Hail
the Jewel in the Blue Lotus Mix: Buddhist hip hop
By DJ Spooky
Mix features:
The Monks of Deprung Loesling Monastery, Daniel Bernhard Roumain,
King Tubby, Philip Glass, The Beastie Boys, Saul Williams, John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane.
This mix was inspired by a lecture discussion I presented at The
Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art around my book Rhythm
Science, and is a pun on Jack Keouac's book length short story
"The Subterraneans" and the longer novel, Dharma
Bums, mixed with a dash of soul from what I view as some
of the more intriguing folks operating in contemporary music.
It's a short mix - almost 30 minutes, but the invocation of the
Deprung monks of "hundreds of millions of worlds" should
give you a taste of the multiplicity they revere. Sampling is
a digital mirror of this kind of aesthetic, and I made the mix
as a sketch to show some examples of different forms of information
could be transformed by praxis. The event was sponsored by Art
Asia Pacific Magazine's "Artists on Art" lecture
series. Other speakers include Laurie Anderson, Shahzia Sikander,
Momus, Sanford Biggers, Naeem_Mohaiemen.
Paul aka Dj Spooky NYC 2006
The Track Listing:
Dj Spooky featuring Daniel Bernhard Roumain - Code Blue
Saul Williams - Ohm
John Coltrane - Om
mixed w/ Saul Williams "P.G."
Lama Chopa: Monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery
- Malu Semchen "Invocation of the Masters of the Enlightenment"
Beastie Boys - Bodhisvatta Vow
Lama Chopa: Monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery
- Malu Semchen "Invocation of the Masters of the Enlightenment"
Maffa All-Stars & King Tubby - Don't Think About Me, I'm Alright
Saul Williams - Ohm
Dj Spooky and Ursula Rucker - Being Black
Alice Coltrane - Stopover Bombay
Philip Glass - Koyanisqaatsi
CREATION REBEL MIX CD on Trojan Records
DJ Spooky's "Sound Unbound" on MIT Press. Out March 2008
DJ Spooky presents
DJ Spooky has produced material on the new Yoko Ono album.
DJ Spooky and the 2007 Venice Biennial
RHYTHM SCIENCE:
