From Brien Sears Sent Wed, Oct 15th 1997, 21:13
From Brien Sears Sent Wed, Oct 15th 1997, 21:13
Yea! Dj Spooky Bashing!!! Let me gave a go at it!
Um, I'll try to be "edjumacted" about it as well...
Dj spooky as a musician? On this matter I have absolutely no problem
with the man. His "Songs of a dead dreamer" is quite nice. Also,
necropolis isnt bad either... For a studio mix... I think that most
peoples problem with him is that he is an insult to the art of all that
is known as DJ. He is not old skool hip-hop or dub (actually I think
refering to him as old skool dub is about as bad an insult you say to
the genre of dub) He is a pretentious NY "artist" who can talk MAD shit
about djing yet has the unique ability to drive all known djs away in
droves - the man has no idea what to do with tech 12s and actually, when
I lent my tables to him for an in store demonstration here in richmond
VA, he came damn near close to bending my tone arm off - I cant even
tell you how bad my needles were when he was done! - He stood in front
of a group of people and stated that his "style" is supposed to be
disjointed and cut up sounding - Thats fine, but dont call it dance
music... If the mixing is so bad and the beats so off and the
scratching resembles something that is more likely to result from
bumbing into a turntable with your hip than hand manipulation HOW CAN
YOU "DANCE" TO IT???
I guess that what I'm trying to say is this: If you are all about
RANDOM noise that his DJ style is great - Its fucking perfect at being
random and noise - if you like rhythm and melody and music - Hope that
you are at a multi-room event when he spins.
Final note: I asked a promoter at a party that both spooky and
myself spun at why he had booked spooky, his reply was "Because he has a
draw, because the press love him." When I asked why people were drawn
by spooky he said "well, ever notice how traffic slows down around a car
accident....?
Looking foreward to spooky's next STUDIO release,
Brien Sears
DJ Ebben Flow
Richmond VA