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 enlarge | Creators: Paul D. Miller, Steve Reich
Publisher: The MIT Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 23276
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 362
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7 x 1.2
ISBN: 0262633639
Dewey Decimal Number: 780.905
EAN: 9780262633635
ASIN: 0262633639
Publication Date: May 31, 2008
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 DJ Spooky's Allstar Essay Compilation on Digital Culture & Sampling has much food for thought and it rocks June 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book shows off Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky's two biggest strengths, the mashup and the teamup. The big name roster didn't deliver scraps; they all provide thoughtful and entertaining essays, for example Jonathan Lethem's essay also features the key to that same essay showing where he "plagiarized" just about ever phrase in the proceeding few pages. Saul Williams, provides a pensive meditation on words as magic, something I was more used to hearing out of Grant Morrison or Alan Moore, but Williams is sincere and Smart. And the inclusion of unsung geniuses like Alex Steinweiss, the inventor of the record jacket (before him there was no art on albums, you only saw their spine at the store) pushes it over the top and into the zone. The included CD is way cool in and of itself; its easy to poopoo such ambitious works, but Spooky lays it all down with love not pretense, throwing snippets of James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs -- all actual spoken word from the Sub Rosa archivce over some avantgarde classical like John Cage, and then enriched by textured groovy beats... Spooky's having a ball and sharing the fun
 Sub par amalgam. June 13, 2008
4 out of 14 found this review helpful
As a disclaimer I am only 100 pages in, but it's been enough to form an opinion, and warnt hose who might be buying this book based on its sub-title.
DJ Spooky is a farce. His writing lacks content, and is more concerned with flashy language and textual slight of hand. He seems to be doing a great job of fooling some people who are as disconnected as he is from DJ/Hip Hop/Sampling culture. Contrary to the back cover's summation of the accompanying cd the musical work is far from "groundbreaking." The drums are weak (ebay acquired sample library, or cheesy keyboard?), and That Subliminal Kid doesn't do much to work his loops aside from just looping them.
Some of the writing thus far has been worth it, some I've skipped outright as it has absolutely nothing to do with sampling, and some I've been dissatisfied with.
If you're looking for a book on sampling you'll have to do a fair amount of sifting here.
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