From Moonlight Sent Mon, May 10th 1999, 16:34
From Moonlight Sent Mon, May 10th 1999, 16:34
>why dj spooky gets so much criticism on this list & elsewhere when his ideas >are in the very least fresh enough to deserve some attention (although his >music doesn't always get me). I'm in the other boat, i really dig his music (well, not riddim warfare as much, too scattered, too many "fragments of memory":) ), but when he talks, i just wish he'd shut up. I'd rather listen to music than some self-proclaimed nerd talk about the theory behind this great music he makes. I like his liner notes, they're more fun cos i don't have to hear his "i'm so much smarter than you and i've got this faked (?) b-boy accent with it" voice. When his books get released (if ever), i will buy them and spend needless hours trying to get my head around them. His writing is great vocab-builder. This past October, i saw him do a free instore and a full concert. I'd never seen anyone explain a DJ set before, and that took so much from it. And throughout his concert, he kept talking about these fragments of memory, and i just wanted to hear his tablaist and drummer (jojo mayer, really good, played jungle live). I read an article interviewing him yesterday in a local free monthly music mag. He even complains about DJ Olive claiming credit for inventing "illbient", when he claim's he coined it. I find that a rather dubious acheivement. _________________________________ Adam Roesch / xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx Augsburg College / Minneapolis / MN / USA Visit my Fila Brazillia/Pork Recordings fan site: http://dogbert.augsburg.edu/~roesch/pork/ "The only disease we need in our blood is love" TRICKY