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- Artist: DJ Spooky
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- Release Date: January 27, 2004
- Type: Contains explicit content, Collection (various artists), Mix-album
- Genre: Electronica
Review
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. ~ François Couture, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Afterimage/The First Reading | Sussan Deyhim, Yoshio Machida | (1:56) | |
| Poesi/Aliénation et Magie Noire | (1:36) | ||
| Oscillations [Milky Remix] | Bill Laswell, |
(2:19) | |
| Encode/Let's From Some Loud Unworld's Most Rightful Wrong | (2:19) | ||
| Zeta Reticulli/If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso | (3:10) | ||
| Accidents and Emergencies [Instrumental] | Charles Hayward | (1:39) | |
| Oscillations /Biological Closure/Ursonate [Vedic's Live Pop Remix/Biolo | Bill Laswell, Scanner, |
(4:14) | |
| Kali Rising/Pour Compte (Phases, 1949) | (2:20) | ||
| April /Anna Livia Plurabelle (Finnegan's Wake) [Remix] | (2:46) | ||
| April /Sdii Audio Template/Satricon/Some Texts From À ... [Remix] | David Shea, Marcel Duchamp, |
(3:42) | |
| Sanctus | (1:02) | ||
| Chrysanthemum Haradjani/Girl | Meira Asher, |
(1:02) | |
| Darba del Hameni/Ground | (1:04) | ||
| Is It Now? | Seefeel | (3:17) | |
| Bitchley's Kow Korn/In Principio/Easter Nocturnal Liturgy | DJ Wally | (4:32) | |
| Fuse/The Five Steps | Scanner, William S. Burroughs | (2:38) | |
| Atavistic Endeavor/Control Phantom/Lux Automobile [Krokodil Rock Mix] | Scanner, Merzbow, Kim Cascone | (1:52) | |
| Afterimage/Une Aventure Extraordinaire Arrivée À Vladimir ... | Yoshio Machida | (1:32) | |
| D'Un Cahier d'Esquisses | Claude Debussy | Claude Debussy | (2:19) |
| Mémoires d'Un Surfeur au Bord du Désert | David Shea, |
(2:10) | |
| Bad Day for Wasps | Disjecta | (0:54) | |
| Dada Cat | (1:23) | ||
| Indigo | (2:38) | ||
| Suite, No. 11/Nothing | Trilok Gurtu, Bill Laswell | (1:55) | |
| Brin/Dislocation | Luciano Berio | (4:40) | |
| One Night @ the 1001/Map of Dusk | Jon Hassell, |
(3:47) | |
| With the Flow Against the Current/Jellaba Titara/Pont Mirabeau | Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, |
(1:46) | |
| Again and Again | Nicholas James Bullen | (3:43) | |
| Machine Chop/Triadic Memories/Tricyrtis Latifalia | Morton Feldman, David Toop | (3:25) | |
| Subnubus | Mouse on Mars | (1:50) | |
| Konstantin Raudive [Remix] | Lee Ranaldo | (2:00) | |
| Morning High | Nicky Skopelitis, |
Patti Smith | (2:38) |
| The Last Reading | Sussan Deyhim | (0:32) |
