quoted 3 lines why dj spooky gets so much criticism on this list & elsewhere when his ideas
>why dj spooky gets so much criticism on this list & elsewhere when his ideas
>are in the very least fresh enough to deserve some attention (although his
>music doesn't always get me).
I'm in the other boat, i really dig his music (well, not riddim warfare as
much, too scattered, too many "fragments of memory":) ), but when he talks,
i just wish he'd shut up. I'd rather listen to music than some
self-proclaimed nerd talk about the theory behind this great music he makes.
I like his liner notes, they're more fun cos i don't have to hear his "i'm
so much smarter than you and i've got this faked (?) b-boy accent with it"
voice.
When his books get released (if ever), i will buy them and spend needless
hours trying to get my head around them. His writing is great vocab-builder.
This past October, i saw him do a free instore and a full concert. I'd
never seen anyone explain a DJ set before, and that took so much from it.
And throughout his concert, he kept talking about these fragments of
memory, and i just wanted to hear his tablaist and drummer (jojo mayer,
really good, played jungle live).
I read an article interviewing him yesterday in a local free monthly music
mag.
He even complains about DJ Olive claiming credit for inventing "illbient",
when he claim's he coined it. I find that a rather dubious acheivement.
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