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DJ Spooky

Person · male · United States · Washington, D.C. · born 1970 · recording since 1996

American DJ and music producer (born 1970)

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Also known as DC Spooks · DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid · DJ Spooky The Subliminal Kid · DJ Spooky vs Twilight Circus · Paul D. Miller · The Subliminal Kid · +2 more

Debut: 1996
Recording span: 22 years
Release groups: 47
Timeline events: 19
Wiki language versions: 8

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Timeline

19 events▣ Album 17◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1

1970s
1. 6 September 1970 · Birth
  Born 1970-09-06
  source: wikidata
1990s
1. 1996 · Debut release
  Debut release: Galactic Funk
  First documented EP in the MusicBrainz discography.
  source: musicbrainz
2. 2 April 1996 · Album
  Album: Songs of a Dead Dreamer
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 1997 · Album
  Album: MSN on Air
  Album (DJ-mix)
  source: musicbrainz
4. 21 September 1998 · Album
  Album: Riddim Warfare
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 1999 · Album
  Album: DJ Toolz / Manifold Tracks
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
6. 1999 · Album
  Album: The Quick and the Dead
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
7. 21 September 1999 · Album
  Album: File Under Futurism
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2000s
1. September 2001 · Album
  Album: Nest
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. July 2002 · Album
  Album: Optometry
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 19 April 2004 · Album
  Album: Riddim Clash
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 26 April 2005 · Album
  Album: Drums of Death
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 23 October 2006 · Album
  Album: Riddim Come Forward
  Album (DJ-mix)
  source: musicbrainz
6. 2009 · Album
  Album: Universal Sound: Subliminal Minded
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
7. 10 June 2009 · Album
  Album: The Secret Song
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2010s
1. 2012 · Album
  Album: Ice Music
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 18 June 2013 · Album
  Album: Of Water and Ice
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 28 August 2015 · Album
  Album: Rebirth of a Nation
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 21 April 2018 · Album
  Album: DJ Spooky Presents Phantom Dancehall
  Album
  source: musicbrainz

Biography

English biography878 words · 4 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1379336907

Biography

Paul Dennis Miller (born September 6, 1970), known professionally as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is an American electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics "illbient" or "trip hop". He is a turntablist, record producer, philosopher, and author. He borrowed his stage name from the character The Subliminal Kid in the novel Nova Express by William S. Burroughs. Having studied philosophy and French literature at Bowdoin College, he has become a professor of Music Mediated Art at the European Graduate School and is the executive editor of Origin magazine.

Career

Spooky began writing science fiction and formed a collective called Soundlab with several other artists.
In the mid-1990s, Spooky began recording a series of singles and EPs. His debut LP was Songs of a Dead DreamerSongs of a Dead Dreamer2 April 1996 · Studio albumSpotify YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 16 tracks1Intro1:032The Vengeance of Galaxy 51:133Phase Interlude3:234Galactic Funk (Tau Ceti mix)6:485Hologrammic Dub7:066Dance of the Morlocks1:007Juba5:258Thoughts Like Rain5:429Anansi Abstrakt11:3610Grapheme (DJ Spooky remix)10:5211Phase Interlude, Part 21:0612Nihilismus Dub4:1413The Terran Invasion of Alpha Centauri Year 27946:3214Time Out of Joint1:0715High Density6:3216Outtro0:20. Spooky contributed to the AIDS benefit albums Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip (1996) and Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon (1998) produced by the Red Hot Organization. Riddim Warfare included collaborations with Kool Keith and other figures in indie rock, including Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore. In 2001, he released the CD Under the Influence.
He returned in 2002 with Modern Mantra. That same year saw the release of Optometry, a collaboration with avant-jazz players Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Guillermo E. Brown and Joe McPhee. In a classical vein, he collaborated with the ST-X Ensemble in performances of the music of Iannis Xenakis.
DJ Spooky collaborated with Ryuichi Sakamoto on projects including The Discord Symphony. The concert and album were released as an enhanced CD containing both a full audio program and multimedia computer files. It features spoken-word performances by Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Patti Smith, David Sylvian, DJ Spooky, David Torn, and Bernardo Bertolucci.
He collaborated with Iannis Xenakis on the recording of Kraanerg, with the STX-Ensemble in 1997.
2005 saw the release of Drums of Death, DJ Spooky's CD based on sessions he recorded with Dave Lombardo of Slayer. Other guest artists include Chuck D of Public Enemy and Vernon Reid of Living Colour. The record was co-produced by Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto.
DJ Spooky joined the ninth and eleventh annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers. He was also a judge for the third Independent Music Awards.
DJ Spooky has said that much of his work "deals with the notion of the encoded gesture or the encrypted psychology of how music affects the whole framework of what the essence of 'humaness' [sic] is... To me at this point in the 21st century, the notion of the encoded sound is far more of a dynamic thing, especially when you have these kinds of infodispersion systems running, so I'm fascinated with the unconscious at this point."

Other work

His work as an artist has appeared in a variety of contexts such as the Whitney Biennial; the Venice Biennale; the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; The Andy Warhol Museum; Paula Cooper Gallery; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and many other museums and galleries. In 2007, his work appeared in the Africa Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennial. This remix of music from Africa was also distributed freely online, and promoted by the blog Boing Boing. "You give away a certain amount of your stuff, and then the cultural economy of cool kicks in", DJ Spooky said.
In 2006, the song "Battle of Erishkigal", co-written by DJ Spooky and Frank Fitzpatrick, was featured in the anime-inspired film The Rebel Angel.
In August 2009, DJ Spooky visited the Republic of Nauru in the Micronesian South Pacific to do research and gather material for a project in development, with a working title of The Nauru Elegies: A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture.
DJ Spooky's multimedia performance piece Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica was commissioned by BAM for the 2009 Next Wave Festival; the Hopkins Center for the Arts/Dartmouth College; UCSB Arts & Lectures; Melbourne International Arts Festival; and the Festival dei 2 Mondi in Spoleto, Italy.
DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation, a remix of D. W. Griffith's 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, was commissioned in 2004 by the Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Wiener Festwochen, and the Festival d'Automne a Paris.
In 2010, Miller formed The Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation, a contemporary arts organization dedicated to exploring dialog between Oceania and the rest of the world.
In 2011, Miller collaborated with Ballet Austin Artistic Director Stephen Mills on a ballet work titled Echo Boom as part of The Mozart Project.
In 2016, DJ Spooky composed a New Forms duet for carillon and a computational re-synthesis of the Tsar Bell, a Russian bell which broke before it was ever rung.
In 2017, Miller created a score for Body and Soul, the groundbreaking 1925 silent film starring Paul Robeson in his motion picture debut.
In 2017, DJ Spooky started composing the music for Intercepted, a podcast produced by news publication The Intercept.

Personal Life

Miller was born in Washington, D.C. His father, Paul E. Miller, led a panel of 12 African American law professors who assisted Angela Davis's defense lawyers during her California trial. His mother Rosemary Reed Miller was an historian and owned the Washington, D.C., boutique Toast and Strawberries.
DJ Spooky has a daughter with Fumika Yamamoto, born in 2011.

Discography & profile

Normalised profile

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Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	8	49.7th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	47	93.9th
Studio albums	17	95.5th
Awards recorded	0	0th
Timeline events	19	93.4th
Recording span (years)	22	49.6th
Genres	10	96.5th

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Discography (47 release groups · 17 studio albums)

Albums · 17

Songs of a Dead Dreamer
1996 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:13:59
1Intro1:03
2The Vengeance of Galaxy 51:13
3Phase Interlude3:23
4Galactic Funk (Tau Ceti mix)6:48
5Hologrammic Dub7:06
6Dance of the Morlocks1:00
7Juba5:25
8Thoughts Like Rain5:42
9Anansi Abstrakt11:36
10Grapheme (DJ Spooky remix)10:52
11Phase Interlude, Part 21:06
12Nihilismus Dub4:14
13The Terran Invasion of Alpha Centauri Year 27946:32
14Time Out of Joint1:07
15High Density6:32
16Outtro0:20
MSN on Air
1997 · DJ-mix
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 59:08
1MSN on Air Introduction0:04
2DJ Spooky Introduction0:28
3DJ Spooky Website Advertisement0:16
4Live Set at Knitting Factory Part 117:52
5Live Set at Knitting Factory Part 27:49
6DJ Spooky Interstitial Program ID0:15
7Live Set at Knitting Factory Part 35:32
8Live Set at Knitting Factory Part 419:59
9Live Set at Knitting Factory Part 56:44
10MSN on Air (outro)0:09
Riddim Warfare
1998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:12:50
1Pandemonium1:30
2Synchronic Disjecta4:26
3Object Unknown5:14
4It's Nice Not to Lose Your Mind0:36
5Dialectical Transformation I (A Parallax View)1:34
6Post-Human Sophistry3:53
7Quilombo Ex Optico3:33
8Rekonstruction4:42
9Scientifik3:43
10A Conversation3:26
11Peace in Zaire8:00
12Dialectical Transformation II (Du nouveau monde)1:15
13Degree Zero4:51
14Roman Planetaire3:58
15Bass Digitalis1:02
16Polyphony of One6:20
17Riddim Warfare3:20
18The Nerd1:44
19Dialectical Transformation III (Soylent Green)2:12
20Theme of the Drunken Sailor5:19
21Twilight Fugue2:12
DJ Toolz / Manifold Tracks
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 57:25
1Backwards Forwards5:21
2NYC Cultural Warfare5:29
3Delirium Tremens3:09
4Conduit 237:18
5Conduit 243:21
6Quattro4:51
7Tautophony5:05
8Heterotopean Trace4:54
9Haunted Beat3:20
10Pataphysica Morpholo5:55
11Fact & Fiction2:45
12Form & Function5:57
The Quick and the Dead
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 37:52
1Journey5:06
2Edison0:59
3Uncanny5:31
4Ngugi6:05
5Dialogic1:48
6Channel Float4:03
7Kybernetes1:36
8Guanxi3:52
9Synchronism 20:33
10Heterotopian5:37
11Snowshore2:01
12Synchronism0:31
13Creaking Door0:10
File Under Futurism
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 58:47
1File Under Futurism (Grooveprotocol mix)7:22
2Interstitial A2:20
3Bring Me My Mental Health6:59
4The RCA Mark II Synthesizer0:52
5Downtempo Manifesto3:56
6Infrared4:19
7The Revolution Will Be Streamed6:16
8Experimental Asyncronicity8:12
9Interstitial B0:51
10This Is What Happens (live)7:01
11Variation on a Freight Theme (live)5:25
12Chromatic Aberration5:14
Nest
2001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 50:02
1Mother Swatch Presents1:36
2In the High Atlas1:41
3An Embarrassment Artist6:23
4The Birds0:52
5Asylum1:28
6Interlude Paris0:12
7Crime6:57
8Lord Cholmondeley1:28
9Ganges River1:35
10Glass Beads4:34
11In Treetops3:29
12Drinking5:02
13Dead3:34
14Star Chart3:14
15Foreign Matter6:11
16Closing Credits1:46
Optometry
2002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 1:14:03
1Ibid, désmarches, ibid5:40
2Reactive Switching Strategies for the Control of Uninhabited Air6:15
3Variation Cybernétique: Rhythmic Pataphysic, Part I2:48
4Asphalt (Tome II)7:04
5Optometry11:36
6Squentia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation I)7:04
7Rosemary4:11
8Dementia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation II)3:34
9Parachutes5:26
10Absentia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation III)3:52
11Variation Cybernétique: Rhythmic Pataphysic, Part II2:13
12Périphique9:08
13It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World5:12
Riddim Clash
2004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 43:35
1Intro2:20
2Dub Smasher2:28
3Other Planes of Dub5:14
4Dust Storm on NGC 70237:48
5Riddim Clash - Heavyweight Style5:11
6Phase Anansi4:18
7Gamma Burst3:58
8Interlude1:56
9Dub Cultivator4:19
10Interlude 21:51
11Intergalactic Dub4:12
Drums of Death
2005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 52:43
1Universal Time Signal0:26
2Brother's Gonna Work It Out (2005)4:41
3Quantum Cyborg Drum Machine3:26
4Guitar DJ Tool Element (Vernon Reid)1:28
5Metatron3:56
6Assisted Suicide3:16
7Kultur Krieg3:56
8Sounds From Planet X0:38
9B-Side Wins Again (2005)5:33
10Incipit Zarathustra4:06
11A Darker Shade of Bleak4:00
12The Art of War (Back to the Lab)2:36
13Terra Nullius (Cyborg Rebellion on Colony Planet Zyklon 15)3:56
14Public Enemy #1 (2005)4:31
15Obscure Disorder (Ghost Hacked!!!)5:29
16Particle Storm0:45
Riddim Come Forward
2006 · DJ-mix
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Universal Sound: Subliminal Minded
2009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:18:57
1A New Dawn3:33
2The War of Ideas1:29
3Measure by Measure3:51
45 Million Ways to Kill a Ceo 20095:17
5Solar Jazz3:53
6Creation Rebel4:47
7No, No, No (DJ Spooky remix)4:03
8Revolution (disco dub)4:53
9Dis Poem (remix)3:26
10Fakir (remix)4:56
11Electrisiti3:09
12Uganda3:26
13Welcome to Dubrock3:48
14Synchronism2:26
15B‐Side Wins Again5:33
16Satyagraha5:29
17The Secret Song3:40
18Rising (remix)4:16
19City Life (DJ Spooky remix)7:02
The Secret Song
2009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:22:55
1Intro- The War of Ideas1:26
25 Million Ways to Kill a CEO4:58
3Multiphonic3:11
4Dazed and Confused6:22
5Measure by Measure3:42
6The Secret Song3:20
7Myxamatosis3:57
8Where I'm At4:35
9L'Autre5:09
10Heliocentric3:36
11Azadi Two (The New Complexity)4:40
12Composite Refraction Drum Solo3:02
13Pax Per Fidem3:21
14Iago's Lament2:07
15Known Unknowns3:07
16Salt Satyagraha3:56
17Point- Counterpoint3:41
18No Quarter Dub5:34
19Cognitiva4:52
20Duality4:20
21Bionic Dub3:59
Ice Music
2012 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 41:49
1Ice Sonification4:05
2Arctic Rhythms Quartet 15:40
3Antarctic Rhythm Quartet 1 (Invincible Hip Hop mix)4:18
4Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 1 A 1 (remix)3:20
5Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 2 A 1 (remix)4:18
6Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 3 Canone All'Unisono. A 1 (remix)4:20
7Oceanic5:27
8Go Down Moses / Winds of Change10:21
Of Water and Ice
2013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 44:59
1Of Water and Ice3:39
2Antarctic Rhythms (Invincible Hip Hop mix)4:17
3Somnium4:34
4Dark Skies3:22
5Adagio in Blue5:10
6The Secret Doctrine1:04
7Nocturne4:47
8Check Your Math4:05
9Arctic Rhythms (Dubstep mix)4:34
10Antarctic Dawn5:22
11Of Water and Ice (Dubstep remix)4:05
Rebirth of a Nation
2015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:19:12
1The Broken Compass (Intro Theme)1:29
2A Nation Divided5:16
3North Isn't South2:58
4The Most Dangerous Woman in America3:17
5Stoneman3:24
6Cameron4:10
7The Parallax Waltz4:44
8Gettysburg Requiem4:35
9What Would Moses Say?6:12
10Lincoln and Booth Get Acquainted5:50
11Dixie as Anti-Utopia4:13
12Blackface (We Are All Sharecroppers Now)5:45
13Getting Biblical3:33
14The Election and Results: The New Montage3:39
15Gus, Elsie, Silas and the Klan6:03
16Black Militia2:06
17Ride of the Klansmen6:13
18The Next Election3:41
19Ghost of a Smile2:04
DJ Spooky Presents Phantom Dancehall
2018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks
A1Enter the Arena
A2Hot Gal
A3Dash It in the Mirror
A4Why I Come
A5No Return
B1Phantom in the Dancehall
B2Music of the Time
B3Showtime (Dynamite Selection)
B4Jah Dub

EP · 9

EP release groups, by first release date
Year	Title	First release
1996	Galactic FunkSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 4 tracks · 29:47 A1Galactic Funk6:34 A2Juba11:18 B1Murderah Style7:19 B2The Vengeance of Galaxy 54:36	1996
1998	Synthetic Fury EPSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 7 tracks · 28:10 1You Are About to Witness1:24 2Dumb Mutha Fucka6:12 3Sum Ill Shit (Clinton Street dub)5:36 4Synthetic Fury7:05 5Demonseed0:37 6Synaptic Dissonance6:09 7Last Element1:07	1998
1999	Form or FunctionSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 3 tracks · 16:28 A1Form or Function5:44 A2Fact or Fiction?2:37 B1Attraction and Repulsion of the Weaker Particles8:07	1999
1999	Subsidia PataphysicaSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 3 tracks · 20:59 A1Subsidia Pataphysica5:39 A2Morpholo3:12 BTatara12:08	1999
1999	Delerium TremensSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 3 tracks · 14:05 A1Heterotopean Trace4:56 A2Delerium Tremens3:08 BMove Out6:01	July 1999
1999	Subliminal Minded: The E.P.Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 12 tracks · 36:38 1Intro: Anagramme Oulippienne0:40 2Rekonstruction (Rhyme and Reason mix)3:46 3Peace in Zaire (DJ Wally’s Sci‐Hi remix)6:14 4Dr. Satan’s Echo Chamber0:20 5DJ Spookey vs The Dub Pistols Peace in Zaire mix (Dub Pistols inna NYC Style)4:58 6Journey Anagramme Oulippienne II1:07 7Futureproof in Zaire (Karsh Kale remix)1:58 8It’s Nice Not to Lose Your Mind in ’990:28 9Rapper’s Relight7:13 10It’s Nice Not to Lose Your Mind in ’99 (reprise)0:30 11Dialectical Transformation III (Peace in Rwanda mix)6:54 12Grapheme: Ghetto of the Mind2:30	19 October 1999
2000	AnodyneSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 7 tracks · 28:35 A1Anodyne (Main)6:21 A2Anodyne (Core)4:32 A3Anodyne (Peripheral)3:33 B1Cloud Chamber4:10 B2200 Hurts4:01 B3Anodyne (Drift)3:54 B44 AM Dub2:04	2000
2000	Futurism EPSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 4 tracks A1File Under Futurism (Grooveprotocol mix) A2Osmose B1File Under Futurism (A Guy Called Gerald jungle mix) B2File Under Futurism (A Guy Called Gerald ambient mix)	2000
2007	Contribution to OLPCSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 4 tracks · 11:15 1Moon Rain4:39 2Scratch Battle3:19 3One Laptop2:19 4One Laptop Drum Solo0:58	12 October 2007

Album · 12

Album release groups, by first release date
Year	Title	Notes	First release
1996	DJ Spooky vs. Alec EmpireSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 4 tracks Disc 12 tracks 1[untitled] 2[untitled] Disc 22 tracks 1[untitled] 2[untitled]	Live,DJ-mix	1996
1996	Necropolis: The Dialogic ProjectSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 17 tracks · 1:15:51 1Intro1:00 2Journey (Paraspace mix)4:23 3Sistrum (Grapheme remix)12:46 4Byzar Prologue4:07 5Byzar4:44 6Le Segue0:40 7Joe Nation Prologue2:35 8Zvona (Voda mix)3:48 9Sub Dub Prologue0:57 10Soundcheck6:57 11Heterotopian Trace Prologue1:03 12Heterotopian Trace4:30 13DJ SoulSlinger Prologue4:00 14Abducted (U.F.O. mix)9:49 15Quark Soup5:01 16Outro8:32 17End0:59	Compilation	19 March 1996
2001	Under the Influence: Mixed by DJ Spooky That Subliminal KidSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 26 tracks · 1:13:37 1Sound2:09 2Papua New Guinea (dub mix)1:14 33:7:83:49 4Monster Dub3:22 5Peace in Zaire Mix (Dub Pistols inna NYC Style)4:47 6Show Stoppa (Show Case mix)4:17 7Live Jam1:17 8Michelle3:25 9…Leave Our Planet3:51 10The Raw Uncut3:01 11Flight IC4081:47 12Anger (Talvin Singh remix)2:03 13Music Is…2:50 14Sycosis/Double Zero Zero2:00 15Bade Saba (DJ Spooky remix)1:30 16Laundry (DJ Spooky remix with Of Unknown Origins’ “For the Love”)2:52 17The Bay-Bronx Bridge1:58 18Suprize Packidge (Automator remix)1:21 19Rock the Nation2:28 20From “Get Your Snack On”0:58 21Get Your Snack On2:08 22I Feel Like $1003:31 23Hover Dub3:26 24Twice the First Time3:57 25Tremens3:20 26Sebsi Dub6:16	Compilation	18 September 2001
2002	Abstrakt AggregateSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 8 tracks · 1:19:31 1Section One: Mega-Mix!!!!: Ghost in the Shell Intro / Collage Intro / 20th Century Fox Fanfare / Do You Speak DJ? / The Countdown / Get Ur Freak On / Brother Rap / James Brown Megamix / Message in a Bottle / Holy Calamity (Bear Witness) / Glass Onion / Encore / Decehall Party / Jungle Boogie / Dancehall Queen / Whylin' Out (RJD2 remix) / Hip Hop Is Dead / Trick Me / Uptown Anthem / Hip Hop Hooray / B-Side Wins Again / Return to Brixton / Soul Rebel (DJ Spooky remix) / Body Movin' (Kut Masta Kurt remix) / This Is Why I'm Hot / Commerce of Grief / Kemuri / Im Nin' Alu / Experiments in Synthetic Rhythm / Ghost in the Shell (excerpt)55:53 2City Life3:48 3Afro-Beat Revolution (DJ Spooky mega-mix)3:01 4Soul Kitchen (DJ Spooky remix)3:04 5Rising4:15 6No, No, No (DJ Spooky remix)4:07 7Dis Poem (DJ Spooky remix)3:13 8Mono ni kami2:10	Compilation	2002
2002	Modern MantraSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 26 tracks · 1:14:17 1Heaven Dips1:09 2Lifted1:21 3On the Dub-ble2:01 4Double Trouble1:45 5Analyze4:07 6Cargo / Sweet Melody2:08 7Posterity2:12 8Gangsta Shit / Dieu Reconnaîtra Les Siens2:34 9All that Dub0:52 10Skip Town2:10 11Dinner With Blockhead1:15 12Zxero4:04 13Dark Plot / Tobira 22:45 14Traffic / The Sighting5:26 15Personal3:49 16Combustion Chamber / Tranquility Base2:56 17Babel1:17 18Double Dragon2:48 19The OG3:54 20Alpha3:49 21Requiem for Ra2:28 22Spyworm2:56 23Stone's Eggs5:08 24Understand3:12 25Elevatorium (Sub Dub remix)3:31 26Myopia4:40	Compilation	21 May 2002
2003	Adbusters: Live Without Dead TimeSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 31 tracks · 1:10:12 1The Pledge2:19 2Interlude: Journey into Sound1:05 3Gross Domestic Product0:41 4Coming Up2:25 5Muslim Chant / Buy Nothing Day0:57 6Basic Beat / Dynamite Fresh3:45 7That Subliminal Kid and the Last Mohican3:35 8Why Is This Commercial1:54 9Give Blood (DJ Spooky Remix)3:40 10Re:volution3:15 11The First Conspiracy (Drum Solo)0:54 12Reluctant Warrior2:00 13Rivers of Dub4:32 14Dubtometry Interlude0:31 15State Extension1:13 16Vajra Kilaya Mix1:04 17Starbucks1:02 18Rock the Nation (The Dawning)3:12 19Deep Space 9mm2:21 20Revolverlution2:04 21Satisfied2:28 22Famous Animal2:37 23Asylum of Dub2:05 24As Yet Untitled2:51 25Leaving Babylon3:19 26Nuclear War2:37 27New World Worder2:18 28End the Vietnam War (DJ Spooky remix)4:57 29Pink Frosty Demo3:16 30Buy Nothing Day Ad in Japanese0:13 31Human Beings Want to Be Happy1:02	Compilation,DJ-mix	2003
2004	Rhythm ScienceSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 33 tracks · 1:18:56 1Afterimage / Sussan Deyhim - The First Reading / [traditional] - Tibetan Evening Music1:57 2Poesi / Antonin Artaud - Alienation et magie noire1:36 3Oscillations (Milky remix)2:20 4Encode / E. E. cummings - Let's From Some Loud Unworld's Most Rightful Wrong2:20 5Zeta Reticulli / Gertrude Stein - If I Told Him, A Complete Portrait of Picasso3:10 6Accidents and Emergencies (instrumental)1:39 7Oscillations (Vedic's Live Pop remix) / Scanner & Freeform vs. Michael Mayer - Biological Closure / Kurt Schwitters - Ursonate4:15 8Kali Rising / Tristan Tzara - Pour sompte (Phases, 1949)2:20 9April (Oval remix) / James Joyce - Anna Livia Plurabelle (Finnegans Wake)2:47 10April (Oval remix) / Oval vs. Main - SDII Audio Template / David Shea - Satiricon / Marcel Duchamp - À l'infinitif3:43 11Sanctus1:02 12Chrysanthemum Haradjani / Meira Asher & Guy Harries - Girl1:02 13Darba Del Hameni / Jean-Luc Fafchamps - Ground1:05 14Is It Now?3:17 15Bitchley's Kow Korn / Hugo Distler - In Principio (Easter Nocturnal Liturgy)4:33 16Fuse / William S. Burroughs & Martin Olson - The Five Steps2:39 17Atavistic Endeavor / Scanner - Control Phantom / Merzbow - Lux Automobile (Krokodil Rock mix)1:53 18Afterimage / Vladimir Maïakovski - Une aventure extraordinaire arrivée À Vladimir Maïakovski, en Été A la datcha1:32 19D'un Cahier d'Esquisses2:20 20Memoires d'Un surfeur au bord du désert2:10 21Bad Day For Wasps0:54 22Dada Cat1:23 23Indigo2:39 24Suite #11 / Bill Laswell & Trilok Gurtu - Nothing1:56 25Brin / Bill Laswell - Dislocation4:41 26One Night @ The 1001 / [traditional] - Tibetan Evening Music / Jon Hassell - Map of Dusk3:47 27With the Flow Against the Current / Gnaoua De Abenb Binizi - Jellaba Titara / Guillaume Apollinaire - Pont mirabeau1:46 28Again and Again / Brion Gysin - Violin Solo (One Night @ The 1001) / Gilles Deleuze - Selected Readings3:43 29Drum Break (Machine Chop) / Morton Feldman - Triadic Memories / David Toop - Tricyrtis Latifalia3:26 30Subnubus1:50 31Remix of Konstantin Raudive2:00 32Morning High2:38 33The Last Reading0:33	Compilation	10 February 2004
2004	Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series MastermixSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 46 tracks · 2:02:43 Disc 111 tracks · 45:30 1Stellar (1,2,3 remix)0:32 2CD:Dir→Gesture→←N←Bla Theory_rmx3:35 3Travelogue 1: NYC to Hawaii (DJ Wally remix)3:33 4Lingua Ex Machina (remix)1:58 5Nommas Ascending (remix)4:21 6Maldoror’s Gambit (remix)5:05 7Not in Our Name (remix)5:24 8Bass Pressure (mix)4:50 9Anansi’s Gambit (remix)1:52 10Ibid/Asphalt-Otikon (remix)5:26 11Craig Taborn - Shining Through (Val-Inc. remix)8:54 Disc 235 tracks · 1:17:13 1Unforgettable Journey0:37 2Lingua Ex Machina (remix)3:28 3Travelogue 1: NYC to Hawaii3:30 4SVP / Mad Professor’s Interlude1:33 5Untitled0:57 6Untitled2:21 7Nu Bop / Scrapbook0:32 8Nu Bop2:47 9Not in Our Name / Nu Bop3:29 10Travelogue II: Medley2:21 11Nommos Ascending3:43 12Bass Pressure Mix2:40 13Ananda Rotation (The DJ Spooky remix)2:01 14Real Is Surreal2:46 15Optometrix3:04 16Alter Echo’s Interlude / Mad Professor’s Interlude1:45 17Out of the Blue1:44 18Jungle Soldier1:05 19Anansi’s Gambit (remix)1:41 20Slow Horn2:55 21SVP0:50 22Scrapbook1:49 23Visions0:25 24Urban Shadows2:43 25Dementia Absentia (remix)1:47 26Nebula Interlude0:46 27CD:Dir→Gesture→←N←Bla Theory_rmx4:18 28More and More1:45 29Maldoror’s Gambit (remix)4:01 30Song of Hope1:41 31Mist3:08 32I Spy3:00 33Double Cross2:24 34Golden Age (The Val-Inc remix)2:33 35Cosmic World1:04	Compilation	22 June 2004
2005	Collected Ambient Tracks '94-'05Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:15:19 1Anodyne Ambient3:41 2Conduit 243:23 3Conduit 237:21 4Osmose4:26 5Fact & Fiction2:52 6Form & Function6:11 7Reciprocal Presupposition8:07 8Soon Forward5:33 9Glitch Music3:21 10Eracism (If/When)5:17 11FTP>SND6:00 12Anansi's Gambit (DJ Spooky's On the Island of the Lost Souls Mix)7:17 13Why Patterns5:48 14Gnossienne (Satie)6:02	Compilation	31 August 2005
2006	DJ Spooky Presents In Fine StyleSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 34 tracks · 1:54:55 Disc 118 tracks · 58:16 1Sweet Like Candy3:47 2Nice Nice2:46 3007 Shanty Town2:34 4Funky, Funky Reggae2:48 5Shades of Hudson3:23 6Summertime3:12 7Disco Devil7:53 8Jah Jah Man2:59 9Lama Lava4:16 10Come Together3:03 11Old Fashion Way2:35 12Rain2:24 13Your Ace From Outer Space2:53 14The Rooster2:47 15The Trial of Pama Dice2:14 16Ba Ba Boom3:20 17Fever2:26 18Morning Sun2:56 Disc 216 tracks · 56:39 1DJ's Choice3:16 2Screaming Target3:40 3The Great Musical Battle3:33 4The Russians Are Coming (take Five)3:42 5Popcorn2:09 6Brother Noah3:48 7Reform Institute3:05 8Bridgeport Dub3:51 9King Tubby's Explosion Dub4:12 10Dynamic Fashion Way2:52 11Yah We Deh6:28 12Here Comes the Judge3:30 13Flat Foot Hustling2:39 14Hot Sauce (a.k.a. the Agro Man Is Back)2:11 15Rudy a Message to You2:45 16Rough Rider (live)4:58	Compilation	2006
2007	Creation RebelSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 14 tracks · 55:59 1Creation Rebel4:49 2Mr. Brown (remix)3:52 3Revolution (disco dub)4:55 4No No No (remix)4:05 5Dis Poem Burns Babylon3:28 6Under Mi Sensi (remix)4:21 7East of the River Nile (remix)5:06 8Dis Poem Burns Babylon - V.2.4:41 9Freedom Reign5:02 10Soul Rebel (remix)4:05 11Under Mi Sleng Teng (remix)3:20 12Mr. Brown (a cappella)3:27 13Babylon Burning1:36 14Dub of the Traveller (bonus Beats)3:12	Compilation	16 October 2007
2008	Sound Unbound: Excerpts and Allegories From the Sub Rosa ArchivesSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 45 tracks · 1:19:43 1Cool Noises1:46 2Once Loved / A Footnote to Howl (DJ Spooky remix)3:10 3Le Buste (DJ Spooky remix)2:58 4Imagination0:37 5Untitled in Cof Minor / A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (DJ Spooky remix)4:28 6Scratch Battle2:30 7The Creative Act / Interview With George Hard Hamilton / Boujeloud (Solo Drums) / I Could Never Make That Music Again1:01 8The Paperwork Explosion2:29 9Perceptual Next / Pamela Z Pop Titles You1:58 10Sarah (Los Angeles Soundtrack) / I Could Never Make That Music Again1:22 11Eolain Episode / Erik Satie - Gnossiene (DJ Spooky dub version)2:42 12Reed Phase2:28 13Cika-Laka / Cool Noises / Bbb1:44 14Dias Dias Dias (Spoken by Caetano Veloso) / Above the Earth / Contacte1:44 15Rozart Mix0:40 16Pour finir avec le jugement de dieu (To Have Done with God's Judgement) (DJ Spooky remix)2:10 17One Laptop Theme1:31 18The Spilled Cup (DJ Spooky remix)1:30 19General Motors: Futurama (Interstitial)1:04 20Erratum Musical (Score for 3 Voices) / Voyage à trois0:48 21Ghost Dub / Le surréalisme et les questions2:05 22The First Set-Area 4 (Solo) / A Little Noise in the System (Moog System)0:52 23// (DJ Spooky remix)2:29 24Cinq Études De Bruits: Etude Violette0:16 25The Need to Be2:13 26Music in Fifths1:48 27Poème Électronique2:46 28Concret PH0:29 29One Minute1:00 30Audience (DJ Spooky remix)2:42 31Aftermath of Creations Dub (In Three Parts) / Dong Lim1:27 32Dorian Reeds / Aftermath of Creations Dub (In Three Parts)2:14 33Corale / FTP>Bundle / Conduit 230:27 34Rumba Lu Georgei / I Know the Power of Words2:08 35Pilgrim's Song (Trala Shepa) / Kala2:07 36Hommage à John Cage0:25 37Mandolin / Acid Bassline1:23 38Mali Mal Hal M'Halmaz / Boujeloud (Solo Drums) / Dada-Sprüche2:01 39Koli Stance / Anna Blume1:51 40Week End / Ache Lharmo1:25 41Bendix 1: The Tomorrow People1:00 42I Can't Look for You / The Palaces of Gesar's Family (DJ Spooky's remix)2:10 43Incantation for Tape0:44 44Time... Dot (3)0:50 45The Western Land4:11	Compilation,DJ-mix	7 April 2008

Single · 4

Single release groups, by first release date
Year	Title	First release
1998	Object UnknownSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 6 tracks · 30:12 1Object Unknown (Mothership Connection mix) (album version)5:21 2Object Unknown (Funky Redneck mix)3:47 3Object Unknown (Piano Roll Blue mix)5:16 4Object Unknown (The Placebo Effect)5:14 5Object Unknown (Mothership Connection instrumental mix)5:19 6Object Unknown (Piano Roll Blue instrumental mix)5:15	1998
1999	Paysage InsoliteSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 3 tracks A1Conduit 23 A2Conduit 24 BTakemura 1-2-3	1999
2002	Fractal TransmissionSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 3:39 1Fractal Transmission3:39	April 2002
—	Creation RebelSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 1:19:10 1[unknown]1:19:10	—

Other · 4

Other release groups, by first release date
Year	Title	Notes	First release
2004	Dub Summit EPSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 6 tracks A1Astral Blue A2Dub Summit A3Weight & Treble B1Freedom Reign B2Resistance Riddim B3Synergistic Effect		2004
2006	System Error. Al-Yamamah MixSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 1:19:46 1System Error. Al-Yamameh Mix1:19:46	DJ-mix	2006
2007	افريقيا Afrique Universelle - La Biennale Di VeneziaSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 1:19:21 1افريقيا Afrique Universelle - La Biennale Di Venezia1:19:21		2007
2011	Daytrotter SessionSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 20:50 1The Daytrotter Mix20:50	Live	4 January 2011

Broadcast · 1

Broadcast release groups, by first release date
Cover	Year	Title	Notes	First release
	2007	2007-08-31: Solid Steel Radio ShowSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 2:00:00 12007-08-31: Solid Steel Radio Show2:00:00	Compilation,DJ-mix	31 August 2007

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Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	8	49.7th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	47	93.9th
Studio albums	17	95.5th
Awards recorded	0	0th
Timeline events	19	93.4th
Recording span (years)	22	49.6th
Genres	10	96.5th

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Band line-up and band memberships with dates
Name	From	To	Role
Sound Pirates(band)	—	present

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Timeline

1970s

Born 1970-09-06

1990s

Debut release: Galactic Funk

Album: Songs of a Dead Dreamer

Album: MSN on Air

Album: Riddim Warfare

Album: DJ Toolz / Manifold Tracks

Album: The Quick and the Dead

Album: File Under Futurism

2000s

Album: Nest

Album: Optometry

Album: Riddim Clash

Album: Drums of Death

Album: Riddim Come Forward

Album: Universal Sound: Subliminal Minded

Album: The Secret Song

2010s

Album: Ice Music

Album: Of Water and Ice

Album: Rebirth of a Nation

Album: DJ Spooky Presents Phantom Dancehall

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Discography (47 release groups · 17 studio albums)

Albums · 17

EP · 9

Album · 12

Single · 4

Other · 4

Broadcast · 1

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