Dj Spooky - Rhythm Science (CD)

The Belgian label Sub Rosa invited DJ Spooky "That Subliminal Kid" to remix its whole catalog. Yes, it has been done before, but there are two main factors of interest in this particular project. First of all, DJ Spooky is an unusual DJ, to say the least: he's highly imaginative and willing to push boundaries without going to the extent of disfiguring his source materials. Second of all, Sub Rosa's catalog encompasses a smorgasbord of audio art. And DJ Spooky has tapped into the richness of Sub Rosa's "audio archive" (dixit the album's subtitle) to produce a hard-hitting, 79-minute mix. The mix rarely stays in place, constantly moving from one spot to another. Spooky generally builds the music over three layers. First is a groove derived from ethnic percussion (Trilok Gurtu and Bill Laswell, among others) or beat-driven electro or DJ'ing (DJ Wally, DJ Grazzhoppa, Yoshihiro Hanno, David Shea, etc.). The second layer is provided by experimental electro or sound artists (Scanner, Oval, Merzbow, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, etc.). The third layer sees the highly-schooled DJ Spooky dive into Sub Rosa's generous series of aural documents of modern geniuses. And so the voices of James Joyce, William S. Burroughs, ee cummings, Brion Gysin, Antonin Artaud, Tristan Tzara, and other Gilles Deleuze's pop up everywhere, creating a meta-discourse, offering anachronical comments on the music while they themselves become part of the music. "Welcome to Rhythm Science. It's an exercise in pan-humanism," states Spooky in his lengthy liner notes. This pan-humanism plays on the blurred boundaries between high art and low art: the philosophical and literary aspects of the spoken words, the sonic research of experimentalists, and the groove, constantly and seductively present throughout the album. ~ Fran‡ois Couture

General

Label:	Forced Exposure
Release date:	November 2003
Originally released:	February 2004
Recorded by:	Dj Spooky
Dimensions:	136 x 152 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Categories:	Music > Rap / Hip hop Music > Pop / Rock Music > Dance
LSN:	X1M-PTK-0QF-4
Barcode:	5411867112013

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Disk 1

1	Afterimage/The First Reading - Sussan Deyhim/Yoshio Machida
2	Poesi/Ali‚nation et Magie Noire - Nuuk Posse/Antonin Artaud
3	Oscillations - DJ Grazzhoppa/Bill Laswell (Milky Remix)
4	Encode/Let's From Some Loud Unworld's Most Rightful Wrong - E.E. Cummings
5	Zeta Reticulli/If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso - DJ Wally/Gertrude Stein
6	Accidents and Emergencies - Charles Hayward
7	Oscillations /Biological Closure/Ursonate - Scanner/Bill Laswell/Kurt Schwitters (Vedic's Live Pop Remix/Biological C mix, live)
8	Kali Rising/Pour Compte (Phases, 1949) - Vedic/Tristan Tzara
9	April /Anna Livia Plurabelle (Finnegan's Wake) - Yoshihiro Hanno/James Joyce (Remix)
10	April /Sdii Audio Template/Satricon/Some Texts From A ... - David Shea/Yoshihiro Hanno/Marcel Duchamp (Remix)
11	Sanctus
12	Chrysanthemum Haradjani/Girl - Jean-Luc Fafchamps/Guy Harries/Meira Asher
13	Darba del Hameni/Ground - Jean-Luc Fafchamps
14	Is It Now? - Seefeel
15	Bitchley's Kow Korn/In Principio/Easter Nocturnal Liturgy - DJ Wally
16	Fuse/The Five Steps - Scanner/William S. Burroughs
17	Atavistic Endeavor/Control Phantom/Lux Automobile - Kim Cascone/Merzbow/Scanner (Krokodil Rock Mix)
18	Afterimage/Une Aventure Extraordinaire Arriv‚e A Vladimir ... - Yoshio Machida
19	D'Un Cahier d'Esquisses - Claude Debussy
20	M‚moires d'Un Surfeur au Bord du D‚sert - David Shea/Tobias Hazan
21	Bad Day for Wasps - Disjecta
22	Dada Cat - Jeff Matika
23	Indigo - Jeff Matika
24	Suite, No. 11/Nothing - Trilok Gurtu/Bill Laswell
25	Brin/Dislocation - Luciano Berio
26	One Night @ the 1001/Map of Dusk - Jon Hassell/Brion Gysin
27	With the Flow Against the Current/Jellaba Titara/Pont Mirabeau - Guillaume Apollinaire/Carl Michael Von Hausswolff
28	Again and Again - Nicholas James Bullen/Gilles Deleuze/Brion Gysin
29	Machine Chop/Triadic Memories/Tricyrtis Latifalia - David Toop/Morton Feldman
30	Subnubus - Mouse on Mars
31	Konstantin Raudive - Lee Ranaldo (Remix)
32	Morning High - Patti Smith
33	Last Reading, The - Sussan Deyhim

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