Articles tagged "dj spooky"

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DJ Spooky draws on a sojourn in Antarctica for his latest multimedia landscape

by Steve Paul [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[31.Mar.09] :. Paul D. Miller is in a New York studio, a phone in one ear and sounds of a track he’s making for his next disc in the other. The music is a digital remix of “No Quarter” by Led...

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Music Feature

Why Does the Mix CD Still Exist?

by Timothy Gabriele

[23.Sep.08] :. DJ Spooky has a new book and album that each explore remix culture. But what value is the single mix CD in an era where remix culture floods the distribution network with endless freely distributed combinations?

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Music Review

Bob Marley and the Wailers: Roots, Rock, Remixed

by Mike Schiller

[7.Nov.07] :. The knowledge that Roots, Rock, Remixed is endorsed by the folks in charge of Marley's legacy lends it a sense of legitimacy. Plus, DJ Shadow's involved. How bad could it be?

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DJ Spooky’s hip-hop splices, dices music and images

by Otis R. Taylor Jr. [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[22.Oct.07] :. COLUMBIA, S.C.—If hip-hop is the CNN of urban culture, as Public Enemy’s Chuck D has said, then Paul Miller is the genre’s revered global correspondent. “In hip-hop,...

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Peter Lunenfeld’s MediaWork Pamphlets

by Jillian Burt

[7.Sep.07] :. Peter Lunenfeld’s media work: The Southern California New Media Working Group brought a cerebral glamour to the digital community forming in Southern California in the early 1990’s. He...

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Events Review

DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation

by Anita Schillhorn

[23.Apr.07] :. It's important to reexamine America's racist past, but is it enough to simply recontextualize the same old images? For better or worse, DJ Spooky throws down the gauntlet, remixing and recasting DW Griffith’s Birth of a Nation.

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DJ Spooky: Dubtometry

by Ari Levenfeld

[2.Jun.03] :. For someone so visible, DJ Spooky is surprisingly elusive. The man is a musician, a turntablist, a journalist, a visual artist, an upright bassist, and a university lecturer to name just a few of his hats.

 

DJ Spooky

by Shan Fowler

[21.Aug.02] :. The tactic for judging movies was long ago boiled down to three or possibly four main criteria: the story, the acting, the directing and the cinematography. We don’t often worry about how...

 

DJ Spooky: Optometry

by John Daniellson

[6.Aug.02] :. Spooky calls Optometry “jazz for the genre splice generation”.