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DJ Spooky
Sound Unbound
Release Date: 2008 05 13
Label: Subrosa
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In 2004, DJ Spooky was given full access to the archives of Sub Rosa, a Belgian label celebrated for its catholic musical range -- everyone from Bill Laswell and Alter Echo to Nam June Paik and Edgard Varèse (posthumously, of course) have found their work featured on Sub Rosa releases. Given his status as the most prolific and admired of the postmodern DJs, Spooky was an obvious choice to create a huge sonic tapestry from this wildly varied catalog, and his creation was titled Rhythm Science: Excerpts and Allegories from the Sub Rosa Archives, Vol. 1. Four years later comes a companion volume with a similar title, this one more groove-oriented and really very fascinating. In typical postmodern fashion, it revels in juxtapositions that make little sense on paper but turn out to be quite compelling listening -- spoken word excerpts from Allen Ginsberg and Jean Cocteau rub up against instrumental selections from To Rococo Rot and Trilok Gurtu, and often the different elements are layered over each other. On track seven, for example, music by Marcel Duchamp is layered with music from the Master Musicians of Joujouka and juxtaposed with snippets of an interview with George Heard Hamilton. Elsewhere, chunks of Philip Glass' "Music in Fifths" are followed immediately by Varèse's pioneering piece of musique concrète titled "Poème Electronique," and Bill Laswell's "Ghost Dub" provides a dark musical bed for a recording of René Magritte discussing the elements and history of surrealism. What all this adds up to is, inevitably, yet one more chance for DJ Spooky annoyingly to show off his erudition (at least this package doesn't include a photograph of his book collection) and it's also true that he's pushing his luck when he asks the listener to regard this program as an "essay" in any meaningful sense of the term. But it's also a fascinating crazy-quilt of forward-thinking musical sounds spanning a whole century, and it will provide plenty of food for conversation as well as a starting point for any number of musical research projects. Highly recommended. Rick Anderson, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1Cool Noises1:45
2Once Loved/A Footnote to Howl (DJ Spooky Remix)3:10
3Buste (DJ Spooky Mix)2:57
4Imagination:36
5Untitled in Cof Minor/A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (DJ Spooky Remix4:28
6Scratch Battle2:30
7Creative Act/Boujeloud (Solo Drums)/But the Pad [From Cool Noises]1:00
8Paper Work Explosion2:28
9Perpetual Next/Pop Titles 'You'1:57
10Sarah/I Could Never Make That Music Again1:21
11Eolian Episode/Gnossienne (DJ Spooky Dub Version)2:42
12Reed Phase2:27
13Cika-Laka/Cool Noises Pt. 2/BBB1:44
14Dias Dias Dias1:44
15Rozart Mix:39
16Pour en Finir Avec le Jugement de Dieu (To Have Done with God's Judgeme2:10
17One Laptop: Theme1:30
18Spilled Cup (DJ Spooky Remix)1:29
19General Motor Futurama1:03
20Erratum Musical (Score for Three Voices)/Voyage for Three:48
21Ghost Dub/Le Surréalisme et Les Questions2:04
22First Set - Area 4/A Little Noise in the System:52
23[Untitled] (DJ Spooky Remix)2:29
24Cinq Études de Bruits: Étude Violette:16
25Need to Be2:12
26Music in Fifths1:48
27Poème Électronique2:46
28Concret Ph:28
29One Minute:59
30Audience (DJ Spooky Mix)2:41
31Dong Lim1:27
32Dorian Reeds2:14
33Corale/FTP/Bundle/Conduit:27
34Rumba Lu Georgel/I Know the Power of Words2:07
35Pilgrim's Song/Kala2:06
36Hommage à John Cage:25
37Mandolin/Acid Bassline1:22
38Mali Mal Mal M'Halmaz/Dada-Sprüche2:00
39Anna Blume1:51
40Week End1:25
41Bendix Tomorrow People #1:59
42I Can't Look for You/The Palaces of Gesar's Family (DJ Spooky Remix)2:10
43Incantation for Tape:44
44Timesdot3:49
45Western Land4:10







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