Just went and saw DJ Spooky at the ICA last night. It fuckin rocked. An early night, and a sit down crowd. He came on about 9 and apologised for playing experimental stuff and that it wasnt going to be a dance party. Then he proceeded to play 45 mins of mind blasting vibes.
He basically played 2 pieces. The first was a mix of mediums and technologies. His tracks and jazz remixes on vinyl, CDs on the side. Some other guy playing samples on top of the whole thing. All under two screens, playing off Spookies laptop. A weird trance enducing mix of some french film, subtitled by some screaming marxist critical theorist, with heavily mess up concert footage, burning through. The whole effect was truly hypnotic. I had to be snapped out of it afterwards, and I still bark like a dog when I hear scratching 
The second peice was something new. Playing more vinyl and scratching, a flash animation of pics from the “war on terrorism”. You could see where Spookies sympathies lay. Not red, white and blue.
At 45 mins the whole thing was short and sweet, I would have lapped up more.
June 8th, 2002 at 5:11 pm
looks much the same to me what are you on about?
June 9th, 2002 at 8:29 pm
:p
it’s not about style it’s about substance. it’s not what you see that matters it’s what you DONT see. negative space.