Biography

Paul D. Miller, better known as DJ Spooky, was at the forefront of a new movement in DJ culture and electronica in the 1990s in New York City. Purveying a self-described "illbient" aesthetic, he merged hip-hop, dub, dance music, reggae, jazz, the avant-garde, and more. His work blurred the lines not only between genres, but between mixing and performance. A cultural theorist as well as a musician, Spooky's writings have been published in both essay and book form. In addition to his solo projects, he's collaborated with everyone from electronic experimentalist Scanner to neo-classical string players the Freight Elevator Quartet.

Top Tracks

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• 007 Shanty Town

• A Yah We Deh

• Asphalt (tome Ii)

• Azadi (the New Complexity)

• B Side Wins Again (2005)

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  Dazed And Confused

  Dis Poem Burns Babylon: Under Tight Wraps

  Disco Devil

  Downtempo Manifesto

  Experimental Asyncronicity

  Fever

  File Under Futurism

  Flat Foot Hustling

  Get Your Snack On

  Ibid, Désmarches, Ibid

  Journey

  Jungle Soldier

  Know Unkowns

  Metatron

  No No No

  Object Unknown

  Papua New Guinea

  Périphique

  Post-human Sophistry

  Rain

  Reactive Switching Strategies For The Control Of Uninhabited Air

  Rudy A Message To You

  Shining Through

  Soul Rebel

  The Art Of War (back To The Lab)

  The Russians Are Coming (take Five)

  The Vengeance Of Galaxy 5

  Time Out Of Joint

  Tremens

  Under Mi Sensi

Discography

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• The Secret Song [Bonus DVD]

  Thirsty Ear Recordings

  2009

• Drums of Death

  Thirsty Ear Recordings

  2005

• Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series Mastermix

  Thirsty Ear Recordings

  2004

• Riddim Clash

  Play Records

  2004

• Dubtometry

  Thirsty Ear Recordings

  2003

• Optometry

  Thirsty Ear Recordings

  2002

• File Under Futurism

  Caipirinha Records

  1999

• The Quick and the Dead

  Meld Series / Sulfur Records / Sulphur

  1999

• Riddim Warfare

  Out Post

  1998

• Necropolis: The Dialogic Project

  Knitting Factory Works

  1996

• Songs of a Dead Dreamer

  Asphodel

  1996