Electronic Music Redefined
DJ Spooky & Greg Gillis (Girl Talk)
interviewed by Virginia Prescott DJ Spooky discusses his new multimedia project “Terra Nova: The Antarctica Suite,” that aims to document the layers of information frozen in the continent. And Girl Talk discusses his forthcoming LP “Feed the Animals” and his decision to make digital copies available as a pay-what-you-choose download. New Hampshire Public Radio, June 18, 2008 //LISTEN
Interview with Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky Amazon Wire #76- May 29, 2008 //LISTEN
System
Error: Al-Yamamah Mix (Podcast Aesthetics) A couple of years ago, a Saudi oil minister made what has become
one of the more prophetic statements to come out of the Middle
East in a long time: “The Stone Age didn’t end for
lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world
runs out of oil.” It was a lament, an acknowledgement that
a day of reckoning was coming that would change the global balance
of wealth and power. //Read the Essay //Listen to the
Podcast
Interview with DJ Spooky on KQED
San Francisco from May 3rd, 2005 //Listen
Waterline: The Sounds of Katrina
On the eve of Mardi Gras, Weekend America sent DJ Spooky
to New Orleans to share his experiences in the city through words
and music. //Hear the podcast //See photos
America has had a long history of urban disaster: from the British's attempted
destruction of Washington D.C. in 1814, to later events like the Great
Fire of Chicago in 1871, to the earthquake and subsequent fires that burned
most of San Francisco in 1906. What made New Orlean's encounter with Katrina
in August, 2005 different from all of the previous disasters was the scope,
speed, and sheer sense of uncanny precision that destroyed man made levees
that were specifically designed to stop just such an occurence. The flood
waters that Katrina released follow a trajectory that mirrored many of
the problems of America at the beginning of the 21st century, and showed
that issues such as race, class, and how people respond to environmental
devastation are still scripted by many of the issues that drove the 20th
century's core conflicts. W.E.B. Dubois once proclaimed that "the
problem of the 20th century will be the colorline." In effect he
described a situation where race divided people along lines, that in many
senses were artificial. At the beginning of the 21st century - as we face
a rapidly changing global environment, Katrina pointed out - many of the
issues that he described are still with us. The material I have gathered
is for a show based on interviews that were conducted with people from
many different walks of life. The show is called "Waterline"
- a pun of W.E.B. Dubois infamous phrase that "the problem of the
20th Century will be the colorline" - the water that came and destroyed
New Orleans didn't care about skin color, and it was about the rapidly
changing environment of North America.
The Sounds of Katrina
As New Orleans prepares to celebrate Mardi Gras, Weekend
America sent DJ Spooky there to share his
experiences in the city through words and music. //LISTEN
DJ Spooky Interview Podcast
Dj Spooky interviewed by Steve Gordon ESQ about
the Future of the Music Business for www.myrealbroadcast.com. //LISTEN
John Henry 5000 Remix
DJ Spooky's remix of "Colossus of New York"
with Colson Whitehead reading from his novel of the
same name. //LISTEN
DJ Spooky at WNYC Radio
DJ Spooky in conversation with Vijay Iyer and
Ibrahim Quraishi on Soundcheck with John
Schaefer. 7/14/04 //LISTEN
DJ Spooky and Ryuichi Sakamoto at Comme des Garçons
DJ Spooky exclusive web mix //LISTEN
Abstrakt Blowback '03: The Satyagraha mix
DJ Spooky exclusive web mix //LISTEN
Live on J-Wave – Tokyo
1/19/02
DJ Spooky exclusive web mix //LISTEN
Prosthetica 2000 DJ Spooky exclusive web mix //LISTEN
Blahzay, Blahzay: hip-hop mix
DJ Spooky exclusive web
mix //LISTEN
DJ Spooky + CARL HANCOCKRUX
[55:45]
Live @ Knitting Factory 4/13/02 //LISTEN
DJ Spooky + AMIRI BARAKA
[38:26]
Live @ Knitting Factory 4/13/02 //LISTEN
DISCOGRAPHY
DJ Spooky albums:
o Optometry (Thirsty Ear) [July 2002] THI 57121.2 [BUY
IT AT iTUNES]
o Modern Mantra (Shadow/Instinct) (DJ mix record) [May 2002]
SDW 135-2 [BUY
IT AT iTUNES]
o Under the Influence (Six Degrees) (DJ mix record) [September
2001] PRCD 1056-2
o Riddim Warfare (Outpost-Geffen) [September 1998]
o Haunted Breaks Volumes I and II (Liquid Sky Music) [October
& December 1998]
o Synthetic Fury EP (Asphodel Records 0110) [February 1998] [BUY IT AT iTUNES]
o Songs of a Dead Dreamer (Asphodel Records 0961) [April 1996] [BUY
IT AT iTUNES]
o Necropolis (Knitting Factory Works KFW 185) [March 1996]
DJ Spooky singles/EPs
o Optometrix 12” (Thirsty Ear) [June 2003] THI 57132.1
o Catechsim featuring Killah Priest (Synchronic) [August 2002]
SYC 002
o Subliminal Minded EP-Peace in Zaire Remixes (Bar None Records)
[October 1999]
o Peace in Zaire (with remixes by Ambassador Jr., and The
Dub Pistols) promotional/White Label Only (Outpost/Geffen)
[April 1999]
o Object Unknown (with remixes by DJ Spooky and Kut Masta
Kurt) (Outpost/Geffen CD; Asphodel vinyl) [August 1998]
o Galactic Funk (Asphodel 101) [1996]
Paul D. Miller and miscellaneous
albums
o ftp>snd>untitled> Nest Magazine CD, accompanying
November 2001 issue
o Another Forensic Charade, accompanying catalogue to exhibition
at Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden, September – December
2001 (limited edition)
oThe Viral Sonata Asphodel Records. Originally accompanied
installation for The Whitney Biennial 1997.
o Death in Light of the Phonograph: Excursions into the Pre-linguistic
Asphodel Records [September 1996] (limited edition) Originally
accompanied installation at Annina Nosei Gallery.
Collaborative Releases and mix records
o In Fine Style: 50,000 Volts of Trojan Records [June
2006] [BUY
IT AT iTUNES]
o Drums of Death [April 2005] [BUY
IT AT iTUNES]
o Celestial Mechanix a label mix for Thirsty Ear Records
[June 2004] [BUY
IT AT iTUNES]
o Riddim Clash with Twilight Circus (PLAY Label) April 2004
o Dubtometry fearturing Mad Professor, Lee “Scratch”
Perry, and others - a remix of “Optometry (Thirsty Ear)
[March 2003] THI 57128.2 [BUY
IT AT iTUNES]
o Catechism (DJ Spooky w/Killah Priest) (Blue Juice Records/UK)
BJ007 [6/26/01]
o Anodyne (Main, core and Peripheral mixes) Picture disk w/Sound
Secretion (BSI Records) Cat. BSI 014-1[10/00]
o The Quick and the Dead DJ Spooky and Scanner (Sulphur Records)
Meld series [1/31/00] Cat No. MELCD001 (UK) BBWULCD004 (US)
o DJ Spooky vs. The Freight Elevator Quartet File Under Futurism Caipirinha Records [September 1999]
o Cinemage by Ryuichi Sakamota w/ David Sylvian [2000]
o 10” DJ Spooky and Merzbo (Manifold Records) [2000]
o 10” DJ Spooky and Quoit (Manifold Records) [2000]
o 10” DJ Spooky and Arto Lindsay (Manifold Records) [July
1999]
o Kaotik : Transgression DJ Spooky and Totemplow (Manifold
Records) [June 1999]
o 10” DJ Spooky and Alan Licht (Manifold Records) [1998]
o Template 12” DJ Spooky and Totemplow (Manifold Records)
[1998]
Film scores
o Quattro Noza (Fountainhead Films) Sundance competition finalist
(2003)
o SLAM (Offline/Tri-Mark) Grand Prize winner, Sundance (1998);
Cannes, Camera D'Or (1998) October 1998 commercial release.
Multimedia, web and misc. projects
o Marcel
Duchamp remix, LA Museum of Contemp. Art (2002)
o Stuzzicadenti DJ Spooky and Diego Cortez [May 2000]
Remixes
o Sub Rosa Revisited, a catalog mix. Sub Rosa SR 201 [Nov.
2003]
o Meat Beat Manifesto - Storm The Studio R.M.X.S. Tino Corp.
[Sept. 2003]
o Merzbow Ikebana Merzbow Important Records [2003]
o Rock the Nation (Dj Spooky sound Unbound instrumental remix)
with Michael Franti and Spearhead (Six Degrees Records) [2001] [BUY IT AT iTUNES]
o Kahimi Karie Tilt Polydor KK Records (Japan) [2000]
o Hydroponic Sound System Routine Insanity/Evolution Records
[Sept. 2000]
o Show Lee Netsu: Electro: snd>>cd: zero sum mix BMG
Funhouse (Japan) BVCR-11015 [Oct. 1999]
o Cibo Matto Swords and Paintbrush Warner Bros. [TBA 1999]
o Steve Reich City Life Coalition/None Such Recordings [March
1999]
o Korn Got the Life Immortal/Epic [November 1998] (Limited
Edition)
o Skeleton Key Wide Open (DJ Spooky's Full Spectrum Mix) Capitol
Records
o Nick Cave Red Right Hand for Scream 2 soundtrack Capitol
Records 12/97
o Metallica For Whom the Bell Tolls "The Irony Of It
All" 4:41 for Spawn Soundtrack, Immortal/Epic Records,
New Line Cinema; 8/97 EK68494
o Arto Lindsay Mundo Civilizado Inversion Mix 7:28, Gramavision
6/97 GLP 79519
o Bally SagooTum Bin Jiya "Isomorphic Flux Mix"
6:47 Higher Ground/Sony
o The Swirlies In Harmony: DJ Spooky's Retrograde Transposition
Mix (6:15) Taang! Records
o Free Kitten Jam #1 "Spatialized Chinatown Express Mix"
(6:24), Kill Rock Stars 11/97. KRS 286
o Earth Crooked Axis for String Quartet "Kool Stereo
Arc" Dub Mix (8:42)
o Hovercraft Stereo Specific Polymerization "Mad Psychotic
Hyper-Accelerated Lower East Side Mix" (5:57)
o Walter Ruttman's Weekend for Engaged Magazine Vol. 6, London,
UK
o James Plotkin Sawtooth Swirl "DJ Spooky's Irreducible
Gated Momentum Dub Mix" (9:40) [1997] (Rawkus ptv 1136-2)
o Ben Neill Sistrum into Grapheme Astralwerks
o Ben Neill Pentagram: La Mer Mix and Undertow Mix (Verve
Antilles) 1996
o DJ Krush Ryuki (Lulu's Peace Mix) TVT Records
o Spookey Ruben Incedental Drift Mix TVT Records
o Hooverphonic 2Wicky, Epic
o Sublime Doin' Time (Life Sentence Remix) 5:43 MCA Records;
9/97
o Yoko Ono – "Rising" on "Yes, I'm a
Witch" Astralwerks 2006
Tracks on Compilations, Soundtracks
and Miscellaneous Releases
o Strictly Turtableyzed Hmm.. on "Hi-Fidelity Dub Sessions"
(Guidance Recordings) [2004] [BUY
IT AT iTUNES]
o That Subliminal Kid vs. The Last Mohican on "Thirsty
Ear Presents The Blue Series Sampler (The Shape of Jazz to
Come)" (Thirsty Ear) [2003] [BUY
IT AT iTUNES]
o Catechism (instrumental) (Blue Juice Records/UK) BJCD013
[Sept. 2002]
o FTP>Bundle / Conduit 23 on “VA: An Anthology of
Noise & Electronic Music” (Sub Rosa/SR 190) April
2002 8:07
o If/When on “Scissors” (Play label/Japan; Play
002) 6/01
o Another Forensic Charade on "Electric Ladyland - Clickhop
Version 1.0" Mille Plateaux Records 2001 [BUY IT AT iTUNES]
o Rapper’s Relight on “one:it’s all good, man”
Saul Goodman records 2/01
o Reciprocal Presupposition and Dance of the Morlocks on “Condo
Painting” soundtrack Gallery Six Records, 4/00
o Conduit 23 for “Wreck This Mess Remission 2” Noise
Museum
o Turn Table Eyzd, UMM for Hi-Fidelity Dub Chapter II Guidance
Recordings GDRC-575) 1/00
o Interlude DJ Spooky and Vinicius Cantuaria for Onda Sonora
(Red Hot and Lisbon)
o Stereo Specific Polymerization (Beneath the Underdog Mix)
(Word Sound Records) 10" [1998]
o Reciprocal Presupposition; Seuqigolana (Suntropic Inversion
Mix) for The End of Utopia (Sub Rosa/SR132) [1998]
o Haunted: Ill Konceptual Mix for Kunsthaus, Zurich
o Soon Forward, Synaptic Dissonance for Asphodelic (Asphodel)
[1999] [BUY
IT AT iTUNES]
o Polymorphia 2000: Ill Konceptual Mix for Kunsthalle, Vienna
o Solar Physics DJ Spooky and Sir Menelik for Rawkus Records
o He Who Leaves No Trace for Invisible Soundtracks (Leaf Records)
o Reconstruction and The 6th Degree [1998] on Electric Ladyland
5 (Mille Plateau 48)
o Discord (album) w/Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Torn and orchestra.
Live in Japan. [1997] (Güt/For Life FLCG 3028)
o Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg (w STX Ensemble) [1997] (Asphodel
0975)
o Iannis Xenakis: Analogiques A + B on Ianissimo! (w/STX Ensemble)
[1997] (Vandenburg Wave VAN 0003)
o The Western Lands (A Dangerous Road Mix) w/WiIliam Burroughs,
Bill Laswell, etc. on Material; Seven Souls [1997] (Triloka/Mercury
314 534 905)
o Island Of Lost Souls on The Freestyle Files [1997] Studio
K7 (Germany)
o Soon Forward, Anansi's Gambit (DJ Spooky's On the Island
of the Lost Souls Mix), and Why Patterns on Incursions in
Illbient [1997] (Asphodel 0968) [BUY
IT AT iTUNES]
o Zero Gravity Dub on Synthetic Pleasures Vol. 2 Caipirinha
Productions [1997]
o Black Djinn Trance (w/Bill Laswell, Jah Wobble) on War Smash
Hits [1996] (Sub Rosa Records SR 105)
o Primary Inversion on This is Home Entertainment 2 [1996]
(Liquid Sky Music/Jungle Sky Records HE 008)
o The Terran Invasion of Alpha Centauri Year 2794 on Dub Terror
Exhaust with Bill Laswell [1996] (Subharmonic Records)
o Machinic Phylum (Crippled Symmetries Mix) on Future Audio
[1996] (Freeze Records)
o The Nasty Data Burst" & "Journey (Paraspace
Mix) on Valis: The Destruction of Syntax (Subharmonic Records)
o In Visual Ocean on Gilles Deleuze: In Memoriam (Mille Plateaux
Records)
o Collaboration with Amiri Baraka on Black Dada Nihilismus
on Offbeat: A Red Hot Sound Trip [1996] Red Hot/Whitney Museum/Wax
Trax-TVT compilation released in conjunction with The Whitney
Museum's "The Beats: A Retrospective" installation.
o Temporally Displaced , also on Offbeat
o Step In Stand Clear on Storm of Drones (Sombient)
o Vorticities on State Of the Union [1996] (Atatvistic Records)
o Muzique Mecanique Dub and Muzique Psychotique on Electric
Ladyland Vol. 3 (Force X Records).
o Fourth Inversion on The Resonance Found at the Core of the
Bubble [1996] (Bubble Core Records)
o Surface Noise (Theme of the Hungry Ghost), Sonic Soul Records
001 [1996]
o Prologue (The Duchamp Effect) on Mind The Gap 15 Gozno Circus
GC021 [1997]
o Object Unknown, Pandemonium, and Degree Zero Launch CD-ROM
(The Product) [TBA 1998]
o Hologrammic Dub on The Night Shift [1996] (C&S Records)
o Galactic Funk on This is Home Entertainment (Home Entertainment
Records/Liquid Sky Music)
Sideman Appearances
o Lost Objects w/Bang on a Can, Concerto Köln, Rias Kammerchor
Teldec Classics, Germany 8573-84107-2 [5/01]
o Gary Lucas Golgothaon “Improve the Shining Hour”
Knitting Factory [2000]
o Pilgrimage 9 Songs of Ecstasy [1997] Point Music 314 536
201-2/4
o Ben Neill The Gold Bug [1998] Antilles Records
o Arto Lindsay Mundo Civilizado [1996] For Life/Ryko/Bar None
ORDER NOW!!! 
OUT NOW! DJ Spooky's "Sound Unbound"
CREATION REBEL MIX CD on Trojan Records
DJ Spooky has produced material on the new Yoko Ono album.
DJ Spooky in Berlin 2008
DJ Spooky and the 2007 Venice Biennial
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