SPOOKY IS COMING

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:20 pm

Unti ltoday I had three people left on my want to see but never have list.
Icey- Dialted Peoples and DJ muther fuking Spooky.

Dj Spooky has been announced for February and it did not even cost me my first born.

Subliminal Respect and intraspective happiness.

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:21 pm

So, there, all, the, time...

Ag3nT[]0raNg3 · Post by **Ag3nT[]0raNg3** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:32 pm

that subliminal kid.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:33 pm

wont RJD2 be here around that time too? see above with 50 000 of their closest friends...

want more...

get the low down on Subliminal Kid antics here...

http://www.rhythmscience.com

http://www.djspooky.com

but probably most interestly...

here-------> http://www.egs.edu/faculty/spooky.html

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:38 pm

^^^This is what i think was going through the violinists heads.

(1st Violin section - back row)

Male Violinist: "Geez this piece is hard to play..."

Female vioinist: "Yeah its a bitch, i haven't even practised, you?"

Male violinist: "Nah not really, by the way, what the fuck is a dude with decks and laptop doing next us?"

Female violinist: "What are 'decks'?"

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:41 pm

Conductor: "and i thought playing with Matalica was bad.... this guy is friggin trippin!"

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:43 pm

Conductor: 'At least this guy with headphones can keep time, not like that Lars Ulrich wanker...'

OOOOooooooo....

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 4:24 pm

hold .. ..

cool keith is dr octagon?

????

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 5:12 pm

yeah- and Cyclops 4000 is his evil half brother... twin of Sir Menalik and DNA match to Dan the Automator who happens to be in contact with 3030.

and my name is Paul Miller

Hatsudai · Post by **Hatsudai** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 5:20 pm

DBoy wrote:

Interesting cos that is DEF a photoshop

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 5:22 pm

Post by **system** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:28 pm

FYI: for any fans, Spooky (and his subliminal kids

) will be in Sydney in Jan for the Sydney Festival. he's doing a show based on a special score for D. W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation". you can see it at The Roxy or the State Theatre.

more info: http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/event. ... ent_id=138

there'll be sideshows as well too.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:27 am

I can seriously not believe this is going to be on the same night as Krush

I think because I have seen Krush before I will go to Spooky, that way I will not have any chance of ruining the Krush myth, and also I own my Spooky albums that Krush albums, if that is anything to go buy.

In fact I dont think it was that hard a decision.

Post by **lynt** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:10 pm

Krush wasnt in ya top 3... so I'd suggest you see Spooky Dboy!

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:17 pm

 DJ Spooky at the HI FI Bar and BALLROOM on Friday the 4th of February with J Red and 2Dogs - 1 SHOW ONLY.
 DJ Spooky will be doing an Official book signing and Reading on Thursday the 3rd Of February @ Readings Book & Music- 309 Lygon St, Carlton.

RJD2 (USA, Def Jux) Thursday February 3

4 turntables, a new direction, some well loved classics and a whole new album.. The emotional genius of RJD2's hip hop new soul sound returns to Melbourne for one solo show only!
With Paz, Gsan and JPS @ Prince of Wales

.... thats a busy looking end of the week there!

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:24 pm

Was not so much my TOP 3 Lynt, as the 3 I have not seen play in person or live etc.

nic · Post by **nic** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:14 pm

not forgetting kid koalas 8 deck + fx extravaganza......phew.
some quality times!

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:04 pm

just giving Rhythm Science a spin now to see how much i like it.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:08 pm

not exactly dance music...

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:12 pm

listening to public enemy bit now. dont you consider hip hop a genre of "dance" D?

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:28 pm

would you really classify that CD under "dance"?

not talking about hip hop or dnb specifically, but in general that cd is not a dance cd.

quick · Post by **quick** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:29 pm

Doh, still can't decide, Krush or this???

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:37 pm

you seen either of them before?

I know that the Krush gig will always stand out in my mind, and i don't want to damage that memory if this tour does not live up to it...

that and Spooky can be so leftfield i'm intrigued to see what he does.
the Spooky gig is sure to bring something new to the table.

"spooky is a laboratory where the audio track to the futuree is being field tested. colloborations include shadow, sonic youth (thurston more), kool kieth, killa priest, yoko ono, amon tobin, mad professor."

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:51 pm

i suppose this release makes more sense when you consider it in terms of the book. http://www.rhythmscience.com/

to me tho it is not that far off listening to a dope on plastic cd, only way more cut up and acknowledging past works. thats regarded as dance, so i dont see why this isnt when Spooky is considered a hip hop artist.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:03 pm

it is all just definitions really- call it a dance cd, a electronic cd, a journey into sound, a mix cd a genre crossing cd, a spoken word cd, what ever you like. but do you like it Nopolean?>

quick · Post by **quick** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:05 pm

I aint seen either, I was thinkin Krush, but now I'm leaning more towards Spooky, just for the leftfield aspect of it.

shepherd · Post by **shepherd** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:52 pm

i would argue spooky isn't hip hop at all ... and he makes jeff mills attempts at intellectualising looped techno seem tame when you read his self proclaimed mumbo jumbo.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:59 pm

Don't want to seem defensive about my response cause I have been talking this up, but I do quite enjoy reading the "mumbo jumbo" in the same way others may enjoy poetry or spoken word pieces etc.
There is method to much of his madness.
Many might cliam my own style of writting to be not too far off that mark.

I would find it hard to define Spooky as stricty hip hop too, "riddim warefare" may be close, but it only one aspect of his work really.

shepherd · Post by **shepherd** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:03 pm

respect to the guy for taking DJing to another context ... but for me personally I don't get where he's coming from.

too abstract to really grasp ... unlike Coldcut, what Spooky does technically isn't very difficult. And playing double bass whilst trainwrecking mixes isn't redefining a craft. I've got Riddim Warfare and I saw him last time (both shows) he came out ... i guess it goes over my head. (prob mainly due to a lack of sirens, basslines and hip hop one liners

)

nic · Post by **nic** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:13 pm

I think spooky does beyond genres.
I personally cant wait to see him. The more 'leftfield' the better. He is one of a few artists pushing things along that Id like to go to for more than a drink and dance.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:24 pm

I get a certain feeling from his work, both over the catalogue of his stuff I have, and his writting (havnt read the book yet only articles etc) that he is capturing a general concept that has been thrown around a lot recently. The discourse that relates to both the DJ and the musician becoming less original and how the interaction between the finished product and the source is interpreted by the "veiwer" or subject. The recent rise in inclussions of various new elements in "shows" and production and the entire art of "sampology" has reached a stage where it is a new sugject matter in itself, and I think what Spooky does is capture that in both his work and his music and gives it some kind of defining base.

I don't know what his live performances or his DJ sets are like, and I am hoping for the best (but trainwrecking is never good), but I do get get into the discourse of this topic. Sometimes I just like to enjoy what I listen too because it sounds good, but I also enjoy the abstract and the sensation of capturing the essense of movements, not just conformative theoritical jargen, but also through the artforms themselves. I dig it.

nic · Post by **nic** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:28 pm

exactly

Hatsudai · Post by **Hatsudai** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:36 pm

shepherd wrote: i guess it goes over my head. (prob mainly due to a lack of sirens, basslines and hip hop one liners )

Classic!

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:55 pm

good stuff d-Boy

spooky goes in his own box - artist, writer, dj, producer, thinker extrodinaire.

I think i'll be wandering down to rd to Readings to check him. Last time i was there to see someone, Lloyd Cole, he just about left me in tears.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:18 pm

anyone read the articles about Spooky over the last week?

Bueller, Bueller.

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:51 pm

I've only read the one my mate Karl did for RA.

quick · Post by **quick** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:53 pm

Sorry if its here, but how much is it?

Post by **system** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:54 pm

shepherd wrote:playing double bass whilst trainwrecking mixes isn't redefining a craft.

ditto on the

shepherd · Post by **shepherd** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:11 pm

i read a few of the articles and was impressed at his name dropping ability and self praise ... he's very enterprising ... i don't think he'd take a dump without telling the media who was involved.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:21 pm

if i'm dissapointed i'll understand then Shepard.

It seems from what I read the same things were written over and over in the way of names ie. it was his press release that read that way, not necessarly his awnsers.

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:31 pm

indeed. i got a lot of press material on Spooky, as I'm sure everybody did. And when the man is so busy with fingers in 3 big pies atm, then thats going to take up a lot of lines in an article.

quick · Post by **quick** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:54 pm

quick wrote:Sorry if its here, but how much is it?

Anyone???

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:01 pm

sorry Quick, missed it the 1st time.

i havnt got my ticket yet- but i think about $30 no more than $35

J-red and 2dogs dj's playing too.

quick · Post by **quick** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:37 pm

DBoy wrote:sorry Quick, missed it the 1st time.

i havnt got my ticket yet- but i think about $30 no more than $35

J-red and 2dogs dj's playing too.

Cheers Mr.boy

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:38 pm

$29+bf from the HiFi Bar, Polyester Records and Central Station Records.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:52 am

anyone read "crunked up" yet today...

Some hip hoppers out there are really anti Spooky.

shepherd · Post by **shepherd** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:06 pm

so who went to this and what was it like?

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:12 pm

went on Thursday, and heard him talk. Very interesting, however the other people there got on my nerves a bit. What he spoke about was interesting, however his displays were weak.

His next project with Chuck-D sounds intersting.

As for his Dj skills. I am not sure why someone would use technology they are obviously not comfortable with, unless they are decieving themselves. He was using 1000's i think, but he did not use them very well, his scratching was ok, but over all i was dispointed with his mixing, sampling and use of the technology.

I am glad i went to see Krush.

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:47 pm

cheers for the update Dboy

Much appreciated as i was not able to catch him anywhere because i was stuck at home waiting for the god damn power company to reconnect us. broke my heart on thurs night, since Readings is just down the road and I wanted to hear him speak.