Dj Spooky - Sound Unbound Audio Companion

Various Artists
Sub Rosa
General | Jul 2009

Reviews

Ragnar of Ravensfjord
Reviewed 2010-01-16
Experimental re-mixer & DJ, Spooky re-mixes a wide variety of audio sources and throwing in beats & electronic sounds going from Williams S. Burroughs, Xenakis, Duchamp to Sonic Youth, Raymond Scott and Iggy Pop. Also features local artists Pamela Z, & Pauline Oliveros. Plenty of interesting and diverse sounds here albeit not a very cohesive one.

(((1))) Minimalist ambient with some spoken bits about imagination.
((((2))))) Possible FCCs “cock” and “asshole” given the context. Allen Ginsburg freestyling” poetry off the word “holy”.
((3)) Hip-hop beat, accordian, more Ginsburg loops, then a bunch of Jean Cocteau en françias.
(((4))) Jazzy bit of Sun Ra improving. Sounds like a straight sample with nothing added/subtracted.
(((5))) Cyclical loops of accordian, piano & Ms. Stein. Drags too long.
((((6)))) Scratch madness hip-hop cut-upperty. Very early 90’s stylee but still a lotta fun.
((((7)))) Whole lotta percussion and Mr. Duchamp talking about art & creative ideas.
(((((8)))) Raymond Scott sampled & layered over each other and some random voices about “paperwork”.
((((9)))) Videogame-y electro and voice cuts up of Pamela Zs. Pretty funny in places.
(((((10))))) Very nice mix of slinky electronics/beats and a British artist.
(((((((11))))))) Fantastic mix of Joyce’s voice and Satie lovely piano tones.
((((12)))) Cyclical clarinet (like a dizzy goose) and some tabla beats, classical samples.
(((13))) Continuation of #12 just more tabla.
((14)) Boring and annoying poetry in Portugese and India or Middle Eastern loops behind it..
((15)) Dogs barking, babies hiccupping.
((((16))))) Jazzy and French surrealist (I think) dialogue.
((17)) Bloopy-blorp techno with a shitty beat.
(((18))) Whale sounds, some sultry lady and some OK clicky beats.
(((19))) Perfect use of Raymond Scott & the “Futurerama” concept (the GM idea not the show)
(((20))) Horns, some operatic chanting.
(((21))) Slinky & funky dub, Margritte en françias & scratching.
((22)) Free-jazz, noodling twaddle.
(((((23))))) Very nice modern trip-hop with jazzy bits.
((((24)))) Really short burst that carries over from #23.
((((25)))) Sad, soundtrack-y violin & piano.
((((26)))) Cycling, big loops of very Glass-y sound.
((((27)))) Jazzy off-kilter beats, voice and randomness.
(((28))) Broken glass rumbling around in a lottery ball.
(29) Tinnatus givin’ awfulness.
((((((30)))))) BIG ASS 60’s MOD-FUNK BEATS! Where’d that come from Thurston & co.?
(((31))) Flute & bouncy, wild percussion. Very off-kilter but interesting.
(((32)))) Middle-Eastern horns, modern slippy/bouncy beats.
(((33))) Early 20th century sounds, electronic, layered randomness.
(((34))) Nice collision between old country marches and club beats.
((35)) Pretty generic wailing and tabla beats.
((36)) Confusing randomness.
((37)) So-so techno, with some piece of drones buried underneath.
(((38))) North African flutes & percussion and some dadaist manifesto im Deutsch.
(((39))) Central Asian beats, sitar, more Deutsch speak re: art & related stuff.
(((40))) Einstruzende Neubauten of the dada-era?
((((41)))) Early corporate futurism with the brillant Mr. Scott’s sound.
(((42))) Strummy sounds with Tibetian (I think given the title) chanting.
(((43))) Spacey electronics. Ghost voices.
((44)) Glitchy electronics nothing special
(((((45)))))) WS Burroughs, Iggy & J. Broadrick whatta trio. Gotta love Iggy’s very Michigan accent!

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Charting

2010-01-24 — 2010-03-28
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Mar 28 1
Feb 28 2
Feb 21 2
Feb 14 2
Feb 7 4
Jan 31 1

Track listing

1. Cool Noises
2. Once Loved/A Footnote To Howl (Dj Spooky Remix)
3. Le Buste (Dj Spooky Remix)
4. Imagination
5. Untitled In Cof Minor/A Valentine To Sherwood Anderson (Dj Spooky Remix)
6. Scratch Battle
7. The Creative Act/Interview With George Heard Hamilton/Boujeloud (Solo Drums)/I C
8. The Paperwork Explosion
9. Perpetual Next/Pop Titles 'you?
10. Sarah (Los Angeles Soundtrack)/I Could Never Make That Music Again
11. Eolian Episode/Gnossiene (Dj Spooky Dub Version)"
12. Reed Phase
13. Cika-Laka/Cool Noises/Bbb
14. Dias Dias Dias (Spoken By Caetano Veloso)/Above The Earth/Contacte
15. Rozart Mix
16. Pour Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu (To Have Done With God's Judgment) (Dj Spook
17. One Laptop Theme
18. The Spilled Cup (Dj Spooky Remix)
19. General Motors: Futurama (Interstitial)
20. Erratum Musical (Score For Three Voices)/Voyage For Three
21. Ghost Dub/Le Surréalisme Et Les Questions
22. The First Set - Area 4 (Solo)/A Little Noise In The System (Moog System)
23. // (Dj Spooky Remix)
24. Cinq Études De Bruits: Étude Violette
25. The Need To Be
26. Music In Fifths
27. Poème Électronique
28. Concret Ph
29. One Minute
30. Audience (Dj Spooky Remix)
31. Aftermath Of Creations Dub (In Three Parts)/Dong Lim
32. Dorian Reeds/Aftermath Of Creations Dub (In Three Parts)
33. Corale/Ftp > Bundle/Conduit 23
34. Rumba Lu Georgel/I Know The Power Of Words
35. Pilgrim?S Song (Trala Shepa)/Kala
36. Hommage À John Cage
37. Mandolin/Acid Bassline
38. Mali Mal Hal M'halmaz/Boujeloud (Solo Drums)/Dada-Sprüche
39. Koli Stance/Anna Blume
40. Week End/Ache Lhamo
41. Bendix 1: The Tomorrow People
42. I Can't Look For You/The Palaces Of Gesar's Family (Dj Spooky Remix
43. Incantation For Tape
44. Time?Dot(3)
45. The Western Land