featured mixers themselves. The first installment of Under the Influence is a mixed set by turntable innovator DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid. Includes tracks by Moby, Future Sound of London, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Talvin Singh and Sonic Youth in addition to DJ Spooky's collaborations with Michael Franti & Spearhead, The Dub Pistols and Carl Craig.
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Spooky, September 19, 2001
Reviewer: E. Frampton "Parandot" (Wexford, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This mix album is definitely worth the effort and money to grab it. It is eclectic, as is most from Spooky. He still reigns as my fave DJ, seeing him spin those tables is a surreal site. As it says on the package, this album doesn't bank on some current dance-floor trend. It is Spooky showcasing his many influences and favorite tracks. Those range from Sonic Youth's "Tremens" to Moby's "Sound". He mixes his own collaborations into the cd as well to create a mix cd like none I have heard. Overall, it is a compelling listen, and a very varied album that I can listen to no matter what my mood. show less
An anthology of articles on digital music and culture as well as a mix CD of 45 samples thereof. Put together by DJ Spooky, whose previous MIT publication, Rhythm Science, likewise paired book and music. The essays vary from overviews of specific areas (legal system in the age of sampling, network-based art ensembles) to reflections by musicians (Scanner on ghost images, Brian Eno on bells) to interviews (with Moby, Steve Reich and his wife/collaborator, Columbia Records's art director). The show more better writing makes the weaknesses in the lesser writing stand out, and the book could have used another strong edit pass (if we can't trust MIT to copyedit and to get the index right, whom can we?). The CD is excellent, with lots of spoken bits, from Gertrude Stein to William S. Burroughs, which makes an intelligent transition from the book; the CD isn't background music -- it is a text unto itself.
PS: I reviewed the book for Nature magazine. The web page says the full review requires payment to be read but in fact the full review appears on this page. The only thing behind the fee-wall is my author bio:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7191/full/453033a.html
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PS: I reviewed the book for Nature magazine. The web page says the full review requires payment to be read but in fact the full review appears on this page. The only thing behind the fee-wall is my author bio:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7191/full/453033a.html
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Written in Spooky’s signature style, which can be easily dismissed as intellectual fluffery except for the fact that it’s very lyrical, appropriate for a book of this topic.
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- Rating
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