★★★★★
The integration of DJ culture into jazz was inevitable. But then, Jazz has always adopted popular forms of music. For instance, it took on rock in the 1960s with much debatable results. There is good fusion and bad fusion, as with all forms of jazz it comes down to creative ideas and musicianship...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2012-09-24
★★★★★
Thirsty Ear is leading the way in the cross-pollination between electronic music production and jazz. Their Blue Series seems to have set its goal no lower than to move jazz forward into the 21st Century, and in creating fresh and challenging settings for improvisation and the music's sonic palate, they're succeeding. In 2001 they dropped Spring Heel Jack's dark and abstract Masses, which was a rewarding experiment in the merger of jazz improvisation and electronic textures...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
DJ Spooky and Scanner are both gabber about communication. Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) investigates how it is that anyone can understand anyone else, how language works and how we frame our world; Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) eavesdrops on cellphone communications and reconfigures the recorded conversations into art installations. So you'd expect a collaboration between these two receivers to be lengthy, abstract, and probably academic to some degree...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
★★★★★
Originally released as two EPs on the Blue Juice label, last summer's re-issue of Catechism collected those hip-hop remixes into a cohesive, if somewhat redundant, whole. DJ Spooky and Killah Priest's latest collaboration couldn't compare compare to their previous collaboration on Spooky's 1998 album Riddim Warfare, but nevertheless, the single was laid out on many a remixer's operating table, stripped, gassed, and primed for surgical exploration...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
★★★★★
Consisting of remixes of Spooky's Optometry from seventeen artists, Dubtometry, as its title implies, focuses primarily ? though not exclusively ? on dubbed-out reworkings, including brief interludes from luminaries like Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mad Professor. In addition to known dub personalities like Twilight Circus, some odd choices are also included, such as Negativland...
- dustedmagazine.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Track Listing: Intro - The War Of Ideas; Multiphonic; Dazed And Confused Dub; Measure By Measure; TheSecret Song; Myxomatisis;Where I'm At; L'Autre; Heliocentric; Azadi (The New Complexity);Composite Refraction Drum Solo; Pax Per Fidem; Iago's Lament; Known Unknowns; SaltSatyagraha; Point - Counterpoint; No Quarter Dub; Cognitiva; Duality...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
As DJ Spooky, Paul D Miller has helped elevate the status of the turntable from humble DJ tool to an instrument in its own right. His scratch skills may be dazzling, but he's equally drawn to John Cage and Sun Ra as Kool Herc, Prince Paul and Grandmaster Flash...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-08-14
★★★★★
Instant classic, without a doubt. For a long time now there have been two DJs in my life - DJ Shadow and DJ Spooky. Josh Davis has been making a household name out of DJ Shadow since 1996's breakout Endtroducing and Paul D. Miller has been cutting quite a path himself under the moniker DJ Spooky since about the same time, when he released the shattering Songs of a Dead Dreamer in 1996...
- www.lostatsea.net
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Music scholars and hip-hop historians alike acknowledge the close relationship between rap and reggae. While it can be said hip-hop drew from a wide variety of sources ranging from the blues to funk to rock'n'roll, it was the soundclash style of Kool DJ Herc that defined the art in the 1970's and set the tone for decades to come. Herc brought this signature style straight from Kingston, Jamaica to the Bronx, New York. They called it breaks, we call it loops...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
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