From the Quaternions Sent Mon, May 10th 1999, 15:47
From the Quaternions Sent Mon, May 10th 1999, 15:47
> so uhm, to shift the conversation away from graffiti to something more > idm-related, i'm curious about 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). > what is he, the satan of electronic music? he-who-you-shall-not-follow? Well, his ideas aren't really fresh. it seem to me that they're garbled appropriations and quotes from a variety of much smarter people, and that they're just rehashing the same themes of authorship, etc that theorists and philosophers have been dealing with for years. One listen to his new album bears me out, as he mumbles about "making music with fragments of memory" and has some idiotic authorship debate with another dj. he's well-read, and that's all one can say for his ideas--they bastardize the best. Sam