From Moonlight Sent Wed, Jun 16th 1999, 04:21
From Moonlight Sent Wed, Jun 16th 1999, 04:21
>the problem with dj spooky is threefold. >>1. desperate misunderstanding of Terminator X. >2. terminal misunderstanding of Brian Eno. >3. multiple and unforgivable misunderstandings of Jacques Derrida. >>The story of his success is due to a perverse little equal-exchange >situation. I think his success is due to 2 great albums, "Viral Sonata" and "Songs of a Dead Dreamer," a great EP "Synthetic Fury", two great singles "Galactic Funk" and "Object Unknown", great remixes for Ben Neill and Metallica, an excellent live show (currently), an interesting DJ set (i saw him when he toured with Ben Neill, i had never seen anyone scratch dance music records before, or spin them backwards as hard as possible to buy time to grab a new record), some pretty good tracks on varoius compilations (the "Black Dada Nihilismus" with Amiri Baraka on "Offbeat", which was the first i had heard of him, had me hooked), and a decent (though imperfect) major-label debut. I wish people would be able to get beyond the crazy words that he might throw in front of this music, and just listen. It's good music, just live with the fact that a chatterbox hip intellectual made it. Yet, paging through my most recent spin magazine (Axl Rose on the cover?!?!?!), i see DJ Spooky listed as a panelist at a "Interactive Music Xpo" on the topic "Music: year 2010 perspective" (with co-panelists Mass. Inst of Technology and Microsoft). That would be one hell of a weird talk, the tech-heads talking about technology and DJ Spooky talking about sound philosophies. Interesting to note that this "Xpo" is co-sponsored by the RIAA, i'd think that the RIAA is for a lot of stuff the DJ Spooky is against (wouldn't he be all for public domain on music?). Just thought it looked weird. np: Chemical Brothers "Hey Boy Hey Girl" _________________________________ Adam Roesch / xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx University of Idaho / Moscow / ID / USA Visit my Fila Brazillia/Pork Recordings fan site: http://dogbert.augsburg.edu/~roesch/pork/ "Because success needs killing" TRICKY