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Chuck D. DJ Spooky & Slayer's Dave Lombardo Team For 'Drums Of Death'By Roman WolfeDate: 5/9/2005 2:00 PM Chuck D., Dave Lombardo and DJ Spooky have teamed up to create a new heavy metal meets Hip-Hop album, called Drums of Death. According to Spooky, the album blurs the lines of various genres of music.???Right now it seems much more like everything has become so compartmentalized,??? Spooky told Wired Magazine. ???I want to make a genre that's a blur -- where your iPod is malfunctioning, and next thing you know your hip-hop is in the rock section of your playlist, and your rock has gone over to your dub section, and your reggae section is mixed into your jazz and your classical music is sprinkled over everything.???Spooky said that Chuck D. raps in a style more that will remind the discerning listener of Public Enemy???s first two albums, Yo! Bum Rush The Show and It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.Additionally, Slayer???s Lombardo was the only portion of the album that was recorded live. Spooky said Chuck sent his files in for the album.Slayer???s sound should be familiar to fans of the group, as Public Enemy sampled the group???s song Angel of Death on the hard rock tinged ??? ???She Watch Channel Zero,??? taken from 1989???s It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us back album. While Flavor Flav is absent from the project for creative reasons, Spooky created a synthetic voice for the album. ???We ended up making a synthetic voice to replace Flav that kind of evoked the same kind of call and response,??? Spooky said. ???So Chuck D does his thing and instead of going back and forth (with Flava Flav), it goes to the computer.???Drums of Death hit stores on April 26th. seriously. could it get any crappier? Dj spooky? Chuck D phoned in some vocals or something? Jesus, who in their right mind would release this shit? Public enemy lost.
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but this album still looks like a damn mess. mostly because i can't trust dj spooky.
Personally I can't stand Spooky. Its not his music, which is ok I guess, but everytime i read anything he's quoted in it makes me wanna ralph. He was saying once like "what I do is a stew of textures. You can sample anything -- the sun, blood pumping through your veins. I'm sampling it right now." While what he said is actually kind of true, man he's no where good enough to be talking smack like that. Shut yo mouf.
yuck, this quote is making me barf
Anyone read the liner notes of his albums? It possibly takes a quadruple-gatefold cover to cover all the text of his "manifesto on sampling and hiphop", and it's still only an excerpt of a literary wor-in-progress. Gimme a break plaese.
Perhaps I'm too old for his tirade.
Naw, plenty of young dudes know he's full of shit too
The intermingling of genres is almost a given at this point. I mean really, WOW rock and HIP-HOP? gee fookin willikers, who'd a thunk something like that would be possib......
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Plus this assumes that something like "rock dub" would be musically interesting or compelling, and that for whatever reason, you, DJ Spooky, are the best person to perform such a fusion. I can think of a dozen bands that have "rock dub" elements and I guarantee they were better than whatever turd he's going to squeeze out in the name of genre cross-pollination.
DJ Spooky is a pretentious and irritating faux academic. He's not particularly well-spoken or original. If you're going to be full-on intellectual, at least be sharp and well-read. I can't figure out how he got where he is, other than he keeps talking and journalists can't resist writing articles on him.
I saw that dude live in Chicago like 5 years ago and he did this live dj set. Dude started talking about juggling and shit and then put on 2 records and just kinda pulled one back and switched the fader back and forth and kept doing that, sounded like a fuckin train wreck. none of it sounded like any semblance of a rhythm or anything the whole time, it really sounded like shit actually. and fools were cheering for this shit. If I would have had a brick I would have thrown it.
Juggling my ass, I made fuckin pause tapes that sounded better than that when I was 12.
Spooky can go fuck himself.
yes! I saw him do the same thing at CMJ one year and the crowd was eating it up because he "looked" like he was juggling, but it was just a drum-less record so he couldn't really fuck up either way. That was the nail in Spooky's coffin for me.
"DON'T GET BENT ON ILLBIENT"
DONT BE SUBLIMINAL KID
COMPUTER FLAVOR FLAV
CHUCK "I PHONED IN MY VOCALS WHERES THE CHECK" D
DJ "ROCK RAP DUB HYBRID? YO IM FEELING THAT" SPOOKY
BONUS POINTS IF BILL LASWELL EXECUTIVE PRODUCES
GOT ARTFORUM MUSIC REVIEW SECTION GOING NUTS
KIM GORDON SAYS YES PLAESE
Few weeks later he tells me that he's going to start sampling from records because it has a vintage sound & asks me if I want to listen to his ???Duran Duran??? cover.
Incident #1
I was unfortunate enough to be in a concert by this shit-hot pop producer-cum-trustafarian who's also very vocal about the greatness of DJ Spooky in mid to late 90s in Hong Kong...Dude was on some arty avant-pop tip throwing a vanity project for him and his girl, he opened the show (in tux and chuck taylors) with his "turntable routine": baby scratching some Erik Satie or something, then trying to beat juggle (struggle would be more appropriate a word) with a double... the fiasco continueed with him trying to scratch in some sentence from those Dirtstyle break records like Qbert in Dr Octogon's "I gotta tell you".
I have to add that the abovementioned were done in a sloppy manner.
Somewhere in the mid-point of the show, dude got back on the decks, baby scratching a little and rhymed about rebelling against the unrealistic expectations of parents in HKG.
When he done finished with the decks, he start playing the accordion or some shit. It was like a friggin high school talent show.
Incident #2
At an Uri Caine/DJ Olive concert a few years back, DJ Olive, being one of the figureheads in the illbient movement, was trainwrecking left and right while trying to beat match two records not faster than 80bpm. Then he just start mixing in beatless synth pads (much alike what DJ Daze and DJ Anna said/observed in the above post). A guy sat next to me turned and ask me "I don't think he's that great, but is that part of his technique, deconstructing the DJ myth?".
To this day I am not sure if that guy was joking or not.
translation of that quote: we totally lost focus and have no idea what we are doing.