Quotes by DJ Spooky

DJ Spooky

All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks – We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because we don’t have the Koch brothers. It takes a different kind of capital to fight that stuff.

Brother

Different

Fighting

And when I say permanent afternoon, you know, I’m talking like crystal clear, crispy blue sky. All the sudden you didn’t need to sleep as much because it just was difficult. And how that translated into my creative process I still am not quite sure, but it made my relationship to sleep a kind of abstract you know bizarre…

Blue

Sleep

Talking

Antarctic symphony has a geometric relationship to the landscape. It’s saying that this landscape and the minimal kind of, you know I’m talking like seeing ice, is visually kind of eerily minimal.

Ice

Symphony

Talking

Antarctica is one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth. I don’t think that everyone should go there. I also think that we need to respect it as a kind of a national park for the planet. It should be you know put in parentheses.

Beautiful

Needs

Thinking

Antarctica, one of the things that was so remarkable about it was that the ice itself is a kind of pure geometry, so say, for example, if I was facing someone wearing I don’t know, a Joy Division t-shirt with the mountains on it or something like that.

Ice

Joy

Mountain

DJ culture is all about collage – sampling, splicing, dicing – everything is part of the mix, and there are no boundaries between sound sources. When you apply the same logic to the environment, there’s a lot of room for mapping sampling techniques to the environment itself.

Culture

Sound

Technique

DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous.

Criticism

Ironic

Style

Downtown New York, I’m within certain styles of music and I’m also within certain cultural, you know, and literary context. So DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous. You couldn’t fit it into anything and that was the point.

Downtown

New York

Style

First and foremost one, I was never planning on doing this as a long term, so Spooky, I was in college… It was a fun name. I thought it was you know just a fun thing

College

Fun

Names

For me, DJ culture – with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything – predated the “cloud” concept with primitive material like the mixtape. Now we would call it “collaborative filtering” or something technical, but the impulse is the same – gather fragments, make something new. That is how you will bypass the climate-change skeptics: render them totally obsolete.

Clouds

Mixtapes

Records

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Acoustics

Action

Albums

Answers

Art

Artist

Association

Band

Beautiful

Bird

Black

Blue

Book

Breathing

Brother

Buttons

Car

Chance

Chemicals

Cities

Clouds

Cocoons

Collections

College

Contemporary

Creating

Creative

Criticism

Culture

Data

Different

Digital

Doe

Downtown

Drag

Drinking

Dumb

Environmental

Eras

Eye

Fighting

Flying

Fun

Giving

Glasses

Goes On

Going Away

Hands

Heart

Hip Hop

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Quotes by DJ Spooky

DJ Spooky

All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks – We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because we don’t have the Koch brothers. It takes a different kind of capital to fight that stuff.

Antarctic symphony has a geometric relationship to the landscape. It’s saying that this landscape and the minimal kind of, you know I’m talking like seeing ice, is visually kind of eerily minimal.

Antarctica is one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth. I don’t think that everyone should go there. I also think that we need to respect it as a kind of a national park for the planet. It should be you know put in parentheses.

Antarctica, one of the things that was so remarkable about it was that the ice itself is a kind of pure geometry, so say, for example, if I was facing someone wearing I don’t know, a Joy Division t-shirt with the mountains on it or something like that.

DJ culture is all about collage – sampling, splicing, dicing – everything is part of the mix, and there are no boundaries between sound sources. When you apply the same logic to the environment, there’s a lot of room for mapping sampling techniques to the environment itself.

DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous.

First and foremost one, I was never planning on doing this as a long term, so Spooky, I was in college… It was a fun name. I thought it was you know just a fun thing

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