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DJ spooky
Optometry DJ Spooky, That subliminal kid, move jazz forward into the 21st Century with this album.
Artist :
Real Name: Paul Miller
URLs: http://www.djspooky.com
Also records as: DJ Spooky, Paul D. Miller
Records with others as: DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid & Totemplow
Album :
Genre: laptop jazz
Label/Distr.: Thirsty Ear Recordings/Night&Day

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. Earlier this year they released the excellent Matthew Shipp disc Nu Bop, which shared the general working method of Masses but was more interested in rhythmic tension and the age-old pursuit of getting down. Now DJ Spooky has weighed in with Optometry, a sprawling cityscape of an album that absorbs both the ambient/abstract and the booty-shake, and fuses them with a staggering technique and ambition.
N°Tracklisting Rate
01Ibid, d�smarches, ibid
02Reactive Switching Strategies for the Control of Uninhabited Air
03Variation Cybern�tique: Rhythmic Pataphysic (Part I) featuring Daniel Bernard Roumain
04Asphalt (Tome II) featuring Pauline Oliveros, vocals by Carl Hancock Rux
05Optometry featuring Daniel Bernard Roumain, featuring IllyB
06Sequentia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation I)
07Rosemary
08Dementia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation II)
09Parachutes featuring Daniel Carter, vocals by Napoleon (2)
10Absentia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation III) featuring High Priest (2)
11Variation Cybern�tique: Rhythmic Pataphysic (Part II) featuring Daniel Bernard Roumain
12P�riphique
13It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World

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